Lead Armor (kinda asking due to Lead Scales and Chainmail existing)

[lml55]

Not sure where else to put this but I just thought I'd ask, are there plans to add lead armor? Like whats the point of adding said scales and chainmail if not? Just asking cause Lead feels oddly unfinished atm

[Thorfinn]

Don't know, but that sounds ominous. Is that something new? I thought the only thing lead ingots were for was plate and likely nails and strips. It's been a couple versions since I used lead for anything other than solder, because I don't like the looks of leaded glass.

Welcome to the forums!

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! Lead can be used in the molybdochalkos alloys for lanterns too, if you want the dark look without sinking the resources into black bronze. Otherwise, it's mostly used for leaded glass panes and solder for the distiller. Unless I'm mistaken, lead is also a critical component in some of the Jonas tech.

In regards to armor...lead is a soft metal and easily deformed, hence the much lower melting point than other metals. It's also heavier than iron or steel, and I'm fairly certain heavier than bronze as well. Based on those qualities alone, it doesn't make sense to make armor out of it, so I would wager any further uses implemented will probably be in relation to more Jonas tech.

[ArgentLuna]

On the scale of impractical materials for defense/offense Lead its fairly high up there

[ifoz]

Brass, tin and stainless steel scales/lamellar also exist in the game. 
Stainless steel isn't a properly implemented material, by the way.

[LadyWYT]

2 hours ago, ifoz said:

Brass, tin and stainless steel scales/lamellar also exist in the game. 
Stainless steel isn't a properly implemented material, by the way.

Could be because the recipe code only requires a metal, and doesn't specify an actual metal type? I would assume though that if that is the case, there will probably be some conditions set later to limit which metals can be used for certain things, to prevent players from crafting useless items. Of course, there could be armor types added for those metals as well, I just wouldn't expect them to be very good at all.

[Thorfinn]

I get that the properties of lead make it a bad material for armor. Unless possibly there's some intended use for uranium...

[lml55]

thanks for the letting me know on this, I was just curious for if you look at the recipes there does exist "Lead Scales" and "Lead Chains", so I was just wondering

[Tsar Nikolai]

me trudging around in my 4000 pound suit of lead armor killing surface drifters:

[lml55]

1 hour ago, Albino Raccoon said:

me trudging around in my 4000 pound suit of lead armor killing surface drifters:

indeed! They can't move me if I'm too phucking heavy!