DESCRIPTION

"Extended Crafting for B42" is a mod that uses Xilandro's B42 Bows as a base to expand New Vegas' crafting system. Not only does this mod let you build your own bows and arrows, but also clubs, knives and throwing weapons! It also adds tons of new recipes that all use the custom resources added by B42 bows. Use Wood, Plastic and Metal Tubing to craft weapons and components for crafting! To top it all off, it even lets you break down vanilla junk items into crafting resources!

The goal of this mod is to better integrate B42's new resources into the overall game world, make them more accessible for players, and overall enhance crafting to make it feel more well-rounded. All while


-Craft Bows and other rudimentary melee & thrown weapons!
-Break down junk items for their core components!
-Use components to fabricate other junk items!
-Vanilla Friendly! Changes no vanilla items or mechanics. Every item is either from the base game or B42 Bows.
-Developed with balance in mind. Recipes are designed to not give you overpowered items or be abused. All of them are skill-locked based on item value.
-Increased utility! Dozens of items that were either useless or situational are now much more useful.



I was playing FafnirEtherion 's B42 Bows Crafting and I was bummed you couldn't scrap clipboards for wood. Then I realized I could just change that in FNVEdit myself. Then, when I saw how easy it was to make a new recipe, and I went a little nuts. I thought to myself "If you can make a bow, why wouldn't you make other weapons that are essentially just wood and metal?" and then I realized I could address some things that always bugged me about the crafting system.

For me, crafting in New Vegas has always felt a bit esoteric, situational and underutilized. You can make some great stuff, but not as much as I'd like, and often you have to scrounge around for very specific items that only spawn in a few places. On top of that, there are a ton of items in the game that aren't very useful, either doing nothing or being used in only a single recipe.

This mod exists to fix those problems. The new recipes and resources are designed to round out the original crafting system, applying a more self-sustaining ecosystem where everything flows naturally. The stuff you collect and craft makes you progress in the system and get more resources. The crafting system is, ideally, now something that's always a part of the game rather than something you remember occasionally or dig up when you need it for a single thing.  

Also, Fallout 4 left me with the nasty habit of picking up and hoarding junk items, which doesn't work out in New Vegas. Until now, that is! And I've always had a desire to play in a "Survivalist" way, where you just live off the land and fight with stuff you make. So... pretty much Minecraft. This mod makes the game play a little more like Minecraft.



Requires B42 Bows. It will not work without it. The entire basis of this mod is built around it. You don't ever have to use a bow if you don't want to and you'll still get plenty of usage out of the mod thanks to all the added utility.

As a natural consequence, everything B42 requires, this mod will require too.

Dead Money and Honest Hearts are definitely required, as this mod uses recipes from those DLCs.

The good news is, once you're done with that, that's it. No new assets, code or anything from this mod itself.



By this mod's nature, anything that conflicts with B42 bows will conflict with this one. If there's demand for a "Standalone" version that just uses the new resources but not the bows, I might look into making it. But B42 Bows is absolute banger of a mod that I highly recommend anyway. Hopefully you can find a workaround for whatever conflict you have.

Also, despite being heavily inspired by FafnirEtherion's Bow Crafting mod, that mod and this one won't really play nicely together. You'll get a bunch of recipes that do basically the same thing.

But other than that, you shouldn't have too many problems. This mod is nothing but a list of recipies. No silly overhauls, no new ingredients that only exist in this mod and nowhere else, no new assets, not even any new items. Everything is either from Vanilla or B42 Bows. Mods that add other new items and recipes will likely benefit from this, since you can use its resources to make vanilla resources that work with them

But it will work pretty well with TTW! It was made with it in mind. That's why there's support for crafting parts needed for the Railway Rifle and the Rock-It Launcher.