Slab Crafting

A flat stone is the first table. Everything the hands learn, they learn upon it.

Lay the makings on a work surface and press B to make arrows, bows, quivers and more.

Slab crafting is making things out in the world, with your hands and your tools. Set the makings down on a block, look at it, and press B.

How it works

1. Set the makings down on top of a block.
2. Hold any tool the work needs, in either hand.
3. Look at the block and press B.
4. If more than one thing can be made, choose. If only one can, the work begins.
5. Hold steady while you work. Each strike rings off the stone.
6. The finished piece drops onto the block.

• Nothing is used until the last strike.
• Only what the work needs is used. Anything else on the block stays where it lies.
• B again, or Esc, stops the work. So does looking away, stepping off, or putting the tool down. You lose nothing but the wear already on your tool.

Work surfaces

Most work needs a work surface, a hard block made for the purpose. Soft ground will not do, and you will be told the work needs a harder surface. Some things, like arrows, can be put together on any ground.

Tools

Some work needs a blade, some a hammer. The tool is not used up, but every strike wears it. See Tools and Wear.

• Blade: a flint knife.
• Hammer: a flint hammer, or a flint knife.

What you can make

• Arrow Shaft. One stick. A blade, on a work surface.
• Bone Arrowheads. One large bone gives two. A blade, on a work surface.
• Bone Powder. One small bone, ground down. A hammer, on a work surface.
• Oak Bow. Two sticks and a grass rope. A blade, on a work surface.
• Hide Quiver. Two small furs and a grass rope. A blade, on a work surface.
• Flint Arrows. Three flint arrowheads, three shafts and a grass rope make three arrows. By hand, on any ground.
• Bone Arrows. The same, with bone arrowheads.

In the pack

A few simple things are still made in the pack. Lay the makings in the grid, each in its place, and click the result. It drops at your feet.

• Bone Spike. Three small bones across the top row. You will want one for Rope.