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Crossbow (Lactose)

Adds a wooden crossbow you can make and a crossbow you can find.
(For Build 41, which right now is the beta that has to be manually opted into)

This mod does not need KCMcrossbow, or Remastered Kitsune's Crossbow Mod, or KitsuneCrossbowSoundFix. This mod just also comes with compatibility patches for them, which list their corresponding mod as a requirement in order to load properly. Steam therefore incorrectly tells you that you need those mods.
This mod works fine without any Kitsune crossbow mod variant installed.
The compatibility patches were originally made because that other mod used the same variable names as this one so they overwrote. This is unnecessary now, because I changed the variable names in this mod, avoiding that conflict. But if you are running both this mod and a Kitsune crossbow mod, you can use a compatability or code change patch as well if you want.
(FAQ accuracy below)

Crossbow: 2 planks + 2 nails + a tool + level 2 carpentry + (crossbow already invented)
Crossbow string: Twine or Fishing Line
Crossbow Bolts: Sturdy Stick + a tool
Making it quieter: Thread/Twine, Lit Candle.
Inventing a crossbow: 1 plank (The crossbow recipe doesn't become available until you invent it. The time it takes to invent depends on traits. It's not a recipe, so you have to right click on a plank)

The different ammunitions do the same damage.

Somehow a steel cable on a crossbow snaps in this mod :\

FAQ - Accuracy: In Project Zomboid at level 0 or veteran aiming your character misses most of the time using a crossbow, but that's because I gave it accuracy like the firearms, actually it's more accurate than the firearms which is a bit unrealistic. The Project Zomboid advert video says something like "what would you do?", although what they're actually going for is more a difficult challenging game than would be realistic, which is why there are so few tools and tools break after you use them, and your character has low agility. They have also chosen accuracy to be not realistic, but difficult. As well as this though, your character quickly enough learns how to build a house and identify plants, and with a high enough aiming skill your character's ability can reach real life noob level D: and surpass it and be really good at aiming, so he starts unrealistically inept but can become really skilful and knowledgeable, except still not agile.
PS I just noticed that changing the accuracy of weapons doesn't change the accuracy of items already generated, which will explain trouble I had testing accuracy, and then people commented on the accuracy being off.

This is a video on the interweb of a person making a crossbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWiZpenRGx8

This is one of him making a simpler crossbow with a saw and a Stanley knife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8pivOifGFQ


Ideas for additions to this mod (if or when I get around to it)

Maybe:
Making scopes look right on wooden crossbows with also a better wooden crossbow model (partly done, waiting for me to continue).
Checking if a recent game update caused a glitch with loading bolts from a backpack.
Picking up crossbow bolts after you miss with them
Different sorts of crossbow bolt (Partly done)
A double crossbow with two shots (Possibly redundant with the glichedly low durability fixed?)
A crossbow with a magazine (Partly done)
A crossbow with more power and range that takes longer to reload
A weaker crossbow that is faster to reload
Something like refining a crossbow to reduce its weight
Weighing some wood to find out how much a wooden crossbow weights (Instead of the above?)
A quiver
Changing accuracy (Or maybe not though, given that I've still not done this)
Seeing crossbow bolts stuck in zombies after shooting them
Making the hovering progress bar when you invent a crossbow visually start where you left off. It already saves progress. (Is newly easy to do)
(Note to self to add another compatibility patch and look at a recipe).

Maybe not:
Making crossbow bolts faster with a higher carpentry skill (I think skill at speed at repetitively making the same thing is different to carpentry skill in general. Also it's a time management decision whether or not to spend time making things to shoot at zombies.)

I made this mod but then I stopped playing Project Zomboid for a long time, but I was adding to this mod despite not playing the game other than to test.

(For Build 41, which right now is the beta that has to be manually opted into)


Other mods:

Someone made a mod for this mod so that you can't make a crossbow, just find it: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2101717776
It says it fixes some icons being double size too and something about the Mandela effect ( :D ) PS I identify as singular, not plural.

Someone has made a different crossbow mod (using the Lua code from this one) with some more things, like diverse crossbows and foraging for flax to make the string, and attachments for crossbows like scopes, and with things like changing the string taken out, though he didn't mention the Mandela Effect despite having used my code from this mod :( and in my opinion the recipes are a bit odd, but perhaps they fit the theme of the game. Kitsune's Crossbow Mod.

And also a "Remastered" one
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2572385719
And also a remastered one with a sound fix. And also a re-remastered one.

Workshop ID: 1901390863
Mod ID: KCMcrossbowCompatibility
Mod ID: KitsuneCrossbowReRemasteredCompatibility
Mod ID: LactoseCrossbow
Mod ID: KitsuneCrossbowSoundFixCompatibility
Mod ID: Remastered Kitsune's Crossbow Mod Compatibility