Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

bookplate

A crude form of armor made from thickly-stacked paper and rolls of duct tape.

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bow fire drill

A simple item for starting fires with friction between a notched plank and wooden shaft. The shaft is spun rapidly with a sawing motion by a bowstring wrapped around it. Very slow to acquire a usable ember.

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brazier

A large metal stand used to contain a fire. Fires set in a brazier will not spread to surrounding flammable objects.

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Gathering tools

bronze axe

Bronze axe for a fabrication and toolsmithing plan.

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bronze bill

A long, slightly curved and hooked bronze blade on the end of a sturdy shaft. Could be used to thoroughly ruin something's day, or cut branches and small trees.

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bronze chisel

A short, stout metalworking chisel made of bronze. It's used in some metalworking fabrication recipes. Bronze chisels spark less than their steel counterparts, but are less durable.

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bronze cuirass

A solid, single-piece cuirass made from bronze. It isn't particularly well designed, but it does its job.

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bronze cuirass

A solid, single-piece cuirass made from bronze. It isn't particularly well designed, but it does its job.

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bronze cuirass

A solid, single-piece cuirass made from bronze. It isn't particularly well designed, but it does its job.

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bronze fileset

A set of tools commonly used to remove small amounts of material from the surface of metal objects.

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bronze hammer

A simple crude bronze hammer. It is not as sophisticated or useful as its steel alternative but it does get the job of hammering in nails well enough.

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bronze helmet

A solid, single piece closed bronze helmet with a slit for the eyes.

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bronze helmet

A solid, single piece closed bronze helmet with a slit for the eyes.

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bronze helmet

A solid, single piece closed bronze helmet with a slit for the eyes.

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bronze hoe

A farming implement made from bronze. The added heft and durability should let you till soil for farming more easily as well.

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bronze mace

While nothing more than a bronze sphere on a stick, it is still surprisingly effective.

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bronze nail puller

A crude nail puller made of bronze. Not really as good as its steel alternative but it gets job of pulling out nails good enough.

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bronze pickaxe

A heavy-headed cast and worked tool with a pointed wedge on one side for breaking stone and a flat wedge on the other for prying it out. You could mine with this.

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bronze pike

A medieval weapon consisting of a very long wooden shaft tipped with a bronze spearhead.

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bronze shears

A set of forged single-piece bronze shears for cutting fabrics. Made of two painstakingly sharpened blades connected by a carefully tempered twisted bridge.

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bronze sickle

A handheld grass-cutting tool with a cast bronze blade, fastened to a wood handle wrapped with leather.

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bronze spear

A forged spear with a bronze head.

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bronze sword

An imitation of a sword made from bronze. It is a capable weapon, but it cannot compare to actual swords.

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bronze wood saw

A simple wood saw made of bronze. Not as great as its steel equivalent, but it's good enough.

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canning pot

A very large 20 liter pot, primarily meant for canning food in glass jars via the water bath method, though it can cook normal foods just as well. Canning foods with it will require a lot of water. If you're only canning a couple of jars at a time, you'd fill it up with rocks or something to displace the water above the lids.

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cardboard 'great' helm

A cardboard helmet shaped to look like a medieval great helm. Very unencumbering in comparison to actual helmets, with rather obvious drawbacks in exchange. The interior is lined with aluminum, apparently to 'divert the zombie beta rays'. It sure doesn't help with comfort.

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cardboard 'plate' armor

A set of cardboard armor that's been duct taped and superglued into place, with paper padding the interior in an unsuccessful attempt to increase comfort. Despite the triple-layering, tensile and shear strength diagrams, and careful design considerations, there's just no way this is going to hold up to a single attack.

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cardboard crown

A piece of cardboard crudely bent into shape and cut to look like a crown.

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cardboard cuirass

While this isn't quite the 'heavy ballistic vest' the blueprints pretend it is, the layering makes it almost passable as a form of extremely rudimentary armor. It's still nowhere near as good as basically any other choice, while still being hard to move around in.

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carding paddles

A pair of toothy wooden paddles used to clean fibers for use in textile production.

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carpet cuirass

A rectangular length of tough carpet with a hole cut out for your head and tied around the waist. It's decently protective for its weight and quite the fashion statement.

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CBRN filter canister

Tool Magazine

A cylindrical, black-finished filter canister packed with charcoal retained between dual particulate membranes, rated to protect against chemical weapons, nerve agents, biological contaminants, radioactive dust, and all manner of other unpleasant vapors or particles. That is, though, only if you screw it into an appropriate respirator before hand and the charcoal isn't expired.

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charcoal forge

A portable, charcoal-fired metalworking forge. With the right tools, you could use this for metalworking.

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charcoal smoker

A portable charcoal smoker. Good for weekend barbecuing and preserving meat with smoke. Cannot be used with coal; the toxic fumes would ruin the meat.

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charcoal water purifier

Using this item on a container full of water will purify the water using layered charcoal. Once the charcoal has purified enough water, it will become unusable and can be disassembled and recycled. Water taken from uncertain sources like a river may be dirty.

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chemistry set

A chemistry set stored in a box. It includes glass containers, hoses, metal wire, a hotplate, and a pair of safety glasses. It might be used to craft some chemistry projects if you're so inclined.

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chestwrap

Rags wrapped around the chest. Preserves your modesty and keeps things out of the way, but not good for much else.

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chicken cage

A wire container made for transporting chickens, but you can use it to hold any tiny animal. Use it on a suitable animal to capture, use it on an empty tile to release.

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clamp

A metal clamp, useful for holding things in place, especially if you have several of them.

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claw bar

A small prying tool with a clawed bend at one end for pulling spikes. Use it to open locked doors without destroying them or to lift manhole covers. You could also wield it to bash some heads in.

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clay oil lamp (off)

A specialized small clay container with a wick, an ancient form of oil lamp. Unlike newer designs, it isn't windproof, so the flame is likely to be extinguished if exposed to wind; better use it indoors. It does not provide much light, but it lasts a long time. Use it to light it.

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clay pot oven

A makeshift oven made of a big clay pot with a lid, containing firebricks to hold heat and a smaller pot to bake in.

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cleaver

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cloth-padded sleeveless shirt

A thick cotton shirt with the sleeves cut off and large amounts of cloth sewn in to make a padded vest. It would be fashionable, if not for all the disparate colors from the patchwork cotton cannibalized from other random clothes.

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