WX skill tree idea (wormwood edition)

[fabin]

i know i already made a skill tree for wx, but after giving it some thought i didn't really like the outcome, so i made another one! :)

i took the wormwood route of having no locks, but instead having pretty straight forward paths with mutations on the side

Starting skill

Spoiler

1 - Quick Scanalyzer

Jimmy scans creatures 50% faster.

Upper Character Tree

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1 - Logic Gate

Choose which circuit to remove by hovering over a slotted circuit with a Circuit Remover in hand.

Choose where to slot a circuit by hovering over your circuit board with a Circuit in hand. (Normal way of plugging in circuit remains unchanged)

2A - Skilled Task Repeater I

Work and gather speed increased by 12,5%.

2B - Mainetance Drone

Perform removal of circuits faster, and lose half as much energy when doing so. (Rounded down, will always drain 1 energy minimum)

3 - Skilled Task Repeater II

Work and gather speed increased by 25%.

4 - Shock Absorbers

Charge 50% faster while doing work, or 12,5% faster while walking.

Bottom Circuit Tree

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1 - Speedy Innovations

Acceleration Circuit will allow you to slowly accelerate over time while continuously moving. (Max acceleration speed is 35%)

Super-Acceleration Circuits will allow you to run on water while continuously moving for a short time. Distance increases with more circuits. (1.5 Tiles/2 Tiles/2.25 Tiles)

Learn to craft a new circuit.

Springstep Circuit

-    Reduces speed penalties by 40%/50%/60% and increases walking speed by 10%/20%/30%. (Works for carrying statues and for walking in storms or cracks)

-    Occupies 2 Slots.

-    Made with 8 Bio-Data, 1 Gear and a Super-Acceleration Circuit.

2A - Shining Discoveries

Illumination Circuit has a much bigger light radius. (60% Larger)

Opto-Electronic Circuit decreases detection range for monsters and creatures while in the dark.

2B - Thermal Advancements

Thermal Circuit allows you to cook food on WX-78's hull, and gives off a little more heat. (Cooking works while not powered)

Refrigerant Circuit will produce 5-6 ice if WX-78 is wet enough, and will slow creatures that stand near them. (Slowing does not work while not powered)

Learn to craft a new circuit.

Hydrophobia Circuit

-    Increases WX-78's Water Threshold by 12/8/6/3/2/1 and gives 10%/20%/30%/40%/50%/60% Wetness Protection. (Water Threshold values are additive, so the maximum would be 51)

-    Occupies 1 Slot.

-    Made with 3 Bio-Data, 1 Mosquito Sack and a Hardy Circuit.

2C - Handy Developments

Beanbooster Circuit will have better regeneration capabilities, and allows you to gather honey from wild hives.

-    Regenerate more health and sanity. (10 Sanity and 7.5 Health)

-    While slotted learn to harvest from wild Beehives, at a much less beneficial outcome. (1-2 Honey a harvest, but instantly anger ALL bees around you)

Chorusbox Circuit makes plants happier and can lure Pigs and Bunnymen to work for you. (3 Followers Max. Half the sanity drain of a One-Man Band)

-    Tends to plants faster and from a bigger range.

-    Scares small monsters and pacifies small creatures.

Learn to craft a new circuit.

HandyBot Circuit

-    Increase any kind of action's speed by 25%/50%/75% while above 50% Hunger. (Work, Gather, Farming, Crafting, Rowing and Boat Work)

-    Occupies 2 Slots.

-    Made with 6 Bio-Data, 1 Pig-Skin and a Gastrogain Circuit.

2D - Combat Breakthrough

Electrification Circuit can store lightning strikes for temporary benefits.

-    Gives WX-78 electric planar damage and doubles thorns damage.

-    Lasts 8 minutes. Each additional circuit that's plugged in will extend the duration by 4 minutes. De-powering any circuit instantly removes the bonus.

Learn to craft new circuits.

Fighting Drive Circuit

-    Increase attack speed by 25%/40%/50%.

-    Occupies 2 Slots.

-    Made with 6 Bio-Data, 1 Living Log and an Processor Circuit.

Impenetrable Circuit

-     Increase max health by 250, Regenerate 2 health every 10 seconds, and become immune to stuns.

-    Occupies 4 Slots.

-    Made with 12 Bio-Data, 3 Living Logs, a Super-Hardy Circuit and a Hardy Circuit.

(Any of these perks will change the crafted circuit itself, so other WX-78s can benefit from them. It'll also have the word "Improved" before it's name; I.E: Improved Beanbooster Circuit.)

Upper Circuit Tree

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1 - Analyst I

Jimmy gives 50% more Bio-Data per Scan.

2 - Analyst II

Jimmy gives 100% more Bio-Data per Scan.

