Frontier Livin'

Foreword

"Welcome to the frontier Kin, This here is a guide for the basics of the lodge, helping you survive in the wilderness of Amethyn. This book is penned as a survival guide. For the actual civil stuff, go and take a look at the hunters codex. Beyond that, be on your wits and you'll do fine!" - Matriarch Smail

Tools O' The Trade

When you arrive to the lodge, take a moment to gather your bearings and then your gear. The lodge provides tools and weapons to help with your survival on the frontier. The most notable and useful include:

• The Skinning knife: The most important tool in the hunters arsenal. Considered almost as valuable as a hunters life, these knives should not be given away to anyone outside the hunters. The knives are the sharpest blade on the planet but its forging process makes it too fragile to use as a weapon. Each knife is gifted to the hunter on their joining by the matriarch, either directly or indirectly.

• Hammer: Thanks in part to luck and somewhat a lack of general chemistry knowledge, most of our medicines can be produced by simply hitting it with a hammer. So picking one up is vital to help with processing medicines.

• Cable Coil: This Guild-made wire is strong, resilient and generally useful. Keep a roll of this around to help with production of arms, including upgrading armors.

Medicine, Made Easy

"When your fighting beasts of the wild every day, you can't exactly find yourself a doctor in the middle of nowhere. So through several months of exploration, I found a solution that is both simple and doesn't rely so heavily on a doctor's degree to produce." - Matriarch Smail.

After gathering the gear needed to process and prepare, its time to craft medicine. For that, a selection of domesticated animals exist to help procure the required materials. Be sure to use your knife!

• Farming and Ranching: The first step is to grow the crops you need for breeding the animals of the lodge. Each animal has specific dietary needs, but will begin to reproduce new offspring once fed. See below for more information on which animal requires what crop.

	Name	Description
	Tatonka & Tangu	A cow who escaped the colony and underwent moo-tation. These two-headed bovines consume wheat to reproduce and are the most valuable beasts in the lodge. Their uses include their robust leather used in crafting your gear, their horns and tongues which are used in the production of your medical supplies. As well as their milk which gives you a boost out in the hunt.
	Clucker	A chicken who managed to escape the colony and mutated. These single-feathered chickens produce nutritious eggs and their single feather contains enough painkiller to help with injuries on the field. Feed them poppies to make them reproduce.
	Ceburus & Chimera	The lodge's hunting dogs, based heavily on the more common wild hell diver. These beasts feast upon mushrooms, with liberty caps being among their favorites. Thanks to long term breeding, they are now safe for Cht’mant to approach.

Making the medicine

There are a lot of specialized crafts available to the lodge and more being added over time. It would take a lot of space to detail each and every crafting method, so this guide will just cover the most basic and essential. Below is a guide on how to produce the two main medicines of the lodge, Tatonka Blood tongue and Tatonka powder pouch.

• Blood tongues: Blood tongues are your primary way of keeping your guts inside you, the tatonka's anti septic saliva when treated with a nice dose of brute trauma creates a blood tongue which you can apply to your wounds as you would bioglue or a bandage.
• Powder Pouch: Powder pouches are your best way of treating burns as well as disinfecting your wound. Crafting these guys is a bit more complex. First you prepare a sheet of leather to form the pouch of which you place the horn in before you crash the horn into an absolutely fine powder. Afterwards you can apply it to your wounds like you would a regenerative membrane or likewise.