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[Raptor_a22]

Exactly what it says on the tin.

At its core, the Arsenal is not meant to be a Mod. Rather, it is a resoruce that modders can use to bring a bit of detail to the militaries and combat of their worlds.
You are free to use anything within the Arsenal, but please remember to credit!

Weapons are broken up into three categories:
Simple - Most of the vanilla DF weapons fall into this category. Battle axes, shortswords, spears, whips and the like.
Complex - More interesting weapons such as halberds, bastard swords and scourges
Exotic - Civilisation-Specific or weapons from 'exotic' places of the real world such as India or Japan.

Melee Weapons:
Download Link - Dwarf Fortress File Depot

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Simple Melee Weapons:
Wood Axe, Battle Axe, Great Axe
Long Axe - Essentially a Polearm. Long Axe attacks have a higher velocity than other axes.
Dagger
Warhammer, Maul
Club, Mace
Pike
Shortspear, Longspear, Quarterstaff
Shortsword, Longsword, Two-handed Sword
Whip
Mining Pick

Complex Melee Weapons:
Saxe Knife - Essentially a bigger, nastier dagger.
Flail, Morningstar
Awlpike - A Pike with a longer spearhead. Penetration power ahoy!
Halberd - Five attacks on a single weapon. Where's your deity now?
Glaive, Voulge - Cleavers on sticks. Fight those goblins 'oppressed-peasant' style!
Sabre, Bastard Sword
Scourge

Exotic Melee Weapons:
Dwarven Urgosh - Dungeons & Dragons anyone?
Tanto, Wakizashi, Katana - Feudal Japan Fortress
Katara - Indian punching dagger.
Machete - Perfect for jungle warfare.
Scimitar
Zweihänder - Make like a Landsknechte and hack things to pieces!

Ranged Weapons:
Download Link - Dwarf Fortress File Depot

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Simple Ranged Weapons:
Crossbow
Shortbow
Blowgun

Complex Ranged Weapons:
Arbalest
Longbow

Exotic Ranged Weapons:
Dwarven Arbalest
Elven Bow
Bladed Bow - What happens when you put two daggers on a bow.

Ammunition:
Included in Ranged Weapons download

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There are two variants for every ammunition type:
Bodkin - Small contact area, high penetration. Excellent for skilled archers as an accurate shot will deal high internal damage.
Broadhead - Large contact area, low penetration. Good for new recruits as these cause a lot of bleeding, but very low internal damage.

Ammunition Types:
Arrows - Fit all kinds of bow
Light Bolts - Fired by the Crossbow
Heavy Bolts - Fired by the Arbalest
Dwarven Bolts - Fired by the Dwarven Arbalest
Elven Arrows - Fired by the Elven Bow

[Raptor_a22]

All of the [known] bugs are fixed and everything appears to be working as it should.
In addition, here is a entity_default.txt that already has all of the weapons coded into all the civilisations and ready to go.
Download from Dropbox

Don't hesitate to suggest new additions to the Arsenal!

[Raptor_a22]

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[GreatWyrmGold]

What's special about the elven bow, dwarven arlabest, etc?
How about other special racial weapons? Goblin scyhes, human blades (swords), etc.
"Artifact" weapons, like railgonnes (which fire any kind of ammo at a very high velocity), or Back-Breaker Blades (think Cloud's Breaker Blade), or Godhammers (which have a high enough velocity multipler that they send goblins flying), or stuff like that. Artifact weapons couldn't be normally created, but they could be created in moods. I'd consider adding at least one for every "type" or normal weapon, to increase the chance of getting an artifact weapon from a mood.

[Raptor_a22]

What's special about the elven bow, dwarven arlabest, etc?
How about other special racial weapons? Goblin scyhes, human blades (swords), etc.
"Artifact" weapons, like railgonnes (which fire any kind of ammo at a very high velocity), or Back-Breaker Blades (think Cloud's Breaker Blade), or Godhammers (which have a high enough velocity multipler that they send goblins flying), or stuff like that. Artifact weapons couldn't be normally created, but they could be created in moods. I'd consider adding at least one for every "type" or normal weapon, to increase the chance of getting an artifact weapon from a mood.

The Dwarven Arbalest and Elven Bow are able to fire projectiles faster than their standard counterparts.

Making a Godhammer is rather difficult. Railguns are fairly easy, all you have to to is add obscene numbers for the force and speed of the projectile and have it fire blunt objects with large contact areas.
So far I have not been able to make a 'Banhammer' that is able to propel things.

As for having an increased chance to get these 'special' weapons, that wouldn't really be in the spirit of Dwarf Fortress.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I think increasing the attack velocity and possibly weight of the Godhammer would work.

And I mean making artifact weapons of some kind more common than one-in-a-hundred. vanilla has a fair number of weapons, and you're adding a ton more. I'm not suggesting a huge amount; more than one for every, letsay 4 or 9 artifact weapons is, indeed, a bit unbalanced, and makes artifact weapons less special. That doesn't mean that artifact-weapon-level whips should be left out, though, it just means that you should add more normal weapons to compensate! See what I did there?

