Crafting Requests

[Brian]

The most common helm that I've seen around seems to be a spangen helm. I looked up spangenhelms on google, and these are the image results I received:

Spangen Helms

It looks about 50/50 that some of them have cheek guards, and some of them don't. A nose guard looks pretty universal, but that doesn't offer a whole lot. I'm no armor scholar so perhaps these are terrible examples, but it looks to me that a spangenhelm would possibly not have face protection, depending on the description of our items IG. Staff might want to add face protection, or perhaps already have, to helms that are written as having cheekguards though. It's certainly something to consider if they are not currently.

[EltanimRas]

Speaking strictly from a playability point of view, I have to favor the ready availability of face protection that doesn't hide characters' sdescs and keywords.

[Bones]

Agreed, though there's nothing wrong with some that hide the facial features.

[tehkory]

I'm no armor scholar so perhaps these are terrible examples, but it looks to me that a spangenhelm would possibly not have face protection, depending on the description of our items IG. Staff might want to add face protection, or perhaps already have, to helms that are written as having cheekguards though. It's certainly something to consider if they are not currently.

Given the multiplier on damage to the face/eyes, I've always considered 'face protection' to be relative. It's not as if having equal protection on the face stops you from taking horrifics to the eye(depending heavily upon mob damage and slightly upon constitution). Giving people 'easy' access to equal-level protection to the 'face'(including stacking) is just the difference between the random once-in-X one-shot that drops someone from 50%+ health or not. And even with it, they happen. It doesn't matter that a spangenhelm 'partially' covers the face, because it's relative to what sort of covering you can even -have- on the face. Just because it's not as covered as say, your chest, doesn't make it any less 'full coverage.' Your elbow's not as covered as your shin, but both are granted equal coverage in this system. How armor works is less simulationist and more gamist, anyway. It's about the type of game you're trying to make. Less armor locations 'covered'=greater randomization/variation on damage, more armor=more reliability when it comes to a given playstyle. I'd hope reliability comes before randomization, but there's something to be said for both.

People rate armor too lowly in most encounters, but they rate its value far too highly when it comes to the face. It's not half as effective as you think. Armor's underrated, and a major part of creep in any MUD(including this one, before I left). But armor over the face? All it really is is a paper shield. I'd rather have it than not(it certainly prevents the obnoxious "EVERYONE HAS ONE EYE" problems you develop without it), but...*shrugs*. It's not going to bother balance much, even if you've got full and partial coverage going.

In most games they'd call it a quality-of-life decision rather than a balance once. It improves players' playtime, but it doesn't affect balance much at all.

[cfelch]

Can we get a 'forge bent-nails' craft to straiten the fish-hooks back out?

Then crafts that use nails before the check could spit out an equitable number of bent nails (6 per pile) on a failure.

Oh, could some of the all wood construction items be allowed to use dowels as well?
Then woodworkers could get a 'carve dowel-rod'.

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse.

[mongwen]

make the rough bog-iron knives and the utility knives interchangeable. I.E.

Leatherworking: twist sinew-bowstring
Phase 1: 30 seconds
Held or in Room (Consumed): 6 of a strip of animal sinew.
In Room (Reusable): a pot of ambient-temperature water, or a
ten-gallon cauldron filled with ambient water.
Phase 2: 30 seconds
In Room (Reusable): a broad workbench.
Phase 3: 20 seconds
Held (Reusable): a rough, bog-iron knife, a fleshing knife, or a
$metaltype0 utility knife blade.
Phase 4: 20 seconds Amateur Leathercraft skill required.
Phase 5: 10 seconds
Produced: a length of sinew bowstring.
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Why only the blade, why use the blade at all, why not just the whole knife?

Cobbling: make simple-boot
Phase 1: 20 seconds Amateur Leathercraft skill required.
Held or in Room (Consumed): a pair of $leathercolor0, $leathercondition2
leather soles.
Held or in Room (Consumed): a pair of $leathercolor0, $leathercondition2
leather heels.
In Room (Reusable): a $metaltype0 carpenter's hammer.
Held or in Room (Partially Consumed): a pile of $metaltype cobbling nails.
In Room (Reusable): a broad workbench.
Phase 2: 30 seconds Amateur Leathercraft skill required.
In Room (Reusable): a $metaltype0 sewing awl.
Held or in Room (Consumed): a pair of $leathercolor0, $leathercondition2
leather boot uppers.
Held or in Room (Partially Consumed): a spool of thick, waxed, $linetype
twine.
Phase 3: 25 seconds Amateur Leathercraft skill required.
Phase 4: 20 seconds Familiar Leathercraft skill required.
Phase 5: 15 seconds
In Room (Reusable): a $metaltype0 utility knife.
Phase 6: 0 seconds
Held or in Room (Consumed): 2 of a $leathercolor, $animalleather leather
strap.
Produced: a pair of $leathercondition2, $leathercolor0 boots.
OOC Delay Timer: 60 RL Minutes
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Why only the utility knife? The rough bog-iron knife is supposed to be just ageneral knife. It says in the description that it can be a weapon in a pinch, which implies that it's mostly suited to daily use, so why is it not useable for that craft, and why is a utility knife not useable in the first?

