Weapons & Equip All Ancient items should shimmer into crafting ingredients

[Baconfry]

Shimmer transmutation is currently used to toggle between ancient and modern versions of Jungle armor, Shadow armor, and certain helmets. Unfortunately, this means that Shimmer cannot be used to get your crafting materials back. Which is especially awkward because Crimson armor, the counterpart to Shadow armor, doesn't suffer from this.

I came to the realization that if the transmutation changes so that the Ancient armor shimmers into crafting ingredients, the decrafting functionality is regained and nothing of value is lost. It essentially becomes a three-way transmutation since the crafting ingredients can be turned into armor at an anvil.

drawbacks:
-ancient cobalt >> jungle spores may look weird, i guess
-pre-EoW nightmare pickaxe can be obtained after hours of AFK farming, though it can be argued that pre-EoW ancient shadow armor is the real problem

 

[Russ Guss Doodles]

Yes please! This would also be nice for all the Ancient Bricks and Luminite Brick variations.

pre-EoW nightmare pickaxe can be obtained after hours of AFK farming, though it can be argued that pre-EoW ancient shadow armor is the real problem

Simple solution to this, just make it so you can’t de-craft items made with Shadow Scales until you defeat the EoW. The game already does this for items made with Bones and Lihzahrd Bricks to prevent exploits.