Sorry I can't give more detail, I don't remember exactly what I did, either the path to wedgitude or the escape route.

hard-grained wood

Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the only daddy you got! I’m the damn pater familias! Wharvey Gal: But you ain’t bona fide!

But once you understand what a “mode of production” is the meaning becomes clear. What you are watching is the collapse of feudalism and the emergence of early capitalism.