Brigandine and Plate Armor Forging on 05/11/2011 01:35 AM CDT
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Howdy everyone! Most of the Brigandine, and all of the Plate armor is now available for testing! Please try on some of the new custom-wear pieces and help me verify they jive with existing armor correctly. I'm also eager to get some feedback on the stats, weights, and hinderance. Once again, high carbon steel (3 carbon per steel) gives physical stats close to rare metals if you want to test that (but terrible durability).

Thanks for the help!




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Re: Brigandine and Plate Armor Forging on 05/17/2011 05:57 PM CDT
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This entry is missing a letter on the end:

Chapter 2 page 16: a metal brigandine balaclav

I was making a great helm, and near the end it said:

The metal wire links and plate sections now appear ready for weaving using a pair of plauers. Just pull the helm with the pliers to rivet the plates into place and weave the chain together.

I'm thinking "plauers" should be pliers.

And a rather severe bug:

I crafted a 50 volume medium carbon steel ingot using 5x 10 volume iron and 12x 10 volume coal. After completing it, I put the ingot on an anvil, read the page of the item I was going to craft, and realized I didn't have the padding. So I grabbed the ingot off the anvil (having done nothing whatsoever to it) and got the padding, but when I went to put it back the volume had automagically dropped from 50 to 4, and the quality from 70 to 68. This was the anvil through the pine door.

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-Death's Nemesis Karthor
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Re: Brigandine and Plate Armor Forging on 05/17/2011 06:19 PM CDT
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I should also mention that between the time I got the ingot off the anvil and the time I noticed it transform, I had placed it back on the anvil and studied the page for a metal scale balaclava. When I tried to do the first pound, it told me there wasn't enough material there, which is how I noticed the change.

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-Death's Nemesis Karthor
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Re: Brigandine and Plate Armor Forging on 05/17/2011 10:43 PM CDT
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Thanks for the feedback! I've fixed the spelling mistakes, but have to push the new messaging before it will be updated. Should be done some time tomorrow.

The anvil's don't interact with the ingot in any way that would adjust its volume. The more likely answer is you picked up an ingot on the ground that had been previously cut off as excess (hence the low volume). Still, if you find a way to reliably duplicate this please let me know.




"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts."
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Re: Brigandine and Plate Armor Forging on 05/18/2011 05:45 AM CDT
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<<The more likely answer is you picked up an ingot on the ground that had been previously cut off as excess (hence the low volume). Still, if you find a way to reliably duplicate this please let me know.>>

That was my first thought, too, but I double checked and am pretty sure there was only the one ingot in play. Just before this incident I had crafted a great helm on that same anvil using an ingot of the exact 45 volume required, so there wouldn't have been excess from that. I also scrolled back up while scratching my head and confirmed that I did, in fact, pick up an ingot from the anvil when I grabbed it. So even if there was another one on there, putting a new one on and then getting one off should have ended up with the most recently placed one in my hand. I had no other items called 'ingot' on my person, and there were also none in the room at the time I had gotten back and noticed the apparent transformation.

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-Death's Nemesis Karthor
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