(sorry for the long post)
Hello MrDrNose I don't know if anybody has asked this yet but what about the idea of adding guns to the game I understand if you don't want to make it that kind of game and want to keep guns out of it. I remember the previous base having a pack of bullets that you could find but during my time in the old base I never found a single gun but if you ever had the idea I have some details I think you might like
- I know how you like small details like with the food box whenever you eat all the food in it all that's left is the box I was thinking that whenever you shoot a gun you would have casings come out of it that you could pick up (another small detail is when you eat the MRE bags that they would leave empty bags like you can find around the base).
- You can pick up the casings and sell them or a new tool would be a reloading press that you could attach to the workbench and use to reload the bullet casings back into live rounds this would also need the addition of gunpowder which could be like the gas cans that will blow up when thrown to hard and bullets to be put back into the casings.
- You can take the live rounds or if when you buy them they come in a cannister you have to load them into a magazine for your gun unless it's a bolt action which loads from the top or a shotgun which loads from the bottom and the magazines can also be dropped on the ground or your character puts them into their inventory and it has empty mag/magazine as the name.
- More equipment for the guns as far as I know there are two equippable items and those are the welding mask and the backpack there could be another like a bandolier or an ammo pouch that allows you to hold more bullets or magazines and causes them to take up less space.
- The guns can have a natural wear down process that as you use them they will wear down overtime and you will need to clean them or they will jam and break.
- There can be multiple types of guns like a rifle, machine gun, pistol, revolver, shotgun, and a taser.
I don't know what uses these guns would have yet as there is not many entities that will attack you outright (at least none that I've found yet) possibly for hunting if deer or other animals are added or an extra layer of protection the player might feel from them even if they do no damage to entities.
and thank you MrDrNose for this wonderful game