Custom description for tools and machines
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- gudgeon
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Custom description for tools and machines
Like machete, sickle, bone club, dung fork, pickaxe, axe, bucket, fishing pole, knife, anvil, cask, well, beehive, etc.
- Valerie
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
gudgeon wrote:Like machete, sickle, bone club, dung fork, pickaxe, axe, bucket, fishing pole, knife, anvil, cask, well, beehive, etc.
Can you use paper labels?
- gudgeon
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
Yes, but paper labels are meant to label flasks and bottles. Using them to customize tools is an exploit itself. It'd be better to make custom description for the tools (and machines) in normal and regular way.
- Bmot
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
Labels shouldn't work, actually. What tool have you seen it work on?
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
Bmot wrote:Labels shouldn't work, actually. What tool have you seen it work on?
There's a few. Crowbar comes to mind.
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
gudgeon wrote:Yes, but paper labels are meant to label flasks and bottles. Using them to customize tools is an exploit itself. It'd be better to make custom description for the tools (and machines) in normal and regular way.
I've used a label to describe a 'chest' None of the tools worked.
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
By the way, back when *wiro was on staff, there was this whole thread on requesting custom descriptions.
https://forum.cantr.org/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=26925
https://forum.cantr.org/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=26925
- alecto
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
Bmot wrote:Labels shouldn't work, actually. What tool have you seen it work on?
Knitting needles, I think?
- Bmot
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
Yeah, found them in the database, I recon we'll look into fixing them to use regular tools instead
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- gudgeon
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
Are other tools and machines going to allow custom descriptions?
- alecto
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
I would love to customise certain machines as well - looms and spindles, for starters.
I'm just a fan of customisation across the board
I think it gives the game more flavour.
I'm just a fan of customisation across the board

- Bmot
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
I think over time we're striving to add descriptions to anything where there's no good reason not to add it?
I know in the past RD looked into a way to add describing by default to everything but that's not as easy.
I know in the past RD looked into a way to add describing by default to everything but that's not as easy.
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
This has been fixed for the items that used labels wrongly, and accepted (in progress) for (almost) all other things.
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Re: Custom description for tools and machines
Thanks, Bmot. 

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