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Re: Bark stuff, birch-bark stuff
Holy moly, that's actually quite big .. but now I bring the 1.000.000 dollar question - how do you stand about making cords from the birch-bark? Will that be an official thing in the game? It does seem rather unrealistic not being able to hang up meat unless it's from cloth or fur, but at the same time I guess it brings some discussion about how much easier it will be to survive a winter. It actually crossed my mind to add vanilla birch-bark ropes along with these additions, so very probably we'll be seeing that. Actually there are so many plants that you could fashion makeshift cords quite easily - their properties and durability varies a lot though, but that's more challenging to model in the game in enjoyable fashion. Also, cords not getting destroyed in the cooking processes is also on my personal to-do list, but we'll see how the priorities and difficulties will meet... May 29, 2019, 06:18:18 PM |
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Iron age shield made from bark discovered in England
There has been a very significant find of martial a shield made from bark, rather than metal or timber as previously known examples from the period. The find is dated to the early iron age (~350-250BC) in England, used by Celtic warriors. This is especially rare and significant because a material like bark doesn't normally survive the centuries. I have no idea whether something like this would have been used in Finland, but of interest to people here nonetheless I'm sure. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/celtic-shield-leicestershire-archaeologist-ancient-warfare-a8927871.html?fbclid=IwAR0zkdCru1nancic6sPzg9It1IGhlK6Z--up-zTVrgQzFb-0PMvdF9j6aYU Quote The discovery reveals that the ancient Britons used the same lightweight shield-making material used at least in more recent centuries by Aboriginal Australian warriors. May 30, 2019, 07:14:46 PM |
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Breakthrough in the discovery of DNA in ancient skulls buried in water
The unique archaeological Iron age site of Levänluhta in Western Finland is the most intriguing burial site in Finland: Skulls of 98 individuals, mostly from women and children, have been buried in water. A team of researchers from the University of Helsinki have used new DNA technology, including the analysis of strontium-isotype composition in tooth enamel to find significant information on the skulls. The DNA matches present day Sámi people. The presence of the Sámi people so south in Finland has been verified for the first time. Anna Wessman, Director of the Levänluhta project, Antti Sajantila, Professor of Forensic Medicine and Laura Arppe PhD Researcher of Stable Isotope Research, share their insights on the finding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_AcAyYmLuA June 11, 2019, 06:34:24 PM |
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Craftable birch-bark items and associated ponderings
Craftable birch-bark items are a thing now. You can make boxes, and baskets, and shoes and caps - and also birch-bark ropes. Character's CARPENTRY skill determines the success of birch-bark crafting. And while I was at it, leather/fur cloth crafting times and material requirements were also touched a bit. All the material requirements have been increased to slightly exceed the finished cloth weights, and crafting times of smaller clothes have been reasoned by increasing or decreasing the required time. And while I was studying the nature and construction of birch-bark shoes, I found a remark that if birch-bark shoes were used in a field work they lasted in usable condition for maybe two weeks. So in real life birch-bark shoes should wear out pretty quickly if used extensively. And as our characters usually tend to walk ridiculously excessive distances on almost daily basis it got me thinking of adding wearing out mechanism for shoes and boots so that you would need to replace them every once in a while. So...something like that is also very likely to be added now. June 14, 2019, 12:09:23 PM |
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Re: Smoking time
That 3-4 days is "hot curing" smoking which is far more recent method than what was in use at the time of the game. I dearly wouldn't count on preservation of few months with that, unless it dried up to "beef jerky" fashion. What we refer to, is explained by Ilmar Talve in "Finnish Folk Culture" simply as: "The meat was smoked in the sauna, to begin with at a low temperature for 1-2 weeks ('cold-curing'), after which it was kept at a high temperature for 2-3 days to make sure it war properly done." June 14, 2019, 12:27:40 PM |
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Re: Craftable birch-bark items and associated ponderings
