A way to get metal without a mine/trading

[Shask]

There are some features in this game which allow you to reach items outside of your current tech - unreliably. For example, if you're in need of butter or a gauze, but haven't "teched" to taming and cattle rearing, you can find a four leaf clover and then try and find a wild herd. In the same regard, would it be bad for the game to have something similar for metal?

I'm not whining, just curious, because metal is pretty much currency at the moment, right?

[ciroth]

There are some features in this game which allow you to reach items outside of your current tech - unreliably. For example, if you're in need of butter or a gauze, but haven't "teched" to taming and cattle rearing, you can find a four leaf clover and then try and find a wild herd. In the same regard, would it be bad for the game to have something similar for metal?

I'm not whining, just curious, because metal is pretty much currency at the moment, right?

Quicky! Put on your flak jacket and helmet!

Been proposed many times before and shot down everytime

[sabinati]

lazy devs have been talking about adding bog iron for a long time now

honestly though it's never been easier to trade for it

[Legolas6531]

There are some features in this game which allow you to reach items outside of your current tech - unreliably. For example, if you're in need of butter or a gauze, but haven't "teched" to taming and cattle rearing, you can find a four leaf clover and then try and find a wild herd. In the same regard, would it be bad for the game to have something similar for metal?

I'm not whining, just curious, because metal is pretty much currency at the moment, right?

You could get Numen points and get either tin, copper, or iron nuggets with 20 Numen points. Just puttin' that out there

[Oblivior]

There are some features in this game which allow you to reach items outside of your current tech - unreliably. For example, if you're in need of butter or a gauze, but haven't "teched" to taming and cattle rearing, you can find a four leaf clover and then try and find a wild herd. In the same regard, would it be bad for the game to have something similar for metal?

I'm not whining, just curious, because metal is pretty much currency at the moment, right?

You could get Numen points and get either tin, copper, or iron nuggets with 20 Numen points. Just puttin' that out there

+1 on that and also it's rather easy to trade stuff for metals it just costs some effort to find a reliable trading partner.

[Paladir]

honestly though it's never been easier to trade for it

Actually, theres nobody that I can trade with for metal.

[DatOneGuy]

Just trade for it. If you say you can't trade for it you're not trying hard enough.


No thanks for the alternative uses for things. Stop making things easier and add more levels of difficulty to make things harder. You didn't get a mine? Oh well, take one or trade for it.

[dra6o0n]

What's weird is that you can't find metal above ground of cliffs and such.

It would be neat if you can use the "mine" skill on "rocky" cliff walls to get scrap ores or something low ended, not bronze/silver/iron stuff but something that can be used in middle tier construction.

[sabinati]

honestly though it's never been easier to trade for it

Actually, theres nobody that I can trade with for metal.

uh unless you haven't left the character creation room, there is someone you can trade with for metal.

[Paladir]

honestly though it's never been easier to trade for it

Actually, theres nobody that I can trade with for metal.

uh unless you haven't left the character creation room, there is someone you can trade with for metal.

What I meant was that nobody near my settlement has metal.