>It's been two years now and he still can't make iron tools>His recent attempts were so bad he's returned to making roof tiles.Why can't he reach the Iron age? Was it really such a massive leap historically?
>>17405734You can't really just walk around and pick up chunks of iron ore like you could in the past. All the low hanging fruit has been picked.And not every plot of land has iron to begin with.
He doesn’t live there he just goes there to make content to sell his books on “survival”
>>17405740Why would anyone want to learn zero-tech survival? Even in the worst apocalyptic scenario there'll still be tons of junk to make basic tools out of.
>>17405734The bacteria iron simply isn't going to work out for him.
>>17405746I'd read it to get an idea how cavemen improved their life but I have my doubts he knows how
>>17405734He's just one man. If you gave him a few dozen expendable miners he could definitely reach the Iron Age
>>17405734Because he's trying to get iron from iron bacteria; it's not even a real ore
>>17405734advanced metallurgy requires civilization
>>17405746He's not a prepper. He just finds it an interesting problem.
>>17405746Because any means of survival should be exploited time permitting especially ones that are self reliant
>why doesnt a guy make iron in a place that doesnt have iron?
>>17405746out of interest. it's just fun to make stuff in the woods. did you never make a stick fort or a bridge in the woods? this is meant to be a history board, and living history or recreating history is a fun aspect of history. >>17405850exactly. it's more experiment than anything that would be actually practical historically. I'm sure there are easier sources of iron in australia but he's limiting himself to a very small plot of land.>>17405852or at least advanced, long distance trade networks.
>>17405852>>17405949>>17405986What's stopping him from going walkabout to find some? There are magnetite deposits strewn all over Australia. He could fill his pot and no one would give a shit.
>>17405734Iron is actually a huge bitch to make and especially so when you're still using stone tools. There's a reason why it took the fertile crescent civilizations thousands of years to start using them. All the pyramids were built using copper chisels and saws.The main problem is that he lives in wasteland Australia so there's basically no natural resources to exploit. The smart thing to do would be to "give" himself stuff like raw copper or tin ore so he can show off the evolution from the stone to copper/bronze age, but he seems to want to keep his little hovel "pure" so we're gonna keep getting a dozen or so more variations of mud furnaces, mud tile making, and charcoal burning. How fun.
>>17407008>he got softlocked into being in the Stone age due to geographygrim
>>17405734In real life it's a group effort, also he only has a shitty iron source. He should just spend a day at some place with good iron and collect a ton of ore there or something, gotta improvise somehow at some point.
>>17407102The nearest source could be hundreds of miles away. He doesn't even wear shoes. How can he believably find iron without ruining the immersion?
>>17405734This is on the same tier as retards denying origin of life research because "it's all made in the lab!"Good job OP
If he's trying to get into the Iron Age, did he already peak with bronze? How did he source his tin? The British Isles are pretty far away from Australia.
>>17405734needs more ore, bigger furnace, for larger yields. scraping up pond scum for a few grams isn't going to cut it.
>>17407333He could just show off the iron ore, not mention that it's from anywhere outside his parcel and noone would know.
>>17405734Iron is a bitch to make, he can't do this alone wtf is he thinking, he should have researched slavery first.
>>17405734The first iron was farmed from meteorites. I don't think he has any of those lying about.
>>17407333Get some other dude to play itinerant ore trader and just deliver him that stuff in exchange for some roof tiles. Fucking import export documents were a thing in the copper age, he's playing jungle primitive, not reinventing stuff.
>>17407533>Primitive technology is a hobby where you build things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. These are the strict rules: If you want a fire, use a fire stick - An axe, pick up a stone and shape it - A hut, build one from trees, mud, rocks etc. The challenge is seeing how far you can go without utilizing modern technology. I do not live in the wild, but enjoy building shelter, tools, and more, only utilizing natural materials. The rules are absolute. Unless there's another primitive tech guy nearby to trade with, he'll need to find some iron himself. >>17407407He's in Far North Queensland, meteorites degrade too quickly in the tropics and get covered with foliage
oh yeah this guy disappeared from the algo shilling
>bronze age collapse>it was a bunch of angry sardinians destroying the scammers of the east>just dont scam people on the mediterranean trading network
>>17405734Even the bronze age was built upon an international trade network. If you don't have iron ore or someone to buy it from, you aren't getting to the iron age.
>>17408239>The challenge is seeing how far you can go without utilizing modern technology.Considering every video for the last 2 years has been some dumb variation of mud furnace, mud bricks, clay tiles, charcoal making, or iron bacteria melting, not very far at all. He should AT LEAST give himself some flint or something. Shit's been boring for years now.
>>17406947He's probably working on his own limited private property, where there aren't big boulders of ore lying around. The point is, "what can I do with the surrounding area".
>>17405734He has made iron, or rather cast iron droplets (iron bacteria aren't an ore) an option could be to try solid state decarburization
shorts guy proves you can accomplish a lot as a lone guy in the wild from scratch. But this isn't even a realistic circumstance for very primitive human activity. Not only has he got no economy and limited resources, and no trade, he doesn't even have a community. The other very unrealistic thing is that he has all this knowledge and access to knowledge.If you have native iron or good ore available it's probably possible to do something with it by adapting the technology he has, but I find it hard to imagine doing much alone. And at the scale you'd need to produce anything much useful.>>17408298In the West, yeah. And even then there was some amount of ironworking. Just not at the scale you had later. And I'm pretty sure that didn't even happen until the trade networks rebounded.
>>17408927>>17408298Even if he had access to a trader, what the fuck does he have worth trading? Yams?
>>17405734>Why can't he reach the Iron age?It's almost like you need a whole society with specialized roles to do more than build a camp.
>>17409970I reckon he could do it with a few females to do the mundane work
The brick hut has fallen
>>17405734The iron age came about as humans started discovering natural iron ore deposits. Not everyone had access to these iron deposits, so they didn't have an "iron age", but the idea of geography effecting human development is not a conversation /his/tards want to have.
>>17413293Im no metallurgist, but I thought high grade iron ore is fairly common everywhere you look, and the real trick was in building bloomeries that were hot enough to actually smelt out the impurities?
>>17413293>the idea of geography effecting human development is not a conversation /his/tards want to havestop whining Diamondfag, development of technology wasn't a geographic slot machine "anyone could have won" at. Egalitarian cultists need to go hugbox their delusions on >>>/r/eddit instead of paggro bitching here
>>17413707>some richfags going around with a tamed zebra they can afford due to being richfags is supposed to be some rebuttalokay and
>>17413707>~9 tamed zebraThis proves they aren't great for domestication
>>17413430Yeah; only a few places have no acces to iron deposits, the iron age was more dependant on the knowledge you could use iron and how to smelt it
>>17409913Those shorts
>>17405734I respect his dedication for trying to get good yields out of what is basically hyper-diluted bog ore but taking a step back from that was probably a good move on his part since it should've been obvious from the start that was never going to work. Even if iron is more common in the Earth's crust, it takes a lot more effort to work than bronze.My favorite videos of his are the ones where he shows off some cool mechanical contraption made with sticks stone and vines, I wish he would do more of those. His agricultural/prawn trapping ones are pretty cool too. The construction ones are all very boring I don't think he's ever going to top his original tiled roof hut from like 12 years ago.
>>17406947Primitive Technology owns the land he films on anon he likely can't legally gather iron outside it
>>17405737Yes>>17405734>You can't really just walk around and pick up chunks of iron oreYes I can
