Pottery (probably again)

[Antichrist_Online]

This might have been suggested before, but we have a kiln and clay, why not pots?

Potter's anvil
150g wood
Knife

It's a small round tool used for making pots without a wheel

Small clay pot
300g clay
kiln
Potter's anvil

Clay Pot
750g clay
kiln
Potter's anvil

Large Clay pot
1200g clay
kiln
Potter's anvil

Amphora
1500g clay
kiln
Potter's anvil

The clay pots would be equivlaent to the stone pots. The amphora would be a large, dragable storage holding X grams of something, making it easier to move large loads between buildings and ships, reducing the number of pages that have to be loaded.

[Crosshair]

Why not a potting machine too, pedal powered... say,

100g Rubber (for the belt thingy)

500g Iron (no need for steel)

50g wood (for a lil stool type thingy)

and you could make more pots with it faster, like with the primitive smelting furnace and the normal smelting furnace?


ADDED: so the big amorphia thingy would be like a barrel?

[SekoETC]

To my knowledge, amphora is a sort of a huge clay bottle usually meant for keeping wine in it, and it has a cone-shaped bottom because it's supposed to be put in sand.

[Crosshair]

So, it wouldn't be for moving, like a container? but cheaper and you can put less in it?

[SekoETC]

Well small ones could be moved, it depends on the weight. These are the stuff those ancient Greek people and Romans carried around from the bar. Or something like that.

[Crosshair]

I like it. and maybe we could have it so the smaller ones have a deteriaton script, "1223-5- your clay pot breaks due to overuse"

[The Industriallist]

I'm fairly sure they were used in much the same way as barrels. Though I imagine they break more easily.

[formerly known as hf]

Amphoras were used to mostly store liquids - olive oil/wine/restina etc. And, as Seeks pointed out, made so they could be stored in sand. This was done to keep the contents cooler... They pre-dated both the Roman and Greek empires, but were most commonly used in the meditterranean areas.

*nods knowingly*

Oh, and I like the idea of pottery...

[Crosshair]

hehehe.... and if the thirst thing ever gets off the ground, potted mugs...

[Surly]

The term 'amphora' has been applied to other, less sterotyped pottery though. Whilst the original amphorae may have pre-dated the Greek empire, the term is applied the much later pottery as well.

Mostly in error of course...

More to the point is that if you stored many other things in an amphora, they might be quite hard to get back out... practicality and all that.

I also like the idea of pottery. However, if thirst is introduced I may well, as I have stated before, quit. We don't need thirst in game... just include it with hunger.

[Crosshair]

*nods* it would be a pain in the bum.... it would mean putting water in every location cause otherwise that would just be unfair. and also its common sense that any settlement should be set up near water. pottery good... thirst bad...

[Marian]

Bumping this too. Why are even rich chars still using stone pots like cave men?

We need clay pots (why is it the most useless resource in the game when it was so important in RL?), copper, iron, and bronze pots. Iron would of course be more efficient than any of the others, it would be like a cauldron and maybe too heavy to want to carry around, so it would probably be used mainly inside to cook eggs or whatever in big quantities.

[fishfin]

I like this ide, there should be more uses for clay.

[Agar]

Potters wheels are made of stone usually, because it's cheap and all you really need is a spinning mass.

Iron would not, of course, be the most efficient. There's also steel and aluminium to consider.

This is a good suggestion, one I'll have to come back to later.

[Maelstrom]

*BUMP*

These are all good suggestions, and fall into the "We Need Portable Containers" category, and they're nice RP items. Flower vase anyone?

-Mael