I REALLY suggest to add pipe-rifle to craftable Tier 0 weapon list. It should be even easier to make than 10mm pistol.I also suggest to move scoped hunting rifle and sawed-off shotgun to tier 0 group. Come on it's not so hard to mount a scope or saw off something.Finally i suggest to move some items from T0 to T1, like 10mm pistol, mauser, or laser pistol etc.
Why? Who's gonna craft it? Or use it.
Lvl 1 characters and kamikaze miners.
As for banzai miners. whats wrong with that? its fun to run in to camped areas with live TNT on you and see if they loot it by mistake. or leave the timer short so it blows up while they loot.
Alternative for BB gun ^^
It's much more powerful than bb.Damage: 1-3 vs. 6-13
Lvl 1 chars can get much better weapons from vs encounters, or even shops by farming stuff. Besides it doesn't matter if you can craft pipe rifle because then you need to craft 10mm ammo which isn't as easy. If you can find 10mm then you can farm weapons too.And what comes to kamikaze mining, that shouldn't be (imo) encouraged in any way.