beefjerkybros

This is probably super hard to make/maybe even impossible, but I think friendly npcs would be cool, where you could find them around around the world and make friends with them. So they'd be able to fight for you if you befriend them by giving them food/jewlery/other useful/valuable items, and they have different classes so you could craft all the "exclusives" like bows, slings, and that control spear thingy if they're close enough friends with you. This would be so with a little bit of effort you can craft everything in single player rather than it being entirely impossible/having to buy them from traders (which I assume is what you have to do, I'm very new to this game.). Also, another idea is if they're close friends enough with you, you can ask them to do stuff for you like making tools, farming, husbandry etc. Also, it'd be cool if it would be kind of like state of decay where you can choose to control one of your friends if you prefer their perks over your current characters, and you could leave other people at base. It'd also be cool to be able have sort of "parties" to go outside with the player controlled character to get materials while the other npcs stay home and craft/farm etc. And to make it more "fun" (in the dwarf fortress sense) they could be mortal in that they could permanently die, but maybe just make that a world setting so it's not too fun. Also, they should definitely have hunger to make it so it's not all positives, as more npcs means more mouths to feed. Also, more on the perma-death mechanic, I think the character that the player created at the start should share the world settings, but npcs should have a separate setting so they either perma-die, have limited lives, or are immortal (always respawn at the player's spawnpoint/the last bed they slept in, so you can make a sort of settlement which I think would be really cool). Also, one last thing. Considering how insane this is, I just think it'd be cool and in no way expect this to become a reality from a dev/modder, but if anyone has some modding knowledge could you tell me if this is even possible? Not that I want specifically you to make it because that would be an insane ask, but I think I might want to try my hand at it if someone thinks it's possible.