Good points here and there, and we try keep things covered. See... as we can see with combat related wearing out it's so that clothes and armour do not come down in their quality upon wear. So masterwork boots will appear as masterwork boots, even if they are seriously worn out masterwork boots. The same principle applies to footwear wearing out in use. With weapons and tools it's already so that higher quality items are more durable. Now quality based durability will be extended to cover armours and clothes as well. As a result your fine boots will last longer than the rough ones. And while I'm at it, the quality of armours and clothes will be extended to cover their protective values as well. Finer furs are warmer furs, and so on. When it comes to repairing clothes, it really should be made so that you shouldn't be able to repair things infinitely. This could be easily achieved by lowering the quality on each repair, finally forbidding rough clothing to be repaired at all. Just pondering for now, though, as there are these other things in line first. June 19, 2019, 12:17:16 PM |
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Re: Craftable birch-bark items and associated ponderings
What makes URW so great for me ist that its ideas and concepts are usually great. Ideas that are bad are usually not added to the gameplay and so I must say that I think some ideas for the clothing are just bad. In my opinion, if an idea is illogical or bad implemented it shouldn't be part of the core gameplay. It's true that there are two kinds of quality affecting clothes: the quality modifier and the durability. This means these are completely different things, the durabilty might influence the protection value but not the quality modifier which seems to represent if the clothes are fancy or not. If this is a problem that there are two kinds of quality, my suggestion is just to remove the quality modifier for clothes! Another reason why I don't think the quality modifier should influence the protection value is as follows: 1 lbs of rough leather is just as protective as 1 lbs of fine leather. Why? Bad hides might have holes in it and this is represented by obtaining less hide when skinning. Holes weigh nothing! You only use the useful parts when making clothes so it doesn't matter if the fur/leather is fine (beautiful) or rough. This way it might take more time to make clothing though. If it is important to keep the quality modifier for clothes then there should be a skill associated with it. But that the quality fur/leather is the only thing that determines the quality of the clothes is just wrong and part of the problem. As it might be that shoes wear out more quickly than others clothes, there should some kind benefit of wearing shoes and of spending ressources on shoes. Otherwise most people will cease wearing shoes when it is not necessary. The benefits could be a higher walking speed, more endurance or even the ability to run (just a few ideas). June 24, 2019, 08:16:38 PM |
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Summer Sale, Summer opportunities
I'm a bit late to announce this but it is live now: Steam Summer Sale, and you can get UnReal World for discounted price until 9th of July. I want to bring this to your attention because it is likely that when next version is released the interval between Steam version and standalone (donation-based, free-of-charge) installers will be significantly longer. This is because the donation-based distribution has been receiving very marginal and insufficient support for years already, and I have to reason things out how to balance with the current distribution models. I'll be happy to answer possibly puzzled questions of relatively recent of near-future intending donors but that will have to await until next week - but don't hesitate to even e-mail if you feel like it. Why this announcement is late then, is because while the sale was launching I was busy attending to 'science-art-forest' themed seminar and workshops at Koli in eastern Finland - a location famous of its hills and cliffs which are well-known national sceneries of Finland. In addition to presentation about working with the game I also performed an archery demonstration in the most awesome location I have ever shot a bow. Summer is full of opportunities. Let's not hesitate. Cheers!  Archery demonstration, shooting with Japanese bow.  Giving a presentation about UnReal World and the related stuff..  The highest summit of Koli; "Ukko-Koli" June 29, 2019, 07:39:39 PM |
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Finnish bear fight
https://youtu.be/qmMBN8bpyzE sorry if this does not hyperlink I'm not very good with computers. Saw this video and it made me wonder. I have witnessed predator prey interactions, but what about territory disputes or fighting over mates? I would enjoy seeing two bull elk duking it out during mating season
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Re: Summer Sale, Summer opportunities
Hi Sami, Same as always; lifetimers for get everything ie. every version, on any platform or distribution channel, free of charge for ever (ie. lifetime of the game.) July 03, 2019, 07:15:18 PM |
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