Knapping

[Aureschi]

I've noticed many people asking/hoping for stone and bone tools, and thought that knapping would be an ideal solution to this. 

Flint nodules would spawn, most likely 1-2, in the piles of stones, with a larger chance near rivers/lakes, along with a "knapping kit", which would be about as rare as quality tools

Using the kit and whatever flint you find, you could knap arrowheads, knife and hatchet blades, to create rudimentary tools, that have very low durability (about 1/2 of improvised), weight, (~.3 kilo for knife,  ~1 kilo for hatchet). The requirements for tools would be

Knife:1 cloth & the blade

Hatchet:Stick, blade, & 2 cloth

Arrow: normal recipe, just replace the arrowhead

To prevent mass production, a break chance would be needed, probably about 75-90% chance. A new secondary skill would increase the chance, with a maximum of 50/50.

A new primary skill could also be created, with the following levels

1:You have no skill with knapping, and your clumsy hands often break the stone (10% chance to create an arrowhead/knife blade)

2. You have become more skilled at breaking off flakes, but the blades are still sub-par at best (25% chance of creating arrowhead/knife blade)

3. You are now adept at knapping blades, and your products hold a sharper edge (Can create hatchet blade, 25% chance of creating a blade, and flint tools are 5% more effective)

4.You are now much more used to knapping, and rarely break the stone (50% chance of creating a blade, and all aforementioned benefits)

5.You are a master at the art of knapping, and your products can hold an edge as sharp as steel (75% chance of creating a blade, tools are 15% more effective, all aforementioned benefits)

 

 

[odizzido]

When your game is on low resources finding a quality toolkit is actually pretty rare. If you make a kit a requirement to make the knives you might as well just go right to one of the forges unless you just happen to luck out. If you're not playing with low resources then you're going to find knives anyways and won't need to use it.

I think what needs to happen is you can just make it with stuff you can find everywhere but it takes more time. Tools need to be sufficiently worse as to not make the metal ones worthless as well.