Gathering from corpses and crafting decorations

neuroguy

I've always been annoyed by games that don't let me gather what is intuitively valuable or cool from dead monsters. If I kill a dragon I'm gonna try to take a bunch of scales, teeth, bone etc. If I kill a flaming bird, those feathers are probably good for something or at least gonna look cool for decoration. It would be nice as a gatherer to be given options on what I want to extract. For example of I kill a bear, I can try to extract its claws, teeth, fur, meat etc. Then I'll be able to choose which part(s) to extract which can be gated by my gathering level in terms of what I can gather, how many parts I can try to gather, and the quality of the items I can gather. Maybe at high gathering I can extract all that stuff from the bear, and at good quality + quantity too.

These items don't always need to have direct crafting relevance. They can just be the gray vendor items (I think Steven calls them tickets). I think alternatively if the crafting outcome can look different depending on what exact ingredients you used that would be cool. If I use cow hide vs bear hide to make/decorate leather armor it should look different (just aesthetically) and if I use some mixture/combination it will just have a generic leather look. I also recall Steven saying something about crafting being very customizable and you can really play around with how the details look. It would be great if crafted gear could have decoration slots similar to jewel sockets in other games that you can fill out during the crafting process to change how the end result looks. If I make a helmet I can add feathers to it for example. If I gather a certain quality of feathers from some mob I should be able to slot it in as a decoration. It would add a lot of personality+character if you notice someone's helmet having parrot feathers from another continent (wow a foreigner, maybe they have goods from the other continent to sell) or if someone used valuable phoenix feathers (used in alchemy or some other purpose perhaps) on theirs to look badass or they just went full druid and have some plant's leaves instead of feathers. Lots of games have a cool looking skinned wolf hide helmet or w.e, imagine if it would look like the sabertooth tiger you skinned (100 times to get a high enough quality pelt to decorate your gear as such), would be immersive and badass. Most of this should be easy to implement as skin variations like what feather, leather, or dye metal (that you infuse into the ingot or something) you use. This of course would limit what decorations you put on what gear but I think would still be super cool, just feathers and leather alone would be amazing.

Since we will get game UI mechanisms of telling someone's gear type and quality this should be a fine mechanic to implement I think.

Balrog21

Pretty neat idea, I do like the idea of getting what you want from the dead mob...i.e. teeth, scales, claws, or just the hide instead of just a random thing. But I can also see this getting tedious down the line. Then I can also see this increasing as your gathering skill increases. I.e. your first time out you only get x of one thing off the mob(say one to two claws), but as your gathering increases you get more items from the mob.(5 teeth, 3 claws, 3 strips of fur or hide)