Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26172435-20170320175902/@comment-27200931-20170326195131

I'd spend more money on stonemason NPCs if building blocks were cheaper.

Currently I don't spend any money on NPCs that sell armors, weapons or other items that I can easily craft myself, but I would say that it would be interesting to see blacksmiths selling weapons with "modifiers".

Like for example an Easterling Smith, he could sell "Masterwork" or "Tempered" Easterling swords. Each one of these modifiers make the weapon stronger. This system is currently used on Mount & Blade, and if we adapt it to Minecraft, it would be more or less like this:


 * Masterwork = + 2.5 Damage
 * Tempered = + 2.0 Damage
 * Strong = + 1.5 Damage
 * Balanced = + 1.0 Damage
 * Heavy = + 0.5 Damage

Elaborating more on this idea, each time the weapon "breaks", it instead gets worse, losing modifier levels each time it gets broken:


 * Chipped = - 0.5 Damage
 * Rusty = - 1.0 Damage
 * Bent = - 1.5 Damage
 * Cracked = - 2.0 Damage
 * Destroyed = Item disappears

If a system like this was implemented, I would spend more money on blacksmiths, buying their high quality weapons that I can craft on my own. Also, I would also spend money on them if they could repair my equipment.