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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 1453233" data-attributes="member: 10177">Diamond may be the hardest substance on Earth, at least naturally occurring, but it is easy to break because of natural fracture lines. That is why they have been broken by a simple hammer and chisel for centuries. IT would be very rare to find a gemstone that was so perfectly formed that it doesn't have fracture lines. In fact I have never heard or read of such a stone. Not even man-made stones.I do not know the hardness rules well enough to recommend what a diamonds hardness would be, but it should be relatively easy to accomplish with a hammer blow.Adamantite and Mithril are definitely fantasy metals. Titanium comes close to Mithril and there are other alloys that come closer. However there is no "real world"  pure metal that comes close to doing what these two metals supposedly can. In my opinion a metal that has a hardness of 20 should give a bit better protection when made into armor then it currently does. That is assuming an actual relationship between the hardness scale in the game to the Moh's hardness scale in real life. For example, the diamond is a 10. The scale of difference between a ten and a 9 on the Moh's scale is a factor of 100x's plus. So Adamantite, assuming it would take the Moh's scale up to 20 if it were real, would be a 100,000,000 times harder than a diamond. Actually much more than that. Totally unimagineable in comparsion to any real life example. A certain "unbreakable" skeleton with claws wouldn't even scratch the surface of the implications of such a metal. Pun intended, BTW.</blockquote>

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