Hey, I'm curious if this is just something on my end but I'll do some testing in a bit, but does Ars Metallica make smiths not sell books from armoury of tamriel? last time I was in a skyrim spree, I ended up turning off armoury due to the smiths not selling books but in hindsight, both mods alter their inventory, so it could be a likely culprit, right? If so, how would one patch it? (edit: or I could look up alternatives to ars, as I just use it for mining giving exp to ease the smithing leveling burden...far easier.)
Meteoric Iron is just a low carbon, high nickel iron alloy which means it's fine as a smelting ingredient for steel but the proportions need to be corrected by adding more iron and carbon. Smelting and forging it changes the structure from meteoric iron to the same thing you would get from melting down iron ore or telluric iron (iron already in metallic form found on earth, which is rare), so any special properties meteoric iron might gain from its unique crystalline structure will be destroyed. Unless you carved something out of a massive chunk, but you would want to verify its purity and consistency first with x-rays or something like that. Also I'm no metallurgist but I have no idea how the trace amounts of gallium and germanium in meteoric iron would affect the smelting process or the final alloy. It's basically gonna yield plain old steel with fancy marketing. Even Geralt of witcher fame admits (in the books) swords made from meteors are no better than the best earthborn steel. It's just for prestige. Map that to the Skyrim universe how you will. Maybe they get radder meteors than we do. But I think nuclear fusion works the same in all stars, where metals are born. Nuclear fusion pretty much shuts down when all the fuel has been converted to iron (actually, often long before that - only the largest stars make iron). Nickel (and other elements heavier than iron) only get made when those stars go supernova.
The closest thing to Mithril we can build from our periodic table is in all likelihood Nitinol-60 (A high-nickel titanium alloy). Titanium doesn't really alloy with iron but it alloys great with nickel. The main problem is Nitinol takes like 1300c to smelt and forge, currently most easily produced into extremely durable wire, we didn't even discover how to make the stuff until about 1950. Large items out of it are rare and expensive. Super high end knives and industrial cutting instruments and high-load bearings, aerospace and medical applications, a luxury. Once it's set it's extremely difficult to tool. Partially because of its extremely unique properties relating to temperature, deformation and a "memory effect". Check it out on wikipedia, super cool stuff. Very commonly used for catheters :P Skyrimmers might be able to spin it into wire and weave a mail out of that, at great effort and expense, but otherwise only the Dwemer with their advanced technology would have been able to create large, solid, finished Mithril objects by this recipe. Or you can go with the deus ex machina and say "well it can be done magically..." (or that it's not made from known elements).
Anyway so I suggest stats for meteoric iron be not much better than steel (assuming only the best metalworkers and smiths get access to it, so the quality difference is in the workmanship rather than the metals). but Mithril should be nsanely good. And light. Oh my god is it light. Light armor tank. Or practically weightless mail.
it would be great if you could add catagories like smelting and recycling a mod i have(world of bikini armor) is just clogging the menu that takes a good 3 minutes to scroll to the bottom
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JumpThe closest thing to Mithril we can build from our periodic table is in all likelihood Nitinol-60 (A high-nickel titanium alloy). Titanium doesn't really alloy with iron but it alloys great with nickel. The main problem is Nitinol takes like 1300c to smelt and forge, currently most easily produced into extremely durable wire, we didn't even discover how to make the stuff until about 1950. Large items out of it are rare and expensive. Super high end knives and industrial cutting instruments and high-load bearings, aerospace and medical applications, a luxury. Once it's set it's extremely difficult to tool. Partially because of its extremely unique properties relating to temperature, deformation and a "memory effect". Check it out on wikipedia, super cool stuff. Very commonly used for catheters :P Skyrimmers might be able to spin it into wire and weave a mail out of that, at great effort and expense, but otherwise only the Dwemer with their advanced technology would have been able to create large, solid, finished Mithril objects by this recipe. Or you can go with the deus ex machina and say "well it can be done magically..." (or that it's not made from known elements).
Anyway so I suggest stats for meteoric iron be not much better than steel (assuming only the best metalworkers and smiths get access to it, so the quality difference is in the workmanship rather than the metals). but Mithril should be nsanely good. And light. Oh my god is it light. Light armor tank. Or practically weightless mail.
I hope you enjoyed my headcannon on this.
wait hold on...
I can't produce gold ingot from gold ore in the smelter.
There is something wrong?
Thanks
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