#firecraft

[a-life-lived-outdoors]

Another small fire with steel wool and flint & steel. Extremely viable option, was much quicker to flame than charcloth.

#outdoorsman #bushcraft #outdoor survival #wilderness survival #firecraft #flint and steel #survival skills

[everyknightforge]

This Stag & Steel Fire Starter went to Stacy in AL. May all your campfires start easy, burn bright, and keep you warm.

http://ekforge.com/product-category/outdoors/

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#madeintheusa #handmade #custom #oneofakind #hunting #camping #hiking #fishing #antlers #firecraft #firemaking #prepper #edcgear #survival

[peakdistrictsurvivalsch]

OLSB, the sun nearly always shines on. Today was brilliant, hibernation pods and s’mores. Fossil making and understanding sedimentary rocks structure. As we had the fire going it would have been rude not to toast marshmallows with the older ones too! #britishcountryside #outdooreducation #outdoors #peakdistrict #gowild #bushcraft #survival #wilderness #nature #learning #woodland #woods #adventure #expeditions #exploration #wildcamping #hiking #curriculum #firecraft #treeandplant #wildedibles #outdoorlearning #peakdistrictsurvivalschool #schools #pathfinder #beyondforestschool https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj5u6R1Dw_J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[quaranmine]

You think that Firecraft!Scar is a morning tea or a coffee drinker? Or maybe even a nice cup of water amd hot cocoa mix with a sprinkle of marshmallows (I feel like he would drink something warm the first couple of months when the night gets chilly up in the lookout tower)

Hmm. Probably morning coffee? I don't see him as a tea person so much. If we're getting real accurate, it's probably instant coffee xD not a whole lot of luxury in a lookout cabin. I do like the idea of hot cocoa though. I can honestly see him as being the type of semi-annoying (affectionate) person who gets up without even bothering about coffee/caffiene and is just fine lol

A warm drink in the morning is Essential when in the lookout 👍not only because it is, you are correct, cold at night but also just for the general morale I think

#quara asks #hc_firewatch_au

[digitalagepulao]

Monkey Technology at Huaguoshan

So, I've been musing on just how much the monkeys would be capable of achieving when it comes to technology. We know that Wukong taught them a whole lot, but what could they do before their naturally born sage brought all his learning? This is mostly me rambling about stuff that comes off my head and from my own experiences and learning.

Tool use and crafting

We are well-aware of tool usage among the great apes/homonids (aka humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, as well as extinct hominins like neanderthals and homo habilis), and for convenience's sake I'll give the fantasy monkeys the same skills. Wukong is credited as teaching them how to sharpen wood and bamboo for knives and spears, so crafting tools might have been out of their wheelhouse. So we have to work with basic, naturally occuring tools, like sharp stones and sticks as they are found. To further this point, that should include mortal and pestle tools, as all you need is a concave rock and another stone or even wood to grind things with.

Fire

This one is a bit dicey. Wukong isn't given explicit credit for teaching firecraft, but the novel does make mention of them burning incense and offerings. We can always handwave these deets as stuff monkeys learned by watching humans as animals often seem to do in the novel, but they aren't quite told to make use of it until Wukong returns and makes a proper kingdom out of Water-Curtain cave. So on this one, I'll just say it's something that they've known how to do for a while, but had very little reason to put that particular skill to work until Wukong came along.

Claywork

Since we established they know how to craft fire, next comes what to do with that fire! And first things that come to mind is cooking and claywork. Again, they only seem to cook food after Wukong's leadership, so on to clay. Clay is quite easy to mold and then burn, but it would take seeeeveral attempts to get the heat management right and learn what makes pottery crack in the kiln. As for glazes, they can be a happy coincidence! Depending on the process and time during firing, when the oven is opened, one can find the inside walls with a luster of ash that melted into glaze, and it's pretty neat! Natural glazes can be made by processing wood ash, which again takes some time to learn on their own but not impossible.

Textiles

The monkeys are described as being able to weave grass mattresses, and then later Wukong teaches them to make flax, which is a way more involved process in itself. Now we're on more dicey ground, as textiles take quite a bit of refined precision grips that most tree-dwelling primates aren't capable of anatomically. I'll probably go off about monkey anatomy at some other time, so we'll handwave that one to fantasy rules too.

