feat: add crude_bronze_nail and adjust others to allow entry to the b…

[juur]

Summary

Content "Minor changes and additional items to allow progression into bronze age."

Purpose of change

Currently, without using iron/steel, progression gets as far as bronze anvil. This patch attempts to unlock subsequent technologies, hopefully keeping balance.

For mods like Innawood this is more of a problem.

Describe the solution

Added a crude_bronze_nail (similar to spike nails) and permitted their use with small sandcasting mold. A few other tweaks were needed to allow crafting of bronze_nails without bronze_nails. The next road block is hotcut and a few other items that need steel/iron, which I think are reasonable to block at.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No other ideas sprang to mind. I didn't think the 'nail spike' type nails would work as ammo, but they could I guess?

Testing

Tested in game with crafting beyond the 'wall' of bronze_nails.

Additional context

[Karol1223]

Currently, without using iron/steel, progression gets as far as bronze anvil. This patch attempts to unlock subsequent technologies, hopefully keeping balance.

This is not a concern at all. The goal isn't to allow players to make everything from scratch. If Innawood is facing a problem there, this likely should be adressed in Innawood.

The recipes shouldn't be added to vanilla because the progression doesn't get "far enough". If you have sources that these recipes are valid in reality, then that's a reason to add them to vanilla. I don't know whether your recipes do, but that is something to keep in mind - you are not making a valid reasoning for your change. I can see a crudely shaped piece of metal being valid for a nail punch of tongs, but I have doubts it is fit for the sandcasting mold.

You're also only allowing a single type of forge in the recipe, for some reason? And your recipes are causing an absurd amount of mass loss.

[juur]

The recipes shouldn't be added to vanilla because the progression doesn't get "far enough". If you have sources that these recipes are valid in reality, then that's a reason to add them to vanilla. I don't know whether your recipes do, but that is something to keep in mind - you are not making a valid reasoning for your change. I can see a crudely shaped piece of metal being valid for a nail punch of tongs, but I have doubts it is fit for the sandcasting mold.

Making your own nails is very much a 'real life' activity. Re: the casting mold, I was thinking of something akin to this, i.e. quite chunky/thick wooden sides such that a hand made crude nail would just about hold the sides in:

You're also only allowing a single type of forge in the recipe, for some reason?

The current bronze_nail recipe uses blacksmithing_standard, I copy/pasted "forge" and "oyx_torch" from there, so it is the same? In game it shows plenty of alts:

And your recipes are causing an absurd amount of mass loss.

Thanks. The smallest amount of bronze in the game is 300g, so i've increased the charges & duration to make it wasteful but not quite so crazy.