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11-18-2015, 05:48 PM | #12 |
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That's an advantage for surface merchants trading with them, though.
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11-18-2015, 06:17 PM | #13 |
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11-19-2015, 06:13 AM | #14 |
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Only if you can actually approach the undersea vents closely enough to take advantage of the heat, and not cook yourself. You're in a medium that conducts heat a lot better than air, and has a much density and specific heat also. And it isn't as if you could go to the vent, shove a piece of material into it, and have a continuing small vent that you could carry around. The portability of fire is one of its big understated advantages.
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11-19-2015, 06:31 AM | #15 |
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As people already pointed out, I'd suggest Obsidian. But that's brittle, so Ionno.
A common method to preserve equipment in damp, steamy places is coating them with specific wax or oil. I assume the same could be done with mineral/synthetic oil produced in the surface at that TL with Alchemy. |
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What I'm wondering is if the alloying of copper with tin and other metals that make into bronze from which effective weapons can be constructed means that corrosion is hastened so much that the extra strength is not worth it. Is it better to sell the sahuagin pure Copper knives and spearheads or would Bronze ones last long enough for the superior quality of the materials to matter?
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11-20-2015, 02:52 AM | #19 |
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Far as I can determine, copper-tin bronzes are at least as good as copper; gunmetal (88% copper/10% tin/2% zinc) is used specifically for corrosion resistance.
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As the local culture has retained a decided fashion for bronze over iron, as well as having had easy access to copper and tin for a very long time, good bronze spearheads and knives will be easy to find and relatively cheap to have made.
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