[quote=“EditorRUS, post:30, topic:10811”]
For me, it’s less a matter of practicality, and more a matter of having an alternative source of metal, so us woodland survival folks can be somewhat more self-sufficient without raiding towns.
Now that I think of it. You can scavenge metal by breaking random cars at the road. They are there quite often (in fact way too often) and despite it being pretty tiring process without certain CBMs
or shittons of explosives it works and you don’t need to raid towns.
As for the idea I can say one thing: it’s there already. However, it requires a lot of time, resources and luck to use it proficiently, but the idea being that you mine your way up to a lab and break into from underground.[/quote]
That still isn’t outright having ore on hand.
I’m talking full Minecraftian-woodland survival. As in nothing but trees, and animals.
Also, is there any way to mine stone without using a metal pickaxe or a jackhammer?
Maybe have some kind of stone chisel that breaks in one use, takes 2 stones to make, and takes like 10 hours to break down a single block of rock?
Maybe give ore a somewhat similar algorithm to trees where they’ll just randomly pop up. Hell, plastic can be produced via cellulose (e.g. using a byproduct of certain plants), or of crude oil that we may be able to find underground, should we dig deep enough.
Also now that I think about it, there should be a way to naturally get plastic without milk and bleach, both of which require raiding towns. Or maybe some alternative to plastic in some of the tool recipes.
