Scud Building Material
Added 2018-04-11 20:00:01 +0000 UTCFiguring out nice sustainable building materials for a species that lives in vast puddle of aggressive solvent has been interesting!
They use basically no metal aside from easily wrought ones like gold, and metal ore refining is a very new and dangerous science that can only be done on land. Wood is pretty rare as a building material except for scuds who live right by or on the land, as it's prone to heavy wear and or... melting after a while.
Shell is basically the next best renewable biological building material, and although the weight isn't an issue underwater it's still much more brittle than wood and greater care must be taken during drilling not to shatter it.
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scud architecture! how marvelous!
Kristen King
2022-01-02 04:20:43 +0000 UTCAll of those, plus respite from the currents, plus privacy, and also to keep objects they own from literally drifting away or being stolen. Scuds tend to consider anything that isn't nailed down, locked up, or attached to a body free for public use (or uh, private use)
Jay Eaton
2018-04-11 20:43:43 +0000 UTCAlso what's the purpose of houses under water? To keep warm? Protection from enemies? Something stranger like concentrating food or keeping planktonic babies in the right places?
Daniel Bensen
2018-04-11 20:23:08 +0000 UTC
