**Bush crafting:**
You can craft 3 types of shelter: tarp, leather, and improvised
So you just always build the fantastic improvised one. It's a no-brainer if you want to hide it in the woods. You don't even have to go looting. All items in its recipe are craftable.
Rope, sticks, long sticks.
But why not differentiate the shelters by size and damage?
Tarp shelter: Most hit points and inventory space
Leather shelter: Mid-size hit points and inventory space, but craftable without looting
Improvised shelter: small inventory space and hit points, but craftable without looting and perfect camouflage
**Animals:**
Chicken and rabbit should have "small guts" when gutted (f. e. important for crafting a rope)
**Gear:**
- Improvised bow (apparently no big deal since the game has a simulation for arrows?)
- Advanced improvised bone knife
It looks like you need rope and bones - but the crafting is done by 2 bones or a bone and a small stone. Not plausible! It has magically rope on it.
What about 2 stages of crafting (like the improvised arrows)? The "improvised bone knife" with lower durability and the "bone knife" with better durability.
Step 1:
Bone + bone = improvised bone knife (without rope on the model)
or
Bone + stone = improvised bone knife
Step 2:
improvised bone knife + rope = bone knife (like the one in the game right now)
**Clothes:**
More items should be craftable with tanned leather. For differentiation between civilian and military clothes, the leather clothing should be more durable against infected attacks.
- Leather gloves
- Leather hat
- Leather pants
- Leather shoes
- Leather jacket
- Leather shirt
- Leather storage vest
- Leather knife sheath
- Leather belt (model is not finished)
- Leather water pouch
All in the game files. Even so, most of them have 4 colors: natural, beige, black, and brown.
The coloring of the leather would be appreciated. But it would make things more complex, too. It would require adjusting the coloring a lot. Some colors of tanned leather items mismatch and some have no color variants (shirt, shelter, knife sheath, water pouch). Maybe it's a task for a future update.