![]() I make lists of finds, two-winged, four-footed, and rolling: black-throated green warblers and blue-headed vireos, porcupines and salamanders, tin cans and old tires, deer mice and fisher cats, wild turkeys and ruffed grouse, black bears and, come spring, their tumbling, potbellied, big-eared cubs.Įven if you haven’t been to the woods lately, you probably know that the forest is disappearing. ![]() White-tailed deer dart through softwood stands of pine and hemlock, bucks and does, the last leaping fawn, leaving tracks that look like tiny human lungs, trails that people can only ever see in the snow, even though, long after snowmelt, dogs can smell them, tracking, snuffling, shuddering with the thrill of the hunt and noshing on deer scat for dog treats. Gun cotton etc is also not extremely hard to make but a chemist or at least a good book on the subject and some experiments and the right ingredients are required.The woods I know best, love best, are made of Northern hardwoods, sugar maple and white ash, timber-tall black and yellow birch, tiger-skinned seedlings and saplings of blighted beech and striped maple creeping up, knock-kneed, from a forest floor of princess pine and Christmas fern, shag-rugged. ![]() I don't remember the recipe for cordite off the top of my head but it's a more chemical thing if I remember. It's well within the games setting to make black powder. Also it's fairly easy to setup a process of refinement to get the elements required and mixing etc is a matter of trial and error to get the ratios right. You need a human or animal and some trees and fire. Also I'd have to google it to know more, but the gunpowder we make always did feel a bit more like blackpowder than the stuff used today.ĭo you mean cordite? Traditional black powder (charcoal,salt peter etc) can be made with renewable resources. I'd vote drop the one lump of coal from burnt wood on that issue. So really, either that needs to be changed, or his suggestion is valid in terms of the current game's reality. I've also only ever heard of using charcoal in gunpowder, where you use coal in the game. Originally posted by Lemming:Yet the game provides coal when chopping burned wood in the burnt biome. there is a nice Australian national university article on it). Filters for water etc also might be produceable from charcoal but you get better results from tea or coffie grounds that are baked at about 600c or 800c in clay pipes. With the speed of wood regrowing in this game how ever I'd just say don't worry and just stick to using wood for your campfires etc.Ĭharcoal how ever should be useable for gun powder and for some medical things. Coal and peat are usually the better option for either heat or availability. I suggest googling time teams episode as a fairly good guide on making charcoal in a simple mass produced way.Īs stated above the properties of charcoal are such that some woods will burn hot enough to turn metal red hot or more but most wood won't do it. Just setting fire to a mount of dirt may result in only ash being produced or crappy quality charcoal. The process usually takes several days and charcol generally requires some one to be awake while the process is on going to make sure nothing is over burnt. most people I don't think know how to do this. One of the best and simplest ways is to pile the wood up and put dirt/clay over the top and set it on fire in a controlled mannor. FYI making charcoal in any useable and usefull quantity takes days in the simplest and least resource hungry method.
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