Guides > Metal Treatment

A beginning of what is know about treating metals.

Metal treatment is used to make:

• Treated Metal - used to make Treated Metal Sheeting for the Test of Ka
• Treated metal for Tongs.
• Treated metal for Reinforced Kiln.

Known alloys made by treating metals, purity equals percentage transformed:

• Metal Blue - shiny, conductive, platinum-plated moon steel; 50% transformed at purity 5 (for test details, see Metal Blue)
• Water Metal - plastic, conductive, silver-plated titanium; this is possible at 100% transformed since titanium salts can be used to keep purity at 10.

1. You will need the tech "Basic Metal Treatment" from a University of Architecture (currently Karnak)
2. You will need a Chemical Bath to Treat Metal. It can be found under a compound's Projects->Engineering->Chemical Bath. The building is quite large, about the size of a Wood Treatment tank, so plan ahead
3. A Chemical Bath costs the following to build:

• 300 Hard, Rotproof, Fireproof Treated Boards
• 2 Distillation Coil, 7500+ Quality
• 20 Fine Glass Pipe
• 200 Nails
• 40 Bolt
• 80 Washer
• 5 Thoth's Metal Sheeting
• 10 Moon Steel Sheeting
• 20 Iron Bars
• 100 Canvas
• 10 Tar
• 50 Copper Pipes
• 2 Thermometers

Metal Treatment works very similarly to Wood Treatment

Actually Treating Metals:

• You will need 100 Acid per treatment session.
  • At the current time there is no way to take the metal out without dumping the acid, though it is implied that we will be able to at some point.
  • Actually you can ... using Tongs --Primoz
• The amount that you can treat the metal is governed by the "purity" of the metal. Higher numbers are better, and the purity will decline over time (Don't know what happens when it reaches 0 yet)
• 300 Seconds (uses 30 items) of treatment is the max you can add at one time
• Without any Metal Salts in inventory, I get this list of salts I can add: Salt of Aluminum, Salt of Antimony, Salt of Copper, Salt of Gold, Salt of Iron, Salt of Lead, Salt of Lithium, Salt of Magnesium, Salt of Platinum, Salt of Silver, Salt of Strontium, Salt of Tin, Salt of Titanium, Salt of Tungsten, and Salt of Zinc

During the treating process, the metals are measured on 8 scales: Tensility, Lustre, Strength, Corrosion, Conductivity, Toxicity, Purity, and Plating.

They can be adjusted by treating with any or all of: Arsenic, Cabbage Juice, Cactus Sap, Coal, Gravel, Lime, Potash, Salt, Saltpeter, Sulfur, or Metal Salts.

Metal Plating & Treatment:
Each chemical has a set of effects. To see the effects of a particular chemical, use the Info menu. You must tack the menu, or you will not be able to see the info. If you treat a metal with a chemical long enough, then the attributes of the metal will eventually match the ones shown in the Info readout.

It takes quite a bit of time for a chemical to exert all its effects. If you do not treat the metal long enough, then the effects may be partial. This may be useful. For example, if the chemical has some good effects and some bad effects, it may be possible to treat the metal just long enough for the good effects to take place, but not long enough for the bad effects to take place.

You will notice that the attributes of the metal tend to move slowly at first, and then speed up as they get closer and closer to their target. To put it differently, the speed of the bar is slow if the bar is far from its final destination, it is fast if it is close to its final destination.

To borrow a metaphor, think of two magnets. The farther apart they are, the weaker the attraction. As they get closer, that attraction becomes more tangible, and they begin to move more quickly towards one another, until at last they snap together. --Sedelyan

The tank can hold up to 100 metal. You cannot mix metal types. Every 10 seconds of treatment costs 1 unit of chemical - no matter how much metal is in the tank. You can use as many chemicals as you want, one after the other. Placing a chemical into the acid dissolves it, which treats the metal. Once you dump out the acid and/or take the metal out, the treatment is finished.

There are two special bars, purity and plating. To plate a metal, you must add salts of the metal you wish to plate it with. As you work with the metal, the purity rating will decrease, as the metal becomes less pure due to chemicals added. To get a high rating, treat it quickly.

