# Brawns ParaBox - Blood sacrifices! Coin making! Not a single box involved!

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**Category:** The Lab\
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**Created:** [March 11, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brawns-parabox-blood-sacrifices-coin-making-not-a-single-box-involved/27688 "2022-03-11T18:27:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaybeNotACow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/maybenotacow/32/11823_2.png) [@MaybeNotACow](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MaybeNotACow)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brawns-parabox-blood-sacrifices-coin-making-not-a-single-box-involved/27688/1 "2022-03-11T18:27:39Z")

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I did it again, I went and butchered up the fine and beautiful code of CDDA to make something that I wanted. Even though I sound dismissive of my own efforts, I’ve tested this out and it works just fine, but be warned; I can’t guarantee it’ll be stable/safe for all mods/games/saves. Dare you open the p a r a box?

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What this mod does is basically allows you to spawn certain hard-to-get items, for a cost of a trade-good and powered by a resource crafted from blood. Included is a tool to allow you to harvest your own blood (it’d also probably work on bodies), some recipes to make the ingredients needed for your brand new wishing-well, and some more recipes to trade your brand new hand-made coins into juicy precious electronic materials and the like!

# This isn’t such a super big, super fancy, super crazy mod, but I hated using debug to spawn tech scrap and working with my own internal system of ‘okay, I’ll burn 1000 feathers and spawn 1000 down feathers for fairness’. Now I can bleed myself and trade coins to the portal storms for stuff, and you can too!

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**Author:** ![MaybeNotACow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/maybenotacow/32/11823_2.png) [@MaybeNotACow](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MaybeNotACow)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brawns-parabox-blood-sacrifices-coin-making-not-a-single-box-involved/27688/2 "2022-03-11T18:40:53Z")

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Ahh! Until I can figure out how to add a seperate subcategory into the crafting menu, all the contents of this mod can be found in OTHER/OTHER. The main items you’ll want to look at are ‘vitae’, ‘wishing well’, strange stick/rock’, ‘gold/silver flat-slug’, and the ‘bloodletting set’. Collect blood from a human, an animal, a mutant and a zombie, mix it into vitae; use regular sticks and rocks to ‘craft/search’ for altered materials left behind by the portal storms; make some flat-slugs, although these are merely ritual because the vitae is doing the heavy lifting; finally create a wishing-well, and see what offers you can make!

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**Author:** ![MaybeNotACow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/maybenotacow/32/11823_2.png) [@MaybeNotACow](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MaybeNotACow)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brawns-parabox-blood-sacrifices-coin-making-not-a-single-box-involved/27688/3 "2022-04-04T18:21:59Z")

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Update: 4/4/22

Tweaks! Additions! New stuff!

- **Big Flippin’ Note: I figured out how to make categories! So all the Parabox mod stuff (anything that directly involves with messing with not-so-realistic aspects of blood sacrifice and portal trading) has its own category, the Paradox slot!**

- In lesser news, I decided to merge my first mod (Brawns Box, adds a simple/nice tinderbox firestarter) with this one. Simpler, and honestly, I think it all fits (after all I was playing off the ‘box’ pun). **So! Don’t use Brawns Box with this mod!**

- Vitae no longer requires nasty yucky zombie-blood, who would ever value that stuff?
- Bye-bye lightbulbs, ‘innawoods’ has a better recipe for you!
- Ditto to power converters! Highly recommend the ‘innawoods’ mod!
- Foot-crank (trade-via-vitae), because a manual oil press shouldn’t be limited to city-slickers and their fancy bicycles!
- Forage porridge, using my favorite cropstuff (buckwheat) and making an alliterative addition to your edible emergency supply and/or stockpile!
- Gas powered jackhammer? Meet your more expensive but perhaps more useful diesel-brethren! Does it necessarily make sense? ‘Does any of the Cataclysm make explicit sense’ is my response.
- Also a small cylinder engine (trade-via-vitae), for the conversion/crafting of said augmented tool.
- Some fixes to previous trades, should work and feel better now.
- Probably some more stuff that I’ve forgotten, hope you enjoy!