only because of a personal distaste for crafting as a mechanic

The Ingot and Cords sound more like Equipment than Things, though? You’d probably carry them, and you wouldn’t expect using a Wrench on a Rappel Cord to be surprisingly Deadly.

(Well, you might. But you’d have already known that before you got to this planet.)

“Thing being applied” sounds a bit strange, but should work.

In fact, is it an unintentional mistake that these aren’t Equipment? Making them Things means that they all start in play, as you’re also saying that “Things have a Location, and default to the Haniver.”

Unintentional mistake. But an instance of them doesn’t exist yet, right?

The rule will be “Numerous Things exist on this planet, each of which is either an Animal, Vegetable or Mineral. Those discovered so far are:-” - I can’t see a way to read that which implies they’re defined but not in play.

This also means that the “removes the required Things at their Location” effect doesn’t do anything, because Things always have a Location.

Ah. Dang.

Oh well, its early enough in the dynasty that it should be easy enough to fix it then set the gamestate to whatever feels right.

per my comments on Space Farms

maybe crafting later

[Josh] I don’t think this proposal actually contradicts the collective nature of Things, even if Cuddlebeam was thinking in terms of it doing so.

@kevan It kind of does, if only ludonarratively - why would crafting remove the ingredient Things? If they are a collective presence then surely you can eg make an ingot and build some rappel lines without exhausting the supply?

I suppose there is a weird terminology issue here, where raw materials are a Thing and refined materials are also a Thing and crafted end products are also a Thing, and the first is collective while the last is singular and the middle one is…?

Anyway I think if we’re going to obfuscate here we need to define better.

Yeah, I think this just needs a tweak to make Ingots and Cords into Equipment, which I’ll propose in the morning if nobody else does.

Maybe we should rename “Things” to something clearer (even just “Alien Things”), as this feels like confusion that’s going to arise again.

cov for the queue