LE Mod for weapon and armor modders

[ArcaneSmith]

Just letting you weapon, armor and crafting modders in general know about my mod. You might be interested.

 

Instead of adding your items directly to the player's crafting list you make a book that's automatically managed by the mod. The player can loot or buy the book and learn to craft your item by reading it, and you don't have to worry about leveled lists, compatibility or scripts.

 

The main benefit is that you don't just hand over your item without any challenge, players' crafting lists are not cluttered, they can organize them, and your mod becomes a bit more interesting without any real extra work. It takes a few simple steps to make books, which are pretty detailed in a guide that comes with the mod. Currently only users have been making and sharing their Lorecraft plugins, but I really made it so equipment modders themselves use it to 'publish' their mods.

 

OVERVIEW

• You acquire books that teach you to craft your gear.
• You choose what to show on your crafting list
• Modders can add more books for weapons, armors and other craftables to the system via plugins
• Lorecraft handles all books from its plugins, sending them to its merchant, loot and barter systems

BENEFITS

 

FOR USERS

 

• No more cluttered crafting lists: faster and organized crafting
• Roleplaying and immersion
• Crafting is not about finding the uber sword in a list of trash anymore
• Gives you a reason to clear dungerons and hunt dragons
• You don't need to worry about incompatibilities or merging leveled lists because Lorecraft uses its own - and already compatible - loot/merchant system

FOR MODDERS

 

• Your mod will be more fun because your items won't be delivered directly to the player's crafting list, which is pretty boring (and messy)
• You can control where the player acquires your books and how rare they are (to a degree)
• You can make your item more interesting by adding lore to its book or customizing it*
• Adding your item to the world is simple and compatible to other mods - and you don't have to fill boring leveled lists over and over
• I can create other interesting ways to reward your craftables in the future without touching your mod

 

Here's a short video showing how managing works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bigs2PtUDaM

 

Here's the mod's page:

http://skyrim.nexusm...ile.php?id=9959

 

And the plugins that have been made:

http://skyrim.nexusm...nsource=&page=1

 

Hope you find it interesting/useful and that more people make plugins for it.

Edited June 7, 2012 by ArcaneSmith