CleverRaven / CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Scrap suit is almost entirely better than any chainmail armor

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Description

### Describe the bug

The scrap suit, made of budget steel, has roughly twice the armor of the budget steel chainmail armor set, while being less encumbering and having the same coverage.

### Steps to reproduce

1. Look at respective armor values.

### Expected behavior

I expect that the chainmail armor would not be completely outclassed by the scrap suit as the scrap suit is tying a variety of steel (from 250 pieces of scrap metal to 5 lumps of steel) to cotton and wrapping it to your body. Although the text shows that the budget steel chainmail armor is rusting, the tempered steel chainmail armor still has worse cut/bash while only having 2 more bullet protection. Maybe make the scrap suit more encumbering or increase protection values for chainmail? Also, the recipe for the scrap suit makes almost no sense since it can accept the aforementioned 5 lumps in place of the 250 scrap metal, and considering it only requires hammering one, I doubt the lumps are being repurposed into scrap. I suggest remove lumps and chunks of metal from the recipe and only accepting scrap metal.

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### Versions and configuration

OS: Windows 10
commit sha: 31319f89e2256e475a6b3a31146cdd08bfdbbbe6
Tiles
Language: English
Mods: dda

### Additional context

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Research direction

The issue names no source files or tests. Start by locating the scrap suit and budget or tempered steel chainmail definitions, compare their armor, encumbrance, coverage, and recipe behavior, then verify any agreed balance and recipe changes in-game.

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Assessment

Domain
game-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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