1. Gold and copper are most what you'll find by way of metal, with very rarely the odd iron scrap from something someone else traded or that they happened to scavenge. There's also silver, tin, bronze and lead.
2. The locals have technically thought of (and maybe even built) chariot and carriage type things for travel, but haven't had the domestic fauna to spare or much luck with the tamed animals (since they're only as tame as the incense allows). This is something we're actually going to be bringing into play Soon(tm) to make travel faster and easier!
3. Textiles are made from lowland plant fibers like cotton, or from animals like the alpacas. They're experts in weaving and making brightly colored things with highly pigmented natural dyes, but don't have/don't know how to work with anything synthetic. The masks are made from cotton, so they'd say to start there.
4. They could! And tying into #5, there are bodies of water and some small waterfalls near Kiichpan and Tikal that they do have one or two watermills for (for grinding flour and experimenting with what will eventually come to be a hydro-powered loom). So long as they still serve their main purpose of keeping the incense away no one will mind them being used for anything else.
6. Tikal does, with its blacksmith. It's nothing fancy or complicated, just your classic fantasy hot oven, an anvil, lots of metal banging and clanging.
7. There are indeed coffee beans and places that serve it bitter and raw as hell, or alternatively xocolātl which is similar but made from unsweetened cocoa, often with chili peppers mixed in :grimacing:. It's a local favorite.
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2. The locals have technically thought of (and maybe even built) chariot and carriage type things for travel, but haven't had the domestic fauna to spare or much luck with the tamed animals (since they're only as tame as the incense allows). This is something we're actually going to be bringing into play Soon(tm) to make travel faster and easier!
3. Textiles are made from lowland plant fibers like cotton, or from animals like the alpacas. They're experts in weaving and making brightly colored things with highly pigmented natural dyes, but don't have/don't know how to work with anything synthetic. The masks are made from cotton, so they'd say to start there.
4. They could! And tying into #5, there are bodies of water and some small waterfalls near Kiichpan and Tikal that they do have one or two watermills for (for grinding flour and experimenting with what will eventually come to be a hydro-powered loom). So long as they still serve their main purpose of keeping the incense away no one will mind them being used for anything else.
6. Tikal does, with its blacksmith. It's nothing fancy or complicated, just your classic fantasy hot oven, an anvil, lots of metal banging and clanging.
7. There are indeed coffee beans and places that serve it bitter and raw as hell, or alternatively xocolātl which is similar but made from unsweetened cocoa, often with chili peppers mixed in :grimacing:. It's a local favorite.