Item Quality Degradation

7 days to die item quality degradation

Overview

This mod adds item degradation to guns, melee weapons, tools and armor. Each time an item is repaired it has a 50% chance to degrade by one level. Mod slots will also downgrade accordingly, any mods that no longer have space will be added to the players backpack or dropped on the ground if the inventory is full.

Installation Notes

Note: This mod needs to be installed on both client and server for multiplayer. EAC MUST BE OFF!

Modding Info

Modder’s can also use this mod to add item degradation to their own mods, as follows.

How many quality levels the item degreades by on repair.

<property name="RepairDegradeAmount" value="1"/>

The probability that the item will lose a quality level/levels on repair.

<property name="RepairDegradeChance" value="0.5"/>

Will the item break after its repaired at quality 1.

<property name="RepairQualityOneBreaksAfter" value="false"/>

Set the minimum degrade amount for items with this cvar.

<triggered_effect trigger="onPerkLevelChanged" action="ModifyCVar" cvar="minDegradeAmount" operation="set" value="4">

onSelfItemRepaired has been hooked up and can be used to trigger game events and triggered effects.

<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfItemRepaired" action="AddBuff" buff="someBuffName"/>

Changelog

V1.1.8

  • Update for V1.1 (b4)
  • Fixed RepairDegradeAmount property causing an overflow if set higher than 1.

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The forum topic of the mod is here.

Credits: Zilox

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MetroLastNightHD
MetroLastNightHD
November 30, 2024 4:55 am

Is this compatible with other weapons/tools mods, that can be broken?

sorry for my bad english

Zilox
Zilox
December 3, 2024 2:34 pm

It might be, if you make the mod load last.

Cassus
Cassus
October 27, 2024 10:23 am

If you don’t like Ziloxes item degradation (like me) open items.xml
at the bottom change RepairDegradeChance” value=”0.2″ to RepairDegradeChance” value=”0″

Winsky
Winsky
August 13, 2024 3:40 pm

Here is the translation:

“I’m not sure if the following idea can be implemented, but it’s inspired by the repair function from the old online game ‘crossgate’. In that game, repairing equipment would reduce its current durability by half, causing the equipment to deteriorate faster and fail sooner, which would prompt players to replace it. Based on the weapon durability consumption rate in ‘7 Days to Die’, I think it might be feasible to reduce the durability by two-thirds. Otherwise, directly penalizing the weapon to the next tier could be quite severe.”

Winsky
Winsky
August 14, 2024 3:43 am
Reply to  Winsky

Sorry, because I am a Chinese user, the “translation” text above was accidentally copied, please ignore it.

Cargvis
Cargvis
July 12, 2024 10:41 pm

Looks like as of the newest V1.0 B316 EXP patch, this no longer lets you repair items. 🙁

This is my most fav mod, as it makes it so you cannot rely on an item forever and must always be ready to craft new versions eventually.

Zilox
Zilox
July 14, 2024 12:17 pm
Reply to  Cargvis

An update has been released to fix it.

Cargvis
Cargvis
July 15, 2024 9:44 pm
Reply to  Zilox

Thank you thank you! Your mod has spoiled the game for me. I tried playing without it while it was being updated and while I could pretend the quality dropped, it wasn’t the same. With this mod it makes all of the resources feel super important as every weapon and armor and tool will eventually fall apart so it makes keeping resources stacked important.

Like some of my favorite games, BOTW/TOTK and death stranding and dying light. I love games with tools and weapons that can and will break over time, adding a whole other thing to think about while playing.

Thank you again!

Morkk
Morkk
June 14, 2024 7:30 am

Hi, I would like to set a Degrade Chance to go down (example: from 50% to 25% to 0%) the higher level a player is in Advanced Engineering. Is there a way to do this? Thank you for the answer and a great mod!

Zilox
Zilox
June 19, 2024 6:15 pm
Reply to  Morkk

It’s not possible with this mod.

Morkk
Morkk
June 26, 2024 4:56 am
Reply to  Zilox

Oh, that’s a shame 🙁 Anyway, thank you for the answer!

More2Me4Life--Liz
More2Me4Life--Liz
March 18, 2024 12:37 am

Quick question: I am creating an overhaul mod and I would like to use this mod to add a bit of difficulty and gamble. I was wondering if I could have your permission to use this mod with full credit to you.

Thank you for your time,
Liz
More2Me4Life

Zilox
Zilox
March 30, 2024 5:56 pm

Sure, go for it.

Boudriov
Boudriov
December 2, 2023 7:08 pm

Any way to do this but with the probability for breaking at lvl 1 ? “RepairDegradeChance value=0.5”
I don’t want to break all at level 1 everytime but have a chance to repair/break it on that level.
Thanks.

Lordneg
Lordneg
July 17, 2023 4:24 pm

Is there a way to make it drop to lvl one and a way to change the percentage chance up to 100%. Thanks

Zilox
Zilox
July 19, 2023 10:50 am
Reply to  Lordneg

Yes, check the XML files.

Count Robo
Count Robo
June 25, 2023 12:00 am

does this work with the latest experimantal?

Zilox
Zilox
June 30, 2023 1:07 am
Reply to  Count Robo

It works now with A21 stable.

Chase Gwaltney
Chase Gwaltney
June 30, 2023 4:57 am
Reply to  Zilox

Thanks Zilox! I really like this idea

Michael
Michael
June 21, 2023 10:49 am

Love this mod so much. Its one of my “must-have-mods”. Can we get an update for A21?

Zilox
Zilox
June 30, 2023 1:07 am
Reply to  Michael

It has been updated now to A21 stable.

MadMan
MadMan
April 4, 2023 1:36 am

thank you for this mod. I recently made the switch from console to pc and I had already grown used to the older console version where you had to invest in a skill for repairing to prevent you from lowering the quality of the item after every repair. I found it odd to see that they had removed that feature in alpha 20 since it just made the game feel much easier overall.

Zilox
Zilox
April 11, 2023 7:27 pm
Reply to  MadMan

Yes, the game has become a lot easier as of recent alphas. I’m glad you like the mod.