Metals for the game

There, i fixed it for you :slight_smile:

Hmm. I don’t think you really need all that many metals in the base game, because otherwise things tend to get rather confusing. Let’s see (in order of quality BTW)…

-Wood: Your starting resource. Not a metal, but you can make wooden weapons etc.
-Stone: Again, technically not a metal, but a nice step up from wood items.
-Copper: Mostly used for bronze, but also some utensils, piping etc.
-Bronze: Made from copper & tin.
-Iron: Probably the most useful metal ore around. Even when you have steel, iron will do perfectly well for most things.
-Steel: A superior (and costlier) version of iron. Made from iron & carbon (ie coal, coke, etc).
-Gold, Silver, Platinum: For making valuable things and/or increasing the value of your settlement to attract Cthulhu new settlers.
-Mithril: Or adamantium or whatever you want to call it. Can also be a fancy alloy, but the intent is for end-game metal items.

That leaves lots of room for modders to add in stuff (just new iron alloys would allow for tremendous expansion) - what about tungsten for incandescent light-bulbs? Or titanium for sci-fi & modern-tech mods?


We then also have the issue of non-metal ā€œoresā€. Coal is an obvious one, as are gems (rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds could be the big/valuable four, but you also want cheaper, more plentiful ones for early game stuff - garnets, quartz, malachite, etc)… what else… sulphur compounds could be used (gunpowder anyone?), as could salt. There could also be things like fossils - dig up some old wombattosaurus regina bones and make a nice display in your town :slight_smile: . Finally, alternate types of stone - marble, basalt and sandstone would be a nice start.

All in all though, I don’t think you need much more - heck, I’ve already listed 21 ā€œoresā€ of various kinds I’d like to see in! The point though is to cut away at the list of stuff you need until you have a very small list. After that, see about maybe expanding it here & there, but start small & simple.

Fantastic post, love all of the ideas :smile:

This is my personnal list of ores that could be in the game, it goes from weakest to strongest

-Coal
-Copper
-Tin
-Iron
-Silver
-Gold
-tongsten
-mithril
-adamantium

And one fictional -Heart’s stone

Heart stone being the strongest could be used to make the most powerfull items such as staff and wands.

Also, adamantium and mithril are also fictitious metals

Personally, I feel that Stonehearth shouldn’t rip off LOTR and Marvel for its ores; it’s just kind of lame and unoriginal. Instead, we should be more inventive and figure out new mineral names. I like your suggestion of a ā€œHeartstoneā€, though.

Adamantium is actually also a LOTR ore :).

Ah, good catch, I didn’t realize.

Gold is actually a very soft metal remember :wink: .

Anyway, Heartstone is already taken apparently :stuck_out_tongue: . Also, it sounds a lot like a certain Blizzard game :wink: . What else… ā€œadamantā€ is what Tolkien called it, rather than adamantium or adamantine. World of Warcraft also has a ton of strange metals / ores:

-Fel Iron & Ghost Iron, both found as ores. There’s also Felsteel, a refined form of Fel Iron.
-Saronite, the solidified remains of an Old God (think Cthulhu).
-White & Black Trillium, both required to make Trillium bars.
-Living Steel, transmuted from Ghost Iron.
-Truegold & Truesilver, used in weapons etc so obviously harder than real gold / silver.
-Elementium, which is super-effective against minions of the Old Gods.
-Obsidium, mined from obsidium ore.
-Titansteel, made from titanium + elemental magic.
-Khorium & Eternium, both from ores.
-Sulfuron, a metal associated with fire elementals & their plane of existence.
-Arcanite bar, made from thorium (!) and an arcane crystal.
-Dark Iron, a tough, heat-resistant form of iron.

Ooh! Idea! You should be able to infuse different metals (with magic or magic-y stuff) to make them better… :smile:

Would be a nice side job for the geomancer, I’m thinking. Or an alchemist.

Tungsten is highly inefficient for filament however (probably should of mentioned that…) it mainly produces heat when there’s electricity passed through, in relative terms light is merely a biproduct aluminium would also bea good idea for tech mods :thumbsup:

You would know this, wouldn’t you. :wink:

don’t flatter me!

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It does however have a nice warm glow - I’m not sure I’d like a Stonehearth settlement filled with cold blue LED lights :stuck_out_tongue: .