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Way of Kings presents: Artifacts and Dueling Module

NOTE: As Paradox has officially added Artifacts with The Royal Court DLC, AND there are direct namespace collisions between the official effects and the effects in this module, this module is deprecated and only provided for the benefit of those who wish to rollback to before patch 1.5

This is a complete rewrite of a project that once upon a time was started by Godherja. It adds a lot of new functionality, makes the module more modular and stable, and vastly reduces the barrier to entry for a new modder wishing to modify the module, because all the functions are dynamically generated from one master list of artifacts.


Features for users:
Base Artifact functions:
Create powerful and unique artifacts - or simply manufacture common longswords for your knights.
You can now Gift Artifacts through a custom GUI, so you can still get some use out of your artifacts once you've upgraded them.
The AI will use the artifacts too!
Kill other artifact owners to steal all their stuff!
Easily identify other artifact owners by using the brand new Artifact Map Modes!
Got too many artifacts to easily find the one you're after? Not a problem - filter them by slot or subtype so you can list only the artifacts that are relevant to *you*.

Dueling system
You can duel other characters for prestige, artifacts or land. However, your target has to be able to stake the stake, and you have to be able to match it!
You can use hooks to force the target to accept duels with the desired stakes.
Choose your preparation and your stance after investing in the brand new Dueling skill tree.
The AI will choose stances based on their personality traits, so choose wisely!
Hundreds of possible dueling outcomes, including both duelists being wounded or killed!


Special functionality when combined with the Community Flavor Pack allows you to tie artifacts to specific models! (Currently experimental and only tied to the Reichskrone and Iron Crown of Lombardy by default)
The Community Flavor Pack is available at:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2220098919

Features for modders
Basic artifact system
More tooltips and modifier icon options!
More Way of Kings artifacts, such as Shardblades and Soulcasters, and even a new Mount slot! Don't worry, they won't be generated in an otherwise vanilla game - but you can manually add them if you're a modder!
There are debug interactions and decisions to grant yourself artifacts or steal all artifacts from the target.
Simplified modularity; can most likely be included in your Total Conversion mod without a single conflict.
When you know where to look, it only takes about 1 minute to fully implement a new artifact from scratch.
You could even add brand new artifacts directly from the console menu!
Artifacts can even stack!

Demonstrative GUI
New indexing methodology allows quick generation of affecting arbitrary lists in GUI!
Simply provide an itemcontext and a datamodel and watch as the system works its magic!
Need a system to break or repair items? Check out the artifact repair decisions and interactions!

Dueling system
Can be easily modified with other types of stances, effects, advantages, stakes, and outcomes!

Incompatibilities:
As the mod has been moved to use the new GUI Modding Framework, there are no core functions that will be incompatible with other mods.
However, as of 2.0 there are two mapmode GUI files that are slightly modified. These are not important for the functionality of the rest of the mod, and may be safely overridden by other mods.

Modding instructions:
Instructions on how to mod this module yourself are found in the "Artifacts README.info" file in the mod folder.

If you wish to use this module in your own mod, please credit The Way of Kings team, and consider making another feature of your mod modular and releasing it to the community so that we may all benefit as a modding community. If you need assistance with modularization, feel free to visit our discord at https://discord.gg/kr7emNrd9K and ask for advice.