Advanced Gear/Nanotech (unfinished)

[Shard]

Correct, the nanosuit is basically on a similar level as power armor, hence why it is quite difficult to reach the tier it requires to be crafted. It is still less powerful than heavy power armor, though it has its own benefits over that, such as being able to work with other clothing and storage.

The multitool isn’t designed to be perfect, just very close - later on you can easily have two or even all three modes at once by making more than one.

[Shard]

Updated to v3, bugs preventing progression have been fixed, parts not working right soft-removed, more looks_like added to allow tiles to show.

[Shard]

Moved mod to github, and put up another update.

• Redid nanite production to be limited to only the correct version for each tool, added final tier of production
• Made tier 2 less likely to be skipped by increasing requirements of tier 3
• Allowed nanite programmers for mod recipes in place of control laptop (except disassembling stuff that isn’t meant to be disassembled and only can be to avoid bugs)
• Nerfed blade ammo -5 damage, -15 AP
• Buffed small nanite multitool’s butchering and fine cutting
• Nanite multitool now repairs superalloy using steel chunks instead of causing an error
• Rebalanced weapon recoil, dispersion, and damage
• Rebalanced ammo recoil and dispersion
• Fixed description of nanotech shredder - it is a shotgun, not a pistol, oops
• Added more nanosuit versions for different heat levels

[Eastwardrope91]

Are you making it possible to make a nanite swarm like a manhack or drone? Cause I think that would be cool just activating a bunch to make a consuming horde by that I mean corpse consuming so you can have more nanoswarms. If that isn’t how your going I understand it’s still a really awesome MOD either way. Keep up the good work!

[Shard]

Nanoswarms: yes, both generic and high quality (limited to a mutation path)
Nanoswarms that eat bodies, no, as I don’t know of any options that allow that.

[Eastwardrope91]

I think one of portal horrors eats items the sogatho or something and I think you could white list it so it only eats items with Corpse in it.

[Malkeus]

I think your costs for plastic feedstock are a bit skewed. I didn’t check how many plastic chunks I could get from 143 small plastic bottles or 77 plastic bottles…but 6 gallon jugs gives upwards of 80 plastic chunks. Just one jug gave me 14 chunks, 1 shy of the last option in that recipe, 15 plastic chunks. I’m not sure which end of the spectrum you were aiming for, the recipe lets you be frugal or incredibly wasteful. Looking at the other feedstock recipes makes me think you intended the cheap end of the spectrum. I’ve literally just discovered an experimental nanite assembler, so I’m just dipping my toes into the mod. I really like what I’ve seen in the recipe menu, now I’m about to get a nanite guide put together and see what’s what.

Thanks for what you do here.

[Shard]

That would be due to an issue with the base game. I based all my recipes on mass of the item in question, while base game is blatantly ignoring conservation of mass all over the place. Cutting up a small plastic bottle can yield a plastic chunk, but it takes a very large number of them to match the mass of a single chunk of plastic. If the base game cared about conservation of mass, it wouldn’t be an issue.

On a related note, I really should fix some of the other things I made to follow that, but I figure waste material can be lost, and nanites can just pull excess requirements out of the ground or whatever is nearby, so I’m cheating on that. Also patch put out a bit ago, I screwed up vehicle parts and you couldn’t craft them, which is fixed now.

[Malkeus]

Blame it on the blob. It’s sneakily insinuating itself as this mysterious ‘extra’ plastic. I think the true issue is one of …what’s that word they used…“Granularity”. There’s no good way to represent smaller units without increasing item bloat. I mean look at what’s going on with metal. We have lumps and chunks and regular scrap.

Heh, I’m amused thinking about conservation of mass while I traipse around the world constantly eating and drinking, yet never excreting. In my self-pedalling electric driven monstrosity that weighs more than most buildings balanced daintily on 4 ‘wide’ wheels. I worked in a tire shop, I know what a single semi tire can take…and it’s not 100000 pounds per axle. Yet I roll on. I passed a field of whirling dervishes cavorting around a hellish hole in the fabric of reality as a schoolbus-worth of dead children stand idly, moaning for a parent who will never come. Heh…conservation of mass…

[Malkeus]

Looks like a recent update caused an error. It’s reducing stack sizes beyond 200 to 200. Loads ok after the error. nanite blade, bio nanites, nanite cluster, nanite dart are affected.

This is the one that did it: http://gorgon.narc.ro:8080/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/8144/changes

edit: o.O my eyes deceive me…volume in mL …

[Shard]

It is a lot more than just those, I’ll fix it tomorrow, in a pretty crappy mood atm.

