• @[email protected]
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    611 months ago

    You can literally mine lodestone and copper. Ancient people have mined those two things since antiquity. Where do you think it comes from now? Fairies?

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Bring a live translation device, and program it with whatever the expected language is. That alone would be magic to them. And you don;t need to go to a copper mine, there were markets for processed copper. Pulling it into wire is just a case of roughly forming it into a cylinder, then pulling that cylinder through successively smaller holes. A local smith could help you with that.

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          911 months ago

          What do you think copper ore looks like? What tools would you use?

          Ancient mining was a punishment, generally a death sentence. It’s hard work often overseen by a slave master.

          Copper ore isn’t concentrated copper either a lot of ore goes into a little copper. There’s a reason only the really wealthy had copper items.

          • Flying SquidM
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            411 months ago

            It’s amazing what some people here think would be such a simple task in the ancient world.

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            011 months ago

            Well, in this scenario we’d presumably have our electronic devices with us anyway, so it’s honestly a moot point.