3A - Improved Optics

Jimmy's scanning range is increased by 50%, further increase scanning speed by 25%.

3B - The Organized Automaton

Learn how to craft a portable storage container for your Circuits and Tools. (12 Slots, accepts only Circuits, Jimmy, Circuit Removers and Bio-Data)

Slowly restore circuits durability when carrying it inside the container. (1 Durability restored every 5 days)

4 - Bio Synthesis

WX-78 will be able to store Bio-Data in Jimmy. While Jimmy has Bio-Data and scans a creature, it will instead synthetize 2-4 materials dropped from the scan target, consuming Bio-Data in the process.

-    This includes gears!

-    Bio-Data consumed depends on the rarity of materials. (I.E: Spider Glands/Silk/Monster Meat consume 2, while Gears/Frazzled Wires consume 16. Gems cannot be synthetized)

-    Synthetizing does not have a cooldown.

Bottom Character Tree

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1 - Fear Does Not Compute I

Insanity auras have their effects reduced by 10%.

2 - Fear Does Not Compute II

Insanity auras have their effects reduced by 20%.

3A - Superior Metal Stomach

Bad foods won't take away health when eaten, and sanity penalties will be halved.

3B - Waste Recycling

Eating food while at max hunger will produce Fuel Pellets. The amount dropped depends on the hunger value of the food eaten.

-    Fuel Pellets can be eaten for -1 health, -1 sanity and 4.125 hunger. Counts as 1 filler if put in a crock pot.

-    Minimum amount of Fuel Pellets is 0. The amount of Fuel Pellets produced per overeating is 5% of the food value plus 5% of the health value, rounded down. (I.E: A Meaty Stew would give 8 Fuel Pellets, A Tall Scotch Egg would give 10 Fuel pellets)

Learn how to make a special energy restoring meal from Fuel Pellets.

-    WX-78 can cook a special meal: Volt Fuel-Loaf. Only WX-78s can eat it. Can be eaten for 10 health, 10 sanity and 41 hunger. If eaten, fully restore WX-78's energy and for 6 minutes they will not be able to lose energy, even if wet.

-    Made with 3 Fuel Pellets, 1 Volt Goat Horn.

4 - Water Proofed

Gain a permanent 25% Wetness Protection, increase the Wetness Threshold to 18.

Shadow Affinity Branch

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1 - Nightmare Drone

Gain 1 extra slot in your circuit board.

2 - Horror Fueled

Eat Pure Horror to gain a small boost while donning Void Equipment.

-    Get a temporary 25% speed boost and +25 planar damage bonus when hitting something with the Void Scythe. (0.7 seconds)

-    Eating horror fuel will take away 10 health, 10 sanity and 20 hunger. Boost lasts for 1 minute.

Lunar Affinity Branch

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1 - Lunar Automaton

Gain 2 extra slots in your circuit board. Only 2 slot or 1 slot circuits can be plugged in. Only powered when above 66% sanity.

2A - Lunar Combatant

Attacking with a Brightshade Sword consecutively will increase attack speed up to a 50% bonus. Being hit or not attacking for too long will reset the streak.

2B - Lunar Defender

Being hit while bearing Brightshade Equipment will temporarily give you a magic shield, completely negating damage. Lasts 1 second with a cooldown of 5 seconds.

let me know what you guys think

[Saladmanders]

This should definitely get more recognition as it's too good to be not have any replied so far.

On 9/4/2023 at 8:00 PM, fabin said:

3B - The Organized Automaton

Learn how to craft a portable storage container for your Circuits and Tools. (12 Slots, accepts only Circuits, Jimmy, Circuit Removers and Bio-Data)

Slowly restore circuits durability when carrying it inside the container. (1 Durability restored every 5 days)

Would it look like a Chester thing? Chester thing is cool. If you were to name it please call it C.L.A.S.P. or something. Which stands for-

• Chester
• Looking
• Automaton
• Storage
• Partner

On 9/4/2023 at 8:00 PM, fabin said:

1 - Fear Does Not Compute I

Insanity auras have their effects reduced by 10%.

2 - Fear Does Not Compute II

Insanity auras have their effects reduced by 20%.

I don't want to complain about all this because, there's nothing wrong with it, it's pretty much perfect, the Skilltree is organized superbly & the only thing I can do is to be nitpicky. If fear cannot compute should the effects of Insanity auras reduce fear even more?

On 9/4/2023 at 8:00 PM, fabin said:

3B - Waste Recycling

Eating food while at max hunger will produce Fuel Pellets. The amount dropped depends on the hunger value of the food eaten.

-    Fuel Pellets can be eaten for -1 health, -1 sanity and 4.125 hunger. Counts as 1 filler if put in a crock pot.

