Building Material

My wife and I are looking to build our own home in 5-10 years here in the US.

She’s from Mexico and I’m from Ohio, but we have both traveled throughout Europe.

Why is it more common to use stone veneer and highly polished/manufactured wood in the US? Even modern homes in the UK built in the 2000s have real brick walls, and quality floorboards.

I understand that timber frames are cost effective as opposed to something like limestone, but brick is actually in a comparable price range.

How has the history of architecture and construction in the US resulted in multi million dollar houses being made with low quality materials (in comparison to European houses of the same price range)?

An 8' 2x4 is now over $6. A sheet of 7/16 OSB is almost $30. Forget about cedar! Building materials, specifically lumber, have skyrocketed in price since COVID. I realize part of this was due to higher than anticipated demand in the spring and summer, but will we ever see a return to pre-COVID prices in Canada?

If you've utilised the spinning wheel before, you probably know that its processing speed is pretty unbearable, especially if you're looking to craft several feather arrows with silk rope. It takes about six in-game hours to spin four items (so an hour and thirty seconds for each individual material), so creating more than one will enable you to make more within the same amount of time.

I feel like this is something that might be obvious, but it's not something that initially occurred to me to begin with.

Basically, my world has about 500,000 colonists at a 2100 technology level landing on a pre-terraformed world. I don't know if they would use super-strong synthetic plastic or something to build, or if would be simpler to just use wood and stone. I feel like they wouldn't use those types of materials if they wanted to maintain a technologically advanced civilisation.

For instance, the other day I read some Chinese company figured out a way to take sawdust, which previously was considered factory waste, and turn it into wildly strong composite wood (not sure that's the correct term). The implication was this could drastically change building costs at scale.

Another article was about how scientists were growing "wood" furniture in labs (pitched as similar to how they are now growing "meat" like beyond meat). I'm guessing "growing" components could play a roll some day.

They don't have to be as out there or innovative as the above examples but, basically, I'm wondering if there are any innovations coming down the pipeline that could bring down the material cost of new residential builds (as we've seen lumber costs sky rocket in the US recently). Or are there any cool materials/techniques you've seen used in recent work?

Hey 👋

So there’s a glitch that allows players to create infinite ammo boxes for themselves. I’m on Oculus quest 2 and can confirm it works because well, I’ve tried it. Please fix this as its unfair and works for building material as well.

Here’s how it’s done:

Reduce the specific ammo/building material in your inventory down to a single box. Now, as you go to release the last box, simply press on all four grip/trigger buttons simultaneously on both the left and right controller. Once the box is dropped there should now also be 2-3 more boxes within it that you’ll be able to be pick up.

I don’t know where else to get the dev’s attention so I’m posting it here. Rather the community be aware of it than just a few so that work gets out and this gets patched.

Apparently that’s where Jordan college is!

Though they somehow managed to get there by running down an alley near Hertford so...

I’m also not too sure I recognise their version of St Peters college. Maybe it’s a different entrance I don’t know about...

My property is a lightly forested dune property. We have no soil, only sand, and I would like to build a 4x4m retreat deeper in the forest using sand as the primary building material.

I have read into sandcrete and its use as blocks in parts of Africa. Rammed earth would be a potential use for the sand but I would have to get soil in and I don't have vehicle access.

Can anyone think of a way to either make blocks or cast walls using sand, cements and maybe an addictive to reduce costs and rely more on what is here already?

i have this compounds entrance which is decaying even though the tc has all the components and if the tc in base doesnt cover this region i am not able to put another tc.any idea how to fix it?

I think a secondary hotbar under the primary one when the hammer is in hand would be nice to bind building pieces like walls and poles, maybe the hot bar could be accessed with a modifier like control or shift.

Background

I want to make a Yik Yak clone, for fun. If you're not familiar with it, it's a geo-local social network where people can make anonymous posts, vote on them, and comment on them. You only see posts near you within a dynamic radius based on the user density in your area. You can see your own post history but since it is anonymous, you cannot view anyone else's. Posts are sorted chronologically, comments are only tied to the post itself and not other comments, but I'm interested in knowing how having comment trees like Reddit would affect my needs.

Here is a simple class diagram of my model. I left out some minor things like the date/time of posts and comments, etc. If that is related to the graph, do let me know!

What I want to know

I've heard that using only relational databases is not the best way to go; that you often need special caching mechanisms and a graph database on top of the relational one. I have so many questions:

• What specifically would a graph database be good at in this scenario? I can see how it would be useful for something like Facebook or Instagram, where you have friends and you can see "friends of friends" which would be a pain to implement in SQL, but how would a graph make my life easier here?
• Is some sort of advanced caching necessary? Am I caching results from the graph or from the SQL database?
• What would I put in the SQL database and what would I put in the graph database, assuming I do need one?

So I was looking at going with 1/2" MDF for my spoil board, but lowes and home depot want $30 for a 4'x8' piece which is far bigger than I need. Ideally id love to grab something 2'x2' up to 4'x4' for cheaper.

I did see they have 1/4" MDF in smaller sizes for like $10. Is 1/4" going to be thick enough?

Are there and good cheaper alternatives to MDF? Or places I should look for smaller sizes of MDF?

Hey guys,

I'm always seeing these websites with fantastic animations and overall incredible designs. I'm not quite sure how to achieve things like that.

An example being a card of text sliding in from the side as you scroll down. Or the ability to, when displaying cards that link to an article or recipe, slide between pages of however many are limited to display on a sheet. Or any other of those smooth animations and designs you see on alot of modern websites.

I feel like I'm focusing alot on making the functionality of the site work, and not enough on its designs.

So if you guys could point out some guides, resources, or reading material on the topic, I'd appreciate it!