Tailor Archive

Customer brought me four non-identical passive biosensors, two with +6/+6, one +7/+7, one +7/+6. We decided on a smock and a swoop helm.

Color? You guessed it, black.

I hand-made synth cloth using the four tissues. I put the first three in the smock and got +19/+19 as expected. Then I crit failed on the swoop helm using the +7/+6 enhanced synth cloth. I told him what happened and he still wanted a black swoop helm, even without the bonus.

I still had the swoop helm schematic open, so I double-clicked on a factory crate of plain synth cloth (made before last Thursday's big patch) and the same polymer and steel, hit enter, and... it came out with +7 injury/+6 wound treatment.

The original enhanced cloth had been destroyed in the crit fail and the item count on my plain synth cloth crate had indeed decremented as though I had used a plain cloth to make the item.

I wonder, if I had made a schematic, could I have made a bunch of enhanced swoop helms using only plain cloth?

Not sure about that, if you could it would be an exploit. I've had the fluke happen a couple times too, although i'm not sure how it happened. I was a little flabbergasted to say the least. Probably we should all report it next time it happens. Making a schem on that would be unfair to all involved.

Yes, I bring up the schematic because it sounds an awful lot like things I've read about weaponsmiths finding ways to mass produce Krayt weapons with any old Krayt tissue instead of identical, high quality ones, and such. Seems like there's a problem/loophole with the item creation system and yes, it affects tailors too.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who has experienced this bug. I did just recently try a new herbal tea...