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Preventative Maintenance

Build 42 Update Coming Soon, with a huge overhaul to many aspects of repairs!

With the next update, prevenative maintenance will be a much bigger mod. Features include:
- Redoing the math of how strong fixers are
- All repairs gain bonus strength based on maintenance level
- All repairs based on maximum condition by default
- Repair stacks reworked (linear decrease, minimum efficiency cap)
- 4 Degrees of success: Critical, success, partial, or failure
- Much simpler critical chance formula and rewards.
- Adding new sandbox settings for features, while getting rid of irrelevant ones.


Looking for a way to balance repair better? Don't want to be punished for using sub-optimal repair methods? Want to make repair stacks more of an early game problem? Preventative Maintenance can help with all of these issues and more.

Preventative Maintenance adds 4 improvements to repairing. A balanced method for preventing repair stacks, Critical repairs, maintenance experience for repairs, and custom settings.

Repairing at high durability in vanilla is punished, because all future repairs are made less efficient and more likely to fail. To encourage players to actively take care of their items, the repair counter will only go up if you repair at medium/low durability. By default, you prevent all repair stacks while over 70% durability, and as you gain maintenance levels that threshold goes down up to 40%. With Sandbox settings this can be completely tailored to your games needs.

Interacting with that same system is Critical Repairs. The more you exceed the prevention threshold, the more you are rewarded with a chance for a critical repair. By default critical repairs remove a repair stack, letting a dedicated player restore a weapon or car part back to pristine condition with enough attempts. Sandbox settings allow for tweaking of the crit values, and also includes more powerful critical effects.

This one is pretty simple. You gain maintenance experience for repairing items. The more % of an items condition you restore, the more xp you gain. Also gain even more experience when you prevent a repair stack, crit, or both.

The mod started as a fork of Crashmasters "Custom Repair Settings", and all the same kinds of sandbox options can be found here. Vanilla zomboid unintuitively repairs based on % missing instead of maximum condition. For example, say you have an 80% condition weapon, and repair it for 50% with duct tape. Instead of going to 100%, it goes to 90%, because thats half of the missing 20% = 10% repair. The "Maximum" sandbox settings will instead will actually fix it the full 100%.

Vehicle settings now compatible with Better Sorting (any item in "Mechanics" category)
Mod not compatible with other ISFixAction:perform overrides.
compatible with other ISInventoryPaneContextMenu.addFixerSubOption overrides.
Works in mutiplayer
Works with "Mainteance improves repair" by Neidmare

Any other feasible community requests
Translations
bug fixes and other improvements

Workshop ID: 2954471711
Mod ID: PreventativeMaintenance