Fix brass making

[Sheffie 1,120]

Current system:

0.1kg Copper + 1kg Zinc -> 0.1kg Brass

 

This not only defies the principle of conservation of mass (look it up), it makes any kind of work in brass an exercise in masochism.

 

For example: the washing bowl needs 1.5kg of brass to begin, plus three brass ribbons. That's 10.5kg of brass (assuming no failures), which needs 105kg of zinc. The copper is insignificant 

 

Proposal: 

1. 0.05kg Copper + 0.05kg Zinc -> 0.1kg Brass
2. 0.01kg Copper + 0.1kg Zinc -> 0.1kg Brass

 

These have the advantage of being consistent with the laws of physics (okay, the second has the 10% wastage typical of Wurm) and still produces a single lump of brass.

[elentari 2,660]

Aye makes sense. 

[Finnn 3,322]

+1

 

tin for example is 0.50kg per lump; silver is .10kg; gold also is .10kg 

all are 20kg metal shards before smelting them and some result in different lump weights,

then all follow the same 5% weight to improve, making creation and maintaining some metal items resource expensive

[Archaed 2,284]

My favourite fact is that brass is actually 66% copper, 33% zinc. 

 

We're not even making brass. 

 

Raise lumps to 1kg, use 0.75 copper, 0.5 zinc. The extra counts as wastage. 

[Finnn 3,322]

PER action.. that seems a bit much

[TheTrickster 2,291]

5 hours ago, Archaed said:

My favourite fact is that brass is actually 66% copper, 33% zinc. 

 

We're not even making brass. 

 

Raise lumps to 1kg, use 0.75 copper, 0.5 zinc. The extra counts as wastage. 

Yes, the proportions should be something close to real life.

 

I am not sure sure about wastage, though.  The loss of mass that occurred when smelting has effectively produced pure metals.  There should not any further wastage of mass*.  The QL could perhaps reflect an inverse indicator of impurities but those are not going to be off this kind of mass.  Just have the action use up the appropriate amount of each "donor" lump.

 

* I recall seeing a "smelting" demonstration at an historical goldrush tourist attraction - the smith had been smelting the same small lump of gold for about 4 years and it was still the exact same amount of gold.