I have had nothing but issues I think with the kindling, I am not sure if it supposed to be a feature or a bug. Starting a fire with the notched+sturdy is like a crap shoot, sometimes it works other times it takes forever with no result other than me being exhausted. Which made me feel like they should at maybe add Firestarting to the survival skills. With this addition maybe we could read some books to get the chance of starting a fire to be "more" efficient than it is currently