Armor Up! A mod to make armor more better. New PA Utilities pack!

[Einstein_Cross]

This is a little off topic, but is there an easy way to make it so you could load a robot from jury rigged robots or a hacked robot into a vehicle like pet animal?

[mlangsdorf]

Animal capture code doesn’t check if a creature is an animal, so you should be able to load robots into livestock stalls and onboard kennels.

[darktoes]

New content! Power Armor Utilities includes craftable sheaths and stuff for power armor. Get it while it’s hot!

This pack was made because of prompting by Exceptional on Discord, who suggested maintaining Mokou-tan’s Power Armor Additions. I haven’t copied any of his/her code or anything, but it did serve as minor inspiration and an example.

[Lerzan]

What about armor on the low end that is actually armor? Say wooden styles of armor, maybe stuff made from PVC piping and other “hold my beer” type things?

It seems like the early game is rushing to find a duster/trench coat and leather clothes for protection, so it would be interesting to be able to make armor as a alternative (with other layers so joints can be protected.

My mind sees something similar to the armor used by the Haida, which used interlocking slats to make wood armor.

The LAT mention makes me wonder if a zombie could get out of a kiddie pool full of non-newtonian fluid as well…

[joxer]

Sounds good except, You can’t fit anything ‘worth the time’ that’s less significant than a trenchcoat, backpack or shopping cart.
Altho i’d appreciate being proven wrong.

[Lerzan]

You could have a real low end that would be just 2x4s, rags and nails to hold it together. Awful durability and only average coverage but craftable almost immediately. Maybe only used until you find the trench coat but it let’s you go into a city with something .

The other thought was upgrades, you make a shoddy wood breastplate, then at a higher level you can make it fitted or add strips of metal/plastic to improve it.

Storage is a bit more difficult though, maybe a sled thing that makes more noise and needs more str to drag but can make it early. That’s a discussion for a different thread though, this one doesn’t need a second derail haha.

[darktoes]

There already exists arm and leg coverings made of 2x4s, but any kind of torso covering made from 2x4s screams “high-encumbrance” to me. I suppose you could just live with it, but I don’t think making bad makeshift armor and trying to tank the earlygame is the correct way to play.

That said, early wooden armor isn’t really within the scope of this mod. It’s intended more for advanced lategame stuff. If you wanted more makeshift armor I’d suggest asking around the makeshift items mod, or even getting started on your own mod.

[Malkeus]

Will these spawn or are the only craftable?

[darktoes]

Craftable only.

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[crazykiddeath]

Dunno if its cos I’m running an older version of the game but I had some error messages come up when loading a save with the Power armour utilities mod running, nothing game breaking but I messed around with the recipes file until I fixed it and fixed the sheath not showing in the craft menu. I thought I’d see if you wanted me to upload it and thank you for the Mod while I’m here

[darktoes]

Depends how old the version you’re running is. If some new crafting updates dropped that broke my recipes I’d like to fix them, but I’m not overly concerned with supporting very old versions of the game.

[crazykiddeath]

0.c-29017 (I think) sorry still pretty new to the game so dunno how old exactly it is

[darktoes]

I think that’s pretty old.

[crazykiddeath]

fair enough again, ty for the mod though, my survivor feels a bit more like a bad ass space marine now

[darktoes]

Glad to hear it. I recommend updating to the newest experimental version, if there’s still problems with my version then, I’d appreciate if you let me know.

[crazykiddeath]

My current survivor is on a mission to install every none detremental CBM in the game, so I’m gonna hold off until either I’m successful or she dies horribly. They added the body slot rebalance recently I think? and the goal would no longer be possible.

[Mantar]

Bionic slots are disabled until somebody can make the system not a mess. Which really means “disabled for the foreseeable future.”
The big change to bionics is you need anesthetic kits and an autodoc to install them now, so you may want to hold off on upgrading until you’ve installed any giant piles of CBMs you’ve got in your hoard first. Then you can upgrade and get the new CBMs that have been added since.

[crazykiddeath]

Sounds good, I might just do that. I’ll let you know how the mod runs when I update, I’ve still got a copy of the original file so I can just swap them out but I’m honestly a bit iffy about updating mid save, this is my first survivor to survive for a long time and I’d hate to lose her to compatability issues.

[crazykiddeath]

ok, installed the launcher and added the unedited mod. It doesn’t display the same bugs from the outdated version I have but it does show a new bug (doesn’t display the recipe for PA sheath, which was a bug I had but it didn’t actually have a message) the edits I made originally still seem to fix it. Weird stuff

[darktoes]

Very weird. Not sure what to make of it in all honesty.