Winemaking

We got plenty of mentions of coconut wine and other drinks at Huaguoshan's feasts and celebrations, but how did the monkeys get to wine? Animals in nature have been noted to indulge in recreational drugs, including fermented fruits, simply for the joy of it. A notable example is cedar waxwings indulging in fermented berries and needing to be picked out of walkways by kind humans so nobody trips on them. And most notable of all, humanity has had a long history with fermented foods and drinks. Coconut wine takes a bit of processing to be well, wine. This could have been learned over time but again, the monkeys never had much need to perfect this knowledge or put it to much use until Wukong's reign. Making wine is kind of hard when you don't have proper shelter to regulate temperatures, and his discovery of Water-Curtain cave is notable for sparing the monkeys the whims of weather and seasons. So we have shelter, but what about vessels? Water-Curtain cave is said to have all the necessities of life within, including stone dishware, so it's safe to say they had access to stone vases and pots, plus we've discussed claywork, so monkey-made glazed pottery is also a possibility. And we also covered fire, so the process of heating and cooling mashes for fermenting is also checked off the list.

Incense making

The monkeys are described to practice religion to some extent, offering prayers and burning sacrificial livestock to the gods, so one would imagine they'd stretch that worship to burning incense. Incense can be as easy as scraping off aromatics over simmering coals, which is absolutely within their scope to do, but things like incense sticks might take some learning. Getting the dust fine enough to be kneaded and then rolled or extruded is quite a labor without more complex tools than a mortar and pestle, but that's work they might be able to invest in during Wukong's reign at Water-Curtain cave.

Medicine

Now this one is a wee bit tricky. If we're keeping simply to usage of medicinal herbs, then we have multiple cases of great apes using foraged ingredients to heal themselves and even teaching the right way to consume them to their young. If we stretch this to say, poultices and infusions, that feels like a reasonable leap to make given all the other things they seem capable of thanks to basic tool use. For more say, complex things like major injuries and sickness might be touch and go. Usage of tools like splints, sutures and cauterizing are more on the lane of homonini (aka humans and our closest extinct relatives) and I think this is something they'd need to learn from humans how to go about it. If Wukong also brings with him knowledge of traditional healing ie. acupuncture, Tui na, and more complex medicine mixtures, then the monkeys' lifespan is gonna get much longer. And since he goes out of his way to protect his kin from King Yama's rule and shares immortal wine and peaches freely with them, that's definitely something he would do.

Art

Talk about a large category, eh? Art can be any number of things, but I wanna focus on their technical capabilities and their sense of aesthetic appeal. Art has been a homonin trait for a long long time, with recent studies suggesting all the way back to Homo naledi, who lived during the middle Pleistocene. Anything from dragged fingers across mud and clay, slashes on rock, and of course the well-known cave paintings, can be easily assigned to them as they had basic tools available. The monkeys are also described as capable of dancing and playing music during Wukong's reign, so it's unknown if these are skills they already have or were taught over time by him, or if it's something that they just had the time to devote to at that time. I'm going to take that as a little of column A and column B. As for aesthetic appeal, we know great apes as well as other animals do have a sense of what is "beautiful", as well as have their individual preferences. What exactly monkeys will find appealing is definitely up for debate, but while they might take cues from humans through observation, they're capable of their own experimentation at their own time and leisure. Accessories, face and body painting, carvings, and drawings would be fairly common sights among the monkeys, and likely very prized possessions and gifts.

#jttw #jttw au #journey to the west #xiyouji #expedition to the west au #slowly chipping away at worldbuilding :)

[adam-bitcholtz]

im building an aircraft

what about the watercraft, earthcraft, and firecraft?

[akhenaten-art]

Birch Twigs

From the world of The Black Relics.

Used in the creation of birch arrow shafts in fletching among other uses in crafting and firecraft.

03/20/2024

#artists on tumblr #artist #art #drawing #sketch #lore #The Black Relics lore #fantasy #worldbuilding #concept art #item art #akhenatenart #2024

[notamobboss]

Remembering this morning one of my favorite moments in scouting. I was in Boyscouts in the 90s and 00s. Hit all the ranks, from tiger through eagle. I was 2nd class when I got bullied out of my first troop. But mom was insistent on me reaching eagle like her brother so she got me into another troop in a neighboring town. Which was all well and good but then the scoutmaster retired and his replacement...well, Mr K was a former marine who looked down on me for being autistic and who I was determined to prove wrong and show up out of spite.

