Current recipe calls for
-hammering 2
-wood sawing 2
-glare protection 2
-welder/makeshift welder/integrated toolset
-fire
And requires:
30 2x4s
6 scrap metal
Humans have been making wooden barrels for centuries without welders and I don't see any need to include the welder and goggles as necessary tools for crafting them. Changing the recipe to require a forge (and forge tools) rather than a welder would be much better imo.
I just watched a cooper make a bucket on youtube ... he seems to have made the bucket with some wood, an anvil, some strips of metal, a blunt chisel, a hammer, and some rivets. He had some wood shaping tools but I don't think we have those in game. As far as I can tell you can probably cold forge a barrel if you know what you are doing. I'd say the recipe could be something like:
I'll try to create a PR for this...
Wood shaping tools could fit into the game (like blacksmithing tools), but it's probably unnecessary complexity. If someone was interested I think it would basically be a hatchet, saw, chisel, planer, hand drill (simpler than you're probably imagining), flat knife, curved knife, smoother, and mallet. About half of these are already implemented.
Tend to agree with OP after @RogueYun's explanation in PR above.
For reference, the item started out in PR #4373 (commit 90823e178f0), somewhere before release 0.A. @Mattamue, care to chime in?..
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I just watched a cooper make a bucket on youtube ... he seems to have made the bucket with some wood, an anvil, some strips of metal, a blunt chisel, a hammer, and some rivets. He had some wood shaping tools but I don't think we have those in game. As far as I can tell you can probably cold forge a barrel if you know what you are doing. I'd say the recipe could be something like:
I'll try to create a PR for this...