So I'm able to produce TONS of value, and get plenty of gold. I'd like to be able to produce metal armor, so I can finally pimp out my colonists in gold plate mail.
you can get golden light power armor atleast!
(when I don't get overly mind-numbed by updating my mods)
sadly none of the metals have any armor related benefits =P if you look at the differences in the metal helmets in vanilla so it'd be total waste of resources but..
..but everyone still should have atleast one decadent dandy (a la shovelknight) in their colony! ;D