There is no way to Abort the process once it has begun (as there is with a Wood Treatment Tank)

Treatment with Metal Salts:
Metal salts are required to plate a metal electrolessly. You must dissolve the salts of the metal you wish to plate your metal with into the acid, and over time the metal in the tank will become plated with that type of metal, However, the salt saturates the acid, imprinting its chemical signature upon it. So therefore, attempting to change the plating type in the middle will require you to overpower the metal ions already within the acidic suspension.

Also, you cannot plate a metal with itself. Instead, you will increase the purity of the metal, as the metallic ions of the suspensions will deposit themselves upon the surface of your target metal, at a higher quality than even the metal itself.

Note that some of the normal ingredients (especially Arsenic, Salt and Coal) affect the Plating attribute positively and can be used to increase this attribute in order to plate the treated metal using less actual Metal Salts. The exact value of the Plating Attribute required to change the treated metal from 'Normal' to 'Plated' is unknown at this time.

Metal Treatment Values

Note this is the same scale as Wood Treatment except instead of being -3 to 69 it's shifted by +3 so it's 0 to 72.

	Tensility	Lustre	Strength	Corrosion	Conductivity	Toxicity	Purity	Plating
Arsenic	16	64	48	8	48	72	8	56
Cabbage Juice	32	16	0	64	56	24	8	16
Cactus Sap	40	48	72	24	8	0	8	16
Coal	8	0	64	32	24	32	8	40
Gravel	56	72	24	16	0	40	8	16
Lime	72	40	56	40	16	8	8	16
Potash	64	56	32	0	32	48	8	16
Salt	24	32	8	56	72	16	8	24
Saltpeter	48	8	40	72	40	64	8	16
Sulfur	0	24	16	48	64	56	8	16
Aluminum	22	38	38	23	30	31	54	4
Antimony	20	43	37	36	14	29	54	4
Brass	25	43	31	43	31	29	54	4
Bronze	25	40	35	43	31	29	54	4
Copper	28	43	44	58	32	36	54	4
Gold	22	54	51	36	30	29	54	4
Iron	36	29	41	36	18	29	54	4
Lead	16	14	24	36	12	50	54	4
Lithium	14	29	29	43	37	29	54	4
Magnesium	19	29	37	22	24	36	54	4
Metal Blue	37	43	52	61	59	29	54	4
Moon Steel	21	29	34	36	25	29	54	4
Pewter	19	36	29	36	13	43	54	4
Platinum	33	56	40	37	19	30	54	4
Silver	23	47	36	50	32	29	54	4
Steel	35	43	45	36	20	29	54	4
Strontium	16	36	30	36	16	36	54	4
Sun Steel	19	60	40	37	28	30	54	4
Thoth's Metal	46	36	53	58	15	43	54	4
Tin	19	36	26	36	17	29	54	4
Titanium	26	43	43	36	61	29	54	4
Tungsten	57	22	52	47	23	36	54	4
Water Metal	16	47	30	36	36	29	54	4
Zinc	25	22	40	29	22	29	54	4

Metal Salts

Dominant	Same as Treated Metal	Tensility	Lustre	Strength	Corrosion	Conductivity	Toxicity	Purity	Plating
Yes	Yes	24	40	32	48	48	40	72	8
Yes	No	24	40	32	48	48	40	8	72
No	Yes	24	40	32	48	48	40	72	8
No	No	56	32	48	24	32	40	8	8

Metal Treatment Images

Treatments

Base Metals

Moonsteel	Water Metal

Important

If you downloaded a copy of MetSim.ods that has the salt tracker working on debens instead of seconds, please redownload. Dominance is not weight-based. It is time based.

- I found out my problem, I was using version 2.0.3 instead of the new 2.3.0, working now - Rena

- You don't actually need to enable macro's for the one I uploaded. It has macro's left over from the wood treatment sim which I didn't remove but you can disable. That being said Marduk's is better because it handles metal salts accurately, and I have no clue why you're getting an error with it. -EldradUlthran

- My spreadsheet requires version 2.3.0 of Open Office - MardukXIII