Chainmail standardization

[Drew4484]

Summary

Content "Standardizes application of chainmail, removes chainmail/gambeson combos."

Purpose of change

As more items with chainmail are being updated, the standard of 1.2 mm (18 gauge) thickness will be used. After discussing chainmail, the decision was made to remove the integrated gambeson versions of chainmail armor. This allows greater player flexibility, removes a chainmail (outer) over chainmail gambeson (normal layer) exploit, and also cleans up repairing each item separately rather than using cotton to repair a damaged section of chainmail.

Describe the solution

Changes all standard chainmail to 1.2mm thickness, the same as 18 gauge steel.
Adjusts plate armors integrating chainmail thickness accordingly.
Removes gambesons from all chainmail suits/hauberks.
Obsoletes kevlar chainmail suits/hauberks.
Adds grades of steel to chainmails.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None.

Testing

Loaded items in game, verified changes.

Additional context

As the chainmail armors are having the gambesons removed, this may invalidate some of #55392.

[anoobindisguise]

1.2 mm may be the actual width of the chains themselves, but is it accurate? The chains are not perfectly flat, there is a somewhat uneven pattern to them that would increase thickness. This is going to give the chainmail a protection of only 6, which is low enough for common zombies to bleed you through full chainmail with claw swipes. and that doesn't seem reasonable considering that chainmail will generally protect you from full sword swipes. All steel armor suffers from a lack of cut protection but this seems particularly below real life.

[Drew4484]

1.2 mm may be the actual width of the chains themselves, but is it accurate? The chains are not perfectly flat, there is a somewhat uneven pattern to them that would increase thickness. This is going to give the chainmail a protection of only 6, which is low enough for common zombies to bleed you through full chainmail with claw swipes. and that doesn't seem reasonable considering that chainmail will generally protect you from full sword swipes. All steel armor suffers from a lack of cut protection but this seems particularly below real life.

I want to stick with the lower end of thickness for chain because in cases with layered armor like the plate, it quickly becomes thicker than the actual plate armor. The armors that are only set to use standard steel (chainmail suit, chainmail hauberk, assorted individual pieces) will suffer from this change because they previously had thickness 5-6. I didn't want to make the full grades of steel versions of all of those suits and pieces on this PR but that should to happen eventually.

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• XL hardened steel chainmail hauberks
• XL high steel chainmail hauberks
• XL low steel chainmail hauberks
• XL medium steel chainmail hauberks
• XL tempered steel chainmail hauberks
• XS hardened steel chainmail hauberks
• XS high steel chainmail hauberks
• XS low steel chainmail hauberks
• XS medium steel chainmail hauberks
• XS tempered steel chainmail hauberks
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[Drew4484]

Went ahead and introduced grades of steel for all chainmail armors (except faraday/faraday shark, dog/horse).

[Drew4484]

What a comically large number of changes. Looks good to me, I like the name shorten for the other steel mats.

Also 3 separate "balance" PRs to the Kevlar hauberks which ended with just removing them is also pretty funny.

probably in a seperate PR it would be worth it to make chain repair with chain links and only a soldering iron? Though I'm not an armorer so 🤷.

Makes sense to repair with links, usually you're only replacing a small number. I'll start that as a separate PR down the line.

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• XL hardened steel chainmail coifs
• XL hardened steel chainmail hauberks
• XL high steel chainmail coifs
• XL high steel chainmail hauberks
• XL low steel chainmail hauberks
• XL medium steel chainmail coifs
• XL medium steel chainmail hauberks
• XL mild steel chainmail coifs
• XL tempered steel chainmail coifs
• XL tempered steel chainmail hauberks
• XS hardened steel chainmail coifs
• XS hardened steel chainmail hauberks
• XS high steel chainmail coifs
• XS high steel chainmail hauberks
• XS low steel chainmail hauberks
• XS medium steel chainmail coifs
• XS medium steel chainmail hauberks
• XS mild steel chainmail coifs
• XS tempered steel chainmail coifs
• XS tempered steel chainmail hauberks
• hardened steel chainmail coifs
• hardened steel chainmail hauberks
• high steel chainmail coifs
• high steel chainmail hauberks
• low steel chainmail hauberks
• medium steel chainmail coifs
• medium steel chainmail hauberks
• mild steel chainmail coifs
• tempered steel chainmail coifs
• tempered steel chainmail hauberks

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