Considering the temp, cold weather clp would be preferable.

You need then a simple maintenance kit to keep the rifle in order: clp, oil rag, rod, bore brush and swatches. Having a kit drop by 1% per use for every 25% of 'maintenance' would be dandy. If you have a yard and yard tools then you need something to keep them in working order. I have a wet stone and numerous files to maintain various blades: chainsaw, lawn mowers, shovel, edger, hatchet, machete, landscaping axe, splitting axe, wedge and even a knife. While my electronics tool box does not contain the right tools, my standard tool box does. I think the tool kit alone would be enough to maintain an axe or a knife. That said, this may simply be a place holder for something more realistic coming down the pipe. Using another rifle for spare parts might work, as long as the parts you need are not amiss there to. Even McGuyger could not fix a damaged rifle barrel with the remnants of a can opener, knife, axe or prybar. Unfortunately it comes across as convoluted. However, I understand the devs want to add in a simple mechanism to fix multiple things. I think the entire logic behind spare parts is deeply flawed. I have beat this horse to death over numerous posts. Although, why wouldn't you just use the other not-broken tool?. If a tool breaks, you can salvage other tools of the same type to 'repair it': firing pin snaps on the rifle, take parts from another rifle to replace. 'Wear' is the 'acting' effectiveness of the tool (sharpness for knives/hatchets, cleanliness for rifle, clearness of glass for lantern, etc), and can be repaired using the right tools. 'Condition' is the pure percentage-based 'health' of the object, is irreparable, and happens SLOWLY over time. With some of the ideas mentioned on this thread, I think that tools should have two 'characteristics': 'condition' and 'wear'. No scrap metal is needed to wedge the eye, just use a wedge of wood. (You will have a straight, tomahawk-style shaft instead of the curved axe-style shaft, but all that means is you need to exert more careful control of your grip and swing) I've made a replacement handle for a splitting axe in about 5 minutes. Not including the fact that hatchet/axe handles are extremely easy to replace. Generally, it is pretty difficult to 'lose control' of a hatchet, as they are shorter, the 'balance' is closer to the hand, and you are using it in a much more controlled and confined fashion than you are an axe. Plenty of felling/splitting axe handles, but never a hatchet. In my 8+ years of varied wilderness experience, I have not once broken a hatchet handle. Generally, if you break an axe handle, you are doing something seriously wrong (missing the wood with the head and hitting it with the handle, most likely). Perhaps a secondary rating for weapons, 'effectiveness' or some other general term, that would represent dirtiness on the rifle (more dirt-> less effective) and sharpness on the blades (more sharp -> more effective) with their corresponding recipes for 'repair'. I do like your suggestions for sharpening though. You'd need new wood for the handle and potentially a piece of scrap metal to wedge the handle in the axe's eye. What happens if you break your axe handle? You're saying to use a Metal file on it? You presume that the deterioration of the object is limited to dulling of the blade. Rifle: Hot water + cloth + kerosene + tools Hatchet : stone/sharpening stone (low-level repairs) / Metal file (high-level repairs) + kerosene/ animal fat Knife: stone (low-level repairs)/ sharpening stone (high-level repairs) + kerosene/animal fat Since it gets 'damaged' every time we fire, I am assuming it isn't actually getting 'damaged', merely dirty. Same thing with my hatchet.Įven with a rifle, 'adding' scrap metal and wood to a damaged rifle with some tools will not magically repair it. I am going to take a sharpening stone (or a regular, close-grained rock, if I don't have a sharpening stone) to it. If my knife gets dull (which is what I am assuming is happening when it gets damaged), I am not going to use pliers and such to do.unspecified things to my knife with scrap metal and wood. Can someone give me a reason as why we need 'scrap metal' to repair our knives, hatchets and rifle?

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