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Laying Pipe

Have you ever come across a ruin full of wondrous machinery, only to realize that none of it can be used because the complex system of piping that powers it is broken and cannot be repaired? Has it ever irked you that the game permits you to lay down electrical wire as you please, but permits no such thing when it comes to hydraulic piping? Or are you simply the sort of person who cannot help but to snicker every time you scroll through your mods tab and see one with a suggestive double entendre as its title? Because I think I might just have the mod for you.

Features:

- Elastyne tubing, a new item that can be deployed like copper wire in order to power hydraulic machinery and repair broken sections of piping you find amidst the Caves of Qud. Elastyne tubing can be tinkered if you know the recipe and have the right ingredients, or bought from village tinkers you come across.

- Silver wire, which can be deployed to create high-voltage power lines like the ones you can find in Grit Gate and Ezra. Haberdashers and high-tier village tinkers sometimes sell it. Does not have a data disc, but once you’ve gotten your hands on a length, you can use psychometry to learn the tinkering recipe.

- A new tinkering recipe for copper wire, for when you’ve used up all the wire in the Rust Wells but still find yourself in need of more. Village tinkers outside your starting village also sell copper wire now.

- Rolls of elastyne, a new trade good that is also used to create elastyne tubing. Occasionally sold by armorers and haberdashers, but you should also be able to find them wherever you find other trade goods.

- Thirty-four new sprites for rolls of elastyne, elastyne tubing and every configuration of elastyne tubes imaginable, including broken ones. As elastyne tubes don’t generate in the world at present, the average player will never see broken elastyne tubes unless they decide to break some for fun and/or to take a look at the pretty sprites I have made. Under no circumstance do I advice you to break a length of elastyne tubes just to look at the pretty pretty sprites I have made.

- Six new pieces of flavor text, authored by yours truly.

- A new color scheme for high-voltage power lines, to fit better with the strands of silver wire.

- Strands of silver wire now generate on the floor in haberdasher tents in the Stilt, and in the lairs of legendary haberdashers. Sewing machines do this as well, because I felt like haberdashers need sewing machines.

Known issues:

All types of wire and tubing have an (1’) after their names in the tinkering menu, despite the tinkering recipes creating more than one inch of wire or tubing. There is also currently a grammar issue when tinkering up sections of elastyne tubing. These issues are currently beyond my level of skill to fix.

Also, feel free to use any of the sprites from this mod for whatever Qud-related purpose you may need them for, as long as you remember to credit me.

Thanks to:
Librarianmage, for putting up with my aimless flailing through the XML files
Lamb, ontoclasm, Barnabas, George, and many others, for providing feedback on the various sprites of the mod.
unormal and ptychomancer, for creating Caves of Qud

Also check out my other mods, Return of the Arcwyrk, Tiny Tam's Big Adventure, and Disjecta Membra.