Well they seem to be trying to do two separate steps:
-smelting ore into an ingot
-reheating the ingot to forge it into a sword
And in the clip they’re using copper, and generally if one was making a sword from a copper or copper-alloy (bronze!) historically it would be smelted and then the new material poured directly into a mold that’s as close to the finished shape as possible for real-deal cast swords. The only forging would be work-hardening.
So by trying to go slightly more granular than Your Daddy’s Alleged Blacksmith Simulator but applying every step to every kind of metal used (I assume you just get different metals to make better weapons, etc.) they’ve made things weird in a slightly different way than usual.
this has been your unfortunate #shrugmoment of the day
oh also when you heat copper to a red heat and quench it that actually anneals not hardens it’s the opposite of ferrous stuff so they just handed the softest possible chunk of metal over to the customer yeah nice try I guess idk
Err… broadly, steel hardens when you quench it because you cool it so fast that carbon atoms get stuck in the iron crystal’s’ structure, which distorts their shapes so what was once a bunch of polite little cubes are now defected and at odds with one another so they don’t slide past one another easily, making the material rigid.
Copper’s just copper, you can work harden (smash it with a hammer) it for a similar effect to steel quenching (thought it doesn’t get nearly as hard), but when you quench it there’s no other element getting all up in the copper atom’s business. All you’ve done is heated and cooled the material and thus regularized the grain structure.
I have to admit, it is nice to see a game try something different and focus on a peaceful niche interest that is close to the… did that say Battle Royale?
I am here for giraffes performing rhythmic gymnastics.
I’m glad to see that somehow a follow-up to Another World snuck out without me noticing, I wonder what adventures those two have gotten themselves into this time.
Riveting.
This move to quote beta testers instead of reviewers is already producing fruit.
Your sales pitch needs a bit of work. Sorry about that.
Man, after years without another… Another World game we’ve gotten two new ones in the space of a week! I hope this adventure is a little more inspiring than the last one.
Umm… hey, I see a new Riven game up there as well! I can’t wait to revisist those islands and…
Huh, it really does lose something when rendered in full 3d.
Well, I’m sure a hyper version of Simon will be fun. I played that a lot as a kid and remembering the order of the colors was much trickier than one would think.
That’s it, I give up. I’m just gonna pick one of the new games. Let’s go with that pp-slimes one.
This was a productive day.
BTW the publisher for that not-Another World game puts up this exact kind of game multiple times a week and while they appear to be mechanically identical I have to admit to being a bit impressed by their pipeline.
