Turn plant fibre into string, then string into rope.
Needs first: nothing — start with bare hands.
Make cloth, so you are not dependent on hides.
Needs first: Cordage, Plant staples (Food)
Turn raw hide into a material that does not rot.
Needs first: Livestock (Food), Containers
Every guide, build, reference sheet and book reached from the steps above.
A dozen knots cover almost everything. Two of the most familiar ones — the reef knot and the granny — have killed people who used them for the one job they cannot do.
Level 1Cloth is a chain of slow jobs — growing, retting, spinning, weaving, finishing — and for all of history the slowest link was spinning. A weaver needed several spinners working full time to keep one loom supplied.
Level 0The highest calorie-return food source available to a group with nothing — and the one most often worked in the least productive way.
Level 0A trapline works all night while you sleep. A hunt works only while you are awake, usually returns nothing, and burns the calories it was supposed to find.
Level 1Animals turn grass nobody can eat into milk, meat, wool, leather, manure and traction. They also turn raw milk, a birthing ewe and a dog fed on offal into diseases that kill people.
A woven basket that fishes all night while you sleep — the highest return-per-hour food gear in tier 0.
A wall of near-invisible mesh that fishes a whole channel while you do something else.
Continuous forced air — the component that decides whether you get metal or roasted rock.
Drawn overview sheets, each with its corrections printed under it. They orient; they are never the thing you identify from.
