Sod buildings

[SZK]

Sod buildings would be a great way to make buildings in areas (such as grasslands) lacking stone and/or wood. This would need a new resource (sod) and probably a knife to gather it.

PS: For those who dont know, sod is grass and the soil held together by its roots, and can be (and has been)used to make buildings in real life)

[Talapus]

We already have the resource 'grass'. A shovel would probably be appropriate as the building tool.

[wichita]

This is pretty much accomplished via mud huts, as well. I kind of like the idea of having grass huts, though. I think we might consider this one. It will fit in nicely with mud huts, reed huts, and wood shacks. It would be nice to tear down buildings, though. I like the idea of having cheap, temporary housing for the wildnerness that can be replaced by something larger and more asthetic.

But perhaps we might see regions of town with slums develop over time in the newer developing lands if there were more affordable cheap housing, as the characters who initially settle a location get older and put up cottages or stone buildings, they can sell off their huts and shacks to the newspawns.

[SZK]

We already have the resource 'grass'..

Well, sod ain't really grass.

As said on Wikipedia
"Sod is grass turf and the part of the soil beneath it held together by the roots, or a piece of this material."
So basically, sod can be used to make "dirt bricks", which then are used to build sod houses/huts.

[wichita]

Well, cantr ain't really real life.

Point duly noted, but some of try to breeze over the painfully gory details of real life in order to allow for playability of the game. I mean, if we tried to add every detail of preparing an animal to steak, we would never get anything cooked, ever.

[The Industriallist]

I'd guess that grass is a plant product, not collected very fast?

Sod is big blocks of topsoil, just cut out of the ground...

[formerly known as hf]

Is that the same as wattle and daub?

In which case, that'd be good - onld Saxon-stylie round houses

[Agar]

Is that the same as wattle and daub?

In which case, that'd be good - onld Saxon-stylie round houses

No wattle are bassically thin wooden stakes and daub is a dirt/dung mixture. Sod houses are kind of a Victorian Era Redneck Igloo. Like eskimos chop out big square ice bricks, you can cut flat squares of grass, roots and dirt clumps, out of the ground, and stack them up like legos to make a house.

Now, someone go ahead and quote my "Victorian Era Redneck Igloo". You know you want to.

[SZK]

<80 years later>
So young whippersnappers, y'all wanna to hear about sod? Well, a long time ago, when MY grandpa was your age, sod was used to build houses. Yep, them houses were mighty dirty and even mightier cheap. All you had to do was cut grass into squares and build like them Eskimoes in your new-fangled holobook fairy tales. Yep, someone even described them as "Victorian Era Redneck Igloos". Those were good times, kids.
</80 years later>

Well theres your quote.

[swymir]

*consults his sod instruction manual to learn how to build a race car when there are no connector holes in any of the pieces*

[Hellzon]

Won't anyone start to flame this thread?
You know, so we can tell him to sod off...

/Hellzon - will be here all night, try the veal...

[SZK]

<flame>
OMFG! This sugestoin f***ing SUCKS OMG!!!!11!1!!!1!
</flame>

Well theres your flame.

[Talapus]

I'd guess that grass is a plant product, not collected very fast?

Sod is big blocks of topsoil, just cut out of the ground...

Grass is collected at 400g per day, and up to 2000g per day with tools (scissors give small boost, sickle gives larger boost, and scythe gives largest). That is a large enough rate to be able to make buildings (although scythes make little sense for cutting sod). It is a simplification, if there is grass, there is sod (in general). And it would be silly to make two resources that have little use individually (grass right now doesn't even have a purpose), when you could just make a single one.

[SZK]

Good idea! Just change grass into sod.

[WojD]

grass right now doesn't even have a purpose

Grass is a healing food About 500g or 1000g heal 1%...