User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-1270315-20100128190156

2. Who makes all the weapons? Someone must be outfitting and equipping the Redwallers, Hordes, Corsairs etc. - but who? A centralized trading power? On that note, where does the iron and steel come from?

A: I think that the vermin in large hordes have blacksmiths and Redwall in the book Redwall didn't have any weapons so they might have taken theirs from cluny's horde or been suplyed by salamadastoron.

3. Who builds the ships the corsairs use?

A: Slaves, they were robbed off woodlanders, they themselfs.

4. For that matter, who mines all the gold and silver used to make treasure? Who makes the treasure, and why?

A: Moles most likely come across it when they dig so much, then they get plunedered.

7. Why would corsairs and searats bother pillaging the high seas when they can't sell their booty for profit to buy weapons, supplies, food, booze, "company" etc.? Without a monetary system, treasure's essentially without value - so why bother trying so hard to get it? Where does the motivation for piracy lie?

Gold and silver always have value, they most likely trade it among themselfs.