For new weapons...How about a bayonet (like a knife but not very good), and a reaction to attatch it to a wooden crossbow to get a [metal]-bayonetted wooden crossbow or something like that?

[leafbarrett]

I has a weapon idea! A pick-like weapon with a flat hammer side.

It is, in fact, a real thing. They're called pick hammers (real original, right?)

Spoiler: A modern one, more utilitarian by the looks of it (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: One designed specifically for war (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Okay, this just looks silly (click to show/hide)

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[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_MINING_HAMMER]
[NAME:pick hammer:pick hammers]
[SIZE:500]
[SKILL:MINING]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:42500]
[TWO_HANDED:47500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:7]
[ATTACK:EDGE:50:4000:strike:strikes:NO_SUB:2000]
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Version where the edge attack and blunt attack should, in theory, have an equal chance of being used
My god, this is excessive XD

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[NAME:pick hammer:pick hammers]
[SIZE:500]
[SKILL:MINING]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:42500]
[TWO_HANDED:47500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:7]
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Oh, and regarding weapons launching enemies, that doesn't seem to be reasonably possible anymore, not to anything bigger than a rabbit or something. Only unarmed attacks from extremely large/dense creatures (like, say, a Bronze Colossus) seem to do that anymore.

[Raptor_a22]

I has a weapon idea! A pick-like weapon with a flat hammer side.

It is, in fact, a real thing. They're called pick hammers (real original, right?)

Spoiler: A modern one, more utilitarian by the looks of it (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: One designed specifically for war (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Okay, this just looks silly (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_MINING_HAMMER]
[NAME:pick hammer:pick hammers]
[SIZE:500]
[SKILL:MINING]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:42500]
[TWO_HANDED:47500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:7]
[ATTACK:EDGE:50:4000:strike:strikes:NO_SUB:2000]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:100:200:bash:bashes:NO_SUB:2000]--snip--

Oh, and regarding weapons launching enemies, that doesn't seem to be reasonably possible anymore, not to anything bigger than a rabbit or something. Only unarmed attacks from extremely large/dense creatures (like, say, a Bronze Colossus) seem to do that anymore.

Well it's certainly an interesting idea, but the code to try and ensure that edge and blade attacks are used with equal frequency is a bit excessive.

Also, I have succeeded in creating a 'Banhammer' that launches enemies on anything <= solid than a standard hit. However due to DFs new physics system with things skidding along the ground now I cant get creatures to be propelled further than one tile.
I will keep trying, but progress on the Dwarf-Powered Goblin Space Project is slow...

[Putnam]

I'm going to use this...

*yoink*

[leafbarrett]

Well it's certainly an interesting idea, but the code to try and ensure that edge and blade attacks are used with equal frequency is a bit excessive.

Since when is excessive a BAD thing in DF?
...the problem is that it doesn't seem to work.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Well it's certainly an interesting idea, but the code to try and ensure that edge and blade attacks are used with equal frequency is a bit excessive.

Since when is excessive a BAD thing in DF?
...the problem is that it doesn't seem to work.

Of course it wouldn't work the AI will prefer EDGE attacks over BLUNT ones, only a "lucky" strike  that involves a blunt attack will be used.

Also using that weapon in adv.mode would be horrible. Imagin seeing

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[D_E]

If I'm remembering right, an edged attack with 0 penetration acts just like a blunt attack when it hits, but is chosen by the comp as if it were a true edge attack.  So this should work:

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[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_MINING_HAMMER]
[NAME:pick hammer:pick hammers]
[SIZE:500]
[SKILL:MINING]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:42500]
[TWO_HANDED:47500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:7]
[ATTACK:EDGE:50:4000:strike:strikes:NO_SUB:2000]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:100:0:bash:bashes:NO_SUB:2000]

[Putnam]

If I'm remembering right, an edged attack with 0 penetration acts just like a blunt attack when it hits, but is chosen by the comp as if it were a true edge attack.  So this should work:

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[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_MINING_HAMMER]
[NAME:pick hammer:pick hammers]
[SIZE:500]
[SKILL:MINING]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:42500]
[TWO_HANDED:47500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:7]
[ATTACK:EDGE:50:4000:strike:strikes:NO_SUB:2000]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100:0:bash:bashes:NO_SUB:2000]

Fixed that for you. (You still had BLUNT.)

[leafbarrett]

Ah. Thank you muchly. I'll remember that in my future endeavors. ^.^
Oh, um, do you need to list it as both a DIGGER and a WEAPON in the ENTITY list to make it count as both a valid weapon and a digging tool?

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[DIGGER:ITEM_WEAPON_MINING_HAMMER]
[WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_MINING_HAMMER]Like that.

And does the bug where dwarves refuse to use something as both a tool and a weapon (i.e. using a different axe for fighting than for cutting wood) still apply? If so, that completely defeats the purpose of the weapon.

[GreatWyrmGold]

The bug would still apply.