Well, after a couple years of working my ass off, being the troop librarian, going to every campout regardless of season, leading demos on herbalism and firecraft, and completing dozens of merit badges, it was time for my eagle project. Hurricane Katrina had just hit and an org in the general area that bought and restored homes to house the unhoused was rehoming refugees and needed clothes and shoes and whatnot. So I reached out to them and they approved of me doing a clothing, shoes, and leather goods drive. Now, one of the criteria for an eagle project is you need a quantifiable goal. If you don't meet it, your project is a failure but if you exceed it by too much it looks like you did a poor job of estimating and that reflects poorly on you as well with the board of review. I thought we could easily do 1000 pairs of shoes and outfits. So that was the proposal I gave to Mr K. He shut me down hard and told me I should make it 100. I countered with 500 and said I was supremely confident and wouldn't go lower. He relented and thus 500 was the number on my proposal.

We set up drop boxes at local churches for a week, contacted an area paper that put a story about the drive on page 3, and ran a dropoff and sorting point at my local church for a weekend. All told I had collected just shy of 1200. The look of shock on Mr K's face was priceless when I showed him my spreadsheet. He immediately volunteered the use of the troop trailer for getting it all to the org's facility. He also bought lunch for me and the boys who had helped. After that, he talked me up like he had been supporting me in my corner the whole time and gave a big speech at my award ceremony about what a guiding light I was for younger scouts, particularly ones with disabilities, but I didn't care, I had achieved my goal and I left scouting pretty much right after my eagle award ceremony. The board of review also appreciated my explanation for the mismatch between goal and result.

Last I heard of Mr K, he had been removed as scoutmaster because he threatened city council members on Facebook over the dismissal of his sister-in-law as police chief after she ran a stop sign in the town police car and t-boned a FedEx truck.

#scouting #small town #memories #long post

[pipuisfood]

[dawnmarsalfieetherington]

Bushcraft, while sounding like the Australian knock-off of Minecraft they have in down under, no it’s referring to the various tactics and skilled based around survival in the wild, and no camping and Bushcraft is not the same despite having some converging elements as camping is more casual and far leisurely since there’s significantly less risks With camping considering your going into the wild and can bring whatever and as much as you want, bushcraft is more about living off of nature without the aid of much or any items from human civilisation, it covers food (through foraging, tracking, hunting, trapping, fishing), water sourcing and purification, shelter-building, and firecraft.

While Bushcraft more priorities living off as little human items as possible there’s still a few necessities they recommend keeping around.

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report this adContents   hide 1 Bushcraft | A Guide to Natural Wilderness Survival1.1 1. What Does Bushcraft Mean?1.2 2. What Is the Difference Between Camping and Bushcraft?1.3 3. What Are the Six Basic Survival Skills?1.4 4. What Should Be in a Bushcraft Kit?1.5 5. What Is the Best Bushcrafting Knife?report this ad1. What Does Bushcraft Mean? 2. What Is the Difference Between Camping and Bushcraft?fire making, cooking, and sleeping on rough surfaces or tent. Like camping, bushcraft also involves survival skills. However, it entails a primitive lifestyle such as crafting, foraging, and hunting, and uses older ways to sustain life.

3. What Are the Six Basic Survival Skills?4. What Should Be in a Bushcraft Kit?

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Bushcraft | A Guide to Natural Wilderness Survival

Bushcraft basically pertains to the skills and knowledge you gained by staying outdoors and using these while camping. It’s surviving in the wilderness with a bare minimum, the same as it was for your ancestors.

Building and staying in a tent, hunting, and gathering are some of its related and fundamental skills.

Be it on an island, forest, mountain, or desert, bushcraft is the art of surviving anywhere. It teaches you how to handle yourself in the real and outside world so you can call the remote wilderness your second home.

These two terms are alike and have similar features. Both situations include basic essentials such as food, water, fire, and shelter, but here’s a more detailed contrast between the two.

Camping refers to staying outdoors and using basic survival skills for a period of time. It can be done for relaxation and enjoyment, and you can even bring hi-tech gear for a more comfortable experience.

You can go to parks in your recreational vehicle or RV, and already consider it as camping. This activity may sound more lavish, but it covers some characteristics the same as bushcraft.

It still involves and encourages the usage of the items below.

Saw: Dealing with the wilderness requires the cutting of wood, and an easy way to do this is by using a saw. A hatchet or knife cannot efficiently cut trees for your shelter.

Fishing line and hook: These lightweight items are the basic tools you need to successfully catch a fish. Since fishing is a vital bushcraft activity, you should always have these in your bushcraft backpack.

Kettle: If you want to make some hot coffee or tea, simply put a kettle over your campfire.

Knife: From cutting cords to digging, carving, and whittling wood, you can do a whole lot of activities with a good knife. Knives are extremely functional and serve different purposes. You can also use them for your self-defense, shaving, and when eating.

