oh I thought this was ways the player or auto-evo could get into space (P.S. a lot of players would prepare subconsciously for evolutions down the line like evolving photosynthetic organelles before getting to patches with light).
NPC and yeah thats my point. no space ships
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what if they raised biological beings, that processed water into o2, and funneled it into a contraption that burned it in a controlled space to smelt items
Tried that, nothing to burn and not enough oxygen.
what if you stored it up?
like a pressure tank using bladders of animals
maybe use eels to do some kind of electrolysis, or just use their electricity to heat metal
You’d need utterly rediculous quantities youd need to work with pebbles for ingots, the water vapor would ruin your metal if you ever got a fire going in the first, and you’d still have nothing to burn. As for electricity, electric eels don’t have enough to make an arc anything, by a long shot. That should settle it. They’d need almost a thousand times the watts with 10,000 times the discharge period. And then it’d just zap the water. Not gonna happen. Electric eels are exceptional. Very exceptional. If they can’t do it, maybe a whale sized version breed for it? Still no. Still very no.
rip
My feeling when I can grow a car engine using a snail
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Trade with an over-water civ might be the best bet.
Sadly- yes it prolly is. Then again I never saw any good arguments against floating forges aside from what to burn, so if anyone can think of what to burn them we have another viable option.
I have a valid argument: Why would they make a floating forge?
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This is old as heck but check what I’m replying to. Also for players agency isn’t a problem.
The forge won’t float, it’s too heavy
Boat won’t float, it’s too heavy. Stick a tiny one on a raft
Yes, because as we all know, early boats needed to be made of stone and other heavy materials that are inflammable.
um- put it on a boat.
How do they build the boat to begin with?
reed raft i’d say. ancient Egyptians used them to cart massive chunks of stone so a small clay forge should fit.