I have some idea for new resources and reworks that make crafting more intresting:
[New item] Brick and/or [Rework] RockUsage? Building material to build faction base (or private houses). Bricks can be found in ruins or buyed. They also can be used us improvised last chance weapons (just like rocks to throw). Rocks btw should be findable everywere in each encounter (cave, waste, ruins, plain, forest ect.) often than flints. Creating a item brick might be unnecessary, because rock can serve the same usage. Its rather cosmetic
[new item] ClothTwo ways to get this item: kill humanoids on encounters (find us regular loot, or use knife on their corpse to cut the pice of their clothes), or to craft them from fibers (like metal parts from iron ore). Component for crafting armors but i dont have idae how should graphics look (like in Wow or TLAmk2 ,,pice of cloth"?)
Changes for chems:[rework] Killing bramins gives bramin hide and meatI really dislike idea of collecting meat from butchery table (where it comes from so much meat? o.O ).
Meat graphics already exist
Also add more NPC to create meat jerky. One is already in Modock, add new one in NCR on Westin Ranch, one at Broken Hills at caravan office.
[New Item] Bramin milkOnly way to collect it is to use empty bottle on bramin. Real life cow can be milked 2 times per day and good cow gives 12 liters of milk dayly. [lets forget about the fact that the cow gives milk only after giving birth and the milk must be cooled... meat in fonline doesnt spoil so why milk should?
] So in game should be milking cooldown for each cow. The reasonable value for cooldown will be one ingame day (so it will be 1440 seconds?) to collect 1
or 10 [Edit: 10 is to much...] bottles with milk.
Drinking bramin milk will heal like water (or better) and give posion resistance. There is no other item (maybe except armors with buffs) which gives this bouns.
To make graphics for this item its needed to somehow color the water inside "bottle of water" item to white color or make a new pic
How i come up with this item? In fallout 1 the doctor in Shandy sands after completing the quest ,,bring radscorpion tails" reviling you the secret recipe how to make antidote. He said that he crush radscorpion tails and mic them with bramin milk. So with this item comes change to crafting antidote:
Antidote = bramin milk + 2 or 3 radscorpion tails (now it just 5 radscorpion tails...)
[New item] Mushrooms , FungusThey are like brock flowers and xander root but they can be find
only in caves. I suggest to remove empty caves from the game - if you haven't find better items for example turboplasma or enclave armor, there always will be some mushrooms in the cave (as consolation for effort to explore cave). Other places to get them might be New Reno Stables (but mob shodn't like this...), Ghost farm (but I heard the rumors that there "magic box" will be moved) and Montag underground fungus breeding in New Addytum:
In mentioned place they should have very long respawn (it must to be proper mutation of mushroom). The existence of such a resource will encourage caveseachring because this resource will be needed to do create important drugs.
The fungus have some psychoactive substances so they might be used to craft: mentats, jet and psycho.
Fungus graphics might be created by cuting in paint some fungus from mentioned fungus breeding in New Addytum, or there is already some other graphics in the game.
Drugs crafting rework:Antidote (us mentioned)
Buffout = Bramin milk (dring milk, be stronger!) + meat jerky 3 (real men eat meat!) + chemical componets x2
Mentats = 3?? fungus + 3 fruit (for cool flavor
)+ chemical components x2
Jets = empty jet carnister + bramin dung + 2?? fungus + chemical component
Psycho = 2?? fungus + bio med gel + super stimpack + chemical component
Rad Away = Bramin milk + chemical componet + biomed gel + empty hypodemic
are the values are reasonable?
[New item] Book (paper) - i dont mean skill books! I mean regular book about "nothing", which for average wastelander have only one value - calorific value, or as toilet paper... xD
Books could be find at (unuseed at the moment) bookshelfs at city encounters, like this one:
Some of thease books hold valuable knowlege so they migh be miscellaneous items that can be exchange to caps in libraries and at Brotherhood Bunker (make some vendors and repeatable quest questgivers outside bunker).
Second usage might be
cigaretes reworkto craft cigs in Cigarettes Machine you need: 10 tobaco + one book (for tissue-paper
)
That all suggestion about crafting chems. Now about crafting other things: I think that there is no sense to make crafting in reoladed too complicated. TLA mk2 have most complicated crafting but it is rather PvE server. Reoladed is rather considered us PvP server. I usualy play here to relax and kill some players (after 6 mounth i found the courage to insolently kill one guy without warrning in the ruins so better beware of me!
xD), us we all. I suggest to let it be that crafting on reoladed we be simple and do not disturb and distract from seeking adventure and fighting. Some changes must be done of course so lets try to discus how to create a crafting that will be not too difficult and still rewarding.
I think that reoladed needs first of all following items:
Pipe (to make most of two handed guns, you can find this with junk, in lockers ect. not as often as junk. Regural gun use 1pipe, some guns more for example shotgun 2 pipes, minigun 6 pipes)
Kevlar (to make CA)
HQ fibers (to make CA)
HQ wood??
HQ electronic parts (to make HQ EW)
Plastic (to craft advanced modern guns like XL70e3)
Thease advanced reasorces (i dont mean pipe of coures
)
shoudnt be aquirerd only in TC lockers, because the group that hold the powers (for example BBS) will not allow regular players to craft PvP equipment. This reasorces should be like blueprints on dungeons, rarely on ruin lockers, lockers in caves and rarely in high tech shops (brotherhood, Shi, Gun Runners, Enclave).
what new reasurces you like to be added?
Last question about making pictures to thease items: can they be created by making/finding proper picture of item in the real life on white background and then after some fun with minimalize picture/changing resolution added?