Implement woodcraft to improve wooden items
issueid=3928 10-15-2015 05:42 PM
ixi ixi is offline
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Number of reported issues by ixi: 51
Implement woodcraft to improve wooden items
Currently woodcraft has almost no function. Add a function to it similar to smithing.

Add possibility to improve wooden items with woodcraft like one with smithing can improve metal items.
What is needed:
  1. Wooden item to improve. Either weapon or shield. (AFAIK there are no other improvable wooden items).
  2. A tool (axe or hatchet) to work with the wood. Hatchets should give better rolls.
  3. Wood. Either logs or wooden sticks. Logs should give better rolls.

Blessed items should give better rolls as it is currently works for smithing.

For shields DV and PV should be improved. For weapons to hit and to damage (assuming weapon is completely wooden). I'd cap improval to +4 from basic values if woodcraft is at 100 and logs/hatchets are used for crafting. So wooden shield which is [+3, +1] by default could be improved to [+7, +5] if you've started with woodcraft, wasted some points on it, was lucky to find a hatchet and got good rolls.

Inspired by comment from Blasphemous for the issue 3853.

There are other suggestions which are necessary to make woodcraft usable and do have community support: 2685 and 1763 or even 3840 partially (axes to chop trees).
Issue Details
Issue Number 3928
Issue Type Feature
Project ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Category All
Status Suggested
Priority 7
Suggested Version ADOM r61
Implemented Version (none)
Milestone (none)
Votes for this feature 13
Votes against this feature 3
Assigned Users (none)
Tags (none)




09-13-2016 05:18 PM
Ancient Member
Quote Originally Posted by SinsI
Does it damage and/or destroy the feathers and the tip? Because that's the parts that matter if you are replacing the whole shaft with a fresh wooden stick.

And you are not firing into a professional archery mat that is designed to withstand the impact and to stop the arrow extremely fast, subjecting it to far greater damage than normal -
you are firing into the soft tender tissues of an animal or monster, so arrows last just fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VCYlg9w7dE
- as you can see, in many cases the only damage is that the arrow has just bent a little - even if it is stone-tipped. Steel tips would obviously last much, much longer.
I also have bow hunting experience, and I'd say shooting into an animal is far far more damaging to the arrow than shooting a target is. Generally the arrow gets stuck in the 'soft' tissue.... Which is anything but soft FYI, or the arrow gets lodged into a bone or nicks a bone damaging the arrow head. Also when the animal is dying and/or running away the arrow shaft gets bent or broken pretty often.

Regardless, this is an issue which should be resolved using Fletchery not woodcraft, as there is far more involved in repairing an arrow than the wood involved, such as glue, new feathers, and new arrow tips.

09-13-2016 05:19 PM
Ancient Member
Quote Originally Posted by JellySlayer
Random miscellaneous uses for woodcraft:
-Create torches from sticks.
-Refill tinderboxes from sticks.
-Repair pickaxes (which are wood, you know)
This would be much more useful for woodcraft than what the OP suggested.

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