Cant make backpack...

[MagicManICT]

My question is:

Why not just steal finished goods now? (Goods that can be stored or lifted, anyway.)

Where this is going to hurt is in getting things like brick walls up. Anyone that isn't mining is just plain screwed.

[Blxz]

I think you guys a misunderstanding the problem. you don't need to make it by hand, you just need to pick the item up to trigger the recipes PROVIDED that you have the relevant skills available to know what to do with the items. Once you have the right skills and you pick up some leather, from your own vat or someone elses or you trade some and get it out of a chest....you will trigger the recipes.

The actual downside to this that no one mentioned is that its now harder to know what I need to get to make something. How does a noob know that he needs glue, rope, blocks and leather to make a palisade? Leather especially almost seems counter-intuitive at first.

[WarpedWiseMan]

I kind of like it. If you've never done something yourself, why should you reap the benefit when you fuck over someone else?

It's like the first time people invented soap. Not everyone understood how it worked nor believed in the potential there. Now, after an age, everyone understands the hygenic necessity of soap. Except the French.

[MagicManICT]

The actual downside to this that no one mentioned is that its now harder to know what I need to get to make something. How does a noob know that he needs glue, rope, blocks and leather to make a palisade? Leather especially almost seems counter-intuitive at first.

Noobs will never figure it out on their own. Newbs will be smart and just look it up in the wiki.

[Versak]

It is kind of sad.

Kind of awesome, you mean.