Reed Skirt meta

Thorware · 2018-04-23 22:18:38

Reed skirts are the only "pants" clothing in the game that never vanish from decay. As such, we should be using rope to craft reed skirts for every person in the village, plus a few extra for children. This will permanently reduce the food requirements of the village, as opposed to the very temporary gains from other forms of clothes.

It used to be that milkweed was rare so the stalks were better used for thread to make rabbit fur clothes. But now that rabbit fur clothes decay essentially after passing them down once, they are not a great future investment and should only really be made if rabbits are nearby and plentiful. Milkweed is also much more common now with grassland biomes far less disturbed, so finding the milkweed for rope should be reasonable.

Mouflon Hide/Sheep Skin is the only other clothing item in the game that is permanent so these should also be collected, however they are much higher tech than the reed skirt. These require at least a bow and arrow for the mouflon hide, but it is not sustainable to simply kill mouflon, you need to rope the mouflon baby then feed it a berry and carrot bowl after killing the parent, then they will start producing domestic sheep, which if you continue the cycle require knife tech to kill, plus without an elaborate pen leads to random roaming domestic sheep eating your carrots... What a mess. Maybe just stick to the reed skirts.

Turnipseed · 2018-04-23 22:36:17

Great idea. Makes no sense why a reed skirt would last longer than a rabbit pelt.... but good to know they dont decay!

Potjeh · 2018-04-23 22:50:24

..and it's gone. Well, will be next update most likely.

Thorware · 2018-04-23 22:52:56

Turnipseed wrote:

Great idea. Makes no sense why a reed skirt would last longer than a rabbit pelt.... but good to know they dont decay!

Yes. Since reed baskets decay quickly, I imagine that permanent reed skirts was an oversight. But me might as well use it while we have it.

Darcie · 2018-04-23 23:41:22

it's not really logical, real life reed baskets last for over a hundred years when maintained, indefinitely with repairs. Metal tools last for around two hundred years with maintenance. Furs and hides last around 100 years. Real life isn't really related to the game, lol.

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Turnipseed · 2018-04-24 00:10:40

Darcie wrote:

it's not really logical, real life reed baskets last for over a hundred years when maintained, indefinitely with repairs. Metal tools last for around two hundred years with maintenance. Furs and hides last around 100 years. Real life isn't really related to the game, lol.

Would be nice to get more use out of things though i had to make three hoes last night in one village

Go! Bwah! · 2018-04-24 06:21:17

Turnipseed wrote:

Would be nice to get more use out of things though i had to make three hoes last night in one village

Sounds like you're pretty good at turning out the hoes!

YAHG · 2018-04-24 06:22:59

Darcie wrote:

it's not really logical, real life reed baskets last for over a hundred years when maintained, indefinitely with repairs. Metal tools last for around two hundred years with maintenance. Furs and hides last around 100 years. Real life isn't really related to the game, lol.

fyi 100 years is less time than clothes take to decay in game, they last 120 last I checked.

JS · 2018-04-24 06:52:06

XD

DOPE!

afloatingstone · 2018-04-24 07:07:45

And what is the deal with reed decay? I cut 4 reeds for baskets, made one and took it my village, returned within a few minutes and the reeds despawned right before my eyes. Why do reeds decay 10x faster than things that are made of reeds ffs?

YAHG · 2018-04-24 07:12:50

Reeds have always decayed in 2m. They don't decay if you cut but do not pick them afaik.
So be careful with em friend <3!

Thorware · 2018-04-24 12:51:04

YAHG wrote:

Reeds have always decayed in 2m. They don't decay if you cut but do not pick them afaik.
So be careful with em friend <3!

That's right. Never pick reeds then leave them lying on the ground unless you plan to use them right away.

A good strategy is to take a sharp stone and cut down all of the reeds in the area. Then you or future people will have an easier time grabbing reeds when needed without having to fumble with a sharp stone every time. As long as you don't pick the reeds you cut, they are permanent.

Kinrany · 2018-04-24 16:51:44

The word "meta" in the title bothers me, one could use the word "strategy" instead, it would be more specific.

Thorware · 2018-04-24 23:27:59

"Strategy" implies a certain approach a player could take to tackle a problem in the game. "Meta" is about the meta-game, the best strategies to use in the game, especially after a rule change or update, such as the one that introduced item decay, leading to this thread. I intended to suggest that given the recent rule changes, this is the strategy we should all be using: It should be "meta" to use this strategy, at least until the rules change again.

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