4thera’s Armor Set Archetypes Overhaul

Description

This mod Adds over 30 new set bonuses to the game. Each set bonus requires 2 pieces of armor from the same armor category to activate. Ex: 2 worn pieces of Lumberjack w/ 2 worn pieces of Rogue would activate the Eagle Scout set, while 2 worn pieces of Lumberjack set w/ 2 worn pieces of Assassin would do nothing due to them not being the same armor category. A full List of armor sets can be found below.

Armor crafting in this mod has be completely reworked. Armored Up magazines still exist however reading these will instead increase your base max health instead of your armor crafting ability. You will now be able to buy a perk which unlock crafting of your armor type, Light medium or Heavy at level 10,20, 40, 60, 80 and 100, for quality 1-6 armors.

The crafting recipes have been altered as well after quality 2 each armor piece will require a special crafting kit, which uses thematic ingredients and armor badges to make.
These armor badges are for each base set such as a farmer badge or biker badge, and can only be gained through killing zombies while wear a mixed set. Ex: while wearing the Eagle Scout set which has lumberjack and rogue pieces you will have a chance to gain Lumberjack and Rogue badges.

ALL sets abilities are dependent on the quality of your lowest quality worn armor! This means to get abilities bonuses for having quality 5 gear, each piece will need to be quality 5, if its not it use the lowest quality of gear worn to determine your set bonus.

The buffs that these sets provide can be powerful for both combat, crafting and harvesting, it is recommended to use higher difficulty settings or mods alongside this.

This mod also contain some other minor edits including visible enemy health bars and additional bullet penetration on targets.

This is my first mod, so please let me know if you run into any issues or unforgivable balancing! This mod should be be compatible with any that doesnt outright remove the base games armor sets, or change armor progression. (I know for sure it works with Undead Country, and IZ gun mods)

Light Armor

• Liquidator Set (Lumberjack + Enforcer) A professional asset remover who excels at targeted takedowns. This set encourages a unique playstyle by reducing your headshot damage by 50% but massively rewarding you for targeting and dismembering limbs with an axe. Hitting a limb marks it, increasing dismemberment chance by up to 400% at max quality. Successfully dismembering a marked limb grants a Payday of Dukes and a scaling stamina bonus.
• Nature Freak Set (Lumberjack + Preacher) Become one with the wilderness. This set grants different passive bonuses based on the biome you are in: increased run speed in the forest, reduced water drain in the desert, and more effective food in the plains. In combat, standing still for two seconds makes you Rooted, gaining immense damage resistance and health regeneration. Your power attack becomes a Primal Lunge when ready, a long-range strike with up to +200% bonus damage that has a scaling cooldown.
• Eagle Scout Set (Lumberjack + Rogue) A master of the hunt. This set enhances your prowess with bows. Landing a shot with a bow Marks your target, causing them to bleed and allowing you to deal +20% to +55% bonus damage against them with any weapon. The set also provides scaling bonuses to weapon handling, magazine size for archery weapons, and the amount of resources gained from butchering animals.
• Martial Artist Set (Athletic + Lumberjack) Your body is a lethal weapon. This set turns you into an unarmed brawler, but your base unarmed damage is reduced (from -60% at Q1 to no penalty at Q6). However, every punch you land grants you a stack of Brawler’s Flurry, rapidly increasing your attack speed up to a massive +200%. The Martial Artist’s iron fists also increase their ability to harvest from salvage, ore, and wood sources.
• Lawman Set (Preacher + Enforcer) Lay down the law in the apocalypse. This set empowers pistols, shotguns, and stun batons. When you take damage, you gain stacks of Crime, which increase your damage resistance up to 50%. Your next attack consumes all Crime stacks to apply the Punishment buff; all your shots will deal up to +500% bonus damage until you get a kill.
• Agent Set (Enforcer + Rogue) A master of espionage and evasion. This set enhances your stealth and effectiveness with pistols. Its signature ability is Escape Artist: when you take damage while sneaking, you instantly gain a burst of speed and become nearly invisible for a short duration, allowing you to reposition. The duration of this effect scales from 5 to 15 seconds, and its cooldown is reduced with higher quality armor.
• Cannibal Set (Athletic + Enforcer) You are what you eat. Killing enemies has a 50% chance to grant a Feast, providing you with a gruesome but useful food item. This set’s true power comes from your infection level; the more infected you are, the greater your combat bonuses, gaining massive increases to max health, attack speed, run speed, and damage resistance at higher infection stages.
• Cultist Set (Preacher + Rogue) You draw power from the cycle of day and night. During the day, you are a diligent worker, gaining +5% to +30% to wood and ore harvesting and consuming less food. At night, you become a creature of the shadows, with +10% to +60% noise reduction, a bonus to finding Dukes, and a scaling chance to find a special treasure when you kill an enemy.
• Coach Set (Preacher + Athletic) Lead your team to victory. The Coach excels at supporting allies by projecting an inspirational aura that grants them bonus damage. This aura’s strength is determined by the quality of your armor. For personal combat, the set provides a scaling +5% to +30% attack speed bonus with clubs.
• Freerunner Set (Rogue + Athletic) The world is your playground. In addition to regenerating health while running, this set grants two powerful active abilities. Leap of Faith arms after holding your hands free for a second, granting a massive +70% bonus to your next jump. For tactical repositioning, Evasive Dash lets you perform a short-range teleport by aiming with empty hands. Both abilities have scaling cooldowns.

