So! I found a saw!

[Axechucker]

I found a totem that was abandoned and it had a bunch of stuff in baskets around it that I could use. There was a saw in there so I grabbed it and started using it. Well, It wore out today. I am now without a saw. My long journey begins of scav'g through the piles to see if I can find some old saw blades.

[Axechucker]

Did Really good tonight! I found 4 Old saw blades and about 15 schemes. I also found some Horseshoes, Pick Heads , Knife Blades and some handles. I raised my Scav. Skill 11 points tonight. Still going to go for more blades though incase I have alot of faliures while making my saws.

Oh I also got this one scheme. Its a Scheme: Potamac Axe Saw. Kind of weird! Speaking of weird I found a damn gold club! LOL!

[Willowhawk]

Good Job Axechucker! Sounds like you're getting along just fine :D To avoid losing your new blades you may want to grind some less valuable tools for a bit and get your tool crafting up to around 25 before trying your hand at the saws. Until then you could also contract a neighbor to make a couple of your saws since at higher level crafting they could make a higher quality saw that will last much longer, and you have the most important part, the Old Saw Blades. :p

[Axechucker]

TY Willow!
Yeah I'm going to grind my tools up before I use the blades. I'm playing this game as a one man band but I did grab a shovel off os a person named Siriius so I could do a bit od Terraforming. I didn't need to do much since my place has been flattened already by a former player.
Working on some more Scav tonight! WOOT!

[unclean666]

you mean higher dura not Quality.....your welcome

[Willowhawk]

No I meant a "Supreme Quality" Scrapper saw versus a "Low Quality" Scrapper saw which has higher durability due to it's "higher quality".

[Axechucker]

Went out scav'ing again tonight. I Lightened my load a bit so i could move faster which turned out prosperous. When i Started scav'ing my scav point were at 33.2 ( I stopped the night before at 31.0 but woke up in the morn and scav'ed some before work which put me at 33.2)and now I am at 45.7. So lightening my load moved me a bit faster.
Tonight while scav'ing I met another player that says he was off the game for quite a while (7 months). He asked me if I seen some carts around because he left his in the area and couldn't find it. I told him I saw 2 carts on the far side of the scrap yard and I lead him to them. One of them was his LOL! He said it has been sitting there since January! LOL.
Tonights bounty was excellent. I got maybe 25 schemes. 3 Bone ones, 2 arch ones. The big one for me was the Forager Cart scheme and the scheme for the Wheel. Most excellent. I got 4 more Old Saw Blades tonight so now I have a total of 8 to work with.
Tomorrows duty, raising forager skill and Tool skill. They seem to go hand in hand with the Weaver Scheme so I'll get started with that tomorrow!

[MrDDT]

No I meant a "Supreme Quality" Scrapper saw versus a "Low Quality" Scrapper saw which has higher durability due to it's "higher quality".

QL has no effect on Dura bro. Just saying. Its about the types of mats going into it. I understand you still dont know everything about crafting, but when someone that does corrects you. You might want to at least read into why he is saying it.

[Azzym]

Hey Axe,

I must say I enjoyed reading about your adventures on the junk pile. You got a way with words... keep it coming :)

[Axechucker]

Alrighty then! Worked on the junkpile just a little bit tonight. Nothing Spectacular came from it. Mostly looking for cloths of higher quality. Mostly raised my tool skill. I got it to 60 tonight. Not only that I raised my Leather skill and my Foraging. So , trick is now to get rid of all of my Poor Quality materials and get more Moderate and High Quality materials in its place.

Exploring Side Note: Found an abandoned settlement above my place tonight. Didn't even know it was up there. So I go to snoop around and see 4 rev's hanging out. Funny because the one just has gloves on, nothing else. LOL. I took a peek and saw 5-6 baskets sitting up there. I wait for the rev's to split up a bit and I make a mad dash to the baskets. I open one up quick before they get onto me and I see a bunch of leather pieces. I wasted a bit of time looking inside then noticed the Rev's were coming at me. I haul ass off the hill and get down to the bottom. I set my Back Pack down and ready myself to run up there and grab it and carry it away from the revs. I rest up and get set and take off , I get to the top off the hill find the basket , grab it and down I go LOL. When I get to the bottom again I set it down and open it up and find a bunch of High Quality and Very High Quality leathers inside. Them damn revs were rich and I just robbed them! LOL!

