Cottage Industries of the Period
A listing of day to day undertakings in any community.
- Building bicycles
- Reloading ammunition
- Producton of ethanol for fuel
- Producton of ethanol for recreation
- Making light mortars
- Creating vacuum tubes for electronics
- Manufacture of basic antibiotics
- Brewing Beer
- Making Light bulbs
- Making Explosives for Industry
- Making Explosives for Military
- Power Generation (non-fossil fuel)
- Machineing (making spares and replacement parts
- Growing Pot
- Salvaging/Scrounging for mechanical parts (auto and machine)
- Salvaging/Scrounging for building materials (nails, windows, etc)
- Salvaging/Scrounging for luxuries (soap, jewelry, perfume, music, art etc)
- Salvaging/Scrounging for electronic/electric parts (wire, circuits boards, components, periferals etc)
- Librarian
- Chemist/Alchemist/Pharmacist
- Herbalist
- Researchers (requires some form of librarian)
- Making Batteries
- Paper Making
- Black smithing
- Textiles/Weaving
- Woodcraft
- Pottery
- Printing Manually
- House farming herbs and spices.
- Candle making.
- Leather work/shoe making
- Class blowing (recycling glass)
- Meat slating/smoking
- Cheeze making (ideal for long term storage/reserve)
Thanks to Pat for the inputs.