by Junkfist2 » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:54 pm theTrav wrote:I disagree with allowing charcoal without deforestation. The whole industry vs nature contention would disappear and there's room for a lot of color around that struggle.
I also think that unlimited branches from a single tree is pretty unrealistic as well, however I can see how tracking things like that on each object could become quite an overhead.
Deforestation has plenty of causes beyond a need for charcoal.
Besides, animal bones ostensibly could also be used for charcoal. I'm sure in time besides gold and other metals we're going to run into coal veins in the mines.
AND, yes, I fully expect branches to become limited or trickier to get somehow in the future and this suggestion was slightly anticipatory of that. I hope the same goes for other unlimited resources, like apples and mulberries.
Would encourage us to build apple orchards! Also to deal with a real threat of starvation and building self-sustaining communities (once hunger is less out of control anyway)
