Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

More Uses for Lighters and Matches
10 Comments
RunYouCleverBoy 9 Aug @ 6:23am 
can u balance it to change to greater rarity? for guy like me))
흉내쟁이 31 Jul @ 7:59pm 
@Belrangerus in the B42 version, you can easily make a lighter that uses 20 times.
Belrangerus 28 Jul @ 9:30pm 
Killer. Always irked me how the character goes through lighters like they don't know how to light a cigarette and every matchbook having so few matches. Especially considering the situation they're in and/or the smoker trait, you'd think they'd already know about a lighter's longevity
HellMouse #SitDown2Pee 28 Jul @ 8:02pm 
It took me a sec to realize you gave it more uses instead of more uses.
Beornvig 28 Jul @ 8:13am 
Thanks for this! For those of us heavily into blacksmithing, I go through lighters like crazy. This really helps.
Pontius  [author] 27 Jul @ 11:31am 
Thanks - appreciate it :steamhappy:
??? 27 Jul @ 10:22am 
good mod
Pontius  [author] 26 Jul @ 2:00am 
@seronis - the number of uses left are already random - just like vanilla.
The values set on sandbox settings are just the max "available".

Matchboxes are, agreed higher than 20 where I'm from as well - but according to info gathered, these US style matchbooks are normally 20... And the lighters - I went with a zippo lighter, which average burn time according to research is 10-15 minutes = 80-100 uses/cigarettes. And they match the ability to refill etc.
seronis 25 Jul @ 7:21pm 
The values you chose are already a good avg value. Just mostly curious if being fully random is possible
seronis 25 Jul @ 7:18pm 
Do you take requests ?

Matchboxes tend to come in boxes of exactly 32 or 50 matches with 32 being more common. And a normal sized BIC lighter (not the mini ones) on low flame setting will burn for 3 hours which is listed at a couple thousand uses. Its still a few hundred for people who use high flame setting.

Any way you could make them so when found they have a random number of uses left up to those max values?