This video reminded me loads of H&H

[Shask]

http://wimp.com/builttoaster/

Basically it's a guy who tries to create a toaster from scratch. As in, actually getting the raw materials himself.

I'm both an economics student and a survivalist, and what this game represents is actually very interesting - how a human can survive and create economies, from absolutely nothing. You could drop all your items in the character creation room, and quite realistically, make your way up over a few months to a large village-based economy etc.

[DatOneGuy]

Heh, saw this on TED, interesting story he has there.

[cobaltjones]

Cool video, but it's got absolutely nothing to do with H&H.

You can create something from scratch in H&H because it's a game and somehow magically a stick plus a stone equals an axe, and no explanation as to how you were able to remove that stone from a giant rock with your bare hands...

[Onionfighter]

Cool video, but it's got absolutely nothing to do with H&H.

You can create something from scratch in H&H because it's a game and somehow magically a stick plus a stone equals an axe, and no explanation as to how you were able to remove that stone from a giant rock with your bare hands...

Just because you're clueless doesn't mean everybody else is.

[cobaltjones]

Just because you're clueless doesn't mean everybody else is.

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[MaimedFox]

I think it's sort of assumed that your character finds loose rocks lying around. It's just not practical for jorbtar to include little details like that just for realism's sake.

[g1real]

In theory you could of course make digging find random stone on a 1/10 basis, perhaps with some form of QL attached to it, which would either make an axe or wielded in hand for a few extra damage/allowing you to chip big rocks.

But I'm rambling.