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Mechanic - Weapon Infusion

Andromander opened this issue ยท 3 comments

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This mechanic is identical to Enchanting. There are some ores found in Gaia that can be applied to weapons, which can be broken down and turned into an essence.

  1. To start the process, a gemstone needs to be crushed down to a powder. This is done with the Gemstone Macerator. All that is needed is the gemstone and some sort of power source (TODO: Change idea, allow Redstone Ore to generate, or have a new type of power source).

  2. Combine the Gemstone Powder with a Sweet Ooze Ball to create a compound. This can just be done in a Crafting Table.
    NOTE: A Sweet Ooze Ball can be obtained in several ways. One is to collect Sweet Muck in a Cloudy Bottle (made from Cloudy Shards) and burn it in a Furnace (yields 1 Ball). Another is to burn Frail Glitter Blocks into Sweet Droplets and combine into a ball, or burn Thick Glitter Blocks which can yield 3 Sweet Ooze Balls.

  3. Again, using the Crafting Table, is to combine the compound into an Ancient Tablet, which will result in an Infusion Tablet.
    AUTHOR'S NOTE: Should this be stored as NBT, or individually? At this point, NBT is ideal, and the individual IDs is just cheap.

  4. Finally, using an Infusion Pedestal, the player can combine two Infusion Tablets and a tool of choice, and the end result will be the infused tool. On infusion, the Infusion Tablets will revert to Worn Tablets.
    NOTE 1: Should the tool of choice be restricted to Swords and Axes only, or can I just let the player infuse their Hoe?
    NOTE 2: Special tools dropped by the bosses cannot be infused. Instead, they will have their own traits.
    NOTE 3: Should Worn Tablets be an unusable tablet? Repairing something like this would cause unbalance to the game.
    NOTE 4: An infused tool cannot be infused again. If the player attempts to do so, there will be no response from the Infusion Pedestal.

// White Opals are catalysts, and can be used to intensify the effect of the infusion. It will be impossible to infuse a tool with only the White Opal tablet.
// Goldstone corrupts any mixture, and adding to it does nothing, regardless of what is used to infuse it. Can only be removed with a cleansing infusion.
//Tektite is nothing. Using this to infuse a tool will clear the tool of an infusion. This will be the only time an infused tool can be used on the Infusion Pedestal.
// Create a unique effect for infused weapons, though this may cause conflicts if the weapon is enchanted, or some sort of wacky effect will happen. (Oh, this would have so much fun with Quark's coloured enchantment effect)

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2nd iteration. Edited as of 10/03/2018

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3rd iteration. Lowers the amount of Tile Entities necessary to complete this. Edited as of 8/04/2018

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New idea under consideration. Closing this to make way for a completely new plan