would you be able to make a mod that makes it so only wx78 can craft gears

мод не диз болансный крафт впринцепе норм

@Everyone
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Nice!

A must have.

I updated the mod and added advanced recipe configuration system (Read mods description for more information). This also means for the ones who used configuration options in "modoverrides.lua" need to update the configuration values with the correct ones. I have added the updated "modoverrides.lua" sample file in the mods description where you can simply copy/paste the values and then change it for your needs.

@Thalldor
You were right, the gem drop module was broken. I don't really know how or why i wrote THAT kind of code or even bigger suprise is how it worked when i tested it...
Anyway i updated the mod, it's fixed now, everything should be working.

I figured out what caused the crash, I toyed around with the mod a little and if the Gem Drops are turned on it will crash the server 100% of the time it seems.

@Thalldor
This mod basically does not have anything in it that could crash a server. Without the crash log i am unable to help you though. I suspect perhaps it's a conflict with some other mod, maybe you are using multiple Gears recipes at once? Try disabling all other mods and leave this one on and generate a new test world, then enable all your other mods 1 by 1 to see which mod causes the conflict.

It appears that your mod crashed me when I loaded my world. Not sure how to send you the crash log though.

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though gem and marble are rare both seem easier to craft then very easy

I don't know, a recipe is, by definition, a group of items put together. Wouldn't consider the items in this recipe random though. All make sense in my head at least or perhaps i have too wild imagination on how those items can be used to craft gears. Anyway it's balanced enough for a variety of servers imho.

I understand that, and I agree it needs a hard recipe, although this one is just a group of random items put together, and for me it just dosent make sense. I dont know what you could change it to though :p

Well, it's a nice weapon and armor addition so it should have a hard recipe

Kind of a stupid recipe :p Good mod idea though

Alright, found some time and updated the mod, hopefully it's better for different variety of servers now.

Hounds Tooth in the recipe is meant for carving purposes, the tiny details the item requires, seemed logical and helps to make the recipe a bit more balanced out. Hounds attack quite often with normal settings on the server and the droprate is good enough as it is. With the recent RoG update, you can now find hounds a lot more often thanks to the nests they have and believe me, you wont run out of hounds tooth.

Gold Nuggets can be obtained extremely easily and at least in my case, i always have too much of these (even without other mods).

So i hope you can now understand why this recipe is designed like the way it is and why it is actually so hard to redesign it.

Now this mod comes in to help making gears craftable. This mod does NOT help against running out of resources in the world, in fact, it is designed to be used both with other mods and without mods. With default server and only this mod, gears is still going to be gone from the server at some point, just like it would normally anyway, but it helps the player to convert purple gem into something perhaps more useful for the player, gears in this case. In a server with other mods, gears can become a renewable resource through obtaining gems via the help from the other mods.

The recipe was designed to be this way, to be able to fit in with default server (having it's non-renewable gears in mind) and servers with other mods (to be able to make gears renewable), i believe i did quite a good job and the purple gem in the recipe is a very important link if you understand the underlying logic.
To be continued...

@Kanasuke @TheDeadDude
Ok, you are all missing some very important aspects.
First of all, i have had in mind of making the mod a bit more configurable, but atm i simply have no time at all, hopefully somewhere in the next month i can look at this.

About the recipe itself now...
You need gears for only IceBox basically and even without that you can survive easily. The robot toon is meant to be leveled up slowly throughout the game, not before the first winter.

Without ANY mods on the server You can get gears from: killing clockwork monsters, digging up graves and chance to drop from tumbleweed. These are non-renewable resources except tumbleweed with the recent RoG update and the droprate is very low.
Gems can drop from basically the same places, e.g non renewable resources.
What does this tell you? At some point in the future (happens quickly, especially with many players in the server) you are unable to find any gems or gears, they will be gone.
To be continued...

Just to be clear i'm just discussing an opinion i'm not trying to rant or even say anything remotely negative about this mod. This mod is awesome and the fact that it's free is amazing. Good work keep it up!

I dislike "minable gems" even at 5-10% the gems drop too often. You can already get gems from hound attacks and digging up graves, i see no reason to mod in more gems.

Hounds teeth aren't easy to get sometimes, most the time you will get monster meat or nothing from a hound than a tooth drop. Unless you change hound attacks to "more" which is bad for new players. (How does teeth "build" do anything to make a gear? unless made of bone?)

6 gold is alot of gold, you need it for just about everything "good" in the game. Science machine, alchemy machine, rainometer, thermal measurer, lightning rod, tools, weapons (wigfrid), armor (wigfrid) and most the stuff inside magic tab.

@DejaVu @TheDeadDude
In which case if you're saying that, why not just write in the opening line of your description for the mod, "This mod is intended to be used in conjunction with Mineable Gems"?

The average user who comes for a mod like this, wants "Craftable Gears" before first winter. (Because sometimes if you get unlucky, it's possible to have no gears by day 21). But like you said, the mod itself is really only designed for your particular server's mod setup in mind, that's why their point is valid, it does not do anything for the base game.

Perhaps provide an option to allow users to change the recipe to an easier one. I know it is more work.

With the correct server configuration and mods in it, this recipe is quite balanced, at least on my server. It is hard to balance it for any server in general sense, but there are mods out there which can help you achieve it. The only harder item to get is the purple gem and for that, there are many mods out there that make obtaining gems very easy, if anything, this recipe is still too easy.

I only play the robot when i have clock works set to "more" no idea why "more" equals the entire map swarming with clock works. This makes WX-78 an immortal god that goes around smiting everything in his path, you should try it xD.

PS The crafting recipe hadly makes any sense and it would be super hard making even 1 gear in the first year of gameplay. Later on its just going to drain all your precious resources for something hardly worth it.

There's honestly no good balance, if you have mineable gems mod on, and you play as WX-78, you (or someone on your server) can become very powerful. If you don't have mineable gems, the recipe becomes extremely difficult before first winter.

A possible suggestion would be to use the Renewable World mod, and set clockwork monsters to respawn very rarely. That way you are not screwed by the world generator when it decides clockwork is not a thing on your map.

@Terrorhawk. This makes obtaining gears way too easy. The current recipe is even too easy. The thing is, finding gems isn't so hard and besides you can use other mods to bring more gems into the game, for example "Mineable Gems" mod which brings them into boulders, each boulder or a rock has a chance to drop a gem.

I would recommend removing the gem from the recipe. The main reason i for one use these mods is so i can get a gear for my first icebox much easier, and including the purple gem makes it pretty difficult to make use of this recipe before the first winter hits.

Gears is a very valuable item to Robots and used to build very good items in general, it should have a hard recipe. Even though i think later in the game, it's not that bad anyway as gems and other minerals come up more often.

Maybe remove the two fangs or the purple gem I would do

damn son

I tried to create as balanced recipe as possible, so the recipe is: 4 Gold Nugget, 1 Purple Gem, 4 Cut Stone, 6 Flint and 2 Hounds Tooth.

what do you use to craft it

Yes, but since Gears is a very valuable item to Robots and building very good items in general, it should have a hard recipe. Even though i think later in the game, it's not that bad anyway as gems and other minerals come up more often.

thats a lot but thanks

I tried to create as balanced recipe as possible, so the recipe is: 4 Gold Nugget, 1 Purple Gem, 4 Cut Stone, 6 Flint and 2 Hounds Tooth.

waht are the ingredients to make one?

dis maiks me wet

This Sounds like a nice mod might test it with my bro

I think robots are easy enough to kill and don't require modification. Just make sure you wear an armor before you go pick on them!

Just let to robots to have 400 hp at start :)