Use scraps to craft ammo or other stuff?

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

Yeah but that stuff is highly corrosive, if you don't clean your gun right away and that will be the norm with survivors because you can't keep cleaning your weapon after every shot they can toss the gun away in the evening.

 

But you still need some tools to form the cups and need find the materials...?

It is highly corrossive but what is your other option for "easy to make" powder?

[enforcer1975 1111]

It is highly corrossive but what is your other option for "easy to make" powder?

 

I wasn't pointing out that you shouldn't be able to make and use it. Just that it should have exactly that as one if it's ( few ) disadvantages if you want to use it in a post black powder gun. Using it in a modern weapon will cause a malfunction much faster. Imagine the dirt you have in a blank fire gun and multiply it, you know what i mean.

[-Gews- 7443]

Some people do use BP in smokeless firearms "just cos". It would foul up weapons a lot more and probably wouldn't even cycle in most automatic firearms. Also if you push lead bullets too fast you get leading. From what I see you could probably drive a cast bullet to 1600 fps in a rifle, that would do about half the usual damage, and that's with good powder... lower-velocity rounds would not suffer quite as much from using black powder. I don't think it's practical for the game, though, no one wants to sit around for hours and hours casting bullets and somehow making their own powder.

[Cormyr 39]

I would like to see basic stuff, like the molotov cocktail (empty glass bottle + a rag + gas and use with a zippo lighter). But yeah, crafting ammo is going too far IMO. Regarding traps, I would like to see traps found which are broken and need repairs before use. And yeah, the ability to craft basic medical supplies, like bandages which was mentioned. I also mentioned in another thread, the ability to find medicinal herbs in the world and make teas with them, or wound healing salves (add aloe vera?)

[Chaingunfighter 917]

Making bullets is not an easy task.

It takes a long time even with basic machinery and can also be very dangerous if any mistakes are made, as it's more likely to misfire or jam.

Besides that, I doubt that there are THAT many people that know how to make bullets at all.

[-Gews- 7443]

Making bullets is not an easy task.

It takes a long time even with basic machinery and can also be very dangerous if any mistakes are made, as it's more likely to misfire or jam.

Besides that, I doubt that there are THAT many people that know how to make bullets at all.

 

Depends on the kind of bullet, s long as it's cast and not jacketed...

 

[Chaingunfighter 917]

Depends on the kind of bullet, s long as it's cast and not jacketed...

 

 

Of course, but it wouldn't be an easy task and most people don't actually know how to do that. Seems a little too trivial.

[-Gews- 7443]

Of course, but it wouldn't be an easy task and most people don't actually know how to do that. Seems a little too trivial.

 

For the game yes, and survivors aren't going to be toting Hawken rifles and wearing coonskin caps à la Davy Crockett. :P

[Chaingunfighter 917]

For the game yes, and survivors aren't going to be toting Hawken rifles and wearing coonskin caps à la Davy Crockett. :P

 

You never know.

Rocket is pretty crazy sometimes.

 

 

(Though it'd be very interesting if they'd add a muzzle-loaded rifle like the Hawken, but I don't really know of any that are still used today.)

Edited September 5, 2013 by Chaingunfighter

[-Gews- 7443]

(Though it'd be very interesting if they'd add a muzzle-loaded rifle like the Hawken, but I don't really know of any that are still used today.)

 

They make a lot of them in Italy nowadays. Actually they've been making a lot in Italy since the 1970s.

 

However the most popular black powder rifles these days seem to be the inlines; personally I don't see the point in them. If I wanted to hunt black powder I'd use something traditional (isn't that the point of having a separate muzzle-loading / primitive weapons season?), and if I wanted better long-range accuracy I'd be waiting and hunting with a modern rifle. I think they're just used to take advantage of muzzle-loading season and I'm not a fan, they make me grumpy.