Just wanted to say I'm loving this mod so far, great idea and implementation!
For anyone using CCOR, make sure this mod loads AFTER the main CCOR .esp, and if you want to be real consistent with it, you'll have to go into xEdit and change a few values around (like crafting recipes) to match CCOR, but it's very worth the ~5 minutes of work to be able to use this mod.
Really like this, but I have a nitpicky question: how did you estimate the weight of the standard Skyrim ingots?
The description says that a standard Skyrim gold ingot ought to weigh ca. 6kg. That seems a bit light, actually. Wikipedia has a Good Delivery bar at ca.12kg, and the dimensions sound roughly similar to what I'd guestimate the standard Skyrim bars to be.
If you look at a Skyrim ingot, they're slightly smaller than Good Delivery bars compared to a regular person, but it was mainly a guesstimate.
If you're talking about the ingame weight, that came from three things; the scale of the halfweights, the density of gold and silver, and what I wanted to accomplish with the mod. Every halfweight is scaled so that their volume corresponds with how many are required to make an ingot. A gold halfweight has 1/20 the volume of a gold ingot, and a silver halfweight has 1/10 the volume of a silver ingot. The density of gold is about twice that of silver, so it makes sense weight-wise for the silver halfweight to be twice the volume of the gold halfweight while they both weigh the same.
At the same time, I wanted to have small ingots that weighed a reasonable amount, and have it be more weight saving to carry pure gold than to carry coins themselves, taking into account that you're using a mod that makes coins weigh 0.01. 0.5 for a small ingot seemed reasonable; you can mint 1.0 weight worth of coins from a gold one, and "halfweight" sounds like a unit that could be used to measure stuff with in the Elder Scrolls universe. Then I simply multiplied, 0.5 x 20 = 10 weight for the gold ingot, and 0.5 x 10 = 5 weight for the silver ingot.
In retrospect, I probably put way more thought into this than required.
question (and possible idea inspiration): for mods that add currency (like coins of skyrim) that change how gold septims work and also adds a 3rd type (coins adds gold, silver, and copper coins) is it possible to get a patch that can make the copper septims smelt down into corundum (or copper in the case of mods like ars metallica and CCOR)?
Should be fairly straight forward. You'd just have to replace a few values in the .esp and add new recipes so that the coins you mint are the gold versions from the mod and not the standard copper versions.
It replaces most - it's a direct replacer of the regular sized ingots. But, there are instances where it made more sense to have them be the larger valuable ingots. In terms of stacks, if you find any issues, let me know.
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For anyone using CCOR, make sure this mod loads AFTER the main CCOR .esp, and if you want to be real consistent with it, you'll have to go into xEdit and change a few values around (like crafting recipes) to match CCOR, but it's very worth the ~5 minutes of work to be able to use this mod.
The description says that a standard Skyrim gold ingot ought to weigh ca. 6kg. That seems a bit light, actually. Wikipedia has a Good Delivery bar at ca.12kg, and the dimensions sound roughly similar to what I'd guestimate the standard Skyrim bars to be.
If you're talking about the ingame weight, that came from three things; the scale of the halfweights, the density of gold and silver, and what I wanted to accomplish with the mod. Every halfweight is scaled so that their volume corresponds with how many are required to make an ingot. A gold halfweight has 1/20 the volume of a gold ingot, and a silver halfweight has 1/10 the volume of a silver ingot. The density of gold is about twice that of silver, so it makes sense weight-wise for the silver halfweight to be twice the volume of the gold halfweight while they both weigh the same.
At the same time, I wanted to have small ingots that weighed a reasonable amount, and have it be more weight saving to carry pure gold than to carry coins themselves, taking into account that you're using a mod that makes coins weigh 0.01. 0.5 for a small ingot seemed reasonable; you can mint 1.0 weight worth of coins from a gold one, and "halfweight" sounds like a unit that could be used to measure stuff with in the Elder Scrolls universe. Then I simply multiplied, 0.5 x 20 = 10 weight for the gold ingot, and 0.5 x 10 = 5 weight for the silver ingot.
In retrospect, I probably put way more thought into this than required.
Follow-up question: I'm quite fond of Metallurgy. I figure overwriting your meshes and textures with those should be safe, no?
The author also made some things like solid gold skulls etc. They weigh a ton so you can make it balanced I think
If that's the case they're gonna fall if they've been cleverly stacked etc, correct?