need help creating something

[rositatherealest]

Hello all! This is my very first post, with a bit of a random questions!

Would making a 'sling' weapon that uses rocks as ammunition be do-able? And an atl-atl?
And is there a way to remove vanilla recipes entirely so I can have my own 'progression' system of sorts? And also - does anyone have ideas for my 'progression system'? The idea is "primitive survival" challenge. Get rid of all your items on spawn & start with nothing, working your way from stone to iron to steel tools

[Bert Preast]

You're doing what I often do 

The BAC mod allows you to start naked with nothing, and eventually progress to making your own metal tools.  I usually head for the far north east of the map, with a big fast Kaumo.  I make it so the only contact I have with other humans is when I murder them.  If I'm on a really hardcore run, I don't even loot the bodies.

The main trouble is starvation and cold.  Fur and leather are okay outside of winter, but in the coldest months you freeze pretty quick.  Making a small cabin with just a stone axe takes a loooong time!  The food problem is because a stone knife harvests only around a quarter of the meat cuts that a metal knife gets you.

It's challenging; but with a good Kaumo and a bit of luck, it's very satisfying.

I found this game while searching for a caveman simulator.  There was a stone-age mod back in the day, but it's not been updated for years now.  I'd love to see someone mod in a sling and an atl-atl, though.  Even better if they could add some Neolithic megafauna such as aurochs (which should probably be in the base game) and cave bears and giant elk etc.!

[Plotinus]

If you want to remove the vanilla recipes, you can comment them out. They're in your game folder with names that start with biy (build it yourself) and diy (do it yourself), and cookery_glossary.txt. You can comment them out by putting a // at the beginning of each line in the recipe.

If you want to make a sling or an atl-atl i'd suggest telling the game that you're making a bow, so that you can keep the "needs amunition" mechanic, and then having a very quick and easy recipe to modify the rocks into "sling ammunition" which is an arrow under the hood but with the stats nerfed

[Plotinus]

It seems the last auroch died in 1627 so I guess they could be in the game. I thought they were lost much longer ago than that.