Topminator

A suggestion for spelunking for rock, having a big 2x2 or 3x3 boulder (not raw rock but a boulder) and have it have a chance to be made of the rock from all lower layers would be a good and immersive way to know what rock is below without digging a hole deep enough

The devs already stated that they won't be adding that because they prefer it to be 1 ingot=1 tool, however i believe that having the system refund you 20 nuggets every 42 voxels splits(1 ingot) should be a thing. I also believe that being able to split all voxels not directly connected to the recipe should be a thing. As for your ruined iron blooms put them under a helve hammer and it'll magically recreate the split metal. It probably works with blister steel too... Edit: maybe add a recipe for "metal lumps/cubes" of 18 voxels each where you split an ingot in half and get two lumps that you can use as material on an anvil, that way recipes don't seem like they waste an absurd amount of metal and we can have more control over how much metal we use up

Make it so moving water sources needs steel so to reach it you are encouraged to use wind or existing rivers to work blooms and make refractory dusts. Then make it time intensive to move, make it need something like at least 500 connected water sources with air above them or something, using a bigger lake/river maybe could give a bonus, also when water freezes no more water power to make wind still be relevant after making waterwheels

Then since stone is too light you can use iron for the weights, or lead if you don't care about lead poisoning. they're both way heavier than stone at about 7.8 and 11.3 as opposed to 2.3, they would both fit one block. Or just use directly an anvil as the weight and have an iron plate unter it. However you can also make that 3 blocks high stone pillar into one block high with the same science behind the magical 1mq crates made of common and regular wood that are able to store 1280 mq of dirt, if made of special wood they can go as far as to store 1600mq of stuff. And lastly, about your practical note, the answer is : Right now i have a barrel full of brandy for each berry plus 2 more barrels full of aqua vitae.

same problem here, sometimