Plans for mechanical helpers?

[dave762x]

Is  there any plans for  any sort of mechanical helpers or NPC workers. Playing with my friends we have built quite a nice little village and it's really fun watching the area around us develop but I imagine if I was playing alone it wouldn't be as easy or fun having to manage a lot by yourself 

[Kosti]

On 3/11/2025 at 4:30 AM, dave762x said:

Is  there any plans for  any sort of mechanical helpers or NPC workers. Playing with my friends we have built quite a nice little village and it's really fun watching the area around us develop but I imagine if I was playing alone it wouldn't be as easy or fun having to manage a lot by yourself 

Yeah I also hope they expand on the automation part, currently there's just only a few things we can automate and it's really unfortunate because on a singleplayer world without NPCs to help me out it ain't easy, I love the game but at a certain point it becomes annoying running to the pigs to give them the berry mash after having made it into wine while having to return fighting for food/survival if its woolfs or god forbid, a bear, then also tending to it's leather, and don't forget to cook the meat before you forgot to chop down enough logs but your axe brakes so you have to go and forge one which reminds you to take care of the bees and whoops you forgot the metal for a bit too long and now you have to reheat it cuz you were cheeky and used peat before coal while forging, oh and did i mention you ran out of blue clay or cat tails to make new skeps? Oh and don't forget that night's almost here and there's a rift right next to you so you now have to fight a bit more than a group of monsters.

This is a bit over the top but its to get the point across, without NPC and automation any future updates will only add up to this unmanagable mess. Now imagine an NPC that at least tends the crops, cat tails and bees, suddenly all i have to do is give them a bit of clay, pay them a few gears and im up and running to a few things less.