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[piecewise]

Maybe also think about how knowledge requirements (and gathering, eg by finding items or parts) would slot into this system?

I might remove knowledge for crafting and keep it for techniques

[piecewise]

This material has the tag [Weird]

[Pancaek]

Would the find skill play into finding these materials? Because with option 5, I think having a character that's good at finding neat materials for builders might actually be just as fun if not more fun than building itself, at least for me.

[Gentlefish]

Would the find skill play into finding these materials? Because with option 5, I think having a character that's good at finding neat materials for builders might actually be just as fun if not more fun than building itself, at least for me.

It's why I took find

But yeah, the tags thing sounds like fun. May make my machining useless, but I don't care if I can have a bone-turret firing flesh-eating bugs.

Might be time to boot up the wiki-gnomes

[piecewise]

Would the find skill play into finding these materials? Because with option 5, I think having a character that's good at finding neat materials for builders might actually be just as fun if not more fun than building itself, at least for me.

Yep. I mean, you need good find to see some stuff, and to get it out of what its in. You thing someone with shit find will be able to tell the difference between useless fish bones and super neat hard as steel fish bones by just looking at a flayed open fish man? Course not. Think they'll notice the berries or fungi that might have interesting properties? No.

Would the find skill play into finding these materials? Because with option 5, I think having a character that's good at finding neat materials for builders might actually be just as fun if not more fun than building itself, at least for me.

It's why I took find

But yeah, the tags thing sounds like fun. May make my machining useless, but I don't care if I can have a bone-turret firing flesh-eating bugs.

Might be time to boot up the wiki-gnomes

It might indeed be.

[The Lupanian]

Two things, one. Maybe you could say that as the bore drills, it takes in a small amount of stuff, so there's like, up to five units of level 1 or 2 hard material available after we dig, that way there's a small trickle of matirial available to make simple things, but the container is small, so it can only take in a little bit of stuff before the container is full. 
Second is a question, how exactly did ER get a tv tropes page? I wasn't around then, so I don't know what exactly happened.

[Ozarck]

tagging stuff seems okay. some suggestions for tags might be:
Structure: metallic
Structure: organic
structure: stone
Power source: crystal
power source: liquid fuel
power source: metaphysical


Another option in terms of limiting how much builders make is requiring expeditions to return to the drill with quantities of items. The more the quantity we return with, the more building can be done. "You return with 50 basic material. Builders can build 10 mundane or 2 exotic items!"

[piecewise]

Two things, one. Maybe you could say that as the bore drills, it takes in a small amount of stuff, so there's like, up to five units of level 1 or 2 hard material available after we dig, that way there's a small trickle of matirial available to make simple things, but the container is small, so it can only take in a little bit of stuff before the container is full. 
Second is a question, how exactly did ER get a tv tropes page? I wasn't around then, so I don't know what exactly happened.

Maybe
I forget, people made it a while ago though.

tagging stuff seems okay. some suggestions for tags might be:
Structure: metallic
Structure: organic
structure: stone
Power source: crystal
power source: liquid fuel
power source: metaphysical


Another option in terms of limiting how much builders make is requiring expeditions to return to the drill with quantities of items. The more the quantity we return with, the more building can be done. "You return with 50 basic material. Builders can build 10 mundane or 2 exotic items!"

It's really simpler that. Think more like this:

Powersource 1: Gasoline
Powersource 5: Nuclear reactor
Powersource 10: The beating heart of an Undergod.

And some things have dual tags, for instance, a  lead brick might be both Structural and Heavy.

[piecewise]

HEY!

You guys, give me ideas for stuff you wanna build. It helps me think.

[Egan_BW]

Bore cannon autoloader.

[Devastator]

I'd like to get some kinda non-renewable consumable booster.  (it was the goal with my last knowledge order)

[Egan_BW]

A big old wind-up key that you can stick into corpses and wind them up to become your minions.

[Devastator]

Also, is it still a thing to require a transcendance or build roll to get an ability?

Also: A hat that you can pull small objects and creatures from.

[The Lupanian]

A replacement finger with a retractable razorblade

[NJW2000]

Really accurate sniper rifle
Flaming claws
Gatling gun
Mortar
Pogo stick