5:20 Persepolis is the book, I think. It's very good and a quick read. Does a great job getting into her head as a kid and showing the way life changed as the regime did.
I'll just put in my 2 cents about making the spear - Are skills penalties just additive? Because 2x for blacksmithing, 2x for bladesmithing and 1.5 x for carving adds up. I'm sure just blacksmithing a spearhead from a chuck of steal would take a few hours, it's a lot of heating and hammering off and on. Then you got to temper and harden it so you can put a good blade on it, with hand tools that would take a bit. As far as carving skill, you have to widdle the head of the spear shaft to fit how ever you designed the blade base. Would all that take 33 hours with zero skill? probably not, but it would take a bit longer then just a couple of hours. Of course doing the work that long you would just get better while making the first one, does CDDA give you the benefit of that, for long recipes where you gain the proficiency before the item is completed?
I am struggling with what to do next too, so much to do that decision paralysis sets in and I make a whole run and come back with a lot of clothes for no particular purpose
Note that a "steel spear" represents an actual medieval military grade spear and the type of spear you're probably thinking of is represented in game as a "crude steel spear". If you don't think carving is required to complete a spear with a pre-made spear shaft, how do you intend to get your spearhead on to the shaft? As an additional exercise think about the recipe for a steel spear: there's no metal drilling quality so you can't drill a hole in and secure it with a pin and there's no adhesive so you can't glue it on... The likely way is an extremely tight fit via carving, then heating up the socket, jamming in the shaft, and rapidly cooling down the socket to induce shrinkage.
That makes tons of sense. Please remember I am just a dumb guy who is rambling as I play the game and do not actually know what I'm talking about ever x_x
@@TheMurderUnicorn Don't feel too bad about it. I had to look up the contraction method myself as I was initially highly skeptical of a lack of way of securing the spearhead in the recipe until I thought "wait... putting a pin in would be basically impossible in the classical era with their tooling knowledge and I'd definitely have concerns about glue for long term use..." and figured someone SOMEWHERE had to have come up with a better way than that. (also it turns out a tang + cordage was a popular alternative at the time)
5:20 Persepolis is the book, I think. It's very good and a quick read. Does a great job getting into her head as a kid and showing the way life changed as the regime did.
man, we're happy to hear you even if you are "low energy" or whatever
people watching you are way more understanding than you think
I'll just put in my 2 cents about making the spear -
Are skills penalties just additive? Because 2x for blacksmithing, 2x for bladesmithing and 1.5 x for carving adds up.
I'm sure just blacksmithing a spearhead from a chuck of steal would take a few hours, it's a lot of heating and hammering off and on.
Then you got to temper and harden it so you can put a good blade on it, with hand tools that would take a bit.
As far as carving skill, you have to widdle the head of the spear shaft to fit how ever you designed the blade base.
Would all that take 33 hours with zero skill? probably not, but it would take a bit longer then just a couple of hours.
Of course doing the work that long you would just get better while making the first one, does CDDA give you the benefit of that, for long recipes where you gain the proficiency before the item is completed?
Thought about just just browsing the practice menu? Can probably get a few skillups pretty quickly.
I am struggling with what to do next too, so much to do that decision paralysis sets in and I make a whole run and come back with a lot of clothes for no particular purpose
Note that a "steel spear" represents an actual medieval military grade spear and the type of spear you're probably thinking of is represented in game as a "crude steel spear". If you don't think carving is required to complete a spear with a pre-made spear shaft, how do you intend to get your spearhead on to the shaft? As an additional exercise think about the recipe for a steel spear: there's no metal drilling quality so you can't drill a hole in and secure it with a pin and there's no adhesive so you can't glue it on... The likely way is an extremely tight fit via carving, then heating up the socket, jamming in the shaft, and rapidly cooling down the socket to induce shrinkage.
That makes tons of sense. Please remember I am just a dumb guy who is rambling as I play the game and do not actually know what I'm talking about ever x_x
@@TheMurderUnicorn Don't feel too bad about it. I had to look up the contraction method myself as I was initially highly skeptical of a lack of way of securing the spearhead in the recipe until I thought "wait... putting a pin in would be basically impossible in the classical era with their tooling knowledge and I'd definitely have concerns about glue for long term use..." and figured someone SOMEWHERE had to have come up with a better way than that. (also it turns out a tang + cordage was a popular alternative at the time)