Arrows crafting need rebalance

[RyuKajiya]

The recipes for arrows get gradualy more unrealistic and quite expensive which is a bit hard to understand.

Starting with stone arrows, how is it one stone per arrow? For stone arrows you normaly break up a stone to get sharp edges. So one of the stones the size you pick up from the ground probably make around 5 good arrowheads. Sticks is ok, one for each arrow. But think recipe should be 1 stone 5 sticks for 5 arrows.

Getting to bone arrows, sort of the same. A whole bone for an arrow is quite wastefull. Well maybe if you use a rabbit bone, but a good femur from a wolf can probably also give you around 5 heads.

But those recipes are sort of ok, it is easy to gather rocks and bones, so no big deal with that. But was quite shocked when I unlocked the iron arrows. From the look of it the shaft is wood and only the tip is iron, which makes sense. Full metal arrows don't work unless it is maybe aluminium. But 2 bars for one arrow??? Seriusly looking at the weight it is 0.2kg per iron bar, even if it was a full metal arrow, a 0.4kg arrow would maybe fly 1m at most.. You can get probably 20 heads out of that amount of iron. I forged arrowheads and blades myself, never used 2 bars for one arrowhead.
So realisticaly it should be 20 sticks one bar for 20 arrows. Or add an intermediate to make arrowheads from bars if you want a 1 for 1 ratio. For resource controlling sake maybe make it 10 per bar. But lower than that is quite ridiculous.

[aKamikazePug]

I agree, using an entire ingot for one arrow or to repair the iron knife is crazy

[Forever]

+1

The problem is that they need to make a sistem for upscaling and downscaling materials. They need to apply this to gold (which is urgent) and also to the rest of the stuff.

It's a bit weird to see electronics costing 1 gold ingot that is 1 KG.
Precious metals and materials should be traded in the space station in case you want to do so.

[Skitzo Sam]

I like how you repair your repair tool with an item you didnt even use to make it with

[C]

I mean sure getting one arrow out of a single bone seems wastefull but.... How many bones are we getting from creatures? Getting like 30 bones out of a rabbit gets us what? 6 arrows?

Maybe the units of measurements of materials is intentionally lower so that the developers do not have to program in decimals for materials. This would make a lot of sense considering we get so much ore from mining and the fact that the large costs seem to be similar across the board....