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Chu Ko Nu

The Chinese had the right idea. Who need stopping power when you can simply suffocate your enemies under tons and tons of teeny weeny crossbow bolts instead? This mod introduces a variant of the junkbow called the Chu Ko Nu to Kenshi.

• New crossbow: the Chu Ko Nu. A ten shot version of the toothpick. It makes up for volume of fire with its stopping power. Armored enemies will just laugh it off. It's even worse than the toothpcik in that reguard. Great for unarmored targets that really deserve it like starving bandits, though.
  
• New ammo: Toothpick stacks. Basically the same as normal toothpicks, but packaged differently. You can't feed the Chu Ko Nu with normal toothpicks. These new bundled bolts will stack up to 2, but only have 5 charges. Which means, instead of 40 shots in a 1x3 space, you'll get 100 in a 2x3 space.
  
• The Chu Ko Nu and its ammo will be distributed around kenshi. Most place where toothpicks and junkbows appear, the Chu Ko Nu will too, although more rarely. The chances of each characters to have a crossbow hasn't been altered in total, the Chu Ko Nu simply skimmed a few percents off the top and squeezed into those tables.
  
• The Chu Ko Nu and it's ammo will be craftable, provided you find the blueprint for it. That too will be distributed around the vendors of kenshi accordingly.
  
• Since I can't do modeling to save my life (sketchup doesn't count), to make the Cho Ku No distinguishable from the normal toothpick and junbow, I gave it a rusted texture map, but kept the toothpick bump map. It'll look like a rusted blade given wings, now. Inventory icon has also been rust-ified.

• New variant, the Heavy Chu Ko Nu, which uses the Spring Bat instead of the Toothpick as a base. Everything stated above that can also be applied to this crossbow does. Vendors, characters, special ammo, blueprints, etc. etc.
  
• It only has a 5-shot magazines, however, unlike the Chu Ko Nu's 10-shot magazine.
  
• Also unlike the Chu Ko Nu, the Heavy Chu Ko Nu can be of use against armored enemies, though it won't punch through armor quite as well as the spring bat.

Also included: a special Wanderer game start with added Cho Ku Nu, and the knowhow to make more of them, and the ammo.