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Primitive Tools

Primitive Tools: About: Primitive Tools is a mostly pointless tool mod made for getting to mining and wood building easier at the cost of efficiency. This is my first mod and I did my best to keep the vanilla balance in mind. The tools have very low durablili

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Updated 3 years ago
Latest stable file 1.4.1
Game version 1.16.0, 1.17.0, 1.18.0
Loader Built-in Vintage Story mod system

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About this project

What does Primitive Tools add?

Primitive Tools:

About: Primitive Tools is a mostly pointless tool mod made for getting to mining and wood building easier at the cost of efficiency. This is my first mod and I did my best to keep the vanilla balance in mind. The tools have very low durablility since the resources to craft them are easily gotten. I also halved the mining speed of the stone pickaxe to show that though rock can break rock it is a slow process. If you find any bugs or have suggestions please post them here. I will try and get to them as soon as I am able. Thanks for checking out my mod!!

Tools:

Stone Pickaxe -  Can mine at a tool tier 2 level albeit slowly and not for long. (can't mine metal or mantle blocks) 

Stone Hammer - Can smash any none crystalized ore chunck into nugets a few times. Also used with the splitter to make planks.

Wood Splitter - Can split logs into planks when hammered into logs. Can also wedge apart plank blocks with out the hammer. 

CRAFTING RECIPES:

Planks
 |Stone Hammer | Wood Splitter | Log| = 4 planks (that's 3 times less efficient than a saw for balance) 
Stone Pickaxe:
 Shapeless: |Stone Pickaxe Head(knapped) | Rope | Stick|
Stone Hammer:
 Shapeless: |Stone Hammer Head(knapped) | Rope | Stick|
Wood Splitter:
 Shapeless: |Splitter Head(knapped) | Rope|
Bone Arrowhead + Bone Arrow
 Shapeless: |Splitter Head(knapped) | Bone | & Shapeless: |Bone arrow head | stick | feather |
Grass Rope
 |Dry grass x 15 |
Twig
Shapeless: |Stick|
Twig Bundle
| Dry Grass x 3 | Twig  x 6 | Dry Grass x 3|
Change Log: 

v1.0.0 - Initial release of Primitive Tools.
v1.0.1 - language file update
                   - added ReadMe file to mod package for "professionalism".
                   - fixed en.json to work propperly - all items added by this mod should have propper names now (Stone Pickaxe,Wood Splitter, etc. . .)
                   - added Ukrainian, Russian, and Japanese Google translated language translation. - Please let me know if something translated wrong!

V1.2.0 - Ground Storage Update
  • added the ability to store all 3 tools on the ground.
  • added the ability to store all 3 tool heads on the ground.
  • added German Translation, thanks to ThePionier for translating it.
  • fixed typo in handbook attribute. Handbook should no longer show all variants of the tools when looking at the recipe.
  • removed some ironias texture files I forgot when I was going to make the wood splitter make splintered wood planks instead.

V1.3.0 - Bone Arrow Update
     - Added bone-arrows and bone-arrowheads. Should be compatible with all other arrow mods (note: damage is based on vanilla values so will         be pointless if you use the Bullseye mod by Rahjital, but is still compatible.)
     - Bone Arrow damage falls between copper(0 added damage) and flint(-0.5 added damage) added damage doing -0.25 damage with a 0.2             chance to break. This makes it a good step before getting metal while keeping it balanced with the default game.
     - Added bone-arrowhead recipe using the splitter and a bone to make 4 bone arrowheads. (may look at adding a new tool for this later)
     - Added bone arrow recipe.
     - Updated language files to support the new items.
     - Added grass rope recipe 15 dry grass to make 1 rope (may need balance tweaking)

V1.4.0 - On Fire
     - Changed english translations to exclude the knapping discrption
     - Removed my custom rope texture and replaced with official rope texture on all tools.
     - Added item resource Twig (crafted from a stick)
     - Twigs burns for 1 seconds at 700 degrees. (Stick burns 8 seconds at 700 degrees.)
     - Added item Twig Bundle (Crafted from |3 grass| 6 twigs| 3 grass|)
     -Twig Bundle burns for 18s (firewood burns for 24s) at 700 degrees (same as firewood and sticks)

Language Translation: I would love to support all languages but feel wierd google translating any more of them as an english only speaker.
If you want to translate or want me to google translate this mod into any Vintage Story supported language let me know below

Language Translation Credits

German - ThePionier

Portuguese - Yanazake

Mod License: CC0 

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