"No, this is just another one of those strange design restrictions that make little sense to all but the dev who designed it that way."

-- Krayor Krelion

I could not agree more. The game is full of them. My viking can refuse to eat and not starve to death. My viking can refuse to sleep and not collapse from exhaustion. My viking can 'remember' how to craft items he never encountered in his life on Earth once he gathers resources he never encountered in his life on Earth. My viking can craft, in a few minutes, a set of armor that would have taken him days or weeks to make in his life on Earth if he had been a master armorer. And the list goes on and on.

Perhaps that dev made this particular "strange design restriction" just to annoy you. In that case, thanks a lot.