Stone Ingot

[Surly]

Right I have to say... how is that possible? An ingot is metal that has been cast into a particular, standard shape for convenient storage/trade.

How can you hammer a stone ingot? It's plain stupid.

[west]

Have to agree with you. An ingot-shaped stone is referred to as a 'rock'.

[The Industriallist]

What is it used for? I've been assuming that it is either a stone ingot mold, or a stone sculped into the shape of an ingot to create ingot molds out of sand (most likely) with. Possibly hypothetical sand.

Considering that you can make a stone hammer and a cooking stone out of the same stone without using tools, I'd say a better question than how can you hammer one is what do you need the hammer for?

[west]

Also true

It's just hard to picture from an ooc perspective, but in cantr it's just as logical and possible to have a rose ingot, or a water ingot. They're all just grams anyway

[Dee]

What's an ingot anyway?

[rklenseth]

A bar of cast metal.

[DylPickle]

Like the blocks of gold they have in Bond movies

[The Industriallist]

No, it makes sense IRL, really...I think.

To make an ingot, you pour metal (or notably glass, in cantr at least) into an ingot-shaped hole in some material, often sand I think. So you need to make the ingot-shaped hole somehow. One way to do that is to press an ingot-shaped object of a more easily crafted material into the sand, leaving an impression.

Of course, that's assuming that I have the use right. I've never seen one of them used, or even made.

[Surly]

If it is a cast, then it does make sense. But they should say what it is... because a stone ingot as and ingot of stone, it just ain't happening.

[Anthony Roberts]

I'm with the rest of you here.

Why do we have a Stone Ingot?

And here's another question.

How did it get by -ME-?

[Ovault]

I was just looking at them on google earliyer . Its just like a bar or something... yea your right though how could you make a stone ignot out of a hammer? .... A chisel would be more logical

[julie2]

Hey, I'm so glad these things have been opened up for discussion. Now we don't all have to make one of the things each , just to see if we can figure out what they're for (maybe they're used form a cairn, after we all give up and chuck them away in disgust)

[julie2]

Considering that you can make a stone hammer and a cooking stone out of the same stone without using tools, I'd say a better question than how can you hammer one is what do you need the hammer for?

Yeah...but you need an iron shovel to build a fire pit out of stone, (and an iron chisel to make yourself a stone cooking-pot) I keep wondering how we'd ever have got out of the stone-age if real life was like that

[Anthony Roberts]

Considering that you can make a stone hammer and a cooking stone out of the same stone without using tools, I'd say a better question than how can you hammer one is what do you need the hammer for?

Yeah...but you need an iron shovel to build a fire pit out of stone, (and an iron chisel to make yourself a stone cooking-pot) I keep wondering how we'd ever have got out of the stone-age if real life was like that

That's why there is a spit, for those without a shovel.

[julie2]

Considering that you can make a stone hammer and a cooking stone out of the same stone without using tools, I'd say a better question than how can you hammer one is what do you need the hammer for?

Yeah...but you need an iron shovel to build a fire pit out of stone, (and an iron chisel to make yourself a stone cooking-pot) I keep wondering how we'd ever have got out of the stone-age if real life was like that

That's why there is a spit, for those without a shovel.

Yeah, I know. I never tied the spit, becuse I heard it was inefficicient. And I had tried grilling and I know that's innefficient. If you havea fire-pit, stone pot, and a ready supply of wood however, you can cook your meat (including gathering the wood) just as fast as you could gather potatoes or carrots (without tools ), maybe a little bit faster.which seems a whole lot more reasonable.

What really bugs me is the curious fact that you need a shovel to make the fire-pit (chisel for the pot seems more reasonable) Is that to say our ancestors had no way of digging a hole until after they learned to process iron?