Bricks
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 2:28 pm
A trivial suggestion perhaps, but we do have craftable bricks, usable for purposes of rp. Problem is they only stack to 5, making a single course wall 0.09 square meters in area, so they aren't really usable for rp in any sort of realistic numbers: a full chest of 100 bricks yields a little over half a meter of lateral wall, one story, one course of bricks.
It's more about availability than portability (size in inventory or weight), and bricks irl by design are, well, eminently stackable. They can be sold to settlement resources and then used in that way (as stone, I believe), but that imo abstracts the rp aspect of making/carrying them in the first place.
So my suggestion would be either make bricks as stackable (99) as the clay they're made from, or do away with them as a crafting recipe, freeing up a spot for something else: as is, they're only symbolically beneficial to "building/crafting" rp; I can't comment on the settlement economics impact, but I'd guess it's pretty marginal with either change.
It's more about availability than portability (size in inventory or weight), and bricks irl by design are, well, eminently stackable. They can be sold to settlement resources and then used in that way (as stone, I believe), but that imo abstracts the rp aspect of making/carrying them in the first place.
So my suggestion would be either make bricks as stackable (99) as the clay they're made from, or do away with them as a crafting recipe, freeing up a spot for something else: as is, they're only symbolically beneficial to "building/crafting" rp; I can't comment on the settlement economics impact, but I'd guess it's pretty marginal with either change.