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Robotic Exoboots

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Based on the Scout Boots mod which appears to no longer be supported.

Uses textures that are already in the game, in particular the Athletic variant of the robotic legs. Several changes have been made to the original mod including converting the Exoboots from the Boots slot to the Belt slot to free up room for you to put some shoes on. I've also balanced the stat buffs/debuffs from using them based on realistic use case of these tools. Generally they should be used for Scouting or for covering long distance faster. They will boost your Athletics by 20% and additionally will boost your Dodge by 10%, but at the trade off of a severely reduced ability to Sneak or Assassinate while making it slightly more difficult to use a Crossbow effectively. It's not exactly easy to do those things with clunky and noisy mechanical gizmos strapped to your legs.

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NOTE: YOU MUST IMPORT YOUR SAVE FOR THE EXOBOOTS TO APPEAR IN SHOPS OR SHOW UP IN RESEARCH/CRAFTING MENUS FOR EXISTING SAVES. NEW SAVES SHOULD WORK FINE.

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This mod adds an item for the belt slot which acts as a pair of Exoboots. They will appear mostly outside of the clothing of your characters and will give them a suite of buffs as well as accompanying debuffs to keep them lore-friendly and at least somewhat balanced. Because they occupy the Belt slot they can be worn with any combination of Pants and Boots. I haven't tested every combination but most should work just fine. Skeletons CANNOT equip the Exoboots as they are specifically designed to help our flesh-sack friends get a leg up. The Exoboots have not been extensively tested with Shek or Hive but should work fine. If you encounter any issues please leave a comment explaining with enough detail for me to try to fix it and I'll get to it ASAP.



Research Table IV Required
Iron Plates I Required
Robotics Research Required
Craftable at Robotic Limb Bench

Shinobi Thieves Guild Trader (The Hub, Requires Shinobi Guild Membership)
Robotics Shops (Black Desert City, Falls Lagoon, Heft, Heng¹)
¹(Dependent on World State)

-1 Attack
+1 Defense
~20% Athletics Buff
~10% Dodge Buff
~20% Crossbow Debuff
~80% Stealth Debuff
~80% Assassination Debuff

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They are available at every tier of Robotics Shop as well as the Shinobi Thieves Guild for roughly 3000-5000cats. They should come with a slight variation from the stats you see in the preview image if I applied the gear rating system to them properly. This means you can purchase them in The Hub or venture out to a Robotics Shop to potentially purchase the Blueprint or varying tiers of Exoboots. You should be able to find them in Black Desert City, Falls Lagoon, Heft, & potentially Heng².
²(Dependent on World State)

As I mentioned in the first question there is actually a Blueprint available for purchase but it can also be researched assuming you already have Iron Plates I & Robotics researched. It will take 10 hours to research. Once researched you can craft the Exoboots at any Robotic Limb Bench.

The Scout Boots mod this is based on originally had the Exoboots only craftable under the Robotic Limbs table which seemed a bit extreme for something that seems so situational. I made the decision to keep the level 4 requirement in researching the boots while adjusting the stats and price as well as add them to certain vendor lists to fit them more into the world on Kenshi. Consider them a rather expensive piece of 'cutting-edge' technology akin to the legs of a Skeleton. These are intended to be used for Scouts, Traders, and various other folks that you need quickly running from point A to point B. To balance all of the upsides of the Athletics and Dodge buffs it makes sense to incur some penalties related to Stealth and Crossbows as you're standing on some clunky and noisy robotic leg extensions that don't exactly come as natural to their users.

I'm definitely open to critique on this mod and if you have any ideas or think something should be changed feel free to leave a comment and I'll consider the proposed change after discussion about it in the comment section.

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