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Update the long pole

Open bloodbowel opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Summary

Features "Updates the long pole"

Purpose of change

I noticed the recipe for the long pole is similar to the spear shaft in some ways. You could cut the period where the player watches oil soak into the wood. I also updated it's to-hit calculation and made it's construction more realistic using a long wooden post rather than a complete wooden beam.

Describe the solution

  1. In #75640 I removed 4 hours from construction time by adding a soaking period. I did the same thing for the long pole here because the recipe is similar. Now those 4 hours are spent soaking while the player can go do something else.
  2. I noticed that the long pole uses the old "to-hit: -1" to derive it's to-hit value. I updated this to use the modern grip/length/surface/balance calculation.
  3. I noticed this item is created from the wooden beam which is way to thick for it. It now uses a long wooden post which is much thinner but not too thin. I increased it's recipe time to 2 hours and 40 minutes to reflect all the time needed to cut it into shape. That means to create this now takes 2 hours and 40 minutes in construction and 4 hours in a soaking state. So 6 hours and 40 minutes total.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Leave the long pole alone. Maybe adopt some of these changes and leave others.

Testing

Tested on my computer in debug mode.

Additional context

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bloodbowel avatar Aug 17 '24 04:08 bloodbowel