Adamantine trade good value

[maouse]

Alright, have looked and computed the numbers, and here is what I came up with:

Lightest light armor cost (that can be adamantine) 20, heaviest 25.
Adamantine cost +5000 gp = 200-250 gp per pound.

Medium armors: 30-40
+10000 gp = 250-333 gp per pound.

Heavy armors: 35-50
+15000 gp = 300-428 gp per pound.

average lows = 250 gp. average highs = 337.

weapons +3000; weights between 1 lb and 12 lbs
250-3000 gp.

Ammo +60, 1/2 lb (shuriken) ea to 10/5 lbs (sling bullets) to 20/3lbs
120-120-400

Ignoring the weapon and ammo outlayers, we have a general price between 250-400ish... for crafted adamantine.

In the conquest of Bloodsworn Vale, they value the resource at 4d6 vs 2d6 for gold. So 2x as much (100 gp per pound). But if we take into account it might be slightly more rare than gold (thus less resources available), we can apply a higher multiple.

Say... 125gp-200gp for unfinished adamantine. We could claim that making sling bullets amounts to simply using the leftover chips of sky metal (thus no real work, though master work quality, for all their pointy sharp edges). That falls into the 120ish range of base adamantine ore. If we understand that worked ore usually costs 2x as much as raw ore, then we come up with a pretty solid price of about 200 gp a pound based on all other information.

There hasn't been a published consensus on this. I don't feel like actually making a statistics spread sheet with every weapon and every armor and etc... to get a mean with a SD. This seems close enough.

Unworked smelted bars = 200gp per pound (how many pounds to a bar?)
Worked adamantine = about 300-400 gp per pound.

Seems legit.

Now to save time and cast Fabricate on 50 pounds...

[Captain Zoom]

Look under trade goods. Adamantine is listed at 300 gp per pound. Keep in mind that the cost of finished adamantine goods is probably a bit of an abstraction. Trying to reverse engineer them doesn't really work well.

[maouse]

Captain Zoom wrote:

Look under trade goods. Adamantine is listed at 300 gp per pound. Keep in mind that the cost of finished adamantine goods is probably a bit of an abstraction. Trying to reverse engineer them doesn't really work well.

Not in the books, in the PRD. OK then. In theory I could buy a bunch of shuriken or sling bullets and melt them all down for a 200% profit. nice. lol.