(repost from reddit)
Let’s drag more things:
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Carcasses - Get more hides and meat AND bones when you take the whole animal all the way to your tannery/butchering station. Efficiency!
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Materials - Make a bundle of 1000+ wood or 1000+ stone and drag it instead of being over-encumbered. Drop the rope to fight along the way, pick it back up. Make less trips!
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Sledges/wagons - Heavier loads! Or put boxes and stuff on them to move your whole base.
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Siege Engines - (if they had wheels) Probably requires two or more thralls to drag it, though. (you just steer the thralls with a lead-line).
Optional changes:
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Lower carry weight ratio to incentivise dragging stuff instead
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Make big things like workstations not fit in inventory (they can be built as a bundle of stuff, dragline included)
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Craftable Harness for sherpa thralls
Even more optional ideas, not completely related but still involving ropes:
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Grappling hook to pull down palisades/fences/walls
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Tug-of-war for nonviolent inter-clan conflict resolution
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Sled dogs/wolves
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Pets on a leash
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Attach rope to a gantry with block and tackle to hoist heavy things up
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Harpoon a Mammoth/Elephant and have it drag you until it bleeds to death, or have more allies with harpoons to prevent it from running away
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Nerf climbing so that some smooth surfaces can only be climbed by ropes (requires additional animation work though)
