Metal Working and Recycling
Again, from first post, but as suggested by the people, I make separate posts.
I've had some ideas on stuff, but didn't know how to express it, but now I do. So this game just offers the kebab as the main food source and fire making only providing a fire place, I'm not sure what the second scheme is or how to get it. We also get a generous amount of metal and different metal types to acquire and choose from, but can take up space and weight you down or jumble what you're looking for. I've come up with some ideas on what to do with some of this stuff.
(Copy and pasted from the first post I made, because I'm not sure how this stuff works, mostly)
-Metal Workings and Recycling
Xsyon's Scrap Fields feed us with a huge variety of different metals, as said before, like you can have a basket backpack, scavenge and sort 8 metal scrap collections and already have a full inventory. My idea is that you can build a structure, or single object, like a furnace, that can melt down your metals and create ingots, so that you don't have to keep taking up tribe space with your baskets full of metal. The ingots could be big or small, and take a volume a space when you remelt it. But what would you do with the ingots? First, you can go down to a river with dirt, not stone, so instead of collecting Limestone, you can collect Clay, and use this clay to create casts from your dug up objects, such as say, a short metal handle. Then you can remelt the ingot, or melt new items to fill the cast and create a brand new small metal handle! Or course, you're going to need to get the metal really hot, and need a crucible that can hold such liquid. Therefor, a new use for the fire building skill, you can create an object that will create charcoal out of branches, sticks, and split wood. The crucible could be made out of graphite and clay, and the graphite could be a rare object, like tar or quartz.