Helmets and Hair! Yay!!

[JaithWraith]

Any chance you can incorporate the ability to wear helmets and still see hair into an earlier update? The wife is veeeeerrrrrry excited and, admittedly, so am I.

[Nerevar]

comes with the hildir update. which is a few months off probaly still. there is a new crafting station in there that allows you to change hair and beard and face etc. kinda like a barber station.

[Jalee224]

we have to have fire inside our house because viking freeze to death in olden days but we can get a barber shop that didn't exist for hundreds of years of vikings? hmm

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Jalee224:

we have to have fire inside our house because viking freeze to death in olden days but we can get a barber shop that didn't exist for hundreds of years of vikings? hmm

lore accuracy is irrelevant when giant flying bug monsters, dwarfs and literally the liveing dead walk around the same place already. and fireball hurling staffs never existed in that age either XD

[Jalee224]

yeah but everyone in the thread aout fires necessary in houses seem to think it all is relevant. so just saying, I don't care either way about the barber shops, I am sure lots of ppl will, so gla they are putting in things that m ake ppl happy

[Armameteus]

Originally posted by Jalee224:

we have to have fire inside our house because viking freeze to death in olden days but we can get a barber shop that didn't exist for hundreds of years of vikings? hmm

You do realise people cut their hair without barber shops, right? In fact, people knew how to cut and style their hair in many ways without someone being some kind of licensed barber. It was actually a common skill women practised and was considered part of her duties as a wife, mother and homemaker to be able to manage and style the hair of her husband and children.

There's nothing anachronistic about being able to cut your hair.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Jalee224:

we have to have fire inside our house because viking freeze to death in olden days but we can get a barber shop that didn't exist for hundreds of years of vikings? hmm

You can shave hair with a long thin flint flake fixed to a wooden handle and the flint flake stays razor sharp much longer than a copper or bronze knife could hold its edge. People have been grooming hair since the stone age. In the Viking age the Viking men shaved the backs of their heads and left the hair in the front long and they didn't cut their beards but they would braid and adorn them. A long thick beard was a sign of virility in Viking society.

In bronze age Rome soldiers kept their beards shaved but let their hair grow long in the back. If you were clean shaven no enemy soldier could grab your beard and hold it while they lopped your head. Long hair was bravado. It meant that you didn't run from a battle so you weren't afraid to leave a handle in the back of your head.

Copper age Egyptian women removed body hair in a process known as sugaring. Egyptian priests kept their entire body and heads shaved for ritual purity. Barbers weren't a thing until the middle ages (and they were usually a scribe, tooth drawer, and bone setter too) and barber shops did not appear for a couple centuries after that. The barbers did their work in their front parlors.