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'Building a Fire' - XKCD (imgs.xkcd.com)

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3114/

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I hope y'all know about birch bark. It's nature's lamp oil.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

And in case someone doesn't: You don't need to take the entire bark off the wood. Just the outermost layers. So you can even take some from a live tree without worries in a pinch.

And if you have no idea what birch looks like, it's the white barked one.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Instructions unclear, I have de-barked a whole american sycamore tree.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

You don’t need to take the entire bark off the wood. Just the outermost layers. So you can even take some from a live tree without worries in a pinch.

Thanks for adding that!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Most people have played Minecraft, they'll know

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Help I can’t find any square trees

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Well assuming half the people pirated it and half bought it, that's still under 10% of the population of the world. Also Minecraft items having labels is a fairly new thing. There were no labels when I did most of my playing, but there were when I last played. I think they added them in Beta so about 2010, 2011?

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