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Details of how the patcher converts items in your load order.
When weapons/ammo are being processed, the patcher looks up their keywords and searchers for a keyword match from weapons.json to decide what tier/type of weapon it should be converted to.
Materials and tiers are based off waccf progression. Pretty much every ranged weapon, ammunition, and projectile(if arrow/bolt) in your load order will get patched according to the criteria defined in this file.
The keywords are processed as follows: (See Weapons.json)
Shortbows and Light Crossbows:
Tier 1:
WeapMaterialWood
Tier 2:
WeapMaterialDraugr
WAF_WeapMaterialForsworn
WeapMaterialSilver
WeapMaterialFalmer
WAF_MaterialChitin
Tier 3:
WeapMaterialElv...