Better Scrap

NOW COMPATIBLE WITH COMBAT OVERHAUL

! WARNING ! This mod allows metal scraps to be used to make powerful weapons/armor early game. If you are playing with a mod that affects worldgen (mainly better ruins) it may break the balance of gameplay.

This mod adds a variety of new items made from metal scraps to the game! These items are meant to encourage cave exploration, especially in the early game. The items also should help extend your caving run, reducing the number of times you need to return to base.

Thank you to tomandoawa for the spanish translations!

Items:

Scrimatar: A long bladed weapon crafted from metal scraps. Deals 6 damage and has a durability of 90. This weapon is not the most difficult to craft, but its high damage is offset by its very low durability, hopefully encouraging players to keep exploring caves for more metal scraps.

Scramberge: An evolution of the scrimatar. Deals 8 damage and has a durability of 500. This weapon is more challenging to craft, but deals more damge than the scrimatar. Also looks cooler.

Scrap Pike: A scrap spear with longer reach and higher damage. Deals 4 damage and has a range of 4.5. Has slightly more durability than the scrap spear, it it requires double the materials. 

Scrap Glaive: A spear type scrap weapon crafted from the scrap pike. Deals more damage and has greater durability with the same range. Can be thrown.

Scrap Pick: A pickaxe crafted from metal scraps. Has similar stats to a copper pickaxe but with lower durability. Intended for use when your pickaxe breaks underground, has a mining tier of 1 like copper.

Scrap Shovel: A shovel crafted from metal scraps. Has similar stats to a copper shovel but with lower durability. Intended for use for when your shovel breaks underground.

Enhanced Mobility Suit Power Pack: A crafting component used to craft the Enhanced Mobility Suit.

Enhanced Mobility Suit Leg Actuators: A crafting component used to craft the Enhanced Mobility Suit.

Cupronickel Armor Plating: Cupronickel based armor plating made from cupronickel ingots and metal parts. Used to craft the Enhanced Mobility Suit.

Alternate Chainmail Crafting:

Pliers and Mandrels: Made of all tool metals, they can be used in conjuction with a hammer to create chain links

Chainlinks: can be crafted into chainmail with pliers and a hammer. This method is preferable to smithing the chainmail directly because it produces a 1 to 1 ratio of ingots to chainmail.

Armor:

Corroded Set: A heavy armor set crafted from metal scraps and linen sheets. Has plate armor drawbacks and has similar stats to copper chain armor. Can be made out of things found inside caves (linen from drifters/locust nests). Looks scrappy.

Rusted Bulwark Set: An ultra-heavy armor set crafted from the corroded set and more metal scraps and metal parts. Has drawbacks worse than plate armor but comes with some serious protection. 

Ranger Set: A medium tech armor that gives small increases to accuracy, charge time, and movement speed. Intended as mid-game armor and has slightly better protection stats than tailored gambeson. 

Enhanced Mobility Set: A high tier armor set that provides positive stat bonuses when worn. Requires many jonas parts to craft, but may not be nearly as bad as in vanilla due to the higher jonas part drop rates added by this mod.

 

External Frame Backpack: I want to start by saying this might be unbalanced. It is effectively a combination of the leather backpack and the linen sack on a scrap metal frame, which makes sense to me, but the combined carry capacity would be 11. I thought 11 was too high, but it seems reasonable to have 8 or 9. I'm going with 9 at the moment, as the sturdy leather backpack requires some caveman chemistry to craft, and is confusing to make as of the 1.20 patch 5 version. I'll nerf it if I get complaints lol.

Blocks:

Scrap Block: A simple block made of metal scraps, has the texture of a rusted iron block but is obtainable in survival.

Scrap Scaffold: A climbable block made of metal scraps. Intended to be used in place of ladders when exploring caves.

Scrap Torch Holder: I was tired of having to remake dozens of torches whenever I wanted to explore a cave, so the scrap torch holder is a way to get permanent light sources early game.

Tweaks:

Drifter (and now Bowtorn and Shiver) loot tables were made more numerous. It bothered me that the jonas contraptions were pretty underwhealming considering the massive time investment to get them, so I just made jonas part drops more frequent and now nightmare and corrupt mosters have a chance to drop jonas parts on death. I also increased the amount of linnen dropped by all drifters, as I feel that the player should be rewarded more for defeating them.

Future Plans:

Smoke and Powder Redux Compatablity and items: I actually enjoy the way smoke and powder handles guns (albiet I think theyre a bit underpowered) and I'd like to add a compatability patch that adds in some better scrap themed guns and ammo. I'd also appreciate an alternative method of obtaining sulfur.