i am a metallurgist and since my day is spint using The science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals and there alloys can tell you that you are right currintly in tpt you can not make a true alloy yet you wuld need to blend metals at a atomic level and pattern
i mean being able to take ANY qualities of any and all elements and being able to shape your own, and share it with others.
for the c-4 you mean like this? ID:1314885 but sadly it is temp sensitive
while it may be a challenge, i don't think it would be WAYYYYY too hard...
Not a bad idea, but it would be really hard for the developers to make :\
imagine the possibilities when opening some random "BEST METAL ALLOY EVER" custom alloy save, and finding an alloy of love and lol, or an alloy of insl and gold? what about explosive alloys made of TNT and C4, and DMG? we could finally have the C4 that actually blows up and does something, instead of it being weak fire. imagine the possibilities! GLOW WATER.... HYDROGEN ICE... DEUT ICE... NEUT PLASMA... ACID WARP.... GBMB DMG... TNT PASTE.... imagine.... the... possibilites....
possibly, it would be nice if powdertoy had a built in mini workshop (same as the blank page button when drawing dust and water) but instead it is a MOD TOOLS WORKSHOP that allows you to create a custom element with the features of any other element or elements combined. everyone could then have a little seperate favorites tab, or saved custom elements folder containing all of their alloys. some might say, "if you want to create such a powerful metal, why don't you just use diamonds?" i don't accept that as an answer, people would and already do just make everything out of diamond, whats the fun in that? building structures and machines to post them so that others can test their strenght and destroy them so that their weaknesses can be found and strengthened and improved! destructible saves are often the most creative.
that is very interesting and i mentioned it in the save, but what i want to really do, is make TRUE ACTUAL ALLOY, without layering, all in one pixel. i want to be able to make a real alloy of iron and gold, iron that can't oxidize! alloy of gold and ttan, acid resistant ttan! TTAN + TUNG shatter proof super heat resistant pressure blocking metal i want all the metals and metaloids to have special properties and have special properties when alloyed with eachother, in addition i would like to be able to then mix my alloys, not just having 2 metals within them, but MANY. i would mix gold ttan tung shd4 together somehow, and make a SUPER METAL that heals a little bit. what about an alloy of merc and deut? adding elec and neut to that would create electrowarp-otized-super hydrogen ahhh WHO KNOWS? but that is going far deep into alloys of other non metal elements... i want NO LAYERS, NO pixel checkering, i want REAL TRUE ALLOY ELEMENTS.
with intelligent use of leyered elements, you can make nano alloys which perform specific functions. i have made some rocket fuel, and am working on electronic parts. e.g. 3 pixel logic gates, and a single pixel which can hold 5x the charge and allow more efficient charging batteries (super capacitors).