[Malkeus]

It’s always a kick in the balls when the game updates your work all to hell…Enjoy your evening.

[Shard]

Not just that, lots of nerfs lately, been told bugs I spent hours tracking down aren’t bugs just because I found them while modding, had several of my ideas turn out impossible because the game doesn’t allow me to do them, and more. Going to take hours to fix my vehicle in my game because cargo dimensions are 1/25th their old size now, so even after throwing out 15 tons of loot, I still have way too much to fit even after making two more cargo dimensions. And I can’t even mod it back because the base game changed to make that impossible.

[Malkeus]

Ouch, that’s a lot of wasted time. The bug thing…nobody will give you a fair hearing unless you can reproduce it in vanilla. It’s always been that way and makes sense from a sanity and time perspective. Some people are dicks about it though. I’m guessing you ran into one of them.

I can’t follow the reasoning behind reducing cargo dimensions volume limits to deal with a problem with low weight items…that one’s beyond me. I imagine it will get a lot of attention when people start to notice. Hopefully this is one that gets reworked.

[Shard]

Patch pushed to github to solve the max stacksize being reduced.

[Shard]

New update:
increased vehicle armor plating, frame, board, and quarterpanel defense
nanosuit flags re-ordered for ease of reading in json, added climate control and some other useful bits
nanotech holster, sheath, and magazine holder
set reload times for guns
moved guns to use abstract to make future work easier
increased coverage of storage items

[Shard]

Another tiny update: liquid compressor 10x max size up to 2500L (good luck moving it like that) because vehicle tank didn’t work and it was either buff the personal item or nerf the vehicle one to make it work. I dislike nerfs, so have a buff, even if it is useless since you can’t carry that much weight. If you have a tank installed on your vehicle, you need to remove it and put it back to fix it.

Unless more bugs are found, next will be melee weapons and the start of work on turrets or everything for turrets depending on how much I feel like doing. And maybe fridge/freezer too.

[Darkfirephoenix]

How about a fungus like “infestion” by a out of control Nano-control tower (or something like that). Would spread and infect creatures kinda like fungus. It could offer great rewards (nanites extracted from the corpses/some sort of source for AI cores, a permanent source of nanites if you reprogram the control tower etc.) of course getting close and even just survivng would be a REALLY hard challenge (creatures could regenerate, the nanite infested floor could spawn enemies from time to time if you are on it [maybe even some stationary turret/tentacles to attack you] and overall rather high hit-points/armor [unless you use EMP, but that should only work to a certain degree])
Now imagines a nanite-infested hulk chasing you down

[Shard]

Another update out.

bugfixes:
mag holder arm+leg bug fixed, only arm now
holster, sheath, magholder were larger than intended due to copying and not double checking, size has been reduced
vehicle parts fold volume was way too high due to poor copy/paste skills
vehicle parts can be repaired while attached to vehicle now
mini-shoggoth storage didn’t have proper flags to be worn as a mutant, nor did it allow natural attacks, fixed
fixed plural names for nanites

changed:
nanotech frames turned to hybrid frames, and disassemble is possible for them
all nanotech vehicle parts have some damage reduction and some have improved hp
holster+sheath store two items, not one
did looks_like for some more gear
electronic feedstock can be made from 3 copper tubing directly instead of having to disassemble them
metal feedstock can be made from 4 small sheet metal directly instead of having to disassemble them

new:
proper nanotech frames added
melee weapons and shield added
blacklist avoidance trick wasn’t working for others, new laptop added for those that have it blacklisted, useless for anything except entry into nanotech

[Shard]

And another update:

New:

• notes for anyone working on tilesets to use for appearance ideas
• bunch of electronics crafting from feedstock added
• ai cores from feedstock
• tent crafting added
• added metal nanopowder, a liquid metal used for turrets as well as an option in crafting ammo bricks, and can be crafted back into metal feedstock if you ever need to for some odd reason
• new vehicle parts: aisle (assists with lifting large objects nearby), roof (acts as a turret mount), fridge, and freezer
• nanotech vehicle turrets (shredder, pistol, rifle, smg) that use liquid ammo so they don’t need reloading individually

Changed:

• nanite power cell can use metal feedstock directly instead of just canister, and is dark craftable
• bunch of crafting fixed to be craftable in the dark
• sheet metal uses proper amount of feedstock and time now
• capitalization removed to match base game
• added small sheet metal to ammo recipes
• vehicle storage uses mini-shoggoth as part instead since it is basically the same thing
• nanotech compression tank in vehicle folded to half its own size, now folds to proper size
• nanotech dagger now has fine cutting
• nanotech crawler now acts as a self-jack system
• nanotech controls acts as a bed