Against The Wild — v0.0.4 Alpha

New Features

Primitive Flint Axe

• Added a new primitive tool for chopping wood.
• The axe head must first be knapped from flint.
• The finished head is attached to a wooden handle using Primitive Rope.
• Features low durability and realistically slow woodcutting.

Bark and Tinder Gathering

• The Primitive Knife can now remove bark from birch logs.
• Bark harvesting requires holding the knife against the log for several seconds.
• Harvested trees are visually damaged by becoming stripped.
• Bark harvesting includes working animations, sounds, and particles.
• Birch Bark and dry Plant Fiber can be converted into Tinder Bundles.
• Only a small amount of bark is obtained from each log.

Primitive Fire Drill

• Added a realistic alternative to early-game flint and steel.
• Crafted using wooden components and Primitive Rope.
• Requires prepared tinder to start a fire.
• Ignition takes several seconds of continuous work.
• The process includes animation, sounds, particles, and progress feedback.
• Rain and wet conditions make ignition significantly more difficult.
• Failed attempts consume the prepared tinder.

World-Built Fire Pit

• Fire pits are constructed directly in the world.
• Stones, kindling, fuel logs, and tinder are added in separate visual stages.
• Every added stick and log appears individually in the model.
• Prepared fire pits are ignited directly with the Primitive Fire Drill.
• Fires require fuel and burn for a limited amount of time.
• Logs, planks, coal, and charcoal can be used as fuel.
• Uncovered fires are gradually extinguished by rain.
• Water buckets can extinguish fires immediately.
• Burning fire pits melt nearby snow.
• Extinguished fires leave hot embers before turning into ash.
• Embers can be revived using additional sticks and fuel.

Cooking Rack

• A cooking rack can be constructed on a burning fire pit.
• The first stick places the two supports.
• The second stick adds the horizontal cooking spit.
• Up to four food items can be placed on the spit.
• Food cooks more slowly than on a standard Minecraft campfire.
• Cooking food is displayed directly on the rack.

Stone Hammer

• Added the Stone Hammer as the first primitive mining tool.

• Crafted from a large Rock, a Stick, and either Plant Fiber, Primitive Rope, or String.

• Has 64 durability and a slow, heavy attack.

• Can collect basic stone materials but cannot recover ores.

• Supported rocks include:

  • Stone
  • Cobblestone
  • Mossy Cobblestone
  • Granite
  • Diorite
  • Andesite
  • Tuff
  • Calcite

• Broken stone produces 2–4 Small Rocks.

• There is a 25% chance to additionally obtain a large Rock.

• Ores are mined extremely slowly and yield no metal.

• Harder materials consume more durability.

• When the hammer breaks, its wooden handle is returned.

• It can be repaired using rocks or binding materials.