Metals

Metals put through a Smeltery sometimes gain additional properties. This is a list documenting such properties when applied to common metals.

Seared Stone

The possibly most important material created by the smeltery, in a process which consumes large amounts of cobblestone, and releases the same black hard stone it is made of. Tools can be made from it, which are largely as durable as iron tools, and empower themselves with ambient heat. This empowerment turns the striking surface of the tool into the same kind of a magical mixer the smeltery normally has, which is largely ignored by stone or wood but not by fleshy beings.

Copper

Smeltery copper feels the same as normal copper on the surface, but it becomes noticeably denser the higher pressure gets. Like in mines, for instance.

Pig Iron

Despite being mostly iron, this alloy is surprisingly tasty, somewhat like candied bacon, although also hard to chew.

Cobalt

Once smelted, the material had enough essence put through it that it weighs closer to heavy wood, despite generating kinetic impacts as if it was full weight, and it has a distinct blue hue.

Hepatizon

A remarkably simple alloy of smeltery cobalt that, apart from being light as a feather, also has a paradoxical positive feedback to momentum, slightly accelerating itself as if it’s rocket assisted, more the more it’s swung.

Rose Gold

Smeltery rose gold cuts through stone or wood, though not fleshy beings, like butter, and it retains enchantments much better; but it also becomes a lot softer - closer to native gold than any alloys.

Manyullyn (ver. mGrugg)

A simple alloy of cobalt and bauxite, materials chosen for no reason other than the alloy being purple. Still, easygoing alloying properties of smeltery cobalt and the inherent strength of aluminum oxides meant the alloy was just strong enough that it could cut meteoric iron like butter.

Manyullyn (ver. 3)

A rather more complicated alloy whose second ingredient has been unfortunately lost to ADHD. The remaining samples show properties that are barely better than earlier variants. Any attempts to extract the second ingredient have proven inconclusive; likely a result of mDiyo throwing things together with cobalt to see what sticks.

Gelcast

Crude Gelcast

A material made from just mixing gel with dirt and sand, then baking it.
It was, at one point, used for handles and bindings, as the inherent bounciness made the item a lot more durable at little cost; but it was discarded after the discovery of slimewood, both because better gelcasts’ regenerative coating made it almost irrelevant and because crude gelcast has a tendency to come back to life.

Overslime

Some gelcast materials create a layer of Overslime on the tool - a thin layer of slime that mimics the material underneath. Overslime is generally a bit softer than the material it’s trying to mimic, although better gelcasts have stronger overslime; however, it also keeps the tool underneath it protected, both from damage from use and from elements.

Slimewood

A simple gelcast made by either soaking hardwood in hot forest gel, or from forest slimes as is.
Gives the tool a light coating of overslime that slowly regenerates.

Clay Gelcast

A simple gelcast made with crushed brick dust and nearly any gel, with very minor variations between gel types. Not particularly useful for tools, since it’s even softer than Slimewood, but due to extreme heat resistance, nearly infinite durability and a much more pleasant sound when scraped than actual bricks, it’s occasionally used for construction.

Slimesteel

Alloying iron with skyslime and smeltery stone turns it into slimesteel, which is quite a bit more durable and causes the overslime layer to harden a little. A variant of this material that be harvested from overgrown sky slimes, if the catalyst for their growth was a highly upgraded tool. The resulting tool is softer, but even more durable, seemingly ignoring most damage.

Queen’s Slime

My personal invention - an alloy of cobalt, gold and lava gel from slimes deep underground or near volcanoes. The material is quite aggressively corrosive, converting large chunks of the tool to overslime. It’s also slightly uncomfortable to hold if used as a handle, for the same reasons. However, it turns the tool nearly indestructible if mixed with slimewood parts on the same tool - assuming the tool is occasionally allowed to rest and regenerate (for instance, overnight).