This mod expands the variety of weapons available from the various weapon manufacturers in Kenshi.

This mod also changes the manufacturer’s bonuses on weapons and adds them to the weapon’s description with a color coded tooltip.

The number of weapons available have been greatly increased by adding level new weapon levels.

Also, all weapons are graded numerically. This will allow easier sorting of weapons and comparison.

Here is a image of the new weapon manufacturer’s bonuses and Weapon Levels:



Installation:

Put the "Improved Smithing" folder into Kenshi "mods" folder.
Open the launcher and click on the "MOD" tab and check the box to enable the mod.

Other Changes:

- This mod allows you to research Edgewalker quality weapons up to Edgewalker 3 and then you can have a critical success that results in Cross (Meitou) weapons.

Compatibility:

Imports:
This mod doesn’t technically require an import. Everyone that spawns after adding the mod will have new weapons. Existing npcs do need an import to have the new weapons. So, it won’t ruin your game to run without import. For best results, you should import.

Weapon Mods:
This works with weapons added by mods. This alters the manufacturers which are required to spawn a weapon. As long as the mod maker uses the default manufacturers, this mod will work. If the mod uses custom manufacturers or custom weapon grades, it won’t work.

This mod works with the New Weapons Dissemination Mod.

Use this mod with it to remove the Luxury Manufacturer, NWDM Without Luxury. The Luxury Manufacturer is not affected by this mod. Luxury Weapon research may be incompatible with the smithing research changes here.

This mod is the product of at least 50 hours of testing.
I've been using this mod personally for a few months now.