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On 11/28/2017 at 11:18 AM, Vinceofpyrenees said:

I don't think so. And if it really comes one day, they will be frozen NPC, unable to move on the world and live their life. It would be like in the story mod, in other words, a little poor to interact with.

Yea I could live with that I really liked the story of gray mother and the quests.

The NPC's are coming to Survival I can almost smell it

4 hours ago, togg said:

but you should explain why or it's an empty +10!

I can not do it without using foul language.  

I died so many times in interloper trying to get from DP to CH, and it is all because there is nowhere to sleep btwt them besides cars which are cold and can not heal you back up. Is this a good enough reason?

+10 for emergency bedding it should be implemented immediately. 

8 hours ago, Wastelander said:

How about wood carving? 'Spend' a random piece of wood and some durability of your knife to carve a Fluffy-miniature. Uses up time and calories and the aforementioned wood and knife condition. When NPCs are added it could even be a barter good.

Yes and you can pick up wood carving knowledge from a book in one of the houses.

How about your shelter gets damaged from the blizzards and you have to repair it with wood and wolf or rabbit skins? that would make much sense. also sometimes there could be heavy blizzards or tornadoes crushing heavy objects in to your shelter and destroying the roof thus you'll have to rebuild the whole thing. But as a bonus you'll get random stuff in your back yard like cars shelves things you can harvest, as a consolation prize for having to rebuild your shelter. What do you think of this idea?

Just watched the video, I cried I am man enough to admit it. OMG Everything is so beautiful the 3D characters the aurora everything it's like mona lisa became more than painting a live person OMG now I can't wait for the release date...

Ok I'm just gonna say it, this discussion it is way longer than it should be the wood collecting is fine, we don't need more complicated experience there are tons of stuff that have greater priority over wood collecting which I will say again it is fine as it is. By the way if anyone is looking for the real experience, he/she is welcomed at my house, I just ordered a truck of firewood and it needs chopping, and sawing  

14 minutes ago, elloco999 said:

Have you seen the size of the branches we can harvest in TLD? You don't really need to split those. The only reason to split them is if you want to burn them faster or to make them easier to light.

Of course, IRL you would harvest trees, not branches and then you would definitely need to split the wood.

Why to split the wood, Main reasons:

First you can not start a fire with wet wood and the dry part is inside.

Second as I mentioned you can not fit the wood in the stove, also it roles you can not build campfire if you can not stand the wood in one place.

Third you will need lots of tinder and lot's more unsuccessful tries to start a fire since the bark of the tree is more resistant to fire unless the tree has moss on it.

Finally I tried adding whole trunks to the fire if the fire is small it just goes off after 5-6 min. The fire needs to burn for a long time to reach temperature so you could put whole trunks in it even then there is a chance of putting it out if the wood is wet.

Hey now there is an excellent option, imagine this:

Wood saw is added in to the game. it makes harvesting wood faster but it could only produce whole trunks which can not be added in to the fire unless the correct temperature is up, Also you can not start fires with them. So yea you can collect more wood but you can't have the same quality as the split ed wood. Also you can not add whole trunks if the fire is less than 1 hour maybe

15 hours ago, Dirmagnos said:

Making boards, even with saw, would be an extremely slow and complicated process. Without proper tools its extremely hard.

Do you remember the simple and quality tools that are not so efficient now but at the beginning of the game they ware used a lot to repair your hatched and knife, well now we could use them together with the wood saw make some items, everything fits together nicely I hope that the Devs. will see this post and see how well it will fit in to the game.

4 hours ago, SteveP said:

The advantage of a sharp buck saw is that it can cut a 6' limb in about 2-5 minutes where a hatchet takes about an hour for each cut.. Haven't you noticed how long it takes to harvest wood from limbs? You could easily build up a cache of firewood to last out a week or more of storm with a buck saw and it gets you way ahead of the curve for the coming bad weather. If you had preserved meat, also no problem. At about day 60 to 75 maybe a monster storm blows in.

Why think small? Think about adding several items to the tools and a dozen craftable structures and useful items. How about a big cauldron you hang over a a fire on a tripod? TLD already has the software infrastructure to create a lot of things and with the simple mechanics, development is fast. The art work is the big work. Art work can be done in parallel.

Foleys or sound recordings are also relatively easily made!

Both the hatched and the saw are equally useful, the wood saw is better at cutting wood on to smaller pieces but the hatched is better at splitting the wood :

WOOD SAW IS BETTER FOR THIS:

HATCHED IS BETTER FOR THIS:

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So you can see they are dependent on each other first saw the wood then chop it to pieces, but looking from the game perspective if they introduce wood saw I hope that it will be to make items not collect wood since as  elloco999 pointed out it will be too overpowering and it will brake the game play, and as we can see from the pics here not true because you will still need the hatched to split the wood in order to burn it  especially for stoves because the whole trunk will not fit. Also in order to use the wood saw you have to lift the limb and some large limbs are just too heavy to hold them in the air and cut through them, given the conditions that the survivor is in I think that the wood saw will not be so efficient tool to harvest wood. Yes it is more effective at cutting but it takes more concentration, focus and stable ground and some of the limbs the survivor finds are up on a hill plus when you are tired  and cold  you don't have patience to cut the wood properly you just wanna wack the thing and be done with it. 

Here is an idea instead of adding another wood harvesting tool, we could use the wood saw to make planks and boards from the wood we collect so we can use them in construction if that type of feature is introduced in to the game, I've already seen too many posts for making beds, crates etc. here is another piece of the puzzle. With wood saw and firewood the survivor could craft various wooden objects, also the rabbit trap should fall under this category together with large animal trap. As for wood harvesting tool well I disagree why do we need another tool sure wood saw is easier to use but it takes lot's of time which the survivor could not afford, well I suppose it could be considered as a second choice tool like the saw is when harvesting meat.  

the Realism, the Creativity, the Originality, the Diversity, AND MOST OF ALL TOOLS-MECHANIC it is the best mechanic there is. I hope that we will see much more of that in the future. 5 Main words still counts right ?