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[Aseaheru]

A town? No. A base? Yes.

[UristMcDwarf]

A town? No. A base? Yes.

it's a lot like a town. The place with brokers and guards and stuff right?

[Grendus]

I'm perfectly fine with unfletched arrows being terrible and needing to get the recipes to make arrows that are any good. I'm just not sure it's a good idea for archery to be walled behind finding a book with the arrow recipes in it.

[Tawa]

It's not. You just need enough skill.

Just spend your free time shooting sticks at a wall, then making new sticks to shoot against the wall.

[jocan2003]

It's not. You just need enough skill.

Just spend your free time shooting sticks at a wall, then making new sticks to shoot against the wall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk

[Vattic]

You can empty out cardboard boxes. Which is actually advantageous to do anyway--the cardboard boxes take up more space than the cookies/poptarts/cereal they contain, likely a reference to real-life manufacturers making massively oversized boxes for their contents in order to make it look like you're buying more.

Smart. It was these kind of details that got me playing.

[azmodean]

why the extra step? Just make the entire crafting process into one big step and get rid of the 'unfletched' variants.

Because then we'd have massive walls of boilerplate in the arrow recipes, and they'd invariably have all kinds of copy/paste errors in them.
Every recipe would need a list of everything you can make a shaft out of, everything you can make a fletching out of, everything you can make a head out of, etc.

[Gentlefish]

Plus, it's more crafting for delicious skill building

[Reelya]

You can empty out cardboard boxes. Which is actually advantageous to do anyway--the cardboard boxes take up more space than the cookies/poptarts/cereal they contain, likely a reference to real-life manufacturers making massively oversized boxes for their contents in order to make it look like you're buying more.

Smart. It was these kind of details that got me playing.

Oversized packaging serves another purpose though: you only really see it with easily crushable foods: cookies or chips. Stuff like candy which isn't crushable almost always comes in more compact containers which don't have a lot of air in them. This difference makes it more likely that it's about cushioning products so that you're not buying a bag of dust. If it was a general "make it look bigger" thing then you'd see bags of candy puffed up like balloons too, but no company does this. I think people are more aware of the weight they are paying for than people say.

I can buy a big bag of choc chip cookies cheaper than ones that come with a plastic tray separating them, but the bag ones definitely have a whole strata of crushed cookies and dust in the bottom. With the tray ones you're guaranteed to be able to eat actual cookies and not be shoveling crumbs into your mouth. This is the reason people buy the tray ones, and not because the package looks bigger. So, if Cataclysm:DDA wants to model that really realistically, then fragile foods removed from their packaging shoud deteriorate into crumbs.

[Aseaheru]

I dont think that any form of realism was thought of, and rather that the size was more-or-less randomly chosen.

[UristMcDwarf]

there's mods to remove religious books, survivor armor, ect. Why is there no mansion removal mod? you walk in, find a katana, never die. woo. so fun.

[BigD145]

"Whoa, a katana. I'd probably hurt myself trying to swing that." /walk away

[UristMcDwarf]

"Whoa, a katana. I'd probably hurt myself trying to swing that." /walk away

yeah, yeah, knew i'd get replies like this.
but it's just sitting in the cabinet
beckoning
what man has such willpower to resist

[Sindain]

"Whoa, a katana. I'd probably hurt myself trying to swing that." /walk away

yeah, yeah, knew i'd get replies like this.
but it's just sitting in the cabinet
beckoning
what man has such willpower to resist

When you see a mansion, look towards your inner pyromaniac Marxist and stick it to the bourgeoisie by chucking a Molotov in the front door.

[UristMcDwarf]

"Whoa, a katana. I'd probably hurt myself trying to swing that." /walk away

yeah, yeah, knew i'd get replies like this.
but it's just sitting in the cabinet
beckoning
what man has such willpower to resist

When you see a mansion, look towards your inner pyromaniac Marxist and stick it to the bourgeoisie by chucking a Molotov in the front door.

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