Splitting this up into two sections cause this is a big update

item removals and combinations.

-removed all weather belts. in its place is three belts giving resistance to burning and acid with some penalties to stealth and movespeed.
-removed marksman belt and martial arts belts. put thier bonuses on the combat belts.
-removed belt of stealth and belt of speed. their bonuses overlap with belt of the ninja.
-removed stealth goggles , burning goggles , acid goggles ,athletic goggles ,combat goggles and ninja goggles.
-removed power shackles , martial artist shackles. combined into combat shackles.
-removed thieves shackles
-removed belt of the ninja , replaced with Belt of the assasin. boost to stealth , asassination , athletics.

we have gone from 31 items to 18

Item Changes

-removed armor coverage on dust goggles
-Added Ashland Goggles.
Research

-deleted all research projects and started the tech tree from scratch
- the cost in books is 2 for every belt and 1 for every shackle.

Tier 1

Basic Belts = Enables Crafting Station , Belt of Light Protection , Dust goggles , and Ashland Goggles

Tier 2

Combat belts = enables belt of Medium Protection , belt of Minor combat

Utility belts = Belt of minor weather resistance , belt of amateur assasin

Tier 3

combat belts v2 = enables Belt of Combat , belt of heavy protection , heavy protection shackles

utility belts v2 = enables belt of weather resistance , belt of assasin , strengh training shackles

tier 4

combat belts v3 = Belt of Major Combat

Utility V3 = Belt of The Expert asassin , belt of major weather resistance.

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we went from 20 research projects to 7

other changes

-removed map from vendors inventory.
-added ashland goggles to vendor inventory

-all items now take 50 - 80% more material to make
-all items are worth 50% less

-athletic goggles athletics mult changed to 1.1 from 1.2

-belt of burning immunity now actually gives burning immunity

-all belts of combat now give a combat def/attk bonus of 3. dodge mult changed to 1 instead of 2. unarmed bonus has also been removed. combat speed mult is now 1.1 on all combat belts.

-belt of major combat now gives no athletics bonus.

-belt of martial arts combat speed mult is now 1.1 instead of 1.3

-belt of hermes removed

-belt of storm immunity changed name to belt of duststorm immunity

-belt of storm resistance name changed to belt of duststorm resistance

-belt of the ninja , athletics mult changed to 1.2 instead of 1.6 , combat speed mult changed to 1.2 instead of 1.5 . stealth mult changed to 1.2 instead of 1.5. now gives an unarmed bonus of 2. now has a dodge mult of 1.1 , gives combat def and attack bonus of 3.

-ninja goggles now give a combat def and attack bonus of 1. unarmed bonus of 1. athletics mult of 1.1 , combat speed mult of 1.1 , stealth mult of 1.1

-thieves shackles now give no combat speed mult , stealth mult changed to 1.2 from 1.3

-martial artists shackles give combat speed mult of 1.1 instead of 1.3

- added Belt of the marksman. gives 1.2 ranged skill mult

-hopefully A fix for the crossbow skill issue

-made a goggles version of the belt of stealth and belt of the ninja.

-belt of stealth is a tech level 2 research project

-belt of the ninja is a tech level 4 research project

-Added the belt trader to appear in Stoat , Sho-battai , Heft , Bark

-Brand New Shackle item, Heavy Protection shackles (Heavy armor class shackles with an athletics penalty)

-5 Brand new Goggle items Acid and Burning goggles, Stealth , combat , and athletics goggles as well.

-Martial Artist Shackles moved to Tech level 4 research

-New weather protection goggles put in a tech level 2 research project

--Stealth , combat , and athletics put into a tech level 2 research project

Research Changes

-Put Medium/Heavy protection belts into a level 2 research project

-Put 3 types of shackles into a tech level 3 research project

-Put belt of ninja into a tech level 4 research project

-removed ultimate belt project cause it does not exist anymore

-Put Hermes Belt into a level 3 research Project

-Belt of Major Combat is a tech level 4 research project

-Belt of Martial Arts is now a tech level 3 research project

Brand new items

-Brand new Belt of Minor Martial arts added to minor belts

- Brand new Martial Artist's Shackles added to level 3 research project

Misc

- Changed dodge mult on belt of major combat from 2.5 to 1.5

- Changed Martial arts combat speed mult from 1 to 1.3 , unarmed bonus changed from 10 to 8

-added new items to belt crafting station

- only the lower tier belts are availible via the trader now. only the following belts items are availible at the trader now and thier relative chance to appear.

Belt of Speed (100)
Belt of Storm Resistance (80)
Belt of Acid Resistance (80)
Belt of Burning Resistance (80)
Belt of Light Protection (100)
Dust Goggles (100)
Basic Shackles (100)
Belt of Martial Arts (60)

-Added 3 more shackles similair to the previous ones. only obtainable through research.