Mailshirts?
Yeah, Mail shirts. As in chainmail. That you wear over the breastplate/platemail. Do you not use them when you play?
Expensive? That makes no sense at all. Weapons need 1-5 bars and coke, Armors 1-3 bars and coke, why should I make the inventor cheaper... people would just spam the items here and copy them then. I think 3 bars to make a copy of a Dai-Katana or Battleaxe of Armok is cheap. The magmaversion of course needs no coke.
Is it the spring steel I find expensive. I'm worried about getting a situation like I'm in now in my world where no caravans show up for years. I don't know how you altered the minerals, but I can see myself running out of <metal you needed to make spring steel> and then being completely stuck. That is if I hadn't gotten the trade license earlier.
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_AXE_BATTLE_ARMOK]
[NAME:battle axe of armok:battle axes of armok]
[SIZE:600]
[SKILL:AXE]
[TWO_HANDED:47500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:42500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:900]
[ATTACK:EDGE:40000:6000:hack:hacks:NO_SUB:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:40000:6000:slap:slaps:flat:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:250:4000:strike:strikes:pommel:1000]
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_AXE_BATTLE]
[NAME:battle axe:battle axes]
[SIZE:800]
[SKILL:AXE]
[TWO_HANDED:47500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:42500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:9]YES
[ATTACK:EDGE:40000:6000:hack:hacks:NO_SUB:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:40000:6000:slap:slaps:flat:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:100:1000:strike:strikes:pommel:1000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:5000:5000:lacerate:lacerates:blade:1250]
[ATTACK:EDGE:40000:12000:relentlessly hew:relentlessly hews:full force:2000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:40000:6000:emphatically slice:emphatically slices:honed axeblade:1800]
[ATTACK:EDGE:50000:10000:make an undercut swing at:makes an undercut swing at:power:2000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:50000:10000:make a backhanded strike at:makes a backhanded strike at:NO_SUB:2000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:15000:18000:whirl around and cleave:whirls around and cleaves:heavy blade:1500]
[ATTACK:EDGE:20000:22000:whirl around with outstretched arms and cleave:whirls around with outstretched arms and cleaves:axe head:3000]
Why exactly would I want a battle axe of Armok? I'd melt the useless thing back down if I got one of those.
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_KATANA_2H]
[NAME:dai-katana:dai-katanas]
[SIZE:1800]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[TWO_HANDED:77500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:52500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:4]
[ATTACK:EDGE:60000:10000:hack:hacks:NO_SUB:1700]
[ATTACK:EDGE:60000:10000:slash:slashes:NO_SUB:1700]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:60000:6000:slap:slaps:flat:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:250:4000:strike:strikes:pommel:1000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:60000:12000:relentlessly hew:relentlessly hews:full force:2000]
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SWORD_HANDER_ZWEI]
German 2-handed sword. Longest two handed sword to ever exist.
[NAME:zweihander:zweihander]
[SIZE:1200]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[TWO_HANDED:77500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:57500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:15]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100000:11000:slash:slashes:forward edge:2500]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100000:11000:slash:slashes:reverse edge:2500]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100000:11000:sidestep and slash:sidesteps and slashes:forward edge:2500]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100000:11000:sidestep and slash:sidesteps and slashes:reverse edge:2500]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100000:11000:quickly slash:quickly slashes:partial edge:2500]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100000:11000:make an undercut swing at:makes an undercut swing at:NO_SUB:2000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100000:11000:slash:slashes:sharp blade:2500]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:100000:8000:slap:slaps:flat:1250]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:1000:3000:strike:strikes:pommel:1000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:50:10000:run through:runs through:tip:4100]
[ATTACK:EDGE:15000:18000:whirl around and slash:whirls around and slashes:long blade:1500]
[ATTACK:EDGE:20000:22000:whirl around with outstretched arms and slash:whirls around with outstretched arms and slashes:long blade:3000]
Or a Dai-Katana? Maybe if I leave them outside the Frost giants will put down their zweihanders and try to use these instead? That doesn't even take into account the upgrades.
Silentdeth, if you love arbritary increase in difficulty, you will love this idea (and its only that, an idea, I havent modded anything like that, but it has been in my todo/idea list, for quite some time already.)
ROCK PROCESSOR UNIT => Remove [ITEMS_HARD] from stone_template and remove all ores. => use the boulders dropped from mining for reactions in the Rock Processor, they cant be used for anything else => Generate boulders you can use in the mason, and ore that can be smelted, in controlled amounts. Rock Boulders, Gravel, Ore, Base Minerals, Rare Fossils, Gems could be found. Adds a refining step to mining, which would result in a rise in either workforce needed, or in slower mining industry. Would make wooden furniture more attractive, which makes sense. Felling trees is easier then digging tunnels deep underground, at least it should be.
*Would also fix the issues with slag bars that can be used in moods/buildmats.
*would allow addition of a rock-waste system, similar to slag. Gravel, toxic base minerals (arsenic, orpiment, realgar), dust affecting breathing and vision.
*could link item creation to amount of mining did, same as I do with smelting. 1% chance for orichalcum atm, so mining could have a 1% chance to discover a lost artefact, or something similar.
*could allow a value-based upgrade system, similar to wood. Rough wood => smoothed wood => polished wood. Raw Rock => Smoothed Rock => Engraved Rock. "This is a engraved rock table"
Only reason its not in the mod is that it alters vanilla processes, and I dont like to force people to something. You dont like the greatforge? Fine, dont use it. You dont like the Rock Processor? Well, you cant use rock then, good luck. Although it would be easy to toggle.
Info RL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbreaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusher
Your just trying to scare me at this point aren't ya? This is just silly, those machines are designed to take input from industrial mining, not things mined by hand. It isn't like people were not able to carve stone by hand for millennia before they came along. I'm sorry Urist McBaron but we cannot build your wall, everyone suddenly forgot how to use a freaking chisel.
EDIT: Couldn't get this idea out of my head:
"Yes Urist, What is it?"
"No you can't build with that you have to take it to the rock crusher first."
"Yes, I see you have a battle axe."
"Yes, I saw you cleave that steel-clad Orc in twain."
"And the dragon."
"Yes, Yes, and all of those too."
"Your axe? On the rock? No, no that wouldn't work."
"Why? Oh, um, because you see this rock here is made out of
sandstone."
"And? Oh, and, um...Well your axe would... You see the angle of the strike and the taper of the blade... It would offend Armok, thats why."
"Why? Oh, yes, yes see, because Armok doesn't like you using weapons on the helpless."
"WHAT! Oh Armok no, you can most assuredly still kill elves."
"Yes, yes the arena with all of the naked prisoners is still fine."
"The traders too, yes, yes."
"What? Oh. Well they might technically be considered helpless but Armok only cares about helpless stone."
"No! No, don't go release the caged colossus, that is still OK."
"Just helpless
inanimate stone."
"That boulder, no you can't use that either."
"Why? Because you see that is made out of
ice..."