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Development News / Re: Clothcraft adjustments for leather/fur completed

« on: February 24, 2026, 08:08:10 PM »

Has the idea of having villagers teach you stuff ever been discussed?
It just occurred to me that the player is a jack of all trades that knows everything from making bows to nets. I understand that they do live in the wilderness, but maybe a Kaumo would have no idea how to make a net, and an Islander would have no idea how to make a bow?

Having to traverse cultural lands and villages to learn stuff could be interesting.
Probably not to be implemented in this update, obviously.

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Development News / Re: Blacksmith NPCs and ordering their products

« on: March 06, 2023, 12:43:09 AM »

Excellent news!

How about modding Blacksmiths? Can we add stuff to the list of thing they can forge?
Will they be able to forge pots even if they are from a culture that doesn't usually have pots for trading?

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Off-topic / Re: Bert's slightly interesting and marginally relevant documentaries

« on: December 11, 2022, 08:20:03 PM »

A well known one, Happy People is a four part documentary about trappers living in a remote area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdHG9zyrtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnAF_amhups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjCs8qi3R0U

Here is a playlist I created a long time ago about Reindeer Herding and similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWj0jEaJ5w&list=PLkf0gftJnZptV4qyTUPnsl7lmfcAoAv0a

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Development News / Re: Autumn nights, coding nights

« on: September 18, 2022, 06:21:50 PM »

Great to hear that Sami!
I guess it must be hard to stay complettly away from the game after all this years.

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Development News / Re: Going canoeing - from Koivula to Driik, so to speak.

« on: August 15, 2022, 01:51:28 AM »

Sounds like a great adventure Sami!
I did some paddling many years ago with my uncles, all the way down the Uruguay river here in my country, it was a great experience.

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Development News / Re: The 30th jubileum, 47th birthday, and sort of a year off

« on: February 28, 2022, 12:10:04 AM »

Happy birthday Sami, although I'm a month late!
Hope you have some well deserved rest in this coming year and come back with fresh ideas.

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General Discussion / Re: ##urw IRC Chatroom

« on: May 27, 2021, 11:18:37 PM »

Maybe it would be better to have a Discord channel?

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Development News / Re: Lots of angling improvements on their way

« on: January 29, 2021, 03:00:44 PM »

Fishing is not specially hard in RL, I did it as a kid.

Out of the scope of this topic, but it might be interesting to add something like having to clean the fish, like you do with animals for meat. And waste of food in both if your cooking skill is low, maybe you have to learn how to butcher certain animals to take full advantage of them. Just brainstorming some ideas with not much thought put to them.

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General Discussion / Re: A spambot thread

« on: January 13, 2021, 12:47:34 AM »

I used to be very active in a History forum, and it had a software that detected if the content was copy pasted from somewhere else, the idea was that you had to write your own stuff and not plagiarize from somewhere. I don't know the name of this software, but it's out there, maybe it could be installed in the forum.
It allowed you to post, but sent a message warning to the admin or mods, so don't know if it would be useful.

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Off-topic / Re: Ancient Savo : A new Enormous Elk game in the making

« on: January 11, 2021, 02:54:59 AM »

Really interesting concept. I will try to donate this coming week.

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Mod Releases / Re: [Tool] Character Designer 1.0.0

« on: October 18, 2020, 02:33:47 PM »

Wow, this tool looks amazing! I have to try it out!

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Suggestions / Re: Let salt be salt, not preservative

« on: July 23, 2020, 01:13:13 AM »

Salt in modern use is mainly flavor enhancer. (MSG/monosodium glutamate is a salt too)
Pre-refrigeration salt was (still is today) a preservative.
Adding salt to a stew is pretty new invention.
When meat used was already heavy salted, adding any more salt to the food wasn’t needed. Often the salted meat was soaked first to reduce salt.
(Still hoping Sami will change the meat recipes to ask for cuts of meat vs pounds of meat. Then we could use dried meat in stews et cetera)

Using juniper berries, birch leaves, heather, marjoram, nettle and so on has longer history in cooking than salt as flavor enhancer /seasoning.

You can mod thee recipes to ask for dried meat.

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Suggestions / Re: New diseases! More pain!(winter)

« on: April 28, 2020, 11:55:14 PM »

No coronavirus, please!

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Gameplay questions / Re: Cruel hand of Winter?

« on: March 03, 2020, 03:07:01 AM »

If you are on a raft, companions and animals are treated as being in the raft with you. Might be a bug as mentioned before.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Cruel hand of Winter?

« on: March 02, 2020, 02:27:13 PM »

Where you swimming? Maybe he was just a bit too tired, or he took a bit longer and the cold was too much, don't really know if these things are tracked tough, they seem pretty happy to run around in their undergarments in winter with no problem.