UPD. 14.12.25 - Barbed wire update! A new fence type made with metal wire items. Barbed wire fences apply a slight damage to animals and creatures touching them, <span style="color: #000000;">except</span> domesticated animals of Generation 3 or higher. Their crafting output is also pretty high, allowing you to quickly fence off large territories. With this update I make my first foray into code modding, so that I can now add more interesting features down the line.
UPD. 26.10.25 - Bark update! A whole new production chain utilizing tree bark.
This mod adds lots of various craftable resource items to the game and integrates them into existing production chains, drawing strong inspiration from real life recipes.
Short list of new resources:
Wood and kelp ashes
Starch
Soda ash
New glue types
Oils and rendered fats
Soaps
Grease
Glass batches
Metal wire
...and more!
In-depth list of new resources and recipes:
Tree bark
Tree bark is now a byproduct of debarking logs. Additionally, debarking is now done using a hoe (which is similar enough in look and function to an adze, an actual tool ised in debarking irl) instead of a hammer+axe combination. This makes bark and debarked logs available as early as the Stone Age and gives some extra utility to a previously very underused tool. Tree bark has multiple uses:
It can be burned into wood ash, resulting in half as much ash as you would get from the whole log.
Oak and Acacia bark can be used to make tannins the same way the logs are.
Bark can be used to make improvised wood armor and a crude shield.
Fibrous bark of Birch and Redwood trees can be processed into bark strands which can in turn be used to make many different items.
Bark strands
Bark strands are a type of fiber that can be used to make:
Bark baskets, bark chests, bark skeps, bark basket traps, rush matting, beenades, hunter backpacks and ropes - all in a similar vein to reeds and papyrus.
Bark cordage (a type of thread).
Bark cordage
A type of cordage made of bark fiber, it can be used to make sieves or as a bowstring in the bow recipes
Starch
Starch made by sealing starch-rich dough (or rice mash) and water in a barrel. Can be used as an additive in papermaking or to make starch glue.
Washed flax fibers
A new processed version of raw flax fibers. Raw flax fibers are now much less efficient when turning them into flax twine, so wash them first if you can. To wash the fibers you need to seal them in a barrel with any kind of detergent (lye, caustic lye or soapy water).
Raw sinew
To compensate for reduced twine yield from raw flax fibers, you can now extract raw sinew from bushmeat, which can then be turned into sinew cordage. Sinew also now replaces bushmeat in the recurve bow recipe.
Sinew cordage
Made by combining 4 raw sinew pieces. Can be used instead of flax twine when making bows or leather clothing and armor.
Wood ash
Made by burning wood logs in a firepit. Hard woods like beech, maple, oak and walnut produce twice as much wood ash.
Kelp ash
Similar to wood ash, made by burning seaweed in a firepit (seaweed plants now drop their own blocks when broken, much like wild vines). Kelp and bladderwrack produce twice as much soda ash.
Potash lye
Made by sealing wood ash with water in a barrel. Can be used to soak leather, make soap, as a simple detergent or processed further.
Soda ash lye
Similar to Potash lye, made by sealing kelp ash with water in a barrel. Can be used to soak leather, make soap, as a simple detergent or processed further.
Potash
Made by boiling potash lye in a cooking pot. Can be used as a P fertilizer, but due to much better availability doesn't give a permanent P boost anymore - that bonus was moved to powdered sylvine, which you can now use directly. Can be dissolved back into potash lye or processed further.
Soda ash
Made by boiling soda ash lye in a cooking pot. Can be dissolved back into soda ash lye or processed further.
Caustic potash
Made by boiling potash and slaked lime in a cooking pot. Can be dissolved in water in a barrel to create caustic potash lye.
Caustic soda
Made by boiling soda ash and slaked lime in a cooking pot. Can be dissolved in water in a barrel to create caustic soda lye.
