Name: My First Chemistry Set

Description: A new crafting set for making explosives and other fun toys. Bothered me that I had a buttload of dynamite but couldn't do anything more...fun with it.

Features:

- Breakdown Grenades and explosives for base components.
- Create new or upgrade existing items
- Portable
- Drug Lab!


Still in the basic planning/framing stage so feel free to throw ideas at me. Hope to have a alpha out with a day or two.

As a pretty basic thing, taping together 3 stick of dynamite into a bundle for explosions would be nice.
You know, like http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/322430/2/istockphoto_322430-dynamite.jpg

Maybe some really small C4 that can break through locks as well?

Definitely gonna do the dynamite bundle!

I "might" do the lock breaking thing, BUT I have a feeling Explosive Entry is already in the works. If it doesn't show up soon I'll add some stuff.

While this would be cool (and someone already made something like it, though I don't think he included explosives manufacturing), I think the name 'my first chemistry set' is extremely stupid and doesn't fit with any of the other crafting activators. Just make it 'Chemistry Set' and have done with it.

@Langy: To each their own I can't but help think a cheesy "My First Chemistry Set" full of volatile chems is exactly the kind of thing Vault-Tec would supply.

Agreed

The thing that made chems in Fallout 3 was called My First Laboratory and the thing that healed you was called My First Infirmary. The name is perfectly in keeping the canon of the series. In case you hadn't notice, Fallout is hardly a serious franchise.

Ok, so far I've got some basic stuff set up or planned out. Overall goal here is to add more variety to explosives and make it less reliant on leveled enemies or merchants. As your explosive skill increases you'll unlock new recipes.

Components: (open to debate/renaming)

Explosive Compounds - Basic 'splodey type material
Wiring - Breakdown scrap electronics maybe?
Casing - Bottle/Scrap/etc.


New Items:

Bundled dynamite - bigger boom (just 3 tnt taped together)
Scrap grenade - weak, easy to make grenade
Satchel charge - like powder charge but bigger
Poisoned shrapnel mine/grenade - Just add venom/poison glands
Refined Combat drugs - Stronger but higher addiction chance
Stronger turbo?
More placed explosives?
Placeable concealed mines?



Comments? Ideas?

I'd like to use bottlecaps as shrapnel and mines hidden inside piles of scrapmetal or other mundane objects. Also convert gunpowder to explosives and vice versa.

Also, there are a few Molotov models around for FO3 if you'd want to include that.

I don't know how easy it is, but how about a bundle of 1 stick of normal dynamite and a couple sticks of long fuse dynamite, for a make-shift cluster bomb kinda thing?

Bottlecaps as shrapnel should be doable. Depending on how friendly the GECK is I could even add in a coin shot type effect there.

Molotovs are actually a definite yes, thought about it after I posted last and already started work.

Cluster Munitions are a WIP... On that note.... Would everyone prefer bundled dynamite to be one big explosion or 3 smaller ones. I like the idea of one bigger one but it might unbalance things by giving you a big anti-armor weapon basically out the doc's front door. That and i did get the 3 explosion thing to work, it is kinda fun:)

Concealed Mines!! I like it!


BTW, starting to understand the whole grenade modding thing now, projectiles and explosions are gonna make this fun:)

Some suggestions:

• Sticky explosives (bomb + glue) - does not bounce and sticks to npc's (or yourself)
  
• The shotgun trap that is in FO3 - shotgun fires when you set off the trap
  
• Radiation bomb (microfusion cells + wiring + container) - for (massive) radiation damage in a small radius
  
• Elektro bomb (small energy cells + wiring + container) - damages robots and guns only, creatures lose AP
  
• BB bomb (BB pellets + shotgun shells (?) + container) - fun way to use your BB pellets
  
• Nuka grenade (if they discarded it, it was already in FO3) - fairly weak
  
• Nuke mine (mini nuke + wiring & maybe something else) - don't make it too strong & you will have to conceal this

I "think" I stumbled onto something here ...I've found a way to make a grenade spawn an item with an attachable script... Cluster Munitions are a go! Gonna Add a few more toys and release an early Alpha for playtesting today/tomorrow (depending on how much my 2 yr old lets me work on this today).

Keep the ideas coming!! I'll try to add as many as reasonable. Making this mod to add variety (If I can have 8 shotguns why can't i have more than one "frag grenade"?!?)

For every explosive/chemical there should be minimum skill levels involved in creating them. Like Science or Repair, or both.

Already planning on it:) Making everything have requirements should help balance some items out for early/late game fun.