If you make a suit of armor or weapon out of more than one special material, you get the benefit of only the most prevalent material.
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Yes, but there's no benefit. A longspear clearly falls into the category of an item "made mostly of wood"
This rare magic wood is as hard as normal wood but very light. Any wooden or mostly wooden item (such as a bow or spear) made from darkwood is considered a masterwork item and weighs only half as much as a normal wooden item of that type.
An item made from mithral weighs half as much as the same item made from other metals. In the case of weapons, this lighter weight does not change a weapon's size category or the ease with which it can be wielded (whether it is light, one-handed, or two-handed). Items not primarily of metal are not meaningfully affected by being partially made of mithral. (A longsword can be a mithral weapon, while a quarterstaff cannot.)
Besides which, the primary effect would be to cut the weight in half, which doesn't work twice. So why pay an extra three grand just to overcome DR/silver when you can simply spend 180 to make the head alchemical silver?
Edit: Ninjaed, and by someone quoting an actual rule that succinctly says what I just had to figure out on my own. Touché!
Edit: Ninjaed, and by someone quoting an actual rule that succinctly says what I just had to figure out on my own. Touché!
Nah, not at all. You found the part I didn't, about the spear material. We make a good team!
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I don't think mithril has the -1 to damage that alchemical silver does on peircing and slashing weapons.
It doesn't, but you would still be better off, in this situation, with either alchemical silver with the hit to damage, or only 750 for making the metal bits out of silversheen (Qadira book, I think) for silver without damage hit, along with immunity to rusting.