[Axechucker]

Had to take a small time out! Went to a baseball game tonight and had a fabulous time!

When I got home tonight I started raising my tool skill again. I'm at 72.6 right now. I'm looking for that scrapper saw scheme. I got alot of other ones including some "insipration" schemes of the artisan type but not for the scrapper saw. After I depleted my stock of rocks (i make weavers from granite to raise my skill) I headed down to the scrap pile tonight for a short while.

I notice that during certain times of the day I find certain things. When I found the saw blades before it was around 9 pm my time. Well it was 8:45 and I was hanging in the scrapile. I found quite a few things tonight. Some more shovel heads which puts me at 19. I'm starting to find alot of High quality items and it makes it really hard because if I find a moderate leather and it stacks, I lose the high quality stuff.....Bummer. 9:00pm rolls around and what do ya know! ..... 2 Old saw blades.....right on time? Luck or coinsidence? 3 times in a row at roughly the same time of night. These put me up to 10 saw blades. I really need that damn scheme for the scrapper saw. In time I guess. I'll keep plugging along. In the end though I'm afraid I'll have to make a forager's saw. Which is ok with me also. At the very least I know I can find the blades and that seems to be the hard part for most. For the record: I found blades at: Scav-28.2, 40.6 and 56.3.

Got a new Problem on the Horizon. This problem is called chalk. Probably be an adventure for this one also.

[MrDDT]

Good job Axe, keep up the good work.

If you want help on chalk, its found on DRY limestone (normally in the mtns) its a rare find like flint or quartz when standing on DRY limestone. (Dry limestone = Limestone not near water). Good luck.

[unclean666]

Yep axe I was trying to get times down for when more rare stuff dropped long ago but never could pin point anything as I couldent get consistent times.I gave up on it but it would be cool for someone to do the work and put a nail on the rare drop times.

[Axechucker]

Thanks DDT and Unclean. Unclean, I'll run the Scrapile again tonight at that time and see if I come out with more saws. I'll be doing a small journey tonight for some chalk using DDT's suggestion.

Added after 4 Hours 56 minutes:

Update:

Went out on a journey to look for some chalk tonight. I didn'y find any but I did find a nice patch of Basalt and recorded the location. Will the location of chalk and basalt change?
I went far north of my camp into the mountains and just kept going and going looking around an checking the views. I got caught up in 3 wolves that attacked me sending me home. The next journey I went way west and didn't find anything but zombies and flat land. I turned more south and kept the mountain ranges in view until I was walking on them. Still no chalk. I'm not exactly certain what I'm looking for. I noticed the basalt ground was a bit darker than the granite. I also noticed if I turn my view enough while lookking at water , the water will disappear and I can see the what color is underneath. It looks a bit greenish so that is what I was looking for in the mountains. I hope I was right in doing that. I will do more searching later.

On the scrapile tonight I found some very interesting things. I started a bit early ( 7:00 pm )because I wanted to raise my skill. At 7:12 pm BAM! I find 5 High Quality Old Saw Blades LOL! Continuing on the scrapile I found a few patterns I could use in Leatherworking. I also found some more pickaxe heads, shovelheads and cleaver blades. Major find was a Scheme: Master Scrapper Hammer and a Scheme: Pioneer Tent. I was pretty stoked about those 2 LOL. Still no scrapper saw scheme though. Will keep working at it until I get one. At 9:12pm tonight I found 4 more Old Saw Blades. There is no way this is luck. 4 Times in a row within the same time frame. I'd say I'm onto something.

[GuideMihr]

Hello Axe,

The Basalt mountains or limestone mountain wont' change their place, so if you recorded the place you should find it again. Keep looking for chalk because it exist :)

[GuideHael]

Here are two locations I found and recorded as a player, hope these help.

Zone 895 920 437 - Chalk

Zone 1019 920, 580 - chalk

[Axechucker]

HEY! Thanks Guys!

I have been away because life won't let me play. Work started to get real heavy so it made me more tired than usual and I have been coming home and crashing. The melon patch has been keeping me busy also. Growing season almost over for them. I have about 6-7 more bowling balls rolling around to ripen yet.

I'll get back to this in a bit. I think what I want to do is move. The Place I have now was good for starting out. I'm a bit more established now so I want to try other areas. We'll see what happens.