-    Minimum amount of Fuel Pellets is 0. The amount of Fuel Pellets produced per overeating is 5% of the food value plus 5% of the health value, rounded down. (I.E: A Meaty Stew would give 8 Fuel Pellets, A Tall Scotch Egg would give 10 Fuel pellets)

Learn how to make a special energy restoring meal from Fuel Pellets.

-    WX-78 can cook a special meal: Volt Fuel-Loaf. Only WX-78s can eat it. Can be eaten for 10 health, 10 sanity and 41 hunger. If eaten, fully restore WX-78's energy and for 6 minutes they will not be able to lose energy, even if wet.

-    Made with 3 Fuel Pellets, 1 Volt Goat Horn.

Cool Idea! Filler is no longer a problem for Robot man.

I don't have much to say except how much I admire the formatting, dedication & creativity of this Skilltree. Please make more of these. Thank you.

Also, I need to get me that GIF of Maxwell dying.

[fabin]

2 hours ago, Saladmanders said:

Would it look like a Chester thing? Chester thing is cool. If you were to name it please call it C.L.A.S.P. or something. Which stands for-

my original idea is that it'd just be like the specktackler box and you'd just carry it on you, but your chester-like follower idea is way cooler. although it's name would probably be along the lines of CH-35-R, because of the naming convention thingy (WX-78, voxola PR-76, ML-77, J1-M1)

[Saladmanders]

Also, how did you create your own Skilltree pictures? I would like to use them in my own Skilltrees

[Jakepeng99]

On 9/4/2023 at 8:00 PM, fabin said:

- Logic Gate

Choose which circuit to remove by hovering over a slotted circuit with a Circuit Remover in hand.

Choose where to slot a circuit by hovering over your circuit board with a Circuit in hand. (Normal way of plugging in circuit remains unchanged)

Qol changes like this probably should not be on a skill tree and be in base kit,

On 9/4/2023 at 8:00 PM, fabin said:

can store lightning strikes for temporary benefits.

-    Gives WX-78 electric planar damage and doubles thorns damage.

-    Lasts 8 minutes. Each additional circuit that's plugged in will extend the duration by 4 minutes. De-powering any circuit instantly removes the bonus.

That is neat, if it works with electric milk too that is cool. Maybe wx attck speed could increase too.

[fabin]

1 hour ago, Saladmanders said:

Also, how did you create your own Skilltree pictures? I would like to use them in my own Skilltrees

i used gimp. most of them are around in the 100x150 resolution field so they are fairly easy to make, since it's so small i can just make it pixel-y. i got the colors from a skilltree image with the eyedropper and measured out the pixel ratios so they'd look good. i dunno if i can send it, but i can try to make a template with gimp project files

1 hour ago, Jakepeng99 said:

Qol changes like this probably should not be on a skill tree and be in base kit,

yea, but the devs probably aren't going to touch on the characters again since skilltrees are coming out in the future, so eh, might as well make it a skill

[ShakerGER]

I say give him NO lunar affinity just like my lil clorophil haver has no shadow affinity. He is pretty damn cursed already. Skill trees should ahve identity and not just "do everything 15 to 35% better"

[flamboyant wolf]

7 hours ago, ShakerGER said:

I say give him NO lunar affinity

 

[Airellex]

Tbh, I'm just hoping that they bring back overcharge in some capacity that can only be reached by a lightning strike or being hit by something with electricity.

Maybe to give WX electric attacks like that one Warly dish. 

[fabin]

6 hours ago, Airellex said:

Tbh, I'm just hoping that they bring back overcharge in some capacity that can only be reached by a lightning strike or being hit by something with electricity.

yea me too, but i figured it'd be way too complicated to bring it back 'cause it'd complicate an already complicated system of circuits and all. i'm hoping they will, 'cause being struck by lightning and becoming GOD is super freaking cool and i kinda miss that

 

15 hours ago, ShakerGER said:

I say give him NO lunar affinity just like my lil clorophil haver has no shadow affinity. He is pretty damn cursed already. Skill trees should ahve identity and not just "do everything 15 to 35% better"

dude wx freakin' LOVES the moon, it'd be doing them injustice if they didn't have lunar affinity. and yeah i do agree about the "do everything better" part, but wx was always about you doing things to get powerful, to then get to do other stuff faster (in my little eyes anyway), so i think it's justified i guess

[E.W.W_Raymond]

Great thread, gonna go out on a limb and guess you're a WX-78 main because it seems you really thought this out. Love it. 

13 hours ago, ShakerGER said:

I say give him NO lunar affinity just like my lil clorophil haver has no shadow affinity. He is pretty damn cursed already. Skill trees should ahve identity and not just "do everything 15 to 35% better"

You see I agree because I imagine they would straight up refused to work with Wagstaff out of spite.  And with what it seems so far the lunar affinity path specifically mentions the "Cryptic Founder".