Mods / More Nails

Tags:
QoL Tweak
Author:
Candid
Side:
Both
Created:
May 17th 2023 at 7:07 AM
Last modified:
Feb 10th at 3:11 AM
Downloads:
9747
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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.21.6, outdated):
morenails_v1.2.1.zip  1-click install


Originally, all metals granted the same number of nails. Now there's a reason to use your higher tier metals for nails, instead of just using whatever you have the most of. 
Tier 1 consists of Copper, Gold and Silver metals, Resulting in 4 nails per Ingot.

Tier 2 consists of Tin Bronze, Black Bronze and Bismuth Bronze. Resulting in 6 nails per Ingot.

Tier 3 consists of Iron, Meteoric Iron and Steel. Resulting in 8 nails per Ingot.

Tier 4 consists solely of Cupronickel. Results in 10 nails per ingot. New Cupronickel Plate added! 👍

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If there are any issues with this or any of my mods please let me know by either tagging me "@Candid", either in a comment or in the community Discord!

Check out my other mods/tweaks:Here!

Mod Version Mod IdentifierFor Game version Downloads Released Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
1.2.1 morenails 1230 Feb 10th at 3:11 AM morenails_v1.2.1.zip 1-click install

Fixed error!

1.2.0 morenails 3447 Feb 14th 2025 at 5:45 AM morenails_v1.2.0.zip 1-click install

Updated to change the smelting recipes to eliminate metal duping potential.
Nails will now smelt for the appropriate amount, and added the function for Meteoric Iron and Cupronickel nails to be melted back into their ingots.

Use the old version if you still want to dupe iron I guess!

1.1.0 morenails 3866 May 31st 2023 at 9:35 AM morenails_v1.1.0.zip 1-click install

Added Cupronickel Plate resource to further enable Cupronickel Nail production. (use previous version if another mod already adds cupronickel plates I guess, but it is just a patch file, so I hope it doesnt conflict with other mods)

1.0.1 morenails 795 May 18th 2023 at 2:13 AM morenails_v1.0.1.zip 1-click install

Added Tier 4, Cupronickel at 10 nails per ingot. Keep in mind, there is no Cupronickel plate, but you can still make the 20 nail recipe with an additional ingot. Added modicon as well

1.0.0 morenails 409 May 17th 2023 at 7:54 AM Empty morenails.zip 1-click install

18 Comments (oldest first | newest first) (threaded | flat)

TonyAXC, May 15th at 4:09 AM (modified May 15th at 8:17 PM)

@Candid is it compatible with 1.22?

CycloniumGame, Feb 21st at 8:45 PM

is this compatiable with metoric steel?

 

Candid , Feb 10th at 3:20 AM

Hydromancerx 
No promises but I might give it a shot!

Candid , Feb 10th at 3:14 AM (modified Feb 10th at 3:14 AM)

WolfricThorsson
Tacet

Thank you for letting me know about the issue. I had not played the game in a while and have been on vacation until yesterday. I have fixed the problem. I couldn't tell you what that line in that JSON used to do, I believe it was telling the metal plate json to not skip the cupronickel variant, when it used to? That is my best guess! 😅
Fix was just to remove the offending JSON patch, as on investigation there was no SkipVariant section in said vanilla JSON.

WolfricThorsson, Jan 5th at 5:23 PM

Candid having the same error message pop up as Tacet posted below

Tacet, Dec 6th 2025 at 5:42 AM

Hi Candid! I love your mod, played with it in 1.18.5 and would like to use it again for a server with friends playing 1.21.5. My server log is flagging that it can't find the path to apply the survival-itemtypes-resource-metalplate.json patch; fair enough, it probably changed since 1.20.4. I'm happy to patch it for my own case, just having a little trouble figuring out what it's supposed to be doing. Do you possibly remember / Would you be willing to point me in the right direction?

server-main.log
5.12.2025 21:11:25 [Error] Patch 0 (target: game:itemtypes/resource/metalplate.json) in morenails:patches/survival-itemtypes-resource-metalplate.json failed because supplied path /skipVariants/0 is invalid: The json path /skipVariants/0 was not found. No such element 'skipVariants' at the root path
Hydromancerx, Jul 30th 2025 at 12:31 AM (modified Jul 30th 2025 at 12:31 AM)

Can you add a patch for Re-Alloy mod? Thanks!

DUCATISLO, Feb 15th 2025 at 7:05 PM

gg

Candid , Feb 14th 2025 at 9:53 AM

Get out of my head. I was literally writing up something like that to add to the description before I updated the mod!😄

Wrum, Feb 14th 2025 at 7:25 AM

I like to imagine the logic behind this is that higher quality metals are stronger and therefor nails can be thinner and still have the same strength, freeing up material to make more nails

Candid , Feb 14th 2025 at 4:43 AM

Thauma

Thanks for the tip, I don't believe you could do that when I made the mod, or I just don't remember it. I can look into it, but I have been absent for a while.

That was more simple than I first imagined it would be!

Keekenox

I believe it still works unless they changed the way recipes work for smithing.

It still works!

Keekenox, Dec 6th 2024 at 12:12 AM

Does this work on 1.20?

Thauma, May 25th 2024 at 11:14 AM

I would recommend modifying the re-smelting recipes so that one can't just duplicate metals like Iron or Bronze (4 nails makes an ingot for a lot of nails, though not all of them).

Candid , Jan 12th 2024 at 4:49 AM

I'm glad to hear it still works in the latest rc versions. I am slowly regaining interest in the game at the moment and may be around to update anything that stops working.

Ailith, Dec 23rd 2023 at 12:20 PM

still good 1.19.0-rc-1 and what a saver this one is

ThreeHeadedDingo, May 18th 2023 at 8:44 AM

I think little mods like this are quite nice. Too often balance considerations are not really factored into metal tiers aside from tools.

Candid , May 18th 2023 at 12:46 AM

I haven't had my hands on that stuff yet, but I sure can add it to a tier. 

Done! (quite some time ago now im just editing this now)

DanaCraluminum, May 17th 2023 at 11:06 AM

What about cupronickel?