Medium Armor

• Rancher Set (Farmer + Ranger) A master of the homestead. This set unlocks special recipes and enhances your cooking; high-quality meals grant a 10-minute Well Fed buff, providing -10% to -35% stamina reduction and +2% to +12% damage resistance. While near your Homestead Fire, you gain the Homestead buff, granting fall damage immunity and scaling bonuses to XP, damage, and crop harvesting.
• Militia Set (Farmer + Commando) A trained marksman who excels at weapon synergy. This set grants passive bonuses to max health and XP gain. Its core mechanic is an active shot-counting system: landing 6 pistol shots grants a Machine Gun Bonus (+5% to +30% damage, +20% to +70% reload speed). Landing 30 machine gun shots grants a Pistol Bonus (+60% to +160% fire rate). Both bonuses last for 6 seconds.
• Road Warrior Set (Commando + Biker) King of the asphalt. The Road Warrior set enhances your vehicle’s performance, providing +8% to +25% bonus torque and max speed. It also boosts your effectiveness with shotguns, increasing their magazine size by +1 to +3. This set gains access to the special Rage buff, which builds up the longer you are in combat, granting scaling durability and health regeneration.
• Redneck Set (Biker + Farmer) A backwoods engineer who turns scrap into firepower. This set provides powerful passive bonuses, increasing pipe weapon damage by +1 to +10 and reload speed by +20% to +120%. It also grants a +10% to +35% bonus to resources harvested with salvage tools. Drinking beer empowers you, granting the Seeing Double buff upon reloading to fire extra projectiles and allowing you to arm your next shot for a devastating attack that can dismember limbs.
• Framer Set (Farmer + Scavenger) The battlefield is your construction site. The Framer grants scaling passive bonuses of +5% to +30% attack speed with sledgehammers and +5 to +30 to maximum stamina. Every morning at 7:00 AM, you gain the Focus buff for 10 minutes, unlocking special recipes and boosting your crafting speed. Upgrading a block grants a stack of Fortification, providing 99% damage resistance for one incoming hit per stack.
• Harvester Set (Farmer + Assassin) A grim hunter of the wastes. This set is built for taking down the toughest prey, granting a scaling +10% to +60% damage bonus against radiated zombies. At Quality 3 and above, your attacks will also stop their health regeneration. Damaging gore blocks with a spear or knife grants you one of three powerful 90-second bonuses: increased damage resistance, increased move/attack speed, or armor penetration.
• Special Forces Set (Ranger + Commando) An elite soldier trained for the worst situations. This set provides scaling passive bonuses to assault rifles and machine guns, increasing magazine size by +2 to +12, reload speed by +10% to +35%, and rate of fire by up to +50%. Its signature ability is Last Stand, which triggers automatically below 30 HP, granting 10 seconds of infinite stamina, massively increased reload speed, stun immunity, and powerful health regeneration.
• Trailblazer Set (Ranger + Biker) You thrive in the most desolate environments. While in the burnt forest biome, your harvest amount from wood and ore is increased by +10% to +100%. Your attacks apply a scaling fire damage-over-time effect to your enemies.
• Forager Set (Ranger + Scavenger) A master of living off the land. Harvesting wild plants is guaranteed to yield special herbs, and killing animals has a 25% chance to drop a rare pelt. Animal kills also grant Hunter’s Focus for 15 seconds, adding +2 to +12 flat damage to your hunting weapons. Passively, your hunting weapons gain +5% to +30% projectile velocity and +5 to +40 meters range.
• Feral Hunter Set (Ranger + Assassin) An expert at tracking and killing the most dangerous prey. This set grants +5% to +30% extra loot from ammo piles and increases your damage against feral zombies by +5% to +35%. Your attacks will also apply a powerful slowing effect to any feral zombies you hit.
• Explosive Specialist Set (Commando + Scavenger) Tough, resilient, and resourceful. This set turns you into a hardened survivor, granting 15% to 75% resistance to explosive damage and 10% to 60% resistance to bleeding effects. You also become a more adept infiltrator, with 5% to 30% faster lockpicking speed. Your explosions have a chance to shock enemies, and dismembering an enemy with explosives grants gunpowder.
• Sniper Set (Commando + Assassin) A master marksman. The Sniper set provides passive bonuses to entity penetration, max range, and reduces stamina drain while aiming by up to 100%. Its signature ability is Shrapnel Shot: after a headshot kill, your next shot is “armed” to explode on impact, dealing area-of-effect damage that scales with your armor quality.
• Junkrider Set (Biker + Scavenger) A master of vehicular mayhem. While on a vehicle, you gain access to crafting of some workbench items. Taking damage triggers a fiery Overheat explosion, dealing scaling fire damage to nearby enemies on a 10-second cooldown.
• Saboteur Set (Biker + Assassin) A demolition expert who excels at breaching and destruction. You gain a massive +10% to +100% damage bonus against metal objects and are nearly immune to explosions with 25% to 99% resistance. Aiming with an explosive before throwing it “primes” the charge, causing it to have a much larger area of effect and deal more damage.
• Paranoid Conspiracist Set (Scavenger + Assassin) You see the truth. This set offers a strange mix of utility and defense. You gain a scaling flat damage resistance of 2 to 10, gain bonus XP from electrical traps, and killing weak zombies has a small chance to grant you a buff that rewards you with a random book.

