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Rebalanced Weapons - Primitive

Mod ID: 2158587259

This mod just adds some new primitive style bows, crossbows, swords, axes, and spears into the game as well as some buffed traps. They are created using the new resources that spawn on the map. The reasons for making the mod were I just wanted to play with a few more weapon tiers and I never liked that the higher tier narcotic options were less efficient from the input resources. So I found even late game one never really stopped using regular crossbow/tranqs so I just wanted an alternative. In general thats the whole point of the mod, just an alternative to slightly mix up regular gameplay.

For each weapon class there is a level 25, 50 and 75 tier (except swords there is only a 50 & 75 tier).

Ranged
Bows - As in normal ark bows don\'t hit as hard as crossbows but their rate of fire means dps is very similar. Unfortunately I haven\'t yet been able to make good enough animations for the models I have so these are just retextured primitive bows.
Crossbows - They hit harder and deliver more torpor
Arrows - All new tiers of bow and crossbow use new arrows with new recipes/resource requirements. This ranges from slightly more efficient that standard tranq arrows to slightly better than shocking tranq darts at the top tier.

Melee
Swords - These are sharp.
Axes - The upper tiers also apply a bleed to the victim.
Spears - These are all throwable doing 3 times damage to the victim but you may not get it back.

Traps
Hardened chain bola - Expensive but holds for 3 minutes. A nice alternative to making the same gate trap Ive made 1000 times. Must be fired from hardened ballista.
Hardened bear trap - More expensive that regular but it will hold for 1 minute.

Resources
Concentrated Narcotic - This and the tier above just offer slightly more efficient narcotic options for the input.
Crushed Metal - Just process regular metal into this at the weapon bench.
Finely Crushed Metal - Just process crushed metal into this at the weapon bench.
Hardened Metal Ingot - These are made by smelting crushed metal and coal in a furnace.
Metal Alloy Ingot - These are made by smelting finely crushed metal, molybdenum and coal in a furnace.

Below are the config options available for tweaking the resources that spawn.


Below are some of the admin codes that might help if you are having trouble.


Finally here is the S+ pull extra resources list


Note: I didn\'t make the weapon models they were sourced from various authors on free 3d model hosting websites.