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Missing Links: An item for every tier

Welcome to Missing Links, a mod I made after seeing there was literally only one tier 2 helmet in the entire game.

Currently this mod adds a shield, buckler, and wrist blade for every material and tier of equipment in the game, with the intention of messing with vanilla balance as little as possible. Items were added after carefully cross referencing the properties of in-game materials and some minor headcanon.

[Notice: I am chronically ill and am on an extended modding vacation. If my insurance decides to cover my autoimmune treatment again I will resume modding. Any user updates / edits of any of my mods have my blessing. Please contact me on steam or discord if you want advice on how to update these mods]

Adds:
bronze and iron two handed axes and hammers
bronze, iron, steel, carbide, fullerite, crysteel, flawless crysteel, and zetachrome wristblades
wooden, iron, folded carbide and zetachrome shields
carbide, folded carbide, fullerite, crysteel, flawless crysteel, and zetachrome bucklers
Stopsvalin is unchanged, it still holds a unique place as the only buckler without a DV penalty and only loses to zetachrome in absolute defenses.

TODO:
Add unique sprite for zetachrome buckler
Add unique sprite for zetachrome wristblade

Where will this mod go from here?
I'll add a new category of item every few weeks when I have some free time.
Future categories will require some small retooling of vanilla numbers sadly. There is no room to work with when you have 8 tiers and values range from 0 to 4. Steel armor behaves like iron for most purposes in vanilla, etc.

Frequently Answered Answers:
The items in this mod will drop from enemies/chests/shops. I will work more on fine-tuning their rarity later.
Caves of Qud Expanded does something similar, the difference between the mods is down to one's taste in game balance.

Any original sprites in this mod is free for anyone to use without credit or permission.