Tarpaulin and cord: A tarp creates a covered space under which you can sleep or live. Include a cord in your bushcraft backpack to tie your tarp to the trees. This cord can also be versatile as you can hang your other equipment on it.

Clothing: Bring lightweight, waterproof, and durable clothes especially if you’ll do lots of mountaineering and walking. If you’re expecting cold nights, bring pieces that will keep you warm. Don’t forget to bring spare clothes, most especially your undergarments.

Wash kit: Aim for an effective and small kit with simple items for brushing your teeth and cleaning your body.

First aid kit: Add necessary items in your bushcraft backpack that can treat both minor and serious injuries.

Compass: Avoid getting lost while exploring the wilderness. Have a sense of direction and find your way back using a compass.

much of the information was acquired from this site going over some of basics of bushcraft and helped a lot in my summary 

https://survivallife.com/bushcraft/

as well as that this other site also helped in my research.

https://www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/bushcraft-a-beginners-guide/

[afro-dave]

Had the last local legacy event before Eternal Weekend today. Went 3-1-1, split top 8 to get a little more vintage practice in. Played UW(r) Day’a Undoing again

{Legacy} Lovely Day

4 Brainstorm

4 Ponder

2 Day’s Undoing

2 Force of Negation

4 Force of Will

4 Swords to Plowshares

4 Prismatic Ending

2 Supreme Verdict

3 Narset, Parter of Veils

2 The Wandering Emperor

3 Teferi, Time Raveler

2 Snapcaster Mage

3 Hullbreacher

1 Timeless Dragon

2 Tundra

1 Volcanic Island

1 Mystic Sanctuary

4 Flooded Strand

3 Scalding Tarn

2 Prismatic Vista

4 Island

2 Plains

1 Mountain

Sideboard:

1 Deafening Silence

2 Flusterstorm

2 Surgical Extraction

2 Pyroblast

1 Red Elemental Blast

2 Meltdown

2 Ruination

1 Null Rod

1 Dack Fayden

1 Containment Priest

Round 1 - Mono-B Worldgorger Reanimator (2-0)

Game 1 I got hit with turn 1 pitch Grief/Reanimate Grief, and I drew the Swords. I was able to run away with the game after that with eternalizing Timeless Dragon and Wandering Emperor providing a Samurai and counters

In - Surgical x2, Containment Priest

Out - Day’s Undoing x1, Supreme Verdict x2

I decided the 4-drop was clunky and if I’m casting Undoing I’m in a good position or things have gone terribly and I’m desperate. They mulled to 5 and powered out a turn 1 Rotting Regisaur off Chrome Mox and Dark Ritual, I Plowed it, and that was basically the game. Teferi bounced Chrome Mox, I held up counter magic and Surgical, eventually I found a creature

Round 2 - Lands (1-1)

Game 1 was me slowly being ground down. Ended a Mox Diamond to cut green, eventually they drew a land and I could Swords Marit Lage but couldn’t deal with Field of the Dead and Urza’s Saga. I could’ve kept trying but I needed another white source on my last turn for Wandering Emperor and at 1 life I couldn’t fetch it

In - Surgical x2, Meltdownx 2, Ruination x2

Out - Undoing x1, Force of Will x2, Supreme Verdict x2, Wandering Emperor x1

Game 2 I was able to pick my spots really well. I had the Meltdown to clear out 2 constructs and the Needle from Saga (named T3feri). Followed that up with Extracting Sagas, Ruination before Field was online, and then Day’s Undoing with Narset out. Then I had to frantically dig for something to actually win the game with before time was called, found Emperor and with 2 minutes left in the round we called it a draw there

Round 3 - Burn (0-2)

Not a lot to say here. Lost the die roll game 1, didn’t have multiple removal spells, and lost a lot of life to Goblin Guides and assorted bolts “stabilized” with a FoW in hand after dealing with Eidolon and Pyrostatic Pillar (Ending for 4 helps) with an eternalized Dragon in play, but got burned out by Exquisite Firecraft

In - Flusterstorm x2, Containment Priest

Out - Day’s Undoing x2, Supreme Verdict x1

We end up in a similar situation to game one, except this time 2 Sudden Shock kill me while I’m holding up FoN. I think I need to counter more aggressively in the matchup? I let a few of the bolts to the face and a PoP for 2 damage resolve, but this was built different than what I expected. Probably need to actually look at a recent burn list instead of relying on muscle memory from 3 years ago

