Update and fix kevlar chainmail armor, hauberk, missing recipes, errors and inconsistencies

[PlutusPleion]

Summary

Balance "Update chainmail gear and kevlar-chainmail variants' materials including numerous fixes"

Purpose of change

Kevlar Chainmail Armor is made by combining components of:

It's safe to assume there should be overlap. There are also minor differences like the gambeson and arming pants being 100% coverage while the chainmail gear being 95% coverage.

We have systems in place to allow for complex armor such as this.

Another problem that was found is that the kevlar chainmail armor had stats that would assume it incorporated a kevlar gambeson hood, except it was not part of the recipe.

Describe the solution

Here should be the totals for each bodypart:

head:
95% coverage (1.2 Steel)
100% coverage (1.9 Layered Kevlar, 1.3 Kevlar, 2.5 Cotton*)

torso, arms, legs:

95% coverage (1.2 Steel)
100% coverage (1.9 Layered Kevlar, 1.3 Kevlar, 2.5 Cotton*)

• updated material and coverage for all chainmail armor and variants
• *moved cotton to 100% just for simpler end display of stats and since cotton is only 1 resistance shouldn't affect the end result too much
• updated weight,volume, and prices
• increased warmth and encumbrance slightly (we are pretty much layering them on top of eachother)
• Added kevlar gambeson hood to recipe
• updated materials to use low_steel as per armor/material overhaul
• various fixes for typos, recipes not showing up
• normalized "Activity_level" across recipes
• updated xs/xl versions to use "extend" instead of manually setting it so that it's easier to update in the future

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

-Checked each recipe is correct and shows up
-Checked the materials are correct
-Checked resistances and coverage are correct
-No errors on load

Additional context

[PlutusPleion]

A lot to do still, wanted to make one small change and there's been new bugs found:

• Fix the 2nd recipe for kevlar chainmail suit wasn't showing up in latest experimental
• Add the XS versions of the kevlar gambeson hood and arming pants (don't exist in latest experimental)
• Allow XS version to be used to craft XS product

Testing:

• XS kevlar gambeson hood now shows up
• kevlar gambeson armor (hauberk recipe) now shows up
• flags for XS kevlar chainmail hauberk and armor flags are extended and correct
• armor values and recipes for all kevlar chainmail variants are correct

[Drew4484]

Overall this looks good, the 100% coverage for the soft layers and the 95% for the chain is in line with other chainmail.

It looks like you've got XS components in recipes for normal sized gear. These should be separate and incompatible between XS/normal/XL.

The steel thickness should be consistent across the entire body, I've used 1 mm on the plate mail and gloves.

I haven't applied new steels to chainmail yet but if you wanted to update these to use the grades you can swap those materials in without worrying about weight or volume.

[PlutusPleion]

Overall this looks good, the 100% coverage for the soft layers and the 95% for the chain is in line with other chainmail.

It looks like you've got XS components in recipes for normal sized gear. These should be separate and incompatible between XS/normal/XL.

The steel thickness should be consistent across the entire body, I've used 1 mm on the plate mail and gloves.

I haven't applied new steels to chainmail yet but if you wanted to update these to use the grades you can swap those materials in without worrying about weight or volume.

Did final check each piece should now only allow similar size for crafting. The exception of allowing normal size to craft for XS as well. I figure resizing normal to xs should be okay. I can remove it if that's not desired.

Which grades should be used for chainmail? I'm not too familiar in metallurgy. From a quick look the standard steel has similar properties to medium so should I use that grade?

edit:

might have some incompatibilities or overlap with #55222

Did some research and made changes you suggested but now it's weaker than normal chainmail. Should I revert the material thickness of the med_steel back to 2.5? or should I be fixing the other chainmail gear for consistency? @Drew4484

edit2: So it's supposed to be between 14 gauge(2mm) and 18 guage(1.2mm). Really unsure which direction to take here.

#55224 - Added light activity level for kevlar chainmail and its variants. Fixed the example but not root problem.

[Jarewill]

I can close #55222 however there are still some recipe inconsistencies in this PR.
Namely some recipes are still missing an id_suffix, preventing them from showing up and chainmail armors still require an additional gambeson.
Chainmail hauberks are crafted from chainmail and gambesons, so it makes no sense that the chainmail armors require both hauberks and additional gambesons.
Those recipes should be fixed to only need a hauberk and chainmail/gambeson hoods.

Edit: Actually it seems the id_suffixes are okay, but the duplicate gambesons are still an issue.

[PlutusPleion]

Removed duplicate and gambeson for normal chainmail armor.

[Drew4484]

1.2 mm is a good number, we can establish that consistent across all chain armor. Because of the way armoring works, if we go for the upper boundary of 2 mm it will be as effective as solid plate steel.

As far as the steel grades, all are suitable as a material. The progression of mild/medium/high/hardened/tempered is effectively linear in terms of protective values and also crafting difficulty.

I would recommend using the mild steel for your initial suit, and then we can copy-from variants for the other grades of steel.

[PlutusPleion]

Updated chainmail coif, armor, hauberk, vest, legging and sleeves. All using low_steel and uniform thickness for the steel.

[PlutusPleion]

accidentally closed

[Drew4484]

The steel thickness should be consistent as the rings would be mass produced to a uniform measure. There are cases where smaller rings are used but that dramatically increases the labor time. Typical thickness was between 1 - 1.5 mm, I've used 1 mm for other chain sections on the plate armor.

[PlutusPleion]

closed due to more encompassing changes in #55455