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Medieval Overhaul Balance Patch

Balance patch for gear and materials in the Medieval Overhaul mod.
Includes 2 new armor items.
Also includes some fixes, like Apparel categories and armor sellable to Armorsmith caravans.

These changes reflect my personal preferences and are not a critique of the original mod's balancing.

Please do give feedback in the comments about any issues you experience or thoughts you have.

Credit to:
SirLalaPyon as the author of Medieval Overhaul and art
EvilEyes and ViralReaction for the 1.5 version of MEO and art

Changes im currently testing:

• Changing armor tiering from 50/60/70% to 50/65/80%
  
• Pine trees drop Dark Wood - More wood options without embarking in Dark Forest
  
• Leather Armor from 50% to 55% armor
  
• Gambeson / Padded chausses blunt bonus from 10% to 15%

TODO / Plans:

• Adjust Outfits (Some broken by apparel layer changes, added new items, results in warnings but no actual issues)
  
• Maybe give heavy armors / helmets melee hit and/or dodge penalties? More reason not to use heavier armors.
  
• Maybe change armor tiering from 50/60/70% to 50/65/80%? Would tankier endgame armors feel good?
  
• Differentiate Bows and Crossbows more from each other. Currently Crossbows give a +2 bonus to shooting accuracy but are otherwise very similiar to Bows. They also have a higher ranged cooldown and lower aiming time, ironically making them benefit from quivers MORE than bows do.

List of changes (non-exhaustive):
Almost all materials rebalanced:

• More effects on item weight, i.e.: Mithril weighs less, Adamantite weighs more
  
• More effects on work speed
  
• Iron, Steel and Mithril have higher sharp resistance (90%, 100%, 120%)
  
• Adamantite has high blunt resistance
  
• Bioferrite slightly nerfed
  
• Devilstrand significantly nerfed
  
• Runeweave slightly nerfed
  
• Fabrics, Wools and Leathers generally have Blunt resistance and more of it
  
• Leathers had their sharp resistance heavily nerfed, best are similiar to iron
  -Vanilla leathers and fabrics are balanced around items like the duster, but MEO has leather armor with 67% more defense multipliers.
  -Rox leather is no longer a super leather and 'only' a top tier leather. Rox are neither rare nor difficult to fight but had leather similiar to Thrumbos. Now a better version of muffalo fur.
  
• Super-Leathers sharp armor nerfed to be more in line with materials like Mithril
  -Still more blunt resistance than before
  
• Most metals have 20% flammability (down from 40% in vanilla)
  
• Bone is now flammable (40%)
  
• Stone materials left as-is

Armor:

• All Apparel should be moved to it's respective category
  
• Armors in 3 general tiers: Light, medium and heavy
  -Generally:
  -Light: 50% armor, 4 crafting skill required
  -Medium: 60% armor, 6 crafting skill required
  -Heavy: 70% armor, 10 crafting skill required
  -Some intermediate armors exist (Chainveil Helmet / Heavy Barbute, Adorned Armor)
  -Crafting skill may depend heavily on the type of item
  
• Examples: Light Lamellar from 52% to 50%, Heavy Hauberk at 65%, Full Plate from 73% to 70%
  
• All non-Armet Plate helmets from 65% to 70%, Armet still 72%
  
• High-end armor generally requires higher crafting skill
  
• Item health and costs adjusted to generally be more proportional with body coverage
  
• Some weights adjusted
  
• Chain armor has a 10% penalty to blunt and heat resistance
  -Partially chain armor has a 5% penalty
  -Heavy Barbute is considered heavy chain (identical stats to chainveil for outfit diversity)
  
  
• Helmets:
  -Basic Helmets, Visored-less Bascinet and Open Sallet only cover the 'Upper Head'
  -Basic Chain Coif moved to 'Protective Clothing' research ('Light' tier armor)
  -Generally higher shooting penalties
  -Generally reduced materials costs
  -Endgame plate helmets are mostly identical stat-wise
  -New: Open Sallet - Heavy equivalent to Open Bascinet (Art from MEO)
  -Hood (MEO) can now also be made from leathers, is slightly more defensive and heat insulating
  
  
  
• Body armor:
  -Padded armor now covers legs and arms
  -Brigandine Medium armor and only covers the body, but moved to chain armor research
  
  
• Middle Wear:
  -Hauberk cheaper and lower movement penalty
  -Vest heavier but more protective
  
  
• Inner Wear:
  -Gambeson
  -Much more expensive
  -10% blunt resistance bonus
  -Less insulation
  -Padded Surcoat
  -Nerfed to be more in line with Button Down Shirt (Slightly better)
  
  
• Legwear:
  -Somewhat lighter
  -Padded Chausses
  -Now inner layer apparel, exclusive with regular 'pants'
  -Fabric only (no leather)
  -10% blunt resistance bonus
  -Splint and Plate Chausses
  -Now outer apparel, redundant on full-body armors
  -Movement penalty of -0.05 and -0.10 respectively
  
  -NEW: Mail Chausses
  -Made from chainmail, middle layer apparel
  -Defence identical to Hauberk
  
  
• Handwear:
  -Somewhat heavier
  -More difficult to craft compared to Footwear
  -Heavier and much more work to make
  -More defensive
  -Shooting bonus on Leather gloves to +1 (from +2)
  -Shooting penalty on Splinted gloves to -1 (from -2)
  
  
• Footwear:
  -Somewhat heavier
  -Slightly more work to make
  -More defensive
  -No movement penalty on Splinted Boots (from -0.05)
  -Movement penalty on Plate Boots to -0.05 (from -0.10)
  
  
• Utility:
  -Quivers no longer have a quality and instead of ranged cooldown multiplier of 0.25 have a ranged warmup multiplier of 0.50 (Same benefit as Trigger Happy)
  
  
• Research:
  -Plate armor research now requires Steel research

Weapons:
-Not touched so far (affected by material changes of course)