Heavy Armor

• Physician Set (Nerd + Raider) A battlefield medic who enhances the effectiveness of medical supplies. This set improves the healing and duration of your medical items by a scaling amount. Its signature feature is a special “chemical gun” that, instead of dealing damage, fires darts that apply powerful, scaling healing-over-time effects to your allies.
• Bitminer Set (Nerd + Miner) A master of automation and robotics. The Bitminer set allows you to deploy additional Junk Turrets, up to 2 extra at high quality. It also provides strong passive bonuses to your turrets’ damage, attack speed, and harvesting capabilities. As an active ability, you can Overcharge your turrets by hitting them with a wrench, granting them a massive, temporary boost to their fire rate and range on a short cooldown.
• Scholar Set (Nerd + Nomad) Knowledge is power. The Scholar excels at looting indoors, gaining up to +120% to loot quantity from containers found inside buildings. Reading books provides a Knowledge Boost for 15 seconds, supercharging the fire rate of your robotic turrets by up to +120%. Passively, the set also grants a large +10 to +60 bonus to the magazine size of your turrets.
• Pick Specialist Set (Miner + Raider) You’ve turned common mining tools into deadly weapons. This set provides powerful passive bonuses to pickaxes, increasing their entity damage by +5 to +17.5 and attack speed by +30% to +60%. Its active ability is Gold Rush: killing enemies or destroying blocks with a mining tool grants stacking buffs that increase your attack and movement speed.
• Stoic Set (Nomad + Raider) An unshakable gunman who thrives under pressure. While wearing this set, your attacks with pistols have a chance to briefly knock down enemies and will leech a small amount of health on every hit. You also gain up to 75% damage resistance while aiming down sights with a pistol and a minor run speed bonus when wielding melee weapons.
• Wastelander Set (Miner + Nomad) Born in the ruins, you thrive where others perish. The Wastelander set makes you tougher and faster while in the wasteland biome (+5% to +30% run speed, +1 to +16 max health) and significantly boosts your loot returns from junk piles by +20% to +45%. Every 30 minutes, you will find a random food item. When attacking zombies or animals, you have a small chance for a mysterious force to instantly eliminate your target.