Round 4 - Delver (2-0)

Things felt rough for the first few turns, but enough removal resolved. I was jealous of the Expresive Iterations, but that’s the choice I made when I put Hullbreacher and Undoing in my deck instead of Mentor and Iteration. Managed to run them low on cards, save my Swords for Murktide, and then resolve a EoT Hullbreacher into Undoing for the concession

In - Flusterstorm x1, Pyroblast, Red Elemental Blast x2, Ruination x2

Out - Force of Negation x2, Force of Will x4

I just wanted to be firmly in the control seat. It may be risky having no Forces but the blasts are pretty much strict upgrades. Thinking about it now I probably wanted Dack over the Flusterstorm, just to find answers early and threats later, plus the offensive combo with Hullbreacher/Narset. It worked out, I had plenty of removal, and was able to play through a known opposing blast after it revealed off Delver. Ended up casting T3feri when they tapped out for Murktide to bounce and draw. Game ended with a Ruination after I had exiled or blasted 5(?) threats and leveraged flashing in Hullbreacher in response to a Ponder to help run them out of cards

Round 5 - Delver (2-0)

Very similar experience with these games and I boarded the same. Main difference was in game 2 Ruination got forced, which let me resolve Narset and gain advantage but then the Tropical Island was fetched and I spent 3 turns managing Minsc and Boo. T3feri made it easier than it might’ve been, and I was able to close out quickly with eternalized Dragon and Wanderer again

Top 8 split, and I got to practice a few more games with HollowVine so I’m just woefully unprepared for Vintage, but that’s better than completely unprepared. Funny enough, it seems I can’t beat Hullbreacher

#mtg #mtg legacy #magic the gathering

[a-life-lived-outdoors]

Using a carbon steel knife as the striker for flint and steel:

The supplies for this exercise, the knife is 1095 steel

Make downward strokes, you strike the flint against the spine at a 45 degree or less angle. If you keep a lanyard loop on your knife, i suggest placing your thumb through it to prevent the knife from slipping out of your grip.

The money shot

Ready to be placed into the tinder bundle

Make sure your tinder has good contact with the ember

Slowly and steadily blow air into the tinder bundle. It's not about how fast or hard you can blow into the tinder bundle, its about how steadily you can keep the flow of oxygen to the ember.

Success!

Not every knife will make sparks with flint. Even some carbon steels won't produce a spark. Using this method does leaves marks on the spine of your knife.

#bushcraft #outdoor survival #wilderness survival #firecraft #firemaking #primitive skills #survival skills #flint and steel

[everyknightforge]

Stag & Steel Fire Starter by Every Knight Forge

These two are on their way to Shawn in MT. May all your campfires start easy, burn bright, and keep you warm.

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#madeintheusa #handmade #custom #oneofakind #hunting #preppers #edc #firecraft #firestarter #camping #hiking #fishing

[peakdistrictsurvivalsch]

Whilst the guys have been to Stafford, Flash Ley PS. I’ve been delivering a river study of the river Dane. Yes I drive up to axe edge moor on Sunday and helped free stuck motorists. Today I set off early before children arrived and again visited the areas. All was well today, all roads safe to drive. We always have a plan B and C and at times D. Safety is always top priority, enjoyable learning is always in the menu. Well done everyone today from Springcroft PS. And amazing day of learning and fun has been had by the many. #britishcountryside #outdooreducation #outdoors #peakdistrict #gowild #bushcraft #survival #wilderness #nature #learning #woodland #woods #adventure #expeditions #exploration #wildcamping #hiking #curriculum #firecraft #treeandplant #wildedibles #outdoorlearning #peakdistrictsurvivalschool #schools #pathfinder #beyondforestschool https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvKdTtDO_a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[paleohikermd]

Checking out the Ultimate Fire Tinder from @procamptek and I have to say, it’s another home run!!! #firetinder #procamptek #firecraft #bushcraft #hiking #backpacking #prepping #emergencypreparedness #youtube #youtuber #paleohikermd https://www.instagram.com/p/CPTMRnHBh1X/?utm_medium=tumblr

#firetinder #procamptek #firecraft #bushcraft #hiking #backpacking #prepping #emergencypreparedness #youtube #youtuber #paleohikermd

[remmy-80]

Remmys Gear Bushcraft Singapore. Morakniv Silky saw set . Fat wood fire lighting with ferro rod.

#remmysgear #bushcraft #bushcraftsingapore #firestarter #firecraft #silkysaw #morakniv #fatwood