Hard Bone

Description
Hard Bone is a tool item and a weapon.

How to create
Hard Bone is produced by butchering certain carcasses. Most rocks or blunt objects can be used for butchering but there are two tools that excel at butchering: aBasalt Chopper or anObsidian Scraper.

How to obtain
The Hard Bone can be grabbed from a butchered carcass.

Where to obtain
The following carcasses will supply hard bone:
 * Enemy Otter carcass.png African Otter Carcass
 * Enemy Buffalo carcass.png African Buffalo Carcass
 * Enemy Eagle carcass.png Bateleur Eagle Carcass
 * Enemy Machairodus Carcass.png Black Machairodus Carcass
 * Enemy Croco carcass.png Crocodile Carcass
 * Enemy Gazelle carcass.png Dorcas Gazelle Carcass
 * Enemy Warthog carcass.png Giant Warthog Carcass
 * Enemy Machairodus Carcass.png Golden Machairodus Carcass
 * Enemy Hippo carcass.png Hippopotamus Carcass
 * Enemy Hyena carcass.png Hyena Carcass
 * Enemy Horse Carcass.png Miocene African Horse Carcass
 * Enemy Elephant carcass.png Miocene Elephant Carcass
 * Enemy Pelican Carcass.png Miocene Pelican Carcass
 * Enemy Machairodus Carcass.png White Machairodus Carcass
 * Enemy Rhino carcass.png White Rhinoceros Carcass

How to use
The Hard Bone unlike other tools is only useful as a weapon. It is a mix of wood, rocks, and stones weapons. The Hard Bone allows you to have distance from an attacker, they never break, but only cause blunt force trauma. They are a compromise of the best and worst of the other weapons.

The Hard Bone can damage animals, kill them if already badly hurt, and is intimidating to predators.
 * Main advantage: Will not break if used and can be used multiple times in combat. Which means you won't need to constantly give weapons to clan members as they defend themselves.
 * Disadvantage: Will help intimidate an animal but will not likely kill your foe in a single strike.

Understand that attacking certain big animals with a Hard Bone will lead to your hominid taking damage and negative status effects even with a successful attack:
 * Enemy Buffalo.png African Buffalo - Injury minor ico.png Injury major ico.png Injury
 * Enemy Eagle.png Bateleur Eagle - Bleed minor ico.png Bleed major ico.png Bleeding
 * Enemy Hippo.png Hippopotamus - Injury minor ico.png Injury major ico.png Injury
 * Enemy Centipede.png Megarian Banded Centipede - Venom Poisoning minor ico.png Venom Poisoning major ico.png Venom Poisoning
 * Enemy Elephant.png Miocene Elephant - Injury minor ico.png Injury major ico.png Injury
 * Enemy Pelican.png Miocene Pelican - Bleed minor ico.png Bleed major ico.png Bleeding or Injury minor ico.png Injury major ico.png Injury
 * Enemy Rhino.png Miocene White Rhinoceros - Injury minor ico.png Injury major ico.png Injury
 * Enemy Croco.png Thorbjarnarson's Crocodile - Injury minor ico.png Injury major ico.png Injury

If you decide to use a Hard Bone as a weapon, you should have plenty of positive status effects or "protections" in place to mitigate any damage that may occur during combat using the Hard Bone.