Questions about Alternate Worldline Design.

[Sindri]

You are in no way limited to rafts. Metal nails didn't start being used until TL 3 and it's quite possibly to build something that looks like a boat without them. Even without that war canoes and hide boats work instead of rafts.

I don't see why you couldn't make good glass with some work.

If you must cauterize why wouldn't glass work?

[Ashtagon]

Originally Posted by Sindri

You are in no way limited to rafts. Metal nails didn't start being used until TL 3 and it's quite possibly to build something that looks like a boat without them. Even without that war canoes and hide boats work instead of rafts.

Okay, fair point on the canoes. And I suppose you could use wooden pegs instead of metal nails, although the end result probably won't be anything like as sturdy in a storm.

I don't see why you couldn't make good glass with some work.

If you must cauterize why wouldn't glass work?

Hmm, let's see. The earliest "mould" techniques could be used to make a long thin implement, or even just a working "head" and a longish spur. The spur can then be held in a purpose-built wooden grip. So I guess yes, you can have a cauterising tool with TL1 glass techniques.

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by Sindri

You are in no way limited to rafts. Metal nails didn't start being used until TL 3 and it's quite possibly to build something that looks like a boat without them. Even without that war canoes and hide boats work instead of rafts.

I know there are boats made out of big bundles of reeds. Well, I "know" because Thor Heyderdal tried to use one to cross the Atlantic, but he was basing them off of real-world reed boats, I think.