Fat

[Potjeh]

I've spent most of today stirring a cauldron IRL. My family slaughtered a pig, and I was rendering the fat. It got me thinking, why don't we get any fat from animals in H&H? It could be used for cooking, candle making, fuel, soap making, waterproofing stuff and a bunch of other things.

[Chakravanti]

He might have been rather unpopular but he WAS right about at least one thing.

I agree with candles tho.

[jorb]

That is so hardcore. Yes, there should be fat. There is fat in UrW, after all.

[Potjeh]

Heh, I also took a photo of myself standing by a flank of pork, wearing a straw hat. The first thing that came to mind when I looked at it was H&H. I wish I had also taken a photo of the actual killing part, but I needed both hands to hold that sucker down while Dad slit the throat (in fact, it took three of us to hold it down, as it was a big pig - 243kg). I also used a meat grinder to make sausages. I feel so experienced right now

Anyway, back to topic. Soap should be a luxury, not a necessity. I guess it could be used by doctors or something, when we get more advanced medicine.

[Jackard]

hearthlings should get fat

[loftar]

Heh, I also took a photo of myself standing by a flank of pork, wearing a straw hat. The first thing that came to mind when I looked at it was H&H.

That's one epic win. :D
I do sometimes wish that I was born a few years earlier, so that I could have gotten more experience of farming before my grandparents retired.

But yes, there are tons of more things that should come from animal cadavers, apart from fat. Blood is a given, but other useful things would obviously include the various parts of the gut apart from the intestines, teeth, ears, tendons, claws/hooves, &c. The main reason you don't already get them is just because there aren't the higher-level resource chains to follow from them yet. Do expect butchering to be extended as we add more stuffing.

[Potjeh]

Mmm, blood sausage...

Also, I'm happy to see you have big plans for butchery. I want to run a horse farm/glue factory.

[Peter]

Is there such a thing as a Glue Horse, breed specifically to have gigantic hooves?

Using fat to make candles would be pretty nice, though I understand that tallow candles don't... erm... hold a candle... to beeswax ones. Maybe a large Q penalty?

Hm... how about candles loose one point of Q for every 60 seconds they burn, until they burn out? Something to make Q matter for them other than have infinitely increasingly bright candles or whatever?

Anyway, mmmmm...pork...

[CG62]

I'd imagine soap would have some uses in the first aid process, to clean a wound or something (did I mention I'd like First aid to be expanded upon?).

Also, Sinew. Easy source of string for newbs.

[kaka]

Soap could also give a "Clean Hands" buff that improves baking.