Hey there! Been playing for a while but haven't used the forum before, so work with me here. I play with a couple of friends and they keep asking me to make a melee-only mode. Fair warning, I have little to no experience with the programming aspect of this, but I'm here to ask if it's possible to:
- Black/whitelist only certain weapons (base game and modded) when randomized
- Change the player's starting weapon
- (Optionally) Toggle said mode with a variable

If this is possible, any help with this would be appreciated!

Hello! Sorry for the long delay in replying.

A while ago, I made a mod that could ban weapons from the game. However, it's not built to remove entire categories of weapons, and the randomizer system in general is built to be category-based. It is unfortunately not built to do the whole "every weapon token is a melee weapon" thing.
In case you want to mess with the weapon ban mod, you can find the latest version here and its documentation here.
Warning there: weapon remover mod is not the latest version of that module, as I rolled it into the miscfixes mod because server hosts would often host it together with miscfixes.

To do precisely what you want here, though. You would need to make a mod that taps into some of the more annoying systems to mess with in the game.
I could probably put something together, but you'll have to wait at least another day or so.

Hey, that would be killer! I'm guessing the randomizer is categorized to allow for stronger weapons to stay in harder to reach areas? I wouldn't even mind if that could just be turned off for what I want, since all melees would be chaos anyway (usually already are when my friends find out the map has Sakugarne).
Does the mod you linked have support with other mods? The boys have been enjoying Vile weps and after seeing the weapons it has I'd like to include their melees in rotation as well.