Dwarf Fortress metal ores, bars, and alloys — full list and uses

Understanding the metal industry Dwarf Fortress Your fortress will be economically successful and your army can protect it. You can make your own weapons, armor, or trade goods and furniture by mining, smelting and crafting metals. But it’s not always easy to know what ores smelt into what metals or how to make alloys.

Our Dwarf Fortress metals guide will help you understand what ores you’re finding, set up your metal industry, and start making valuable alloys and weapons.

The metal industry, from beginning to end

All metal industries Dwarf Fortress starts with finding metal ore. That’s the easy part, really. You’ll find metal ore just by digging — it’ll get left behind as you dig through certain types of rock.

From there, you’ll need to smelt the ore in a Build (b) > Workshop (o) > Furnaces (u) > Smelter (l). However, fuel is also required for smelting. This is where the fuel comes from. Charcoal made from logs in a Build (b) > Workshop (o) > Furnaces (u) > Wood Furnace(f) Or from bituminous or lignite that has been transformed into CocakeAt a Smelter.

Smelting produces metal bars that are then worked at a Build (b) > Workshops (o) > Metalsmith’s Forge (i). That’s where you’ll make everything from weapons to furniture to instruments — a process that uses more fuel.

Different types of metal ore found in Dwarf Fortress

The 17 underground metal ores that you may find can produce 12 kinds of metal. Dwarf Fortress.

Four bars will be produced if you melt one of these metal ores in a Smelter. For the two ores that produce two different metals — GalenaAnd Tetrahedrite — four bars of the first metal listed will be produced along with up to four bars of the second metal.

Raw AdamantineEach case is different. Raw Adamantine needs to be processed first at a Craftsdwarf’s Workshop with Extract Metal Strands. Those strands are then woven into cloth at a Loom (and then into Adamantine clothing at a Metalsmith’s Workshop) or made into Adamantine Wafers at a Smelter.

Dwarf Fortress – Metal Alloys

You can combine these 12 metals in a Smelter to make 14 alloys.

When you create an Alloy at a Smelter, you’ll have the choice to either Use ore Oder Use bars. Bars are less efficient as they produce two bars of Alloy per operation (one silver bar and one copper bars yield 2 Billon bars). The other option is to use ores. This produces 8 bars (Zinc ore ore 1 Copperore make 8 bronze bars).

Additional materials are required for Pig Iron and Steel. In addition to extra bars of charcoal or coke, you’ll also need Flux stone — Calcite, Chalk, Dolomite, Limestone, or Marble.

Values for Metal and Alloy

Below, we’ll list the value — the base rate you’d get when trading with a Caravan — of a single bar of each Metal or Alloy.

The base value of a bar of each Metal and Alloy lets you see how (relatively) valuable something created from that metal would be — a Gold throne will be worth more than one made from Bronze, for example.

Dwarf Fortress is a good place to use metals and alloys

Each metal can be used in Construction — building things like floors, walls, and Workshops. Every metal Bismuth is exemptCan be used for making furniture such as cabinets and barrels.

Choose from a variety of optionsCan only be made of Adamantine or Bismuth Bronze Bronze Bronze Copper, Copper and Iron

AnvilsYou will need Adamantine or Iron to use this product.

Armor and weaponsOnly Adamantine or Bismuth Bronze Bronze Copper, Copper, Iron, Steel are allowed.