Sawmill, wood saw, chainsaw...
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Sawmill, wood saw, chainsaw...
Anyway, a machine for collecting wood faster or getting more slots to collect wood (and timber, maybe)
That was mentioned before in this post:
http://forum.cantr.org/viewtopic.php?t=2862&start=22
In the german/spanish island there is only three points where to get wood, all close together, and with few slots. There is plenty of people (chars) arguing about it, and lots of people thinking what or how to do in order to get some wood.
I think it´s a good moment to "develop" a new way of getting wood.
The woodsaw is still useless?. Then, it could be another tool, at least for collecting timber.
A chainsaw, needing a little engine, steel, iron, rubber and several tools for its implementation, could gets twice the wood than with an axe (1200 or 1500). But it would be a tool itself, not a "machine", and therefore there would be the same amount of slots.
The sawmill... genial, isn´t it? It would be a machine (only outside, preferable in places with wood and/or timber), needing lots of wood (5000?), iron (1000) and steel (1000). And it could allow projects for collecting wood or timber, at similar rates as with an axe. And maybe the workers on that projects must have and axe or a wood saw.
I hope you like it!
That was mentioned before in this post:
http://forum.cantr.org/viewtopic.php?t=2862&start=22
In the german/spanish island there is only three points where to get wood, all close together, and with few slots. There is plenty of people (chars) arguing about it, and lots of people thinking what or how to do in order to get some wood.
I think it´s a good moment to "develop" a new way of getting wood.
The woodsaw is still useless?. Then, it could be another tool, at least for collecting timber.
A chainsaw, needing a little engine, steel, iron, rubber and several tools for its implementation, could gets twice the wood than with an axe (1200 or 1500). But it would be a tool itself, not a "machine", and therefore there would be the same amount of slots.
The sawmill... genial, isn´t it? It would be a machine (only outside, preferable in places with wood and/or timber), needing lots of wood (5000?), iron (1000) and steel (1000). And it could allow projects for collecting wood or timber, at similar rates as with an axe. And maybe the workers on that projects must have and axe or a wood saw.
I hope you like it!
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Chainsaw was once in the works. It could be added quickly with some modification to the direction it was going previously.
I have also considered a sawmill, though I can't remember putting it through RD discussion. Basically, a wood/timber harvester.
Wood saw could/should be added as a tool.
The bottom line is I am not sure how much more efficient wood gathering can be before it becomes to easy. Wood already seems fairly comfortable at the levels I see it moving in the game (Swedish no-forest island aside). I am concerned with what might happen to the wood trade with even more of it being plucked from the ground.
I have also considered a sawmill, though I can't remember putting it through RD discussion. Basically, a wood/timber harvester.
Wood saw could/should be added as a tool.
The bottom line is I am not sure how much more efficient wood gathering can be before it becomes to easy. Wood already seems fairly comfortable at the levels I see it moving in the game (Swedish no-forest island aside). I am concerned with what might happen to the wood trade with even more of it being plucked from the ground.
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Re: Sawmill, wood saw, chainsaw...
Sicofonte wrote:Anyway, a machine for collecting wood faster or getting more slots to collect wood (and timber, maybe)
That was mentioned before in this post:
http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 2&start=22
In the german/spanish island there is only three points where to get wood, all close together, and with few slots. There is plenty of people (chars) arguing about it, and lots of people thinking what or how to do in order to get some wood.
I think it´s a good moment to "develop" a new way of getting wood.
You're right, but wood is not so far away from the spanish area, by a short ship journey.
Sicofonte wrote:The woodsaw is still useless?. Then, it could be another tool, at least for collecting timber.
A chainsaw, needing a little engine, steel, iron, rubber and several tools for its implementation, could gets twice the wood than with an axe (1200 or 1500). But it would be a tool itself, not a "machine", and therefore there would be the same amount of slots.
If new tools are implemented to gathered wood, the result would be an increase on those charries who could gather wood, consequently, more people wanting to work on those few slots.
Sicofonte wrote:The sawmill... genial, isn´t it? It would be a machine (only outside, preferable in places with wood and/or timber), needing lots of wood (5000?), iron (1000) and steel (1000). And it could allow projects for collecting wood or timber, at similar rates as with an axe. And maybe the workers on that projects must have and axe or a wood saw.
As far as I understood, the sawmill would be a machine for gathering wood at the same rate of an axe, but it could be used still when there's no slots available... Am I right? Well, if so, I don't ever heard about ans extra-slot machine use, and I don't know if it's technically possible.
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I think the best way to implement this, and I think a 'wood harvester' of some kind is due, would be to, quite substantially, reduce the no-tool gathering rate, and increase the rates with tools.
Gathering wood of small amounts is very easy in real life, you just snap some branches.
But gathering enough for a boat, beyond maybe a canoe, should not really be feasible by collection by hand.
For some throw-away values:
By hand: 100g/day
Adze: 300g/day
3/4 Axe: 600g/day
Axe: 900g/day
Hand-saw: 1100g/day
Sawmill: 2000g/day
And yes to a sawmill also being able to turn timber to wood...
Gathering wood of small amounts is very easy in real life, you just snap some branches.
But gathering enough for a boat, beyond maybe a canoe, should not really be feasible by collection by hand.
For some throw-away values:
By hand: 100g/day
Adze: 300g/day
3/4 Axe: 600g/day
Axe: 900g/day
Hand-saw: 1100g/day
Sawmill: 2000g/day
And yes to a sawmill also being able to turn timber to wood...
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Talapus wrote:I think that a machine that can turn timber into wood (a sawmill) would be a more appropriate way to boost wood production, and a more interesting way as well.
