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[Jazzpirat!]

Hey folks,

I'm working on a mod with the intention of increasing the variety of weapons, armor and materials to spice things up a bit, and in some ways rebalance the game.
All the content I plan on adding is supposed to be functionally unique, meaning that I want to avoid making redundant items that barely differ from others in any way but name, there's no reason to have a separate sabre and scimitar and talwar.

The idea for the mod sprang up when I decided that elves suck at fighting a bit too much for my tastes. I think that wooden weaponry is crummy, and so I decided to change up their weaponry by turning them from hippies into more primitive hippies. In other words, I replaced their wooden swords and spears with clubs.

Anyway, things kinda escalated from there, and I now plan to modify various combat-related things, here are the current features:

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- Replaces all elven weapons. Elves now use clubs (come in one and two-handed varieties), specialized spears and atlatls, which perform better than the vanilla wooden weapons and ammo. Elves are now tree-dwelling cave hippies.
- Rebalanced various weapons. Scimitars are very powerful cutters, long swords are now more like real medieval ones.
- Added half-sword thrusts. Slow, but powerful.
- Added arming swords and falchions.
- Increased the amount of weapons that can be made of obsidian
- Expanded steels - First version implemented. Spring steel is made by humans and sacrifices hardness for flexibility. It is also lighter to reflect a human preference for lighter equipment. Mild steel is made by goblins and is crude and inferior to other types, and can be melted down and used as a substitute for pig iron, making it a very useful form of goblinite.
- Cloth armor in form of gambesons, padded vests and padded coifs. They are literally just very thick clothes, but they are surprisingly effective.
- Mail coifs.
- Optional angry elves mode: Makes hippies hostile to all other civs. Replace the entity_default file with the one in the "Angrier elves" folder. They don't survive well in small worlds for obvious reasons.
- Made humans playable in fortress mode, because I thought, "why not?" They were subject to a number of the changes in this mod, they're fully functional and different enough to the dwarves.

V3 released:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12357


By the way, if anyone wants to use any of this stuff for their own mods, or expand on what I've done, go right ahead.

[Zidana]

Awesome. Thanks for uploading this! Will give it a try when I get some time free, and will let you know how it goes!

...perhaps the angrier elves will finally instill in me the proper dorfy hatred of elves that I lacked for so long.

[Max™]

Looks good anon Jazzpirat!

[Jazzpirat!]

Looks good anon Jazzpirat!

i have been found out, oh no


Anyway, I've released what I'm calling v2 because I'm lazy with version numbers:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12357

Major changes:
-Spring steel now has unique stats, and is now exclusive to humans. It now functions as a more flexible steel which may help a bit against blunt attacks, but it sacrifices hardness, and therefore sharpness for it. In addition, it is roughly 10% lighter than dwarven "high" steel, in order to reflect humans preferring lighter built equipment.
-Wrought iron has been renamed to mild steel, and now also has new stats. It's an intermediate between steel and iron in terms of characteristics, and still acts as a substitute for pig iron, making it a very useful form of goblinite.
-Tweaked various stabbing related numbers. Half-swording, short sword stabs and spear thrusts all are a force to be reckoned with in terms of armor penetration. Half-swording has been made even slower. Protip: Wild half sworded stabs are deceptively fast and incredibly powerful, but risky.
-Elven bowmen are now referred to as skirmishers, reflecting their usage of the atlatl.

[Max™]

Worth noting that you did some handy science there, I was wrong on some of the values I expected to have certain effects.

[Zidana]

The version number at the DFFD site still says v1 in the description, even though the DL is for v2.

[DaSwayza]

question about adding mods with other mods, is there a way to merge those text files? because I have wanderer's friend, but if I add this mod that I really want, it will overwrite that mod and conflict.

[scamtank]

Yes. You merge those text files. You look at them and put them together in a way that fits, relying on your judgment.

We like using WinMerge or some other diff tool for that purpose.

[DaSwayza]

Well I attempted it manually, and I must have messed something up because I don't see the weapons in the forge, or the new steels in the smelter. I'll see if I can un!!fun!! it

[DaSwayza]

I know i'm probably bugging you, but while you're doing this weapon mod, I have something I would have liked to see: Grimmlocke (giving him proper credit here) made civilian-specific weapons that were clubs, daggers, whips, etc, something the average civilian would carry around. Have you considered such a thing?

[Jazzpirat!]

New version's out. Changelog:
- Added padded coifs, gambesons and vests. They're literally just extremely thick cloth garments, but effective armor, especially against lower quality materials. Note that all races get these too, in the case of the elves it makes them quite a bit less squishy.
- Added mail coifs
- Made humans playable in fortress mode, because I thought, "why not?" They were subject to a number of the changes in this mod, they're fully functional and different enough to the dwarves.

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12357

[Avnas]

atlatls

I am so up for this.

[Taffer]

I like this mod. Thank you kindly! I particularly like the balancing you've done to a few of the default weapons and the "half-swording" technique you added to longswords.

[Asin]

May I see the raws for the club weapons?