Ultimate_Waffle

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here. This game is more about believability. Not realism, and not really magic. I can believe two planes of existence crashing and interacting with each other on some level. I can believe there being denizens of that other realm appearing "nightmarish" to us because they're ugly and hostile to us. I can believe coffee giving our character more energy which translates into a speed buff. I can believe alcohol giving our character a durability buff, because drunk people have shown to be able to survive more traumatic events with less injury than sober people just because they didn't tense up. I am not saying this game goes full-science or that it should go full-science. I am saying that potions and enchantments are not at all believable in this fictional world.

I don't. That gives off more of a "physics we don't yet understand" vibe. Worlds in two different planes of existence crashing into each other. There's even teleportation in the game being achieved through a device created by science, even if some of that science is fictional. Rather than through magical means. 

In Minecraft, buffs are usually gained through magical means; but I feel magic doesn't fit the vibe of this game. I was thinking more along the lines of natural buffs from the things you consume. Like maybe certain alcohols will make you more resistant to damage, or maybe if something like coffee is added one day it could give you a speed boost. 

I do understand the player character is not human. I just figured, if this idea were to be considered, that either some hair colors would be considered unnatural or maybe they all remain natural, but the option to dye it is there later on.

Just for immersion purposes really, I can understand people thinking this is pointless. It further gives the impression that you're a wild man/woman if character creation limits you to unkempt hairstyles and facial hair. Then when you get shears (can shears be used as scissors?), you can access the more "civilized" styles. When you get dyes, you can change your hair color.

Right, it is a glass jar I am suggesting. Not at all metal cans. It is the "lid" that goes on that glass jar I am suggesting be tin plated steel. Only because today's lids for such purposes are typically tin plated steel, but I don't know enough about glass-jar canning to say lids "have" to be tin-plated steel. If other simpler metals are acceptable by real-life standards, then by all means have the lids be copper or bronze. I suppose cheaper metals would make it stop being the late-game mechanic I am meaning it to be, defeating the whole point of it.

As for the question on whether it's needed or not... Perhaps not. It feels like it's just a nice-to-have thing in the late-game so you don't need to use up animal fat or other somewhat inconvenient to obtain materials for preservation.

A late-game preservation method. It would require a glass jar, the lid would likely be a tin-plated steel (I don't know if other materials are viable, I just know tin-plated steel lids are used commonly in real life), and you would have to boil it in water. Once steam becomes a thing in the future, perhaps you could make a sort of steam canner as well.

Stiles are a kind of step attached to fences that allows people (but not animals) to climb over a fence.

For example, stacking lumber out in the open is fine until it gets rained on. Then the stack gets soaked. Then you would need to take steps to get it dried or else it begins deteriorating until it's ruined.

For stuff like peat and charcoal, I don't think it should get ruined; but it could still get wet and can't be used as fuel until dry.

Okay, thank you.

I'm trying out a world that is hyper-arid and extremely hot. There is sand everywhere of course. I found a piece of dirt around one particular set of ruins, but that's it. Is there perhaps a better way of finding dirt in the harsher worlds?