Weyrling

The actual bonuses are definitely worth investing into the perks, but I've never felt any incentive to actually craft weapons or tools beyond the first week or so. It's an anecdotal example, but in the process of looting enough pistols to scrap into enough parts to craft a tier 5 pistol, I almost always find a tier 4-5 pistol, and it's not particularly uncommon for me to have found a tier 6 pistol. Honestly, I see weapon crafting nowadays as the Anti-RNG safety net, for when you somehow get lucky enough to grab a bunch of high level weapons but they're somehow all low tier at the same time.

Personally, I'd feel a lot better about the system if plants had a 50% chance of being replanted on harvest, instead of a 50% chance of dropping a seed. Insofar as yields go these outcomes are the same, but it would save time and effort replanting things. In general I'm fine with the overall concept of gardening being less than viable until you max out the perks. By which I mean that 10-20 plants is a garden, not a farm. Once you approach the scale of an actual farm the RNG averages out and it isn't even an issue.

I got the same warning, what this means that it isn't adding the recipes to the loot list. I'm not entirely sure what the problem is, but looking at other items/recipes I see that the names aren't in Localization.txt. So I'm guessing either the loot.xml doesn't like non-localized names or it doesn't like names with spaces in them. For example in items.xml is this: <item name="Berry Tea"> It could be localized and have the spaces removed by instead putting a name reference in items.xml like this: <item name="ATNameBerryTea"> Then putting the actual name in the Localization.txt file like so: ATNameBerryTea,items,Food,New,Berry Tea,,,,,