Increase availability of tin and only allow it to be extracted with electrolysis

[ampersand55]

Summary

SUMMARY: Balance "Increase availability of tin and only allow it to be extracted with electrolysis"

Purpose of change

Due to the recent addition of tin as a material, and the change tin crafting (#33111) tin has been very hard to come by.

Currently tin_plate and bowl_pewter could be "deconstructed" for tin with a basic hammer which defeats the purpose of the electrolysis tin crafting recipe.

Describe the solution

• Remove tin and pewter hammer deconstruction.
• Add pewter bowl to tin crafting recipe (pewter is 93–98% tin).
• Increase tin yield of tin crafting recipe so that most of its weight is extracted.
• Change tin description to reflect that it's a powder.
• Add more tin and pewter items to appropriate item groups to make tin more available.

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Update: Tin item groups have been overhauled. Every instance removed and new one's added.

I've made a item collection called "tinware" consisting of pewter_bowl, tin_plate and tin_cup.

The tinware group is added to the following itemgroups:

• trash, trash_cart, trash_forest, art, medieval, dining, camping, kitchen_nonfood, antique, museum_misc, pawn, dollar_kitchen.

In mansions, tinware is added to the following itemgroups:

• kitchen_nonfood, clutter_mansion, clutter_ballroom, table_wine, table_sideboard, table_ballroom, table_livingroom

I made also made it possible for a glass of wine to spawn. The container distribution for the glass of wine is is 75% glass, 25% tin_cup, 5% glass bottle and the content is taken from the wines_worthy item group.

A glass_of_wine is added to the following itemgroups:

• table_wine, table_sideboard, table_ballroom, table_livingroom, table_card, wetbar_counter, nightstand.

Raw tin is added to the following itemgroups:

• pawn, chem_school, chem_school, chem_lab, science

Describe alternatives you've considered

An alternative would be to remove the tin electrolysis recipe and instead let players deconstruct it with a hammer as tin is quite ductile and malleable. But tin is only used to make solder and to coat containers with electrolysis so it makes sense to imagine it as a powder.

It's no point having both the electrolysis recipe and the deconstruct option for tin.

Additional context

[tenmillimaster]

Are tin containers really that common? A quick google search for 'tin cup' shows mostly stainless steel campware, and a very small number of reproduction cups.

I think the only places reasonable for these are antique stores, and not frequently either due to their low value.

[ampersand55]

Are tin containers really that common? A quick google search for 'tin cup' shows mostly stainless steel campware, and a very small number of reproduction cups.

I think the only places reasonable for these are antique stores, and not frequently either due to their low value.

You're right, I was a bit lazy and mostly added it to places where the pewter bowl was.

I think finding tinware in mansions, antique stores, pawn shops, and raw tin in hardware stores, metal working shops and chemistry labs/stores is plausible. There could perhaps be a small chance of it spawning in dining rooms.

I'll update later. Requesting more suggestions for tinware/tin locations.

[ghost]

Garbage dump is one place where you may find tin. 'w')/

[ampersand55]

I've completely reworked where tin items and tin can spawn.

[kevingranade]

You've got some kind of error with "tinware".

[ampersand55]

I think it's fixed now.

[AMurkin]

Now it's this:

item id wines_worthy is unknown

[ampersand55]

Bloody hell.

Again, I think it's fixed now. But it seems like I have bad luck when thinking.