Repairing?

[Sirbum69]

has anyone figured out how to repair weapons yet? Seems I go through bows fairly fast lol but havn't found a way to repair them. So just been buying the cord to make em. I know you can make your own cord, I just havnt put down the weaver yet.

[PierreBearPlays]

You'll find repair tools and you'll also be able to create them. As soon as you have them just drag and drop them on a weapon, tool or armor.

[Sirbum69]

those I have found, just wasnt sure if there was a bench or something that you can repair at. what do you need to make them? seems the weaver didnt have that.

[PierreBearPlays]

If I am not mistaken you need the blacksmith.

[wolvescream]

Do I really need 150 Coins + 2 Copper Ingots +4 Wood to repair my cheap wooden bow?

That´s rediculous.

Devs, Please place a device to let us repair things for free. Or at least for cheap. A basic wooden bow shoudn´t cost more than 2 wood to repair.

[Macdallan]

For a lot of items it's simply not worth repairing them. The cost for the repair kit is so high it practically matches the cost to make the new item instead. The cost to craft a new copper axe is very close to the cost of a simple repair kit, for example. Then there's the fact that the simple repair kit doesn't do a full repair, it only adds 100 durability.

In some cases, like the low tier bows, it's not worth repairing them all because you can make several bows for the coin cost of a single repair kit. The cost of a bow string is pretty low and you can simply chop a few trees to get the wood that you need to make them. For bows the only time I would waste resources and coins on repair kits is if I decided to fully upgrade the bow using the "chests."

[roach112683]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

For a lot of items it's simply not worth repairing them. The cost for the repair kit is so high it practically matches the cost to make the new item instead. The cost to craft a new copper axe is very close to the cost of a simple repair kit, for example. Then there's the fact that the simple repair kit doesn't do a full repair, it only adds 100 durability.

In some cases, like the low tier bows, it's not worth repairing them all because you can make several bows for the coin cost of a single repair kit. The cost of a bow string is pretty low and you can simply chop a few trees to get the wood that you need to make them. For bows the only time I would waste resources and coins on repair kits is if I decided to fully upgrade the bow using the "chests."

Yes but if you upgrade the bow you will lose all that damage just making a new one.

[wm.j.olson]

You can craft a bow but you can't repair it without an additional, expensive, complicated process.. How dumb is that?

[roach112683]

Originally posted by wm.j.olson:

You can craft a bow but you can't repair it without an additional, expensive, complicated process.. How dumb is that?

Because when you use the upgrade crates it makes the original weapon better. So if you just craft another bow you lose that. So a repair tool is convenient so you don't lose upgrades.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by roach112683:

Yes but if you upgrade the bow you will lose all that damage just making a new one.

Yes, and if you want to to waste coins and resources repairing a bow that does a couple more points of damage per shot then go ahead and do it. In my opinion the bottom tier bows aren't really worth upgrading and they definitely aren't worth repairing considering the repair kit's cost. The upgrades make very little difference in the two low tier bows' damage output, especially the very bottom tier bow. In most fights not using upgraded bottom tier bows means I might have to shoot a few more arrows, and in others it makes no difference at all.

If I buy bow strings from a vendor I can make 4 bows for roughly the coin cost to make a single repair kit. The other issue is that the repair kit only "fixes" up to 100 missing durability but a new bow has more than 100 durability.

[roach112683]

I'm talking about the Good and High Quality ones not the lower tier.

[Suleo]

Bow durability, unlike everything else (swords & tools), is integer-based, not floating-point based.

Every shot reduces durability by 1. The slower durability reduction doesn't seem to work on bows since the game uses integers for durability reductions (so it rounds the reduction up to 1).

This, by itself, is a huge issue for bows.

[Macdallan]

I noticed the disparity in repair cost versus new item cost gets worse for higher tier tools and higher tier weapons.

The iron pickaxe and iron hatchet take 5 birch, 2 iron ingot, 250 coins to make.

Repair kit for that tier takes 8 birch, 2 iron ingot, and 400 coins. 3 more birch, 150 more coins. Those tools are not worth repairing just due to the difference in coin costs but it gets worse. The "good" quality item repair kit fixes 150 durability but the good quality iron tools have 200 max so just like the simple kits it doesn't even fully repair the item.

Yes, they're sometimes going to be worth using on certain fully upgraded weapons and may be just barely worthwhile on the steel hatchet and palladium pickaxe but in general I think you're better off just crafting new weapons and tools.

[Don Cool]

Repairing is only something you can do in endgame where money and resources really aren´t an issue. Until then just craft 1 or 2 extra tools.

The only thing you need to farm for a bit in the endgame (it doesn´t take long) is willow for the arrows, smelting and repair kits. You also have the choice of just going for second best and mine some grit instead.

The rest of the important materials for crafting are supplied by your base (coal/iron/spruce/medicine). For cooking and medicine you can travel to the monestary in Sherwood and buy the rest of what you need for endgame stuff.

[Don Cool]

Originally posted by Don:

Repairing is only something you can do in endgame where money and resources really aren´t an issue. Until then just craft 1 or 2 extra tools.

The only thing you need to farm for a bit in the endgame (it doesn´t take long) is willow for the arrows, smelting and repair kits. You also have the choice of just going for second best and mine some grit instead for the arrows and tools.

The rest of the important materials for crafting are supplied by your base (coal/iron/spruce/medicine). For cooking and medicine you can travel to the monestary in Sherwood and buy the rest of what you need for endgame stuff.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Don:

Repairing is only something you can do in endgame where money and resources really aren´t an issue. Until then just craft 1 or 2 extra tools.

The only thing you need to farm for a bit in the endgame (it doesn´t take long) is willow for the arrows, smelting and repair kits. You also have the choice of just going for second best and mine some grit instead.

The rest of the important materials for crafting are supplied by your base (coal/iron/spruce/medicine). For cooking and medicine you can travel to the monestary in Sherwood and buy the rest of what you need for endgame stuff.

Yeah, that's pretty much been my experience with it through the early to early-mid game. I'll craft a spare bow and spare tools because it's just not worth repairing any of those things early on. I mean, why would anyone spend more resources on a repair that only heals about 3/4 of the item's total durability when you can simply make a new item? Makes no sense, and it's just not worth upgrading those low tier items either because the bonuses you get are insignificant.

I'm sure when I get top or high tier equipment I'll have the resources on hand to burn so I will upgrade, and repair, but for now I'm going to stick with making new tools, bows, and swords.