Outdated Augmented Armors 1.1

This is an old mod that will not work with the Upbeat Giraffe update. For the moment, this mod is on hiatus, but not canceled. Please don't use the reviews to address this, but feel free to use the discussion topic. The reworked status effect system means this won't be an easy copy and paste job, at least without missing features. I'm also figuring out how to expand on the concept in what may be an overhaul. What follows below is an outdated description for an older version of Starbound.

Overview:
I feel the game currently has little variety in armor aside from appearance. No matter how I play, I'll end up with the same armor (stat wise). Even the planned racial armor bonuses doesn't really sound like it would help with say, those who want more energy for guns and tech, more damage for weapons, and so on. What this mod aims to do is expand your armor options by giving you more of a choice of what your armor does and so your armor can be a part of your playstyle.

This mod adds a new set of armor that can be augmented to give you different effects. At the moment there are 7 sets of augments. These can be crafted to suit any tier, from iron all the way up to impervium.

To craft these armors, you need the standard amount of tiered bars to craft it: 20 for the helmet, 35 for the chestpiece, and 12 for the greaves, a total of 67 bars. This can be done at an iron anvil (only for iron tier) or metal work station. The base armor stats are equal to the lower end armor of that tier. I really want to go for balance in this mod and I feel not using the racial tier armor stats as a starting point helps.

You will need a core that will be the augment to apply. These can be brought at an iron anvil or metal work station for 200 pixels a piece, except the undo core for 100 pixels. To actually apply a core to an augmentable armor, you’ll need to craft an Armor Augmentation Station for 12 iron bars at an iron anvil or metal work station. You can also buy it from the 3D printer for 240 pixels.



Once you place it down, you can open up the interface for it and there will be two input slots and one output slot. One slot must contain an armor piece and the other must contain a core, order not mattering. There are no set bonuses, so you can mix and match armor pieces. Remember, you can't directly change an armor's augment without first removing it with an undo core (explained more below) to restore it to plain form, ready for another augment.

Note that if you have Tabula Rasa installed, you can craft the armor pieces, cores, and armor augmentation station from it. A custom filter button will show only the recipes of this mod, making it a lot easier and quicker to access regardless of how many other recipes were added from other mods. You’ll still need the armor augmentation station to apply augments.

Here is what each of the cores can do…

• Barrier: Damage is blocked by your energy pool. This armor has lower stats then even the basic armor (about racial armor of one tier lower) and your energy regeneration slows down greatly when worn.
• Energy: A full set gives you double the energy (and regeneration) you would have gained from wearing racial armor of the same tier.
• Medic: A full set gives you somewhat more health than racial armor of the same tier and slowly regenerates your health, from 1 to full in about 60 seconds. This will be enough to heal you up between down times without stopping to sleep, but likely will make little difference in the heat of battle.
  
• Nimble: The helmet boosts jump height by 50%. The chestpiece doubles running speed. The greaves will completely protect you from fall damage.
• Rage: A full set increases your damage output by 50%. The helmet adds 15% damage, the chestpiece adds 25% damage, and the greaves adds 10% damage. Note that the increased damage from this armor won't be displayed next to your damage icon in the inventory.
  
• Reflect: A fixed amount of damage is done to whoever hit you with this equipped. Damage done scales with better tiered armor. This also gives slightly more defense than even the racial armor of the same tier, but health, energy, and energy regeneration are one tier lower, equal to the racial armor of the previous tier or none in the case of iron armor.
  
• Shining: Gives as much warmth as Snow Infantry armor and has a small light radius when worn, great for exploring cold planets and in the dark. The light effect stacks with others, including the lantern stick. The glowing effect slightly scales with better tiered armor.
  
• Undo: This reverts any augmented armor piece back to its plain form, allowing you to apply a different augment to it.

Installation:
Unzip the file to your mods folder. On Windows, it should look similar to the following line, although probably a different drive letter...

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\mods”

If you’re already past the first tier prior to installing this mod, you won’t gain the blueprints for the tier you’re at unless you use an item to relearn that tier’s blueprints. This won't be an issue in the Tabula Rasa crafting menu.

Updating:
Do not overwrite the previous installation folder. This will likely cause problems with any changes in file names and folder structures between versions. Instead do a fresh install by first removing the old folder and then installing as normal.

Mod Compatibility:

• In general, this should not conflict with any other mods since nothing is overwritten, only added through the __merge command. However any mods loaded after this one that overwrites recipes, like replacing tier 1, will probably remove the crafting recipes added by this mod.
• MrMagical's Dye Mod is supported by default without any additional work on my part at all. Any armor piece can be dyed and the base/material color will be changed, although the line colors are still augment specific. Keep in mind dyed colors won't transfer when augments are applied or removed. So it's probably best not to dye base armor before applying an augment to it.
• As noted above, Tabula Rasa is supported.

Known Issues:

• The reflect status effect will be insanely powerful against enemies using rapid fire attacks. I don’t know if any possible way at the moment to scale the damage better.
• Barrier armor might be overpowered for the first tier due to the limited damage enemies do to you. However, this shouldn’t be the case from threat level 2 planets and up.
• The status effects display outside the window border.
  
• I'm not a very good spirit artist, so the armor sprites might look rough at times.
• Although pretty minor, Medic armor status effects will get in the way of the item's name display.
• Dyed armors lose their color when augments are changed, due to becoming a different item. I currently don't know of a way to maintain dyed colors between items.

Support:
If you have any issues with this mod, please post in this mod's discussion thread and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Future Plans:

• Possibly more augments
• Better balance
• More interesting way of getting cores
• Better Tabula Rasa filter image
• Maybe augmented back items fitting in with the augment cores already in

Credits:

• Chucklefish for this game, including the sprites I used as a base to draw my own.
• SnoopJeDi and LowestFormOfWit for creating Tabula Rasa.

Mod Pack Permissions:

Anyone can use this mod in their mod compilation without the author's consent.

Mod Assets Permissions:

You must get the author's consent before altering/redistributing any assets included in this mod.