Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24983169-20140531134632/@comment-25007246-20140601051224

alloys would be crafted with some new crafting station, like a metal bench made from 1 of each real world bar (e.g. copper, tin,iron,lead,tungsten,silver, e.t.c) at an anvil? (This would require for all metals to be available on 1 world except for Crimtane/Shadow?)

Examples:

1 tin bar + 1 copper bar = bronze bar  which would make bronze weaponry like a bronze Glaudius (sword), Pilum (spear) and Bow which be about as strong as silver/tungsten. Add feathers and leather later game (late pre hardmode) and you could have a good all round armor set with different helmets for different classes (e.g Soldier helm for melee, Legionnare for ranged, laurel crown for magic[?])

1 tin bar plus 1 lead bar would make Solder (it would look like a shiny puddle), 10 of which you could use (you would literally "pour" Solder onto a weapon) to reforge a tool/ accessory/ weapon (a cool Soldering Mask would also have to be made and worn to reforge items, which could be made from 10 Iron bars, 10 bronze bars and 10 glass at an anvil)

2 iron bar + 2 obsidian or oil/ coal(other "idea" I will not expand on at this stage) = 1 steel bar. Steel would be as strong as Shadow/Crimson, and weaponry like circular saws ( very fast speed, no knockback, 15-20 dmg) would be created from it. It could look quite awesome.

finally (and this is the one I think would be coolest)

Electrum! I was just Wikipeding (new verb) alloys and came across this. It is a mixture of silver and gold, and it's armor could be as strong defense as Molten armor, but mixed class helms (HM only armor). It could have an electric look and an electric set bonus like Attacks have a chance to stun or quite high crit chance. Combine Electrum with Hallowed bars and you could get Thunder Armor, which could look like Viking-space age (if that mix is possible). Oh yeah, and it would need 3 silver and 1 gold bar to make 2 Electrum bars.

Also, at said "Metal Bench", you could break down bar-made items back to their constituents, but for hardmode armors you would need to add 10 Hallowed bars to make a Metal Altar.

done :D