Restored Content - Usable Whetstones

Introduction and Background

Introducing Restored Content: Usable Whetstones (and Armorer's Tools). The Witcher 3 currently features both Whetstones and Armorer's Tools each in the Elven, Dwarven, and Gnomish variety. However, unlike previous games they serve no purpose other than to be junk and an ingredient to craft the generic weapon and armor repair

kits. They can't even be dismantled! However, as you might have guessed from the mod name this was not always the case during the game's

development. There is clear evidence in the xml definitions that the Whetstones and Armorer's Tools were actually supposed to be the weapon and armor repair kits respectively. There are also generic versions of the Whetstone and Armorer's tools commented out in the xmls which have unique leftover icons and strings. In addition, thanks to user Flipper444 we know that even earlier in development the Whetstones were also supposed to buff your swords like in Witcher 1 and 2.

In this mod, I have managed to restore all the functionality described above without sacrificing any of the weapon or armor repair kits currently in the game. First, I have restored the generic Whetstone and Armorer's Tools with their unique icons by mounting them as dlc items to avoid conflicts. I modified each of the generic, elven, dwarven, and gnomish Whetstones and Armorer's Tools to enable them to repair weapons/armor. I then let the Whetstones also be blade oil type items that buff your steel or silver weapon's attack power and critical hit damage for a certain amount of charges. The game absolutely hates having items fulfill multiple roles so I had to pull some tricks to make this work smoothly. I also figured out that CDPR commented out all the dismantling components for Whetstones and Armorer's tools. I went ahead and re-enabled these to allow dismantling. Lastly, you can still sell or use the Whetstones or Armorers tools to craft repair kits like in vanilla.

Mechanics

This mod restores the cut Whetstone and Armorer's Tools itemsalong with their unused unique icons. They have been added into shops where whetstones could be found in the vanilla game(usually Armorers and Blacksmiths). In addition, the items have been integrated into the game's loot tables and have a chance to spawn in the same container types as repair kits. All of this was accomplished via DLC to avoid conflicts.

The mod also implements repair kit functionality to the existing elven, dwarven, and gnomish whetstones and armorer's tools. The items are tiered in the order of generic, elven, dwarven, and gnomish. Generic is tiered as common and has 5% repair value. Elven is tiered as Masterand has 7% repair value. Dwarven is tiered as