@colby124570 there is a mining mod that I recommend. You need Foraging 5 and a pickaxe. Foraging in deep forest biome can produce mining vein finds. Some of them are iron and when mined produce various amounts of unusable metal items that can then be smelted and repurposed.

Though at this moment this mod is 41 only, but I believe if nudged sufficiently it will get a 42 update too.

there should be way to get metal without looting buildings i should be able to make metal armor out in the wilderness without ever touching a "pre-apocalypse" building since b42 has furnaces this should be possible

@GG.Ida Bug traps? That sounds like a fun idea, but is unfortunatelly outside of my familiarity with how to add it to the game. Especially sisce it would involve the whole new system. Though having a large batch of insects into a thing of minced meat should be doable. And then minced meat is usable in recipes - including forming it into a patty and making a burger.

@SlenderXD The mod should be named something like "HillCraft_Stones" and might not match the workshop item name. Thank you for being interested

i wanna try the mod but it wont show up in my mod folder

This mod sounds really cool man, keep up the good work!
I know this sounds kinda gross, but have you thought about adding bug traps in some form, and then being able to turn bugs from them and the ones you forage into "bug meat" which would have lower negative side effects to eating and could be used in place of other meats in cooking recipies?

@BrekUrSelf @Bored and Tired Gamer @CrispyChestnuts Thank you for your comments! Really appreciate your attention. I am slowly working on the next item on the list. But I am one dude with full time job so I unfortunately don't have as much time to pour into developing the mod as I would've liked.

Stone to salt? amazing

Looks nice. Please keep updating.

This looks good. Will try it ASAP.