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Is the bark pack worth the effort, the fact that it needs 5 pieces is my first grumble, four fit in a pot together and on two drying frames, which raises my next point, 24hrs to dry birch bark! Thats how long you might leave it in the real world. I would've thought something like 4 or 6 hours to dry would make it more achievable. After all, there is already quite a lot of waiting involved, wait for the pot to fire, wait for the bark to soak, wait for the milkweed char unless you are using another fibre.

In short make bark dry in 4-6hrs and the bark pack only require 4 bark.

Scilly_guy wrote:Is the bark pack worth the effort, the fact that it needs 5 pieces is my first grumble, four fit in a pot together and on two drying frames, which raises my next point, 24hrs to dry birch bark! Thats how long you might leave it in the real world. I would've thought something like 4 or 6 hours to dry would make it more achievable. After all, there is already quite a lot of waiting involved, wait for the pot to fire, wait for the bark to soak, wait for the milkweed char unless you are using another fibre.

In short make bark dry in 4-6hrs and the bark pack only require 4 bark.

Its really not worth making at all. just go for a leather backpack.

It looks great with frontier duster, though.

I don't have tanning yet, and I've been progressing slowly enough that waiting for the bark to dry wasn't a problem, so it was worth it for me. The bark only took about 16 hours to dry, I think.

Plus, now I have a stylish vegan alternative to the leather backpack.

Edit: I should note that I was making two, one for me and one for the friend I am playing with, so we ended up using 5 drying racks and it worked out nicely.

Are you sure your bark only took 16hrs because all 5 of mine will have taken 24 (when the last bit finishes).

Dallane wrote:Its really not worth making at all. just go for a leather backpack.

Exactly that is why I am suggesting it is made worthwhile.

Potjeh wrote:It looks great with frontier duster, though.

With some Jute gear and hay shoes you are the total biz

Maybe make the barkpack 8 slots and the backpack 12 or 16 the inventory is really small in this game anyway. Although that has been helped by multiple use food.

anfros wrote:Maybe make the barkpack 8 slots and the backpack 12 or 16 the inventory is really small in this game anyway. Although that has been helped by multiple use food.

would be nice for the effort involved in making them

I thought the point was that your inventory space is small so you have to make the decision of what to leave behind on those foraging missions, and that the extra space provided by pockets is even more valuable.

I still think the best solution is my original suggestion.

I think that the birch bark should take as long to dry as a hide does, which is the current situation as I understand it.