Make junk useful

[dirtybaz 5]

Don't throw away all your empty bean cans!  Let's make a use for them - this is an apocolypse after all!  Get your thinking caps on and let's make some innovative items to help the lonely survivor (and any of Rocket's programmers that might be reading the forum!!)

 

Green shirt or burlap sack?  Duct tape or string?  Combine them, then add to your Mosin for that camoflaged M40 look.

 

Extra burlap sacks, rope and a knife?  Cut a few holes to make them into a smashing mask.  Or a rambo-style schmok and booties!

 

An empty tuna can makes a handy recepticle for bullets (but the ammo stinks!  A mini-ammo box if you like.  A used cereal box makes an impromtu medbox for soft items like bandages and empty blood bags (but it won't take heavier items cause it's just cardboard!).

 

Not cooking pot?  Don't panic.  Simply add an empty can to the fire, apply rice and canteen to it, and hey presto; a 1-use cooking pot and receptible for your delicious steaming white rice. 

 

Burlap sack and sticks?  Create a simple net to catch fish.  Leave the net in a stream or pond, and come back in 24 hours, and you have a 50% change of catching a fish!  And 10% chance of catching a disease when you eat it!

 

Screw-driver + broomhandle + rope?  Fishing spear.  Probably a 1% chance of catching anything though...

 

Someone lost their specticles?  Good, an intact lens makes a handy sun-focus-fire-starter!  Doesn't work in the forrest though!

 

Broken binoculars?  Use a screw-driver or hammer to cut them in 2 for a single working eye piece. 

 

You get the idea.

[rossums 2190]

There will be a lot of uses for most of the junk when the crafting system is expanded.

[cywehner1234 582]

Empty food cans, make a old fashioned alarm system when base building is implimented.

[Snafun 7]

I'm pretty sure that things like these are on the way, maybe far away, but coming.
Remember that one dev-video, where Rocket built a improvised handgrenade with a flare at a spraycan hold together by ductape.

Still good to collect some ideas. I really like the idea with the mosin and the shirt, as I've done something like this with old camouflaged pants and my softair M14.

 

Stay alive,
Snaff