Mods with up-gradable weapons that i can study

[Lexeous]

    I want to make a weapon for my character that can be upgraded. When it upgrades i want it to gain a function (usable as pickax, ax, hammer, etc) and change appearance. 

 

   are there any mods/ tutorials i can study to help with this?

I use 

http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/29427-tutorial-creating-a-handslot-equippable-item-from-scratch/

 

to create my item if this info will help.

[NecroAnbu]

I had an idea that might help. If you are good at scripting you could use the crockpot method to creat an personal object for such a function. a.k.a. blacksmith's table. Would have to learn how to create custom recipes that work with it, but it should be possible.

[Arkathorn]

In what manner do you want to upgrade the tool? Through crafting, an action, or something else?

 

Regardless, if you want to retain durability and other attributes when upgrading (which, by the way, can't be done with the normal crafting system), you will have a function you call on upgrading. In this function, you will probably want to call:

inst:AddComponent("component_to_add")

Take a look at the files for normal tools for reference.

Normal tools all have this code:

inst:AddComponent("tool")inst.components.tool:SetAction(ACTIONS.MINE)

With other actions for other types of tools (Other than pickaxes).

Actions can be found in "actions.lua".