Newb wants to model an Ulfberht

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@robbx213

I’m sure I’ll find more on the forums here to learn how to use Q. And if it’s at all user-friendly, I’m sure I’ll pick up the basics quick enough.

So, if you are looking for some information on how to work with Qubicle, you can find some tutorials here and there in this forum. Being to lazy to look for all the spots, let me just link you to my YouTube-Channel, where I have uploaded them. You have also this thread with some tips and tricks (as mentioned by @Smokestacks) … might be worth a look. Also do not miss the official Wiki, which was just recently created. You will find a very useful reference manual in there.

Now on the limitations…

@robbx213

Obviously I can make it look like an Ulfberht.

Yes. That should work. Just keep in mind that you will play the game from some distance. So small details might get lost on your model (espeically as the swords will be not that huge I guess).

@robbx213

I’d like the sword to have buffed stats like maybe a small bump in damage and/or a buff in morale to nearby troops.

This will require some modding, but should be no problem. We have seen buffs for weapons shown by the devs already. I would expect that you can just take a given weapon with some buffs and use it as a template for your modification.

@robbx213

Being as the sword is so rare, I’d like to make it difficult to make. Some combination of requiring a bit more iron or steel, having a low chance to succeed in crafting it, or requiring the smith to be highly skilled to even attempt crafting. Another idea is to require some other input material, but then that gets into modding a new material into the game and that’s a whole ‘nother can o’ worms.

Again should be very possible. There will be a dedicated file related to your model which includes the requirements (e.g. materials) to craft it. Making the recipe available late and link it with some hard to get resources should be rather easy. Modding in a new resource might be a bit harder, but for sure doable (again you could take an existing resource and adjust it to your needs).

@robbx213

Another indirect option is to have its durability really low so that the combined craft cost and low durability demotivates over-stocking. But that feels counter to the fact they were actually quite durable (due to their superior steel) and you could end up spamming them and fighting with them and then they all break and you lose a major fight because nobody has a secondary weapon. I really don’t like this idea, but if the other tweaks aren’t even possible, then I’ll work with it.

Not sure if durability will be in the game (did not remember that it was mentioned already), but there is a “maintain”-option with the professions… so maybe we will have it. However, you could for sure add a counter to the weapon which is decreasing over time. To prevent that it just breaks during the fight, you might just add a query to your “reduce durability”-function which checks if your character is in a fight. If yes, it is not reduced (or reduced after the fight). I guess you have some options here.

@robbx213

Another idea is to make it so that only highly skilled warriors can equip the sword. So combined with low chance to craft and high smith skill needed, I think this would make a lot of sense.

Professions should level as we know. Therefore I would expect that also warriors will level and this means that there is a “variable” you can check for a required value. If I remember right, it was even mentioned that there will be weapons which require a certain skill level. Shouldn’t be a deal-breaker.

@robbx213

Are these things possible to tweak or mod in the game?

I would say yes.

@robbx213

If so, should I take the time to learn it myself or just model the sword and share it for help with these buffs and crafting tweaks?

From my understanding most of your ideas are rather basic changes where you could copy and paste code from implemented items. I would give it a try… and if you are stucked, there will be people around to help.