Yeah! I like it.
The project for collecting wood in the sawmill... I think it should need a hand-saw for any participant, or... what about a "two-men-wood-saw"? (I don´t know the name), it would be a machine in the same way as the anvil (but only for outside). The project would need two men in order to progress (is it a programming problem?).
About the problem with the possible unballancing of the wood economy, if the sawmill is only possible to build in forest, and only once, giving just two extra slots (in the same way as the harvester of carrots or the drill for coal), and producing a reasonable amount of wood, the impact can´t be serious.
Changing the subject... timber are... timber, yeah? trees, trunks... how are the people transporting that from town to town? just drawing it along the path?
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formerly known as hf wrote:I think the best way to implement this, and I think a 'wood harvester' of some kind is due, would be to, quite substantially, reduce the no-tool gathering rate, and increase the rates with tools.
Doesn't RD usually get yelled at for suggesting changes like this?
I also feel a wood harvestor is long overdue, but am still having my reservations. I am also thinking about how wood from timber fits into the plans for timber (which were never completely spelled out to me, I just know that every decision I have ever made regarding timber completely undermined whatever intentions the department had for it at the time.....)
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formerly known as hf wrote:I think the best way to implement this, and I think a 'wood harvester' of some kind is due, would be to, quite substantially, reduce the no-tool gathering rate, and increase the rates with tools.
Gathering wood of small amounts is very easy in real life, you just snap some branches.
But gathering enough for a boat, beyond maybe a canoe, should not really be feasible by collection by hand.
For some throw-away values:
By hand: 100g/day
Adze: 300g/day
3/4 Axe: 600g/day
Axe: 900g/day
Hand-saw: 1100g/day
Sawmill: 2000g/day
And yes to a sawmill also being able to turn timber to wood...
I love this whole suggestion, and I think it should be done for more than wood. Without proper tools, and storage. It is really inconceiveable to gather so much resources.
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Moved to Accepted. I like the idea of a sawmill/chainsaw. Everyone else likes it.
I am not accepting, however, the suggestion to revolutionize gathering rates. I would like to hold off turning the economy upside down anymore than we have to.
I am not accepting, however, the suggestion to revolutionize gathering rates. I would like to hold off turning the economy upside down anymore than we have to.
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X_v_X wrote:wichita wrote: I would like to hold off turning the economy upside down anymore than we have to.
Ah sweet sanity!
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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Ok, then see that, please:
_____________________________________________________________
CHAINSAW
Tool / Weapon (holdable item).
Used to collect wood at 1000/1500 gr. a day (skill: foresting)
Weight 1750 gr.
Visible.
Attack 35.
Rot
Rapair rate
Labour required: 5 days
Resources requirements:
- 50 gr. oil
- 50 gr. iron
Objects required:
- Hand-machine engine
- Sawmill frame
- Sawmill chain
Tools needed: hammer, pincers
New engine:
Hand-machine engine (more or less half a bike motor):
Labour required: 5 days
Resources required:
- 500 gr. iron
- 50 gr. rubber
- 50 gr. magnesium
Tools required: screwdriver, pincers, hammer, anvil.
New semi-finished products:
Sawmill frame
Labour required: 5 days
Resources required:
- 750 gr. steel
- 200 gr. iron
Tools required: wrench, hammer, anvil.
Sawmill chain
Labour required: 4 days
Resources required:
- 150 gr. steel
Tools required: peen hammer, chisel, steel flatter, set hammer.
_____________________________________________________________
SAWMILL
Machine, only outside in a place with wood.
Resources required:
- 5000 gr. timber
- 500 gr. iron
Objects required:
- two steel lathe blade
Labour required:
- 20 days
Tools required:
- axe
- hammer
- screwdriver
- knife
Projects (maximum number of workers: 2)
* Saw timber into wood:
Output per day: 3000
Maximum output: 300000
Required resources: 6000
Required tools: saw or wood saw.
* Saw timber into small/medium/large logs...
(In the same way as with the "Lathe with a steel blade", or maybe a bit better)
_____________________________________________________________
CHAINSAW
Tool / Weapon (holdable item).
Used to collect wood at 1000/1500 gr. a day (skill: foresting)
Weight 1750 gr.
Visible.
Attack 35.
Rot
Rapair rate
Labour required: 5 days
Resources requirements:
- 50 gr. oil
- 50 gr. iron
Objects required:
- Hand-machine engine
- Sawmill frame
- Sawmill chain
Tools needed: hammer, pincers
New engine:
Hand-machine engine (more or less half a bike motor):
Labour required: 5 days
Resources required:
- 500 gr. iron
- 50 gr. rubber
- 50 gr. magnesium
Tools required: screwdriver, pincers, hammer, anvil.
New semi-finished products:
Sawmill frame
Labour required: 5 days
Resources required:
- 750 gr. steel
- 200 gr. iron
Tools required: wrench, hammer, anvil.
Sawmill chain
Labour required: 4 days
Resources required:
- 150 gr. steel
Tools required: peen hammer, chisel, steel flatter, set hammer.
_____________________________________________________________
SAWMILL
Machine, only outside in a place with wood.
Resources required:
- 5000 gr. timber
- 500 gr. iron
Objects required:
- two steel lathe blade
Labour required:
- 20 days
Tools required:
- axe
- hammer
- screwdriver
- knife
Projects (maximum number of workers: 2)
* Saw timber into wood:
Output per day: 3000
Maximum output: 300000
Required resources: 6000
Required tools: saw or wood saw.
* Saw timber into small/medium/large logs...
(In the same way as with the "Lathe with a steel blade", or maybe a bit better)
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