Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20140517213242

Because as everyone knows, making something out of gold makes it 10x more functional.

=The Golden Paintbrush=

Why it should be added
Ever since the dye update came out, I have only ever seen very few dyed things, the majority during the time the dye maker still had its "New Item Hype". I feel the reason for this is due to people being unable to paint things like buildings and boat hulls, and other things that would be undeniably awesome to have. Why dye bento armour when your so rich you have chromium, and more importantly, chromium to spare. I can make smelteries, a extremely late game (and valued) building, king statues, and a really awesome thing.

So why would I waste it on a dye maker? The only thing I can dye that people will see is sails, or bento armour, and since chromium is so well hidden and so late into the game, I will most likely have a set of mithril armour, or a woven vest (if your into that sort of thing). So why dye a bento armour? This leaves sails, which albeit cool, are nowhere near as awesome as the aforementioned items. The dye maker is practically useless, because it's just so limited. You can't dye awesome stuff, like buildings or metallic armor. I would personally love to charge into a village, paint a load of wooden buildings red, and scare them to death, until they realise it was all just paint and we all have a good hearty laugh and share a lovely meal I prepared earlier. Wouldn't we all like to have nice coloured armour that doesn't suck in combat? This is why I feel we should have a gold paintbrush.

Description and Recipe
The golden paintbrush is a paintbrush (suprise suprise) that can paint everything the regular paintbrush paints, but also allows you to paint any non-terrain object (so no blue bento, green seas, and pink storm). It holds twice as much paint as the regular paintbrush and has an identical mesh, but is golden instead of wooden. It is crafted as follows: Gold (r) + Gold (r) + Fabric Smithing 3, Crafting 5 You may be thinking "Well that's a bit cheap. This can paint almost anything, surely it should have smithing 9001, cost two bajillion bluesteel, ect". Well, considering that you have already spent valuable chromium to build the dye maker, spent lots of oil and clay (both uncommon reasources) to get the paint, and all for an upgrade for an item that serves no purpose but aesthetics, it really shouldn't cost you the world. If you have chromium, chances are gold shouldn't be too much of a pain to get.

Potential Uses
You may now be thinking: "Well what's the point? Why should I spend gold on an item that is almost useless?" Well I disagree with that. You can use this for multiple useful purposes.
 * As touched on earlier, you could craft one of these, charge into a developing village, pretend to burn down some buildings, and when they realise your holding a golden paintbrush and not a firemaking bow, you shout "You got trolled :D", and quickly place a table with some nice yummy foods to eliminate any hard feelings. It's like raiding, but you don't feel bad afterwards! :D
 * You cant deny it, that purple of the reinforced mithril armour looks horrible. Some people feel the same about the extremely dark blue of bluesteel. Unfortunetly, you cant avoid it, because otherwise you'll get one-hit by nubs with a steel sword. GOLDEN PAINTBRUSH TO THE RESCUE :D! Golden paintbrush solves all the issues by painting your nice, strong armour a more likeable colour. Like red. Yay for abidium!
 * When your at desert, don't you hate how wooden buildings contrast terribly onto the sandy floor? But you cant bypass it because you need mills and lumbermills to get anywhere. Well, that's all fixed when you pull out that amazing gold paintbrush, and smear the building a more agreeable sandstone colour. In fact, you can make stone lumbermills, and all those buildings you always wanted to make but couldn't because the editor team deemed it unworthy of their time to make a seperate building for each different colour scheme of build. Stone structure walls, sandstone granaries, brick medieval houses, it's all possible with the wonders of the golden painbrush.

One Last Note
I predict at least one person will bring up "Its unrealistic to be able to dye metal.", to which I reply, look at your car, it's been painted. This is a paintbrush, not a dying machine. Why the current brush doesn't paint everything I don't know, but I feel that there should be a way to paint all those things that just don't want to be painted. I seriously was looking forward to the dying machine and paintbrush. I was very disappointed when I found it was so limited. Golden Paintbrush? Yes No  