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feat: Remove lead from birdshot #4641
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It's illegal, you know!
1 scrap metal for a single birdshot shell seems kinda uh...exceedingly wasteful, to be honest. Also muddles things with scrap shot, which makes 2 rounds per 1 scrap metal. If you want to do this, a better idea would make the uncraft for birdshot default to yielding bismuth, so that shells found in stores are correctly lead-free, while still letting the player craft with lead or bismuth as they please (since the player isn't gonna worry about the EPA coming after them during an apocalypse). |
By weight, I'm actually technically making 10 grams appear out of nowhere based on the bismuth recipe. 1 piece of scrap is 50 grams, whereas 30 bismuth is 60 grams.
In theory, it should yield steel anyway. Bismuth is a really uncommon material choice commercially for it, from what I understand. Most of the birdshot is indeed steel. I suppose I could let the survivor craft them with lead still, but introducing some sort of steel is assuredly a correct idea regardless. Perhaps I should just make it so that BBs are also an option by default alongside the other metals when it comes to crafting birdshot |
BBs might be the best option for that, yeah. |
There you go. Birdshot will uncraft into BBs, and you can still use lead for crafting it (alongside, now, BBs) |
Co-authored-by: Chaosvolt <chaosvolt@users.noreply.github.com>
Purpose of change
Lead is essentially illegal to actually use in birdshot irl in the USA. Plus, it helps to give birdshot a more unique identity, in a sense.
Describe the solution
Changes uncraft to BBs for birdshot, allows for use of BBs in creating it yourself
Describe alternatives you've considered
As pointed out by Chaos, undesirable
Tempting, but unfortunately survivors care little about silly things like EPA regulations or safety other than keeping the zombies off their lawn.
Testing
Loads, is able to be crafted
Additional context
Section on wikipedia explaining lead-free shot