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Just to point out, you never, EVER, make "silver" weapons. You make "silvered" weapons -- you take your iron or steel sword or arrowheads and coat them with silver.

You need to make metal leaf, and apply some glue to the metal implement you are gilding, and use a variety of tools to get a seamless finish.

Oh and I thought blue/red silver needed precious metals in their construction

You know you are pretty much suggesting things that make forums weirder, and more circlejerkish, like escapist, somethingawful, and facepunch.

Arthur's Gold, you pretty much make a "structure piece" of a certain item, like a workshop, or a catapult, and assemble the pieces in the overworld, not in the crafting table.

Seems a bit more convenient so you don't plop a catapult down like a boat in the water, it bounces off of you, and implodes because it flies into a wall, or it is oriented wrong, for the same reason.

That and it gives warnings to others that you are building a fucking catapult, it doesn't seem fair that you can plop down a catapult straight from the pocket, completely built, and simply destroy everything.

No no, I mean the construction of larger structures, and most siege weapons should be based on the tested method of how we make bloomeries, and charcoal pits, but instead of giving us a static block structure, we get an entity that is rather unhandy to maneuver if we decide to reorient it.

As much as the same as I suggest with ball mills. [but ball mills being upgradeable, or more dynamically built]

And as a fore thought, please consider this.

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Now about siege weaponry, since it came up:

TFC deals with world entities in a manner past simply making a one block device, or a boat, or in one 3x3 crafting space.

So siege weapons should be made like any normal bloomery, or even firepit, probably like how you construct items in Arthur's Gold at least, and -especially- be able to haul it around without having to break it down block by block.

That's because usually heavier metals, like lead, and gold are ductile.

Copper, Tungsten, Some Depleted Radioactive Metals are heavy, yes, but damn do they hold an edge.

Heavy swords are actually very good things too, steel just happens to have an amazing edge too.

Lead is heavy.

Lead core tools, make faster tools?

• The larger the mill, the more items you can place in them.
• The mill usually processes things into smaller items with more milling medium
• Heavier mediums tend to be better at pulverizing
• Porcelain grinding mediums usually have the least contamination in its pulverized output
• Having a grate to automatically output processed ores usually are of less quality than ones that are allowed time
• Large amounts of small mediums can pulverize hard objects, but will be slower at it

Well, whatever the case, I wouldn't assume one would be allowed to let a major league pitcher be the one to insert materials.

And again, having that back end would be if you invested in grates :/

Sometimes you want to make powder, or smooth a cast item

Precious metals are very malleable, so you'd probably have to reshape them often.

Sterling silver, and rose gold are more consistent, but they have weaker effects.

Silver is a pretty heavy metal, so if anything, it would make very good for cleaving.

So what, silver has smite, seems kind of, backassed, but I guess all precious metals don't get to be entirely dazzling with thier latent effect.

Keeping in mind, this is as long as the special effects of the precious metals are not obvious, in that you don't see any captioned enchants with it.

In terms of armor, I'm guessing Gold has strange mitigation [as reference to how it is strangely blast resistant in vanilla], platinum has durability, and silver has some form of other effect, poison resist/mitigation?

Eh, ball mills, they don't have to be sealed, the beauty of it is how you can chuck items into it unceremoniously, and it'll still pulverize, or smooth them.

I still advocate using something like placing sheets, or double sheets [if it is large enough] to make the drum, and then supporting it with a few supports [to hold up the structure, if it is large], some rails [so it can roll on the tracks], and a crank mechanism [attached to the side of the drum to roll it powered by whatever].

How about, brass, gold, and platinum?

I'd rather have health scaling, say, upon revival your heaalth has a *.5 multiplier on it, so your 10 hearts are only worth 5, until you recuperate.

Eh, you could make Silver Arrows glow by default, has the effects of smite, but not have the caption.

What else, other precious metals have innate special powers?

Arthur's gold is another game that takes a similar route to how we build larger structures in TFC, but TFC is more complicated since it uses interactions between entities, special blocks, and normal blocks. Arthur's gold only uses one generic 'XXX structure' block per structure, so you can't mix and match blocks like we can.

whats "authur's gold"? never heard of it. but making it into a structure makes sence though i do like when its just a block for compatibilaty with other mods like buildcraft and industrial craft

In Arthur's Gold, you build structures by making 'parts' of a structure, like an outpost, or a workshop, even a catapult, after constructing a block, you'd have to place it within a very simple rectangular pattern, and with all the pieces assembled you get the structure.

In TFC, this is only really seen with the bloomery/charcoal pit, adding capacity, or adding a bellows to a heating apparatus, like a forge, or fire pit.

And for something like a ball mill, it'd be interesting how one would have to arrange the blocks to make the mill 'tier up'.

And for your concerns about compatibility, the steel mill, and coke thing from railcraft is fully compatible with buildcraft, and so on, the i/o being the interactable blocks on these larger structures.

I've never heard of Arthur's Gold, but I think I get what he's saying.

He wants to add new blocks that are used in the construction of a player built structure. A loose example would be adding a ball mill tank block, and ball mill crank block, then allowing the player to assemble the a functioning ball mill. Obviously there are better, more creative ways to implement that, but I don't presently know enough on the subject to come up with a nice, clever idea.

Construct the drum, place a crank mechanism onto it-making sure it is the right size for what you are doing-and adding a few supports to the structure.

Coding it may be a hell, so a simpler template like what you use for the bloomery, and charcoal pile may be easier.

For sake of expansion, from a block into a larger structure with use of "additional structure blocks" much like Arthur's Gold.

Yeah, settling tanks and that hubbub.

And a manual ball mill could very much work.

Pretty much a ball mill is a container, with hard, preferably hard objects inside it, and you roll said container.

A ball mill has a few quirks.

• You can use the mill to smooth items, don't really know how, you'd need to use a small-soft milling medium
• Processing speed/efficiency is based on the milling medium's size, amount, hardness, and shape compared to the items' being milled
• The larger capacity drum, the more you can put into it
• The more you put in a mill/ the larger the mill, the more power you need make it run

The rest is really spending time learning what set up works.

You could use a ball mill to rehone a tool, but the results are very questionable, and it may simply degrade the tool into material detritus.

I make progress Totem Poles as well

It is amazing.

If only you could make double ingot piles, it'd make for a more interesting monument.

[Conquest of the Kobolds, assemble the largest piles of double ingot piles]

Don't care.

But some people like to recylce what they've made into something more useful.

Best not to limit what you can melt down, especially if it doesn't have a durability/damage bar.

Besides, an alloying table is better for cooling those hot irons, more space, don't you know.

Again, remember, it is better, faster, and more efficient to pump clean air into a mine, than to pump dirty, or stagnant air out of a mine.