The Food thread
Hunting, fishing, farming, food and drink. 58 entries, in the order they are reached.
Phase 01 — First days: water, fire, shelter Year 1 (days 1–7)
| 01.16 | Throwing stick and clubsmall game | year 1 |
| 01.17 | Tidal stone fish trap ⚠a low wall that strands fish at low tide | year 1 |
| 01.18 | Pronged fish spearfor shallows and the fish trap | year 1 |
| 01.19 | Earth ovenpit cooking for a large group | year 1 |
| 01.22 | Safe-food listplants and shellfish tested and agreed by all | year 1 |
Phase 02 — Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit Year 1 (weeks 2–6)
| 02.14 | Bone and shell fish hooks with line | year 1 |
| 02.19 | Stone-tipped spear | year 1 |
| 02.20 | Spear thrower and dartsdoubles the hunter's range | year 1 |
| 02.21 | Bow and arrows ⚠bow stave, string, fletched arrows with stone points | year 1 |
| 02.23 | Saddle querngrinds seeds and nuts to meal | year 1 |
Phase 03 — Food security and the first camp Year 1
| 03.01 | Snares and deadfall trapscatch game while the hunters are elsewhere | year 1 |
| 03.02 | Netting needle, fishing net and carrying nets | year 1 |
| 03.03 | Basket fish traps and river weir | year 1 |
| 03.05 | Drying racks and smokehousepreserve meat and fish | year 1 |
| 03.06 | Saltscraped from the salt flats and dried in sun pans | year 1 |
| 03.07 | Preserved food storedried, smoked and salted | year 1 |
| 03.08 | Raised storehouse with rat guards | year 1 |
| 03.12 | Seed collection and seed storegrains, beans, roots, flax, hemp, cotton | year 1 |
| 03.13 | Diet rulewhich foods keep off scurvy, rickets, goitre and night blindness | year 1 |
| 03.14 | Cleared and hoed garden plots | year 1 |
| 03.15 | First planted cropsfood and fibre | year 1 |
| 03.16 | Fences and thorn hedgeskeep animals off the crops | year 1 |
| 03.17 | Irrigation ditch and bamboo water pipewater to the camp and plots | year 1 |
| 03.18 | Animal pens and captured young stockgoats, sheep, pigs, fowl, calves and foals | year 1 |
| 03.19 | Dogs and catspups and kittens taken young and tamed; guards, herders, hunters and rat catchers | year 1 |
| 03.21 | Compost and manure heapkeeps the plots fertile | year 1 |
| 03.22 | Log beehiveshoney, and beeswax for casting and sealing | year 1 |
Phase 04 — Clay, kilns, charcoal and lime Years 1–2
| 04.13 | Clay bread oven | year 1 |
| 04.28 | Sourdough starter and brewing yeastwild yeast caught in a jar of meal and water, fed every day and kept alive for years | year 2 |
Phase 07 — Carpentry, the village, measures and writing Years 4–9
| 07.40 | Granary and root cellar | year 8 |
Phase 08 — Farming, cloth, leather and household industry Years 6–18
| 08.03 | Trained draught animals with yoke, collar, harness and iron shoes | year 7 |
| 08.06 | Iron-shared plough and harrow | year 7 |
| 08.07 | Care of animalsbreeding, birth, gelding, hooves and wounds; stables and shoeing | year 8 |
| 08.08 | Hay, winter fodder and housing for the stock | year 8 |
| 08.09 | Rotating grain fieldswheat, barley, maize, rice, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes and fodder; maize is soaked in lime water before it is ground | year 8 |
| 08.10 | Seed selection and breeding recordthe best plants and animals kept for seed and stock, and written down | year 8 |
| 08.11 | Harvest and threshing kitscythes, flails, winnowing baskets, sieves | year 9 |
| 08.12 | Rotary hand quernflour | year 9 |
| 08.13 | Leavened bread | year 9 |
| 08.14 | Beer, wine and meadsafe drink, and the source of alcohol | year 9 |
| 08.15 | Vinegarthe first acid; pickling, cleaning metal, making pigments | year 10 |
| 08.16 | Oil press and plant oilsfood, lamp oil, lubricant, paint | year 10 |
| 08.17 | Dairymilk, butter and cheese | year 10 |
| 08.18 | Clean milkmilk heated and cooled before it is drunk; scalded pails | year 10 |
| 08.19 | Orchards, vines and grafted fruit trees | year 11 |
| 08.20 | Tea garden, coffee bushes and hop yardthe first hot drink of the working day, and hops for the beer | year 11 |
| 08.39 | Sugar cane field | year 16 |
| 08.40 | Cane crusher, raw sugar and molassesjuice pressed between rollers, cleared with lime and boiled down | year 16 |
| 08.41 | Pickled and fermented vegetables, dried fruit and jamfruit and greens kept for the season when nothing grows | year 16 |
Phase 09 — Water, wind and mechanical power Years 14–22
| 09.05 | Water-powered flour mill | year 15 |
Phase 11 — Glass, chemistry, petroleum, rubber and cement Years 24–32
| 11.32 | Made fertilisersbone meal, bones treated with acid, and the ammonia salt from the gas works | year 27 |
| 11.33 | Crop protectioncopper-and-lime spray, sulphur dust and traps | year 28 |
| 11.50 | Canned foodcooked food sealed in soldered tin cans keeps for years | year 29 |
Phase 12 — Precision and machine tools Years 30–36
| 12.31 | Seed drill and horse hoeseed sown in rows at an even depth, and weeded by a horse | year 34 |
| 12.32 | Horse-drawn reaper and threshing machinea few people harvest what once took the whole village | year 34 |
Phase 15 — Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid Years 43–50
| 15.31 | Ice-making and cold store | year 48 |
Phase 17 — The gasoline engine and the forklift Years 51–64
| 17.14 | Farm tractorpulls the plough and drives the thresher: one person does the work of ten horses | year 57 |
Phase 18 — High-voltage lines, transmission towers and the multimeter Years 52–64
| 18.16 | Household refrigeratora small sealed cooling machine in the kitchen | year 60 |