Ni’Hal Drake Gear 1.0

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Author: Zerithos XIII

Last revision: 21 Oct, 2018 at 03:35 UTC

File size: 3.56 MB

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Description:

A mod for those who find the Ni’Hal drakes less… terrifying than you’d hoped, giving them some solid armor to protect them from attack.

Numbers applied to the armors are up for debate. If you think it should be lower/higher/tweaked, tell me what and why and I’ll definitely consider it.

Armor Values:

Armor – 0.95 armor multiplier – w/steel means 0.85 sharp 0.4 blunt 0.65 heat (legs/torso/head/neck/tail)
-The Drake Armor is the main part of this mod. Heavy metal plating covering just about every part of the body, designed to take a beating over extended use. Protects a bit against the cold, pretty important for the drake.

Powered Armor (Drake Plate) – 1.2 armor multiplier (legs/torso/head/neck/tail)
+0.2 movement
– Powered Drake Armor is supposed to be borderline-OP armor for drakes, both improving on the normal armor’s protection and giving the drake some additional movement speed, making them yet more powerful attack animals. Said powered armor, however, is pretty darned expensive.

Coat – 0.3 armor multiplier (legs/neck)
-The coat is primarily a support item to increase the drake’s availability slightly in colder climates, where its natural aversion to lower temperatures limits its use. Armor protection from it is therefore rather limited, but it is cheap. The coat can be worn over either of the armor types for some schnazzy-looking (and obscenely durable) drakes.

Natural – 0.5 Blunt, 0.3 Sharp, 0.6 Heat
-Drakes seem pretty under-equipped normally to handle any sort of punishment, what with their having no armor in the original Ni’Hal mod. This struck me as weird, considering they’re described as dragon-like. Therefore, their natural scales got some improvements, just under the armor values thrumbos have.
(Does Heat armor protect against frostbite? If it does, I’ll probably lower the natural Heat protection some.)

If you find any issues with the mod, please send them to the development/bugs discussion. While I don’t really know how to code beyond basing things off of others’ work, I don’t plan on letting this mod sit incomplete.

Thanks to Dylan (Animal Gear dev) for helping immensely with setting up the drakes for armoring, and of course the base Animal Gear mod itself.
Thanks to Diana (Ni’Hal dev) for the original Ni’Hal mod, plus their counterpart the Orassans because those cats are great.