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Weapon Smithing Redux - Core

Buried under a mountain of random weapon blueprints? Wish your forge didn't look like a hoarder's collection of mods you never asked for?
Weapon Smithing Redux streamlines the chaos—sharp, clean, and deadly efficient. Your smithing setup will finally feel worthy of a master blacksmith.

⚔️ Overview ⚔️
Crafting Redux Series is a modular overhaul of Kenshi’s armor and weapon crafting system. Its goal is to reduce blueprint clutter, organize armor and armour mods, and make crafting more intuitive—while preserving immersion and compatibility.

All core and expansion modules are conveniently available in one Steam Workshop Collection:
🔗: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3586168016

🏆 Advantages 🏆
• Fully modular: Want everything in one place? The original forges remain intact. Want focus? Just use the Redux forges.
• User experience: Scrolling through 50+ recipes is now manageable. Each forge corresponds to singular weapon grade.
• Dedicated Menu: All Redux benches and research appear under a new categories, keeping them neatly separated from vanilla content.
• Reduce bloat: Multiple weapon mods clutter the vanilla crafting system. Redux organizes everything by forge and research node.
• Improve accessibility: No more hunting tiny blueprint icons in shops or wondering if you've already purchased them. Unlock everything through research.
• Easy to Recognize: Each Redux forge has a weapon leaning against its tool rack. Polearm for Catun, Naginata for Masterwork, and Falling Sun for Edgewalkers. You'll know exactly which station is which at a glance.

⚙️ How It Works ⚙️
• Research-Driven Unlocks: Instead of purchasing individual blueprints, weapon types are unlocked through research nodes.
• Progression: Crafting unlocks once you reach Catun Weapon Smithing, which becomes available at Tech Level 3. From there, you can either stick with the vanilla forges and unlock new weapon types, or continue upgrading through the linear grade path that leads to Edgewalkers Weapon Smithing.
• Early Game (Before Catun Smithing): Iron Club and Staff unlock at Tech 1. Horse Chopper and Flesh Cleaver at Tech 2.
How It Feels: Very similar to vanilla. This does mean that weapon smithing is *vastly* inferior to purchasing weapons because this was also an issue in vanilla Kenshi. If you'd like stronger crafted weapons, check out the Weapon Smithing Redux: Edge module.
🔗: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3585386805

📔 Holy Nation Bonus! 📔
Catun No. 3 weapons are now smithable (with a critical success) at Tech Level 3, unlocked with one Engineering Research.
This change exists because the Holy Nation never reaches Tech 4 (no Ancient Science Books, sorry Okran), and only Mk. weapon grades are truly ancient tech in vanilla Kenshi.
So there's really no reason Catun No. 3 should be locked behind forgotten knowledge. Let the faithful forge in Okran's light.

⚖ Why This Works ⚖
• Immersion: Ancient research is still important—you need artifacts to unlock the system itself. After that, crafting knowledge is "commonplace," requiring only Books.
• Balance: Shops no longer restrict progression, but Books still cost cats, so instant unlocks aren't possible.

🚩 Compatibility 🚩
• Core is fully compatible with everything: all new entries, zero conflicts, load in any order.
• Expansion modules must be loaded after Core.

🧩 Developer's Note 🧩
Across all its modules, Crafting Redux adds a lot of new content — over 177 new data entries between the two Core modules alone. These include new research paths, crafting recipes, and benches. I've done my best to ensure everything works perfectly, but if you spot something missing or broken, please let me know in the comments — I'll patch it up as soon as I can. 👍

🧠 An Afterthought: Why Blueprints Feel Bad 🧠
• Microscopic UI: Tiny icons, easy to miss in shop inventories.
• No progress overview: You can't see all your known blueprints in one place.
• Scaling issue: Even vanilla with 50+ armors, blueprint hunting becomes overwhelming clutter instead of fun scavenging. If you mod Kenshi, forget it...

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I'm also working on updating all my old mods, so I'd love it if you checked them out. They're featured on my workshop page:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/id/2PercentNate/myworkshopfiles/?appid=233860

Permissions & Use
Feel free to translate, edit, chop up, deep fry, or otherwise modify my mods to your heart's content. All of my mods are freely distributed. If you end up editing one, I'd really appreciate receiving credit with a link to the original mod. It's not required, but it would make my day! 😊

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