Mods / Yet Another Arrow Recovery Mod

Tags: #Tweak
Author: KoboldCoterie
Side: Both
Created: Jan 24th at 5:21 AM
Last modified: Jan 24th at 5:23 AM
Downloads: 707
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Latest release (for outdated Vintage Story v1.20.1):
yaarm_v1.0.0.zip  1-click install


Problem: Arrow break chance feels punitive compared to other weapons.

Problem: Existing mods that allow recovering arrowheads from broken arrows make bows feel very overpowered compared to other weapon types.

Solution: Broken arrows have a chance to drop their component parts based on the arrow tier.

 

All broken arrows have a 20% chance to drop the stick and a 30% chance to drop the feather (excluding Crude, obviously). In addition, they have a chance to drop their arrowhead, based on the material.

Assuming default break chance, the chance for a given arrow to BOTH break and NOT drop the arrowhead:

  • Crude: 22.5%
  • Flint: 18.75%
  • Gold / Silver: 11.25%
  • Copper: 9.75%
  • Tin / Bismuth Bronze: 6.875%
  • Black Bronze: 5.5%
  • Iron: 3%
  • Meteoric Iron: 2%
  • Steel: 1.05%

This means metal arrows have the following average hits PER INGOT (assuming 9 arrowheads per ingot):

  • Gold / Silver: 80
  • Copper: 92
  • Tin / Bismuth Bronze: 130
  • Black Bronze: 163
  • Iron: 300
  • Meteoric Iron: 450
  • Steel: 857

This is still considerably lower than the durability of melee weapons of the same tier, but considerably higher than the default values, and feels more reasonably balanced to me.

 

If you would rather just have a lower chance for arrows to break, consider using this mod instead. Note that using both together will result in massively inflated effective durability on arrows over the values listed here, but if that's what you want, you do you.

Version For Game version Downloads Release date Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
v1.0.0 707 Jan 24th at 5:23 AM Show yaarm_v1.0.0.zip 1-click install

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