Hard Bone

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Hard Bone
Details
Latin name:	Os solidum
Item type:	Tool Weapon
Obtained:	Grabbing
Location(s):	Carcass
Alterable:	No
Consumable:	No
Effect(s)
Force Multiplier

Description

Hard Bone is a tool item and a weapon.

In-game model of Hard Bone

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:

• African Otter Carcass
• African Buffalo Carcass
• Bateleur Eagle Carcass
• Black Machairodus Carcass
• Crocodile Carcass
• Dorcas Gazelle Carcass
• Giant Warthog Carcass
• Golden Machairodus Carcass
• Hippopotamus Carcass
• Hyena Carcass
• Miocene African Horse Carcass
• Miocene Elephant Carcass
• Miocene Pelican Carcass
• White Machairodus Carcass
• 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:

• African Buffalo - Injury
• Bateleur Eagle - Bleeding
• Hippopotamus - Injury
• Megarian Banded Centipede - Venom Poisoning
• Miocene Elephant - Injury
• Miocene Pelican - Bleeding or Injury
• Miocene White Rhinoceros - Injury
• Thorbjarnarson's Crocodile - 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.