idle thought: I would love for the generally creatively stale survival craft genre to get like... make a game and hire a metallurgy historian on your dev team to really spice things up. There's all sorts of other non copper/iron/silver metals that were used in metallurgy back in the day. where's my fuckin knives made of bismuth alloy, that was actually a thing. You could make shit so much cooler by bringing a wider sense of history (though that's true of most games)
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in reply to @MOOMANiBE's post:
This may not be what you're thinking of but I did play a survival crafting game (Vintage Story) that does literally have bismuth alloy knives, among other things.
game where you have to research five different ways of assembling a spear from a stick and a sharp rock and some animal hide
related genre but I started the Factorio mod Nullius this month and it shakes things up by changing your minerals from iron/copper/coal/uranium/(oil) to Ferrite/Bauxite/Sandstone/Limestone/(seawater/N2+CO2 air). But yes I agree I want more games with historical metallurgy cuz that shit is fascinating
Was going to bring up Vintage Story but someone else already did (But honestly playing vintage story with a small group (like 4 ~ 8 total) and making a little village and people smithing things and all that kind of stuff is Really Good
I would love this combined with games just not straight up telling you what rock it is you're digging up. Just like people make use of the stuff they have access to and being like "okay well I found this ore so I guess Ill try making something out of it, fuck if I know if its any good"
Suddenly feeling the desire to return to my TerraFirmaCraft world.
Along the same lines, I'd like to see more survival games that show the complexity of pre-metal & pre-pottery societies.
Things like simplified knapping and/or carving mechanics for the early game if they're going to have a 'stone age'. It would be neat to see games reflect a bit more of the diversity in stone tools too.
Then there are things like basketry, weaving, and the other fiber arts that survival games tend to neglect or gloss over as well.
Survival craft, and just crafting games in general, need more people involved that are just staggeringly, unproductively invested in geology/metallurgy/ore-ology and modeling just the most wildly obscure smelting processes.