SLR: Forgeworks

0.7.0: Materials start to matter

Fang is the first material to split off from crystal alloy, with its own weapons and its own trait. Crystal alloy gets its own daggers and swords, and every new weapon has a real 3D model.

Fang weapons

• New fang daggers, swords and bows at every rank, from E to S.
• Fang's trait is armour piercing: every hit ignores part of the target's armour. That's 10% at E, rising 3% per rank to 25% at S. Fang bows carry it on their arrows.
• To pay for that, fang weapons deal about 10% less damage than crystal alloy of the same rank. They're the better choice against heavily armoured targets, not a straight upgrade.
• At the bonecutting station, fang now cuts into fang blades and fang bow limbs, which assemble into fang weapons at the anvil.
• Fang no longer makes armour plating or crystal alloy parts. Alloy parts and armour you already made from fang keep working.

Crystal alloy weapons

• New crystal alloy daggers and swords at every rank. Assembling an alloy blade with a handle now makes these.
• Their damage matches SoloCraft's own tier weapons, so a crafted weapon hits as hard as it did before.
• They get a real durability ladder, from 384 at E to 2304 at S, instead of SoloCraft's flat 80.
• SoloCraft's own swords and daggers can no longer be crafted from Forgeworks materials.

New models

• Every new weapon has its own 3D model rather than a flat sprite.
  • Crystal alloy blades have bevelled cutting edges and a glowing crystal ridge veined into the blade.
  • Fang weapons are curved fangs on a spiral-wrapped grip, with no hand guard.
  • The fang bow has crescent limbs that hook back like fangs.
• Fang blades and bow limbs have their own part icons.

Weapons that last

• Forgeworks swords and daggers now follow the same rules as armour and bows. At their last point of durability they break but stay in your inventory.
• A broken sword or dagger hits like a bare hand and loses its armour piercing until it's repaired at the Repair Station.

Compatibility

• Forgeworks daggers, swords and bows are tagged as daggers, swords and bows for SoloCraft.
• In Epic Fight packs, the new weapons attack like vanilla items until the Epic Fight datapack adds them.