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Steel tool parts can be obtained by scrapping steel tools. I believe it's 3 per tool, so you need to find 5 steel tools before you can craft one. Not sure if you can loot steel tool parts directly as I haven't found any personally. Perhaps from a trader?

There are some consumables/wearables that boost attributes (such as Nerdy Glasses and Coffee for Intelligence). These boosts are capable of counteracting the losses from Near Death Trauma albeit only slightly. Bit of a band-aid, but might be what you are looking for. With that said, I agree...

I actually really like the revamped skills and feel like they are much more refined than in a16. However, the level caps are rather annoying right now. I feel like they don't need to be removed entirely, but definitely lightened up. I understand why they are there as it would be rather strong...

I see so the boosts are still capped by the player level requirements of the attributes. Thanks so much that makes a lot of sense!

I just assumed it was removed since tools now have 6 quality levels instead of 600. Also repairing tools no longer drops the quality so I feel like there is little need for combining.

I've been playing and my Intelligence is only level 6, yet I see no visible boost from them at all. However, shades boost my Perception to level 3 from level 1. I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior or a bug, but only level 1 skills seem to be visibly boosted for me.

I've noticed with a17 there are several consumables/wearables that boost the player's attributes. For example, shades boost Perception by 2 and nerdy glasses Intelligence. However, I'm finding myself unsure of how they work and how they are intended to work. As an example, my character has 1...