Bah. you’re just too lazy to learn how to build one. It’s not really that hard to do, and stone tools still have their use and place. There are, so they say, great and vast deposits of metal, but most are hard to get to. stone is everywhere, even if the good quality stone is a touch rarer.
Keep the knowledge of stone shaping alive. Even if the stone tipped arrow is replaced by copper, those copper arrow heads are far rarer than the stone that has always existed.
Metalworking is an addiction that makes us dependent on Big Furnace.
Bah. you’re just too lazy to learn how to build one. It’s not really that hard to do, and stone tools still have their use and place. There are, so they say, great and vast deposits of metal, but most are hard to get to. stone is everywhere, even if the good quality stone is a touch rarer.
Keep the knowledge of stone shaping alive. Even if the stone tipped arrow is replaced by copper, those copper arrow heads are far rarer than the stone that has always existed.