Improved Basic Oils

Improved Oils

This mod adds 11 new oils that are improved versions of the basic no downside ("safe") oils. These new versions of oils do not increase durability wear. These new oils are worth 50% more than the sum of their ingredients, so they do have some value in selling.

All oils are crafted at the Scholar by combining the basic oil with High Grade Oil. The only exception is Size Up Oil as it already has no durability wear so no "improved" variant was needed.

Oil List:

Improved Add Damage Oil

Improved Attack Speed Oil

Improved Critical Oil

Improved Damage Oil

Improved Less Recoil Oil

Improved Penetration Oil

Improved Perfect Bounce Oil

Improved Recycle Oil

Improved Reload Oil

Improved Spread Oil

Improved Velocity Oil

Design Goals

The main goal behind this mod is to make basic oils have some value. The basic "safe" oils have the same durability impact as other significantly stronger oils, with some having low impact downsides or even downsides that easily trade to net positive. With how weak some the safe oils are, their slight nudges in stats are usually not worth the durability drain.

By making variants of safe oils with no durability cost, they become significantly more appealing. For example the meager 0. 5 spread flat reduction from Spread Oil is significantly more attractive to fix minor spread issues. And then as they're technically not the same oil, Spread Oil itself can be used for total 1. 0 flat spread reduction for 1 durability burn, but for two enchantment slots.

In the end it's possible to make a gun be just a slightly more powerful version of its base with no durability impact. However more importantly, improved oils can mitigate slight downsides of more balanced builds. I don't see the improved oils helping the more extreme builds that have insane capabilities, which is good. 

The improved oils are 1x2 because I don't want the player to feel pressured to combine oils to save stash space in the moment instead of making an oil they want/need later.

Future Plans

I have no real plans for this mod besides updates, incase Perfect Random changes the stats of the safe oils, and bug fixes.

I'm not opposed to coming back around to adding localizations as currently only English is currently supported.

Additional oils are likely out of scope of this particular mod.

Requirements

Custom Item Framework by iTomma

Installation

1. Install and follow instructions for Custom Item Framework (Link Above)

2. Extract the contents of the zip folder to the base game directory. It is structured in a way to go where it needs to.

Notable Quirks

The custom oils can go into quick slots (the ones intended for throwables and healing items) but they don't seem to do anything detrimental. From what I can tell this an issue with Custom Item Framework and would have to be fixed there.

It's worth keeping in mind incase a crafted oil seems to go missing.