Bed costs

[SekoETC]

Resources needed: 8000 grams of wood (+ 2000 grams of cotton and some iron)

Compare this to the cost of a shack, 3000 grams of wood. I understand the bed is a luxory item, but how on earth can it be so heavy? In real life standards it would be logical, but this is Cantr. Furniture needs to be scaled down to match.

Logically you would use timber and a lathe to make bedposts, it could also have a canopy. But that might make the whole thing impossible for my character, who's spent years hunting for all the cotton and iron. Getting the wood is "only" going to take 13 days with a loaned axe, now that's not so drastic. And if we start splitting hair, there should also be cloth involved, not just raw cotton, so it's gonna make it even more impossible.

Anyway, suggestion... suggestion is that there should be a bed with smaller wood (and iron) requirements, this as a basic bed, and something in the current scale would be the canopied bed.

In fact, I seem to recall Anthony having a good post about this somewhere... hmm...

[Wilmer Bordonado]

Actually... 8k of wood is a lot! What about changing it to 3k for a regular bed?

Wilmer B.

[Torkess_theCommie]

well there is always a cot...
But yea, I agree, the bed uses just... so much to make. We can have 2 different kinds of bed.

Basic Bed
Pretty Bed (ok... we can replace pretty with like say... Luxerious? (sp?))

[Phalynx]

Pretty bed = canopy bed= 4-Poster bed??

Perhaps?

[SekoETC]

Luxorious sounds nice. I mean there is a chisel used, so it's not like it was all simple. I assume there are some engravings, but eight kilos in Cantr terms is too much. Three sounds good for the bed frame and ends, and the four poster bed could use timber for the posts. (Remember timber is gathered much faster).

It would be cool to have a chance to use different types of cloth for the curtains of the four-poster-bed. How about having bed curtains as something that can only be manufactured if there's a four-poster-bed in the room, have the limit as one per room for both the set of curtains and the bed (since it's so big - hey, by the way, how many people could we fit in there - four? *starts imagining the orgies*) The curtains could be made of either silk or wool cloth. I think most likely having the one wouldn't stop you from having the other, unless some extra coding is added, so technically you could have both the silk curtains and the wool curtains layered on the same bed.

There is the cot alright, but that's awfully primitive. Come to think of it, we should offer other options for people who can't spare two kilos of cotton on a mattress, but still have some hemp or cotton cloth available.

Ok, be that this is a bench, but it's the best thing I could find.
http://www.rossauction.com/topics/06020 ... /bench.jpg
The webbing is strong but stretches a bit under your weight, thus making it less hard than sleeping on plain wood or stone.

a cot with a webbed hemp bottom
Materials: 400 grams of wood, 600 grams of hemp cloth
Tools: hammer, needle, scissors
Days: 3 (hemp cloth is much easier to sew than fur )

A twin version could made of cotton.

The existing cot should be renamed "a primitive fur cot" and when we get deterioration based on usage, the hide should stretch faster than hemp cloth.

[SekoETC]

*BUMP* Is anything going to be done about this? Since if I end up building a bed with the current requirements and the costs get lowered right after, my character will have lost a bunch of wood and work hours for nothing. I may be selfish but this is a once-in-a-lifetime project and if it's gonna be hard for my character then I want it to be equally hard for others as well.

[Phalynx]

*BUMP* Is anything going to be done about this? Since if I end up building a bed with the current requirements and the costs get lowered right after, my character will have lost a bunch of wood and work hours for nothing. I may be selfish but this is a once-in-a-lifetime project and if it's gonna be hard for my character then I want it to be equally hard for others as well.

Tough!

[Doug R.]

I already build mine.

[Phalynx]

I already build mine.

Now what tense is that?