No need to use knife or hatchets

[pathfinder]

I am not sure whether it is just in my games or not, but I can cut wood, hides, gut and take meat without any tools whatsoever. This may have already been reported but I thought I should throw this out there as it does seem to be a little bit unfair towards the game. Please let me know if I am wrong, but I was taking meat from a carcass of a deer and I had no tools to speak of. Maybe I should see if I can open tin cans with my bare hands too. lol

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

You can smash cans if you don't have any tools, you lose some of the contents doing that though. Also when harvesting stuff without tools, it takes more fatigue and time to do. The tools just make it easier for fatigue and time wise.

Jeremy

[pathfinder]

I should also mention that I do not require any tools to make deerskin boots, snares, etc. I still require a sewing kit to repair clothes but that is all.

[pathfinder]

You can smash cans if you don't have any tools, you lose some of the contents doing that though. Also when harvesting stuff without tools, it takes more fatigue and time to do. The tools just make it easier for fatigue and time wise.

Jeremy

I realize I can smash tins, but I must be missing something, but when I first started in this adventure awhile back...I could not harvest deer or wolf mean without some sort of tool.

[Vagos]

Only when frozen you need a tool.

If its still fresh and thaw you can skin with your bare hands.

[caro0103]

when Animal carcasses are freezing upper 50%, then you need tool.

but freezing under 50%, you don't have to use tool. you can harvest by hand(none).

[elloco999]

And if a carcass is frozen and you don't have any tool to harvest with, you can build a fire next to it to thaw it and you can then harvest it without a tool.

[pathfinder]

Thanks for the tips guys

[TLDFAN]

Really in the long term end game the only resource you will be unable to acquire is water. You can make your own clothes and you can engage wolves or forage for your own meat and really trapping rabbits, you should be able to make dozens if not hundreds of snares and well lets just say with the variety of ways to get food and current .200 implementation of starvation taking a week you'll have no real issue with that. Water however, requires constant rate replenishment and the simple fact is if you don't boil 20,000 gallons you will eventually run out and die, drinking about a gallon a day or whatever it is, limited only by the fact you can't start a fire after the materials to do so are gone.