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BOD's--
they just plain stink. people want 20 dull or 10 shadow to get powder of temperment. they want the Val and nearby bods to get the armor of crafting +3, they want the blaze and near bods to try to get the Armor of crafting +5, and they want Plat bods to try for a sharpening blade. Thats IT!!!! Some folks will work to get a colored forge or two. Some will try to get a smithers protector to lock down as a show piece.. once they have gotten the deco items and colored forges etc, they have no interest in doing those Bod's again...
To make the new system, or even the old system better. rewards should also be better. there are three columns of possible rewards. Most use only two of those. I would like to see those columns filled, even if the chance was only 10% with items like;
Armor of crafting +2. +4 in addition to the +1, +3, and +5.
How about a forge that gives a small bonus to the amount of ingots when you refine? there could even be two, or more of them. A small that gives you a 5% bonus. if you refine 1000 ingots it gives you 50 extra. A large that gives 10% bonus.. if you refine 1000 ingots it gives you 100 extra... with a system that changes ore locations, you would find miners hauling their load of valuable plat ore HOME so they could use their bonus forge to get those extra few ingots.. hehehe, yah, it would be a pain, but a worthwhile pain.
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Something I started working on, and never finished.
potion barrels.
basically the same as a keg. Only they would hold 5 kegs. using the barrel ID instead of the keg ID. As i currently have it, it takes 9 barrel staves instead of the kegs three, two lids and one barrel tap to make the open ended barrel. it also takes barrel hoops made form tin rather than basic iron. The tinker menu combines 4 iron and three bronze to make one tin ingot. it takes 4 tin ingots to make one set of hoops. and 4 tin ingots to make the tap. the open ended barrel is then used like the Keg, with twenty four bottles to make the potion barrel. Now, weight is obviously a factor, so people will have to have a mule to carry their keg once filled if they dont make it at their house. the barrel can be filled with bottles, or a keg can also be dumped into the barrel. Since this needs to be stronger than a normal keg, oak boards are also required to make the staves and lids. clicking on a potion keg will fill it from a barrel. the idea was so that people didnt have to have twenty kegs of potions locked down on their houses to take care of bees and plants. the barrels use resources like the bronze and oak rather than normal base boards and iron to give these things a small calling/use.
other things like plant pot/bowls could be added to the crafting menu. use mahogony because of its resistance to water damage and rot, and line the bowls with refined or raw beeswax.
i have mentioned before in another post, that there are Elven belts as well. i removed the requirement that you had to be an elf to wear it, and added gold and bronze ingots to the manufacturing process. belts need clasps and rivets right? these belts look a lot nicer than the woodland belts (imho) but can hold the same attributes, giving people a little more variety in how they look.
There are many things that could be made craftable, and made to use valueless ingots and wood. Each little thing would add to the value of the ingots and wood, as well as help spur the economy, and drive miners/lumberjacks to harvest wood and ore they normally ignore completely.
Feel free to add ideas. and please forget about the 1337 armor and weps, I'll slap you!
