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[Og] Repair Your Gear

This mod allows your colonists to automatically repair their worn-out gear. Optional materials usage, no workbenches to build, and no complicated setup or micromanagement—everything is fully automatic and works out of the box! (See the GIF above.)

• Convenience – Repairs are automatic, with no need for configuration or manual actions.
  
• Balanced – Repairs consume time (and materials, if you open it in mod setting), ensuring that durability loss still comes with a cost (items still break at 0% durability, just like in vanilla—important for players using yayo combat or similar mods!), while greatly reducing logistics burden.
  
• Flexibility – Adjustable values! There is option to disable weapon repairs for players who want to keep low-durability weapons (e.g. at 49%) to reduce colony wealth, and option to repair free for player who want less logistics burden.
  Warning: Changing this setting requires a game restart!
  
• Immersion – Clothing still loses durability and must be manually repaired by colonists, rather than being permanently stuck at 100%.
  
• Performance – No complex logic or heavy searching; performance-friendly.

Tested on my 700-mods saves and no incompatibility found.
Compatible with CE —— Maybe need a restart after installing.

Based on feedback from the community and forums, a number of balance tweaks and detailed adjustments have been made.

1. Balance:
   
   1. Resource Consumption: Added an optional resource cost setting. When enabled, each repair job will consume 1 unit of material, determined by the following rules:
      
      1. If the item has a material, use its base material.
         
      2. If no material exists, use the most abundant ingredient from its recipe (small-volume items like gold are divided by 10 in the count).
         
      3. If there is no material or recipe, the material is based on the tech level:
         
         • Neolithic – use wood
           
         • Medieval/Industrial – use steel
           
         • Spacer/Ultra/Archotech – use plasteel
      4. If none of the above apply, default to steel.
      
      
   2. Free Repair Threshold: Added a slider (only active when resource cost is enabled). Above this durability value, repairs consume no materials—because sewing a small tear shouldn't cost a full material unit.
      
      
   3. Customizability: All values are configurable in the mod options.
   
   
2. Details:
   
   1. Logic Update: Colonists will now prioritize repairing apparel before weapons.
      
   2. Visual Effects Update:
      
      • Repairing metallic/weapon/high-armor items now triggers welding sparks and sound.
        
      • Other repairs use sewing sounds and dust effects.
   3. New Job Type: A dedicated repair job has been added with higher priority than research. You may need to manually enable it in old saves.
   
   
3. Unused idea:
   
   1. Colonists will not walk to chairs/tables before repairing — no more running across the map just to fix a shirt at 99% durability.
      
   2. Repair reduce max durability – Compatibility issue.