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Tek Upgrade Station - v2.0

Upgrade your Tek Saddles and Weapons!

Many an Ark player has lamented the fact that the tek-tier weapons and saddles are so incredibly awesome, but also quite expensive; and downright lackluster in performance compared to high-quality fabricated weapons. Introducing the Tek Upgrade Station, where tek-tier items can be actually end-game! Upgrade your weapons and saddles to Epic using red gems to introduce quality of life upgrades, like faster shots, longer range, more durability, and less overheat. Upgrade them again to Legendary using a ton of hard-earned materials to get a truly endgame weapon!

No necessary relation to the mod "Upgrade Station", although the purpose of this mod is to be included in any playthrough that also has that mod [NOTE: Epic and Legendary Tek cannot be upgraded by the regular Upgrade Station].

This mod introduces Epic and Legendary variants of all tek weapons and saddles (except for those added by Genesis), which are craftable within the Tek Upgrade Station, a new crafting station.
The Tek Upgrade Station itself is unlocked as a regular engram at level 70, is crafted in one's inventory, and costs what a tek foundation does plus another element. The Epic and Legendary Tek engrams are in tek-tier, but they can be manually unlocked for 0 engram points.
Epic and Legendary Tek weapons and saddles use the energy in red gems/sap to fire purple projectiles instead of blue (or glow pinkish purple rather than white, in the case of the sword), and this purple energy is stronger and faster. I have tried to make the improvements worth it while also still being balanced within an otherwise vanilla game.
The Epic Tek items cost an original tek item crafted in the replicator, as well as a decent amount of red gems (or red crystal sap).
The Legendary Tek items cost an Epic Tek item as well as 10x the cost of the Epic item (effectively).

PLEASE NOTE: Epic/Legendary Tek may be game-breaking if introduced in PvP -- I made it primarily as a PvE mod and balanced it around that playstyle; I have not really considered PvP elements, so add at your own risk if running a PvP server.

Any suggestions are welcome, though of course no guarantees on implementation.
Happy Surviving!