Hands-on Rust

Adding More Swords

Rusty swords are handy. Shiny swords look nice. But an impractically enormous sword that slices and dices your foes—well, that’s the stuff of legends.

Fortunately, you now have all of the tools you need to add more weapons to the game.

Open resources/template.ron and add some more sword types:

Loot/better_combat/resources/template.ron

Template(
    entity_type: Item,
    name : "Rusty Sword", glyph: 's', levels: [ 0, 1, 2 ],
    frequency: 1,
    base_damage: Some(1)
),
Template(
    entity_type: Item,
    name : "Shiny Sword", glyph: 'S', levels: [ 0, 1, 2 ],
    frequency: 1,
    base_damage: Some(2)
),
Template(
    entity_type: Item,
    name : "Huge Sword", glyph: '/', levels: [ 1, 2 ],
    frequency: 1,
 base_damage: ...