Obsidiancraft

Obsidiancraft adds a few new items to make obsidian a little more useful for how rare it can be.

Features

Crude Obsidian Arrows

Classes with the Bowyer trait are able to craft crude obsidian arrows, which are a slightly higher damage alternative to their exclusive crude flint arrows, but slightly weaker than vanilla obsidian arrows.

Obsidian Saws

Obsidian saws offer access to woodworking during the stone age at the cost of low durability. They're crafted by first knapping an obsidian sawblade, and then combining that with a stick in the same way metal saws are crafted.

Obsidian Scythes

Obsidian's sharpness makes it an excellent tool for cutting grass. Obsidian scythes can be crafted by first crafing an obsidian scythehead from two sticks and two obsidian knife blades, then attaching that to a stick like a normal scythehead. They're not as durable as metal scythes, but they are far more effective than standing in a field for hours hacking away at plants with a stone knife.

Obsidian Shears

Shears can now be crafted with obsidian! They are fragile and slower than metal shears, but offer a nice stone age alternative.

Macuahuitl (Obsidian Swords)

Macuahuitl are wooden swords lined with saw-like obsidian teeth. They are very effective given their relatively simple ingredients, but far less durable than a metal sword. In terms of gameplay, they are basically just a stone age predecessor of the falx.

Macuahuitl can be crafted by combining an obsidian sawblade with resin or flax twine as a binding, a wooden club or a bone as a handle, and a knife to carve the handle. Resin and bone handles both offer slightly higher durability than flax twine or wooden clubs.

Tepoztopilli (Obsidian Polearms)

Tepoztopilli are wooden polearms with saw-like obsidian teeth falling somewhere between a spear and a halberd. They make excellent slashing and thrusting weapons, and have a greater range than spears, but are too unwieldy to be thrown.

Tepoztopilli can be crafted by combining an obsidian sawblade or a vanilla obsidian spearhead with resin or flax twine as bindings, two sticks for a handle, and a knife to carve the handle. As with the macuahuitl, the resin offers slightly higher durability when used as a binding. Currently the blade is purely a cosmetic difference with no effect on damage or durability.

Balance

Obsidian weapons and tools are generally balanced around real obsidian being extremely sharp, but very fragile.

Macuahuitl deal 4 damage, but only have 50-70 durability depending on components used to craft them, with wooden clubs and flax twine binding being the weakest (50) and bone handles with resin being the highest (70).

Tepoztopilli deal 6 damage (a thrown obsidian spear deals 5.25), but only have 40 durability when crafted with flax twine bindings or 50 durability with resin.

Crude obsidian arrows roughly fall between crude and flint arrows in terms of damage and durability.

Saws have a wood mining speed of 2.5 and leaf mining speed of 1.8 and 90 durability, making them slightly slower and far less durable than copper saws.

Scythes have 90 durability and otherwise function identically to any other scythe since they don't use mining speed.

Shears have 250 durability (1/4 the durability of copper shears) and otherwise function identically to other shears.

Compatibility

This mod uses JSON patching to implement crude arrows, saws, scythes, and shears as variants of the relevant vanilla types (game:arrowhead, game:arrow, game:saw, game:scythe, and game:shears) instead of unique types, so they should work with anything that's compatible with those vanilla types without needing patches. Mods that completely replace these vanilla types or drastically overhaul them will probably still need patching. If you find an incompatibility, let me know and I'll try to fix it. Muacuahuitl and tepoztopilli are standalone weapon types as of Obsidiancraft v2.0.0 and no longer rely on patching game:blade or game:spear. Compatibility paches available in Obsidiancraft are listed below.

 

Changelog

v2.0.0

Added

• Obsidian shears
• macuahuitl and tepoztopilli variants depending the handle, blade, and binding used to craft them
  • macuahuitl handles can be either wooden clubs or bones, with bones having slightly higher durability
  • both weapons can use resin or flax twine as bindings for attaching blades, with resin having slightly higher durability
  • tepoztopilli can use either obsidian sawblades or vanilla obsidian spearheads (currently just cosmetic)
• Added compatibility patch for Combat Overhaul Fork
• Added compatibility patch for Crossbows Fork
• Added compatibility patch for StringSense
  • Adds recipe variants for StringSense's items to be used in place of flax twine

 

Changed

• Macuahuitl and tepoztpolli are no longer variants of vanilla blades/spears and are now standalone weapon types
  • This makes it easier to add variants going forward and reduces conflicts with vanilla changes to blades and spears
  • Existing pre-2.0 weapons should automatically remap to the equivalent item IDs when loading a world
• Changed layout of tepoztopilli recipe and reduced cost of sawblades and resin/flax twine bindings to just 1 each
• Change layout of macuahuitl recipe and reduced cost of resin/flax twine bindings to just 1 each
• Reworked obsidian saw model to look more like stone tier tool rather than a metal saw with an obsidian texture

 

Removed

• Removed old Combat Overhaul patch since it has been superceded by the Combat Overhaul Fork patch
• Removed old Crossbows patch since it has been superceded by the Crossbows Fork patch

 

Technical Changes for Compatibility Patches

• The old macuahuitl code game:blade-macuahuitl-obsidian is now obsidiancraft:macuahuitl-obsidian-sawtooth-resin-club
• The old tepoztopilli code game:spear-tepoztopilli-obsidian is now obsidiancraft:tepoztopilli-obsidian-sawtooth-resin-stick

 

 

Planned Features

• Possibly add snowflake obsidian as a variant of vanilla obsidian since it looks nice
• Maybe some arts and crafts / decor / jewelry type stuff (obsidian candelabras, pendants/crowns, etc.)