Honestly, I'm a fan of Witchworld dart guns. One thing I've been contemplating is a couple caches of masses of long, thin flexible and very tough metal strips. the original purpose is unknown, but they can be coiled into dandy springs, suitable for re-cocking a crossbow, or even making dart guns.
Materials technology is a mixed bag, because aside from ceramics, there's two sources of post-Renaissance level of materials technology:
1) finding ancient caches, or mining ancient landfills, with all the hazards that may entail.
2)Organically grown materials: there are plants that can grow carbon fibers, diamonds, even secret minerals from seawater. They are non-mobile, finicky to take care of, and well, strategic resources. There's never enough of them.
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Materials technology is a mixed bag, because aside from ceramics, there's two sources of post-Renaissance level of materials technology:
1) finding ancient caches, or mining ancient landfills, with all the hazards that may entail.
2)Organically grown materials: there are plants that can grow carbon fibers, diamonds, even secret minerals from seawater. They are non-mobile, finicky to take care of, and well, strategic resources. There's never enough of them.