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Tattoos Intergrated

This mod is Part 2 of my Tattoos Addon mod. It intergrates tattoos across the world of Kenshi, including crafting your own ink and tattoos. NPC will now have tattoos according to their faction.
The lore reason for this? A pervasive belief that tattoos can help protect the wearer from harm. Is this true? Kinda, but a leather shirt is better protection. But where did this belief come from? Maybe there is a kernel of truth in the past. You'll have to find out.

Install and Load Order - You must import after installing these mods.

1 - Tattoos - by nanogiraffe
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=881287839
2 - Tattoos Addon
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1701172871
3 - Tattoos Intergrated
http://you are already here.com

4 - optional patch - I use it as it fixes all of my mistakes and cleans up a lot of the features of the mod. It is what my mod should have been.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2825147812

FULL DESCRIPTION

So this mod does a lot of things. It is designed for a long playthrough, with a lot of the features not being available until later technology levels. Tattoos are convert to having armour, but it is very low as compared to leather and chainmail. But now tattoos will have a quality associated with them, which means that their protection will scale as your skill improves. The bonuses from the tattoos are reduced, to +2 combat and unarmed and 1.1x attack speed and dodge. This is to balance the fact that a lot more people have them now, especially the starving bandits and other raider factions. I tried not to replace the ones who already had shirts and chainmail.

There are basically 3 types of tech and buildins added

Tattoo bench and crafting
Workstations for crafting your own tattoos and ink. The blueprint for these can be found at several vendors and the armour blueprints for the tattoos themselves can be bought around Kenshi. The intial research will unlock the basic tattoos but further work is need to get them all.

Tattoo Ink
In the original mod, tattoo ink was only found in Hivers villages and the swamp. Now tattoo ink can be bought in a variety of stores. Crafting it requires one of the types of alcholol and carbon. If you have been playing the game for a while, you might remember carbon. It was going to be another resource like iron and copper that you could mine (I still had some kicking around from looting in my current playthrough). It was taken out of the game, but is still in the FCS. So this adds carbon back in as an item. In order to craft it, you need to burn food. So there are now carbon furances that will slowly make carbon. Once you have the carbon, you can make the tattoo ink. There are also storage boxes for all the new items.

Tattoos Unique
This is the end game tattoos. These tattoos require special blueprints, ink, and workstations to make. I will leave it up to you to discover them.

Notes:

This mod is designed to be time consuming. Inks, carbon, and tattoos take a long time to make. The unique tattoos are even harder and require complex crafting chains. Inks and Carbon have been added to NPC shopping lists so that you can sell them in your shop counter.

I did try a few things to see if they would work. Moving the tattoos from the shirt slot to the belt broke the tattoos.

Carbon mines might be possible but the resource does not exist in the world anymore.

I tried locking the tattoos in place like chains so that you wouldn't be able to loot them from the bodies. However doing that set every character with a tattoo as a slave, regardless if they had the slave stigma. And the slave status reset everytime the game loaded.


Thanks again to Nanogiraffe and Ycraes for laying the groundwork.