New metals ,ores and alloys

[TitanSlayer]

In this tab link we discuss about new metals and ores

[ArgentLuna]

I would want to see all existing ones get a use before anything new is added

[Thorfinn]

On 9/5/2024 at 12:55 AM, ArgentLuna said:

I would want to see all existing ones get a use before anything new is added

Nickel, I'm looking at you! Such a hassle getting enough of the ore, then finding out I needed a coke oven, then finding out how slow a process that is, then... nothing.

Should have spent more time on the handbook. Once I found that it was possible to make ingots, I just assumed there was something you could do with them.

[Streetwind]

Nickel has had a use since 1.18 though. The endgame devices made with Jonas parts call for cupronickel, an alloy of copper and nickel.

Admittedly, given how difficult it is to make even one of these things, I wouldn't be surprised if most players didn't know this...

 

Edited September 6, 2024 by Streetwind

[Thorfinn]

I've made some of them, but I was so underwhelmed. It was not remotely worth the effort. In some cases, like the Rift Ward, I think it's called, I couldn't think of an instance where I would ever want such a thing.

[Thornment]

On 9/5/2024 at 7:55 AM, ArgentLuna said:

I would want to see all existing ones get a use before anything new is added

I'd like to see uranium in action.

[TitanSlayer]

                                                                  cool I'd like cobalt!

 

[Alluvium]

On 9/7/2024 at 4:59 PM, Thornment said:

I'd like to see uranium in action.

Replace those windmills with nuclear fission reactors and implement 'tactical nuclear warhead arrowtips'?

[Deaderpan]

dw, the radiation wont get you if you use the tongs 

[LadyWYT]

9 hours ago, Alluvium said:

Replace those windmills with nuclear fission reactors and implement 'tactical nuclear warhead arrowtips'?

So what you're saying is, Don Quixote was right all along.

[Michael Gates]

9 hours ago, Alluvium said:

Replace those windmills with nuclear fission reactors and implement 'tactical nuclear warhead arrowtips'?

The reactor produces an insane amount of power with steam turbines but is so complicated and wear-prone that it takes half a dozen full-time players just to keep it from exploding. If you hook up a helve hammer it turns into a whirling engine of death, flinging ingots and plates hard enough to bisect anyone standing nearby.

[Thornment]

On 9/14/2024 at 9:50 PM, Alluvium said:

Replace those windmills with nuclear fission reactors and implement 'tactical nuclear warhead arrowtips'?

That's exactly what I meant

[Eshan Roveran]

Id personally like to see a more "primitive" form of steel. Something that's probably only as strong as meteoric iron. Ideally a less complex and cheaper Multi-Block structure purely for heating a crucible to melt Iron and pouring that in a certain ratio to containers with charcoal. Basically one of the methods ancient Rome used to get "steel", though again this steel was pretty weak compared to the more sophisticated processes but it would still be nice to have a more gradual transition to full on steel. Going from a basic Bloomery to full on Steel the next step is pretty wild as it currently is lmao

[Khornet]

On 9/5/2024 at 7:55 AM, ArgentLuna said:

I would want to see all existing ones get a use before anything new is added

Titanium/ilmenite got a purpose a long time ago - ingredient for tier 3 refractory bricks. There is still the obvious unused concept of using it for the highest tiers of steel alloys

Nickel got a purpose in 1.18: cupronickel for electronic temporal equipment and items crafting.

Chromium got a purpose in 1.20. Not what I expected, because we got a higher leather tier with it instead of a higher steel alloy tier, but it's definitely a good use of it, and 8-slot endgame backpacks are more than nice.

What's left? Uranium exists in the game code, but I'm fairly sure it doesn't spawn on worldgen. I think it was thrown into there for modders.
Rhodochrosite/manganese - also in code. No idea if it spawns on worldgen. Possible use is another tier or sidegrade to a metal alloy:

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For the production of ferromanganese, the manganese ore is mixed with iron ore and carbon, and then reduced either in a blast furnace or in an electric arc furnace. The resulting ferromanganese has a manganese content of 30–80%.Pure manganese used for the production of iron-free alloys is produced by leaching manganese ore with sulfuric acid and a subsequent electrowinning process.

I believe that's all of them. So only uranium and manganese are unused - both of which I'm fairly sure don't spawn during worldgen. But that could just be incorrect anecdotal evidence; I've simply never seen any myself.

[Maelstrom]

I haven't seen uranium or manganese show up prospecting results using density mode.  I'll go on record (without looking at world gen code) that those two do not currently generate in game.

[Tinkuwu]

Since the world isn't supposed to be Earth, but similar to it, I suggest more fantasy-like metals. Mithral, Adamantine, Blue Steel (or cold iron, in certain cases), and potentially metals that are impossible to work with for weapons and armor, so they can be used more like colored metal building blocks.

[Maelstrom]

While VS is an earth-like world it isn't fantasy either.  While the website no longer links the game directly to Lovecraft, he is a HUGE influence on this game.  Lovecraft did not write fantasy, rather what happens when extra-dimensional beings affect locations on the earth and how people respond to that impact using technology or psuedo-technology.

[xomysticiana]

I just found manganese in my world (At the very bottom -- think level 2-3) and was confused why there is no use for it. But just wanted to post that it does generate. I found it 20k blocks from spawn though

[Facethief]

19 minutes ago, xomysticiana said:

I just found manganese in my world (At the very bottom -- think level 2-3) and was confused why there is no use for it. But just wanted to post that it does generate. I found it 20k blocks from spawn though

Yeah, I’ve found the stuff (or at least readings) near my base in previous worlds.

For uranium, I can think of a couple things that would be funny to see done with it. In particular either uranium glass or glowing armor/other metal products would be fun, if entirely worthless in actual gameplay.

Edited July 7, 2025 by Facethief
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