Mods / metals

• MMetal plate floorby brown freighter operatorThis mod replaces vanilla metal floor texture with metal plate. Who would want diagonal wood-like looking bars on the floor when you could have a BIG and SHINY metal plate anyway? Also replaces metal ramp texture. Compatible with any other mod that don't replace metal floor. (Including mods that...33.3k downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• GGolder Goldby GeoneChanges the color of gold to be more golden and less brown. Affects bars, furniture, tools, etc; anything that can be made out of gold. This won't work on existing saves via the workshop. To manually add this mod to an existing save: copy inorganic_metal_goldcolor.txt into Dwarf Fortress\data\van...20.5k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMetallicby CaldfirThe default metals all use flat color-palettes, and have a lot of repeats. This mod adds a unique palette for each metal-type, using various hues to simulate rust, reflections, and opalescence. This will affect the visuals and color-descriptions for anything made of metal or the corresponding "na...15.2k downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
• TThe Aeramore Expansion V7.41 [53.15+]by Gasper VladiThis mod takes in the Vanilla concept and adds more spice, culture, and FUN to the game. New Races, Beasts, Weapons, Secrets, Destruction, Chaos, and so much more that is at and there is a guide here on the discussion board for this mod! When you chose to use this mod, make sure you are either pl...11.2k downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• DDwarven Chemistryby Wyntr Stardust# DWARVEN CHEMISTRY # This mod adds a new workshop, the Laboratory, at which various new !FUN! reactions can occur. Other mods, such as my 'Dwarven Alchemy' mod, may make use of the Laboratory, adding new reactions. New features will continue to be added. CURRENT FEATURES - Rare Metal Extraction...3.9k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• EElemental metals libraryby PutnamAdds a bunch of metals, with no way to access them. This is intended to be used as a library for other mods. You can use a token--"Materials Plus" demonstrates its use--to ensure that your mod uses this. The workshop probably has requirements built-in, I'll edit this description later, it's no pr...1.6k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• AArgMod Metallurgy, Mineralogy, & Chemistryby ArgendaussAdds new minerals, metals, and chemical reagents. Delve for hundreds of new minerals. Produce mineral acids and other reagents in the new chemist building. Process ores with acids/bases to isolate new metal oxides and smelt them with strong deoxidizers like aluminum/magnesium to produce advanced...1.5k downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• MMithril Oreby Salty Moist CrustDescription Adds mithril as mid- to late-game ore. It is a pretty light and strong metal, but not as strong as adamantine. You will probably only be able to equip one or two champions with mithril gear because of its scarcity. The ore can be found only in igneous extrusive layers and is about twi...1.5k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• VVanilla material elasticity fixesby PutnamPatches material raws to have more realistic properties. Since Dwarf Fortress's materials are assumed homogenous and isotropic, there are only two degrees of freedom for elasticity, and therefore they can be calculated using only two data points. Some metals thus have incorrect elasticity propert...844 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• MMetals & Alloys Expandedby WellopelloThis mod currently add 14 new metals and 9 new ores to the game for your dwarves to mine and smelt. The various metals should flesh out different stages of the game giving you an alternative to Iron and Steel. Into the mid to late game you will be able to smelt up to advanced alloys. Most metals...642 downloadsupdated 1 mo ago
• MMaterials Plusby PutnamAdds a few alloys and a bunch of ores to get some of the extra materials added by the metal library. It might be better to have the minerals in the metal library? I dunno. I prefer to keep things modular, when possible, which it is now. This mod is at least partially an example for that. Image is...408 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• GGielinora Scape V1.03 [51.02+] (Runescape Overhaul Mod)[Abandoned FYI]by Gasper VladiNOTICE: Hiya, sorry to those who may have enjoyed this mod. I have chosen to abandoned this project due to time restraints and such. If anyone wants to work on this mod and/or work it into their mod, ask me on Discord(I am in the Kitfox discord as Fatace/Gasper). Gielinora Scape: A Runescape Over...317 downloadsupdated 21 mo ago
• GGrowable Metalsby DaedalusAdds growable metals to the game, allowing for (an easier) source of renewable metal. Either select the seeds at embark time, or harvest them in cavern layers. Plant the seeds as a normal underground crop, and mill the produced crop into a metal powder at a quern or millstone, which can then be s...269 downloadsupdated 10 mo ago
• MMyth & Mendeleev (Lua)by DPh KrakenReplaces the vanilla divine metal properties with periodic elements. Requires v52.01+. Features • 48 possible elements, including non-vanilla metals from Putnam's metal library. • Divine metals have accurate physical properties, except they have a 1.2x max edge and can't be melted. Divine copper...192 downloadsupdated 19 mo ago
• KKhazad Bronze, Casari Steel & Durinsteelby SoldarisKhazad Bronze — a rediscovered dwarven secret: copper + tin + nickel refined into a golden alloy. Smeltable from bars or ores; tougher and pricier than regular bronze, forgeable into any gear. Casari Steel — named for the Dwarves in Quenya, “Casari”; a blue-grey nickel steel made bars-only from s...176 downloadsupdated 13 mo ago
• AArgMod Mythical Materialsby ArgendaussFantastical elements from ArgMod cut in update 1.2 and moved to this submod. includes fantasy minerals - Blurite (Runescape), Rubedite (TES:O), Dystrum (DRG) added by me - via dependency on Tobb's Deep Rocks (DRG): Croppanite , Bismonite, and Umanite. Loading ArgMod after Tobb's DRG mod fixes the...160 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• RRefinish Metalby grungeisdead# REFINISH METAL (REQUIRES DFHACK) --- Refinish metal bars using inorganic reagents specific to your load order. Grind stone, metal, and gems to dust, and use it to produce refinished metal affected in name and colour, and for material finishes value, by your chosen dust reagent. Refinish Metal e...129 downloadsupdated 4 d ago
• FFun New Metallurgyby darrianA complete metallurgical overhaul for Dwarf Fortress. Fun New Metallurgy replaces vanilla iron and steel progression with 15 original metals, 8 structured alloys, and 3 race-exclusive legendary alloys. Each material has a defined combat role — bladed, blunt, or armor — creating meaningful progres...112 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
• CColored Goldsby lordofdrgnsAdded Multiple Gold Alloys of differen colors using 4 unit formulas80 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• BBIOMASS Reactionsby HelessarAdd multiple reaction to let you start wherever you want without lacking important stuff. Only the dwarves have access to the reactions of the mod Items Metals Color Strenght Properties Value Biomass Olive Under copper Fire Safe Implie Killing Animal 4 Plabiomass Dark Olive Under Iron Anvil Magma...70 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago

20 metals mods, most downloaded first. Each one has its own page here with what it needs to run and where its author publishes it; the files themselves stay with the author and are never re-hosted on this site.