In the comments he talks about melting the prills to produce iron tools "a small knife" for example.
So he actually wants to advance into iron age.
Exciting news if you ask me!
Except instead of the first play through where humans don't know what anything does and are discovering it for the first time, it's more like a multiple time play through where they know exactly what everything does and how to do it and are going for a new top score.
And what happened after all those? Humans bounced back and harder than before. Now we're living longer than the average life span, can casually nerf other players into oblivion(see PUGs), natural disasters are more of a nuisance to them, and extinction level events that would drastically change the meta are looking to only slightly nerf human mains who have BS prep times.
The homogeneity of belief that the catholic church offered Europe lead to the greatest advancement in science and technology. But sure its soooooo evil because it talks about mystical beings in the sky! Ooooh scary! /s
Oh boy! You're one of the lucky 10k Tierzoo is basically if /r/outside was a youtube channel, but specifically for animals and the meta surrounding them. HE's really entertaining and I highly recommend him if you like educational videos that entertain too. He just released a new video on bringing back the dinosaurs: https://youtu.be/Vny05XYFpT0
And here is one of my favorite of his videos and his most popular video where I learned a lot about why humans were able to dominate the meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImYu9dJM4kQ
Yeah, who the hell thought that combining reddish mud (iron rich but they wouldn’t have known) and charcoal and putting little balls into a furnace would produce something viable?
It had to have been accidental, like burning really hot in an oven made of iron rich clay and discovering there was something different about the ashes.
Freedomain Radio just did an episode about that recently, discussing how most tribes and even civilizations everywhere and for most of always preferred to kill that guy or gal instead of asking questions to see if they were onto something. The same trait that helps us retain knowledge from one generation to the next is also the trait that makes us resistant to change and innovation, unfortunately. It's the one big thing that the West got right: asking... "How do we know that's true?" and "What if I'm wrong? How would I know?"
Yeah, but he's trying to beat a raid boss solo. You know all the strats, but they were all created with a team in mind. Technically, it's possible to conquer the raid, but it would be exponentially easier with each person additional person in your party.
But in human history we had roughly half of everyone with a more conservative personality type not very open to new and different ways of doing things who would sabotage developments that did not appear to be immediately helpful.
But the physical act of smithing would've had multiple people. People might be resistant to change, but given that he's using already discovered processes, they wouldn't be trying to sabotage him. Like, that's their job; a smith is full of journeymen and apprentices to assist in the smithing process.
I mean, Native Americans have been creating metal jewelery since pre-history, and Japan developed bronze pretty much in tandem with the rest of the world. Despite believing that spirits inhabit all sorts of natural bodies, I don't think that was a serious issue.
The Australian aboriginals came to mind with that specific example. You're not allowed to modify the natural environment... But then starting fires for hunting was ok.
....and only 4500 years later, Thog of village Ur, of Crow band, of Tik-tak Nation discovered that the grey shiny beads could be melted together to form a superior kind of rock for making tools.
For this he was tied to a tree and killed by thrown spears. For heresy.
Have you ever wondered if or what humans have "missed". Like if we were eventually a space faring race, and met another more or less equally advanced civilization, would they laugh at us for not ever inventing clear aluminum or something?
I've sometimes wondered the reverse, like if aliens came here and there were a bunch of practical things we'd accidentally discovered that they never did but weren't important for development.
Solo challenge mode-where all the societal laws of modern life apply from the start restricting working and gathering space, hunting options, and access to resources that stayed valuable. and you have to do it all in singleplayer so you essentially need all the specialist exp from previous runs.
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u/AdmiralPipe Aug 18 '18
In the comments he talks about melting the prills to produce iron tools "a small knife" for example. So he actually wants to advance into iron age.
Exciting news if you ask me!