Mild steel wire and legacy wire compatibility

[XygenSS]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Ever since #72285 made fences drop lc_wire instead of wire, obtaining bulk amounts of wire for crafting anything but chainmail armor has become exceedingly difficult, even though (from what I've read) most commercial steel wire is supposed to be mild steel wire anyways. There is a need to either unify or migrate more instances of wire into lc_wire for parity.

Solution you would like.

Note for myself after the discussion. Bulk replace all wire to lc_wire. Add migration of wire to lc_wire. (test this with a save before and after).

Describe alternatives you have considered.

• Making an "any_wire" requirement group containing wire and lc_wire, making recipes use it and calling it a day

• Bulk overwriting all instances of wire to lc_wire and dealing with the consequences later

Additional context

No response

[GuardianDll]

I'd recommend to discuss it with Drew, but what I'd personally did is: Add requirement group for all wire types Replaced all recipes that require wire with this requirement Replaced all instances of wire with mild steel wire (optionally did the same thing with all steel chunks)

And left fixing places that supposed to have different grade of steel on later PRs, on one-to-one basis

[Drew4484]

Just documenting after our discussion on Discord, I support Guardian's proposed solution for as many steel to lc_steel groups you want to create.

[Bone-blood-moss]

Why don't we rename the Legacy wire. Scrap steel wire or junk/mixed steel wire.🤔 steel with a lot of Impurities. Now That I think about it. We need a tear of steel that's right over but also below budget steel to To mark it as not bring just steel but has Different metals and Non metallics mixed in.

[XygenSS]

Why don't we rename the Legacy wire. Scrap steel wire or junk/mixed steel wire.🤔 steel with a lot of Impurities. Now That I think about it. We need a tear of steal that's right over but also below budget steel to To mark it as not bring just steel but has Different metals and Non metallics mixed in.

There's no reason to think that the wires are made of "junk" or "mixed steel," in almost all cases we're just cutting up wire fences and such. Almost all commercial steel wires are mild steel because it's cheap to manufacture. Pre-cataclysm sources are not junk, just salvaged. Big difference.

[Bone-blood-moss]

I'm fine with most mild steel replacing legacy steel. But with the replacement of legacy steel we need a steel for not pure steel. Budget steel is better for a wall hanging sword a display piece that won't survive at all cheap or not meant to combat. Then we have not pure steel that can survive combat but not for long. Steel with copper/aluminum or Other things mixed in.

[Drew4484]

I'd like to avoid adding any other types of steel unless there's a very specific use for it, especially when talking about alloy steels since those will almost certainly be unworkable by a survivor. This is why we don't have stainless steel even though many of the objects in game would be stainless. Consider if adding another type of steel offers a meaningfully distinct material. If the effective values are within a point of an already existing grade, I don't see any value in adding it.