[cfelch]

Speaking of utility knives...
You can make wood beads with them, but not bone or antler.

[Daeoine]

Would it be possible to have the description for artistry be increased some? As it stands right now it is 1024 characters for canvas, this includes the actual command writing itself. If at all possible can it be increased to 1500? This would allow a good amount of detail to be put in to the art. With 1024 a good amount of such is taken up simply by spaces, so much so that in my most recent endeavor I had to trim words, remove double spacing and dumb it down quite a bit. A small thing I know, but would it be at all possible to crease it?

I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who wishes to know

[Meneldor]

The utility knife blade for the craft was incorrect, changing it to the knife itself.

[Matt]

Also, on artistry, what all can be decorated? Only thing I've been able to decorate so far is weapons.

[Onasaki]

Also, on artistry, what all can be decorated? Only thing I've been able to decorate so far is weapons.

Shields. Helmets. Metal Armor.

[deerskin]

Also, on artistry, what all can be decorated? Only thing I've been able to decorate so far is weapons.

Textiles such as clothing and knits as well as a variety of finished leather goods, jewelry, instruments, canvas and paper can be, as far as I know.

[Daeoine]

I would just love to see Jars of Lard in the shop again.

[radioactivejesus]

Rucksacks/Backpacks please! Everyone looks very fashionable with their man-purse/orc-purse, but I feel that we still could use some proper packs

[Bones]

Foraging: gather wild-potatoes
Phase 1: 20 seconds
Held or in Room (Partially Consumed): a cluster of slender stems with small
white flowers.
Phase 2: 20 seconds Amateur Forage skill required.
Phase 3: 10 seconds
Produced: a handful of earthbread tubers.
OOC Delay Timer: 15 RL Minutes

Can this be updated to perhaps provide more than one handful of tubers? Tubers/Potatoes grow in large bunches.. Can they be harvested that way?

[Real]

Foraging: gather bog-ore
Phase 1: 20 seconds
Held or in Room (Partially Consumed): a large patch of smelly swamp peat.
Held (Reusable): a rough, bog-iron knife, or a $metaltype0 utility
knife.
Phase 2: 30 seconds Beginner Forage skill required.
Produced: a chunk of bog iron ore.
Phase 3: 30 seconds Amateur Forage skill required.
Produced: a chunk of bog iron ore.
Phase 4: 30 seconds Amateur Forage skill required.
Produced: a chunk of bog iron ore.
OOC Delay Timer: 60 RL Minutes

This is just a flavor thing. Could we get rough, bog-iron short-spears added to the tools?

[Meneldor]

Foraging: gather wild-potatoes
Phase 1: 20 seconds
Held or in Room (Partially Consumed): a cluster of slender stems with small
white flowers.
Phase 2: 20 seconds Amateur Forage skill required.
Phase 3: 10 seconds
Produced: a handful of earthbread tubers.
OOC Delay Timer: 15 RL Minutes

Can this be updated to perhaps provide more than one handful of tubers? Tubers/Potatoes grow in large bunches.. Can they be harvested that way?

I think handful implies there is more than one, but if that is the case the bites/calories do not. I'll find out a little more about this one.

[Bones]

Well, I meant low in terms of what it provides. Some crafts that require a great deal of potatoes.. It takes a while to gather them all. A long while.

[ThinkTwice]

Could we please either have the seasons on wolfsbane/septfoil expanded or could there be more starting herbalism/medicine crafts that work in other seasons besides spring?

[AdamBlue]

orc-cooking

assemble orc-rations

Required: a roasted $beastmeat haunch
2x a crispy, plump rat on a stick
Two uses of 'a salt cellar'
2x a large stone jar
Creates: a pair of sealed orcish rations


Desc: These two jars are full of meat, one full of some kind of foul-tasting rat, and the other full of some kind of thick, roasted animal flesh. Both of them are saturated in salt when the jars are opened, but are otherwise sealed and bound together with a thin length of cloth.

Properties: No rot timer; They are preserved meats that could last for a while. Amateur level craft in 'orcish-cooking'.

Many bites, somewhat filling, and somewhat light. Used for on-the-road devouring, but not meant to be tasty. Should taste like 'salty salt'.

[cfelch]

Just a thought...
Given that we are based around a lake, how close are we to a reliable supply of salt?

[Matt]

Better shields please. Those nice heavy shields should be hard to make and come by but pleeeaaaasse can we get a higher quality shield craft?

[Onasaki]

Armor Repair kits that fix huge, and giant holes in things.

[mongwen]

I loathe craft timers and yall seem obsessed with adding them to everything even if it's only five RL minutes. Ought to just get rid of them in most cases, but since that's not gonna happen....

With that off my chest for the moment, I'd like to add a suggestion for the condition size-leather-square crafts. Pass and fail timers are the same. They shouldn't be. when you fail the craft, it says you didn't soak the square long enough, so the timer should be shorter, say 45 minutes.

[radioactivejesus]

Armor Repair kits that fix huge, and giant holes in things.

this this this. Codedly, you need to be well above adroit to mend giant and huge damages, and even when you mend them, they show up as being 'a permanent damage' and lower the durability of the item. It doesn't lead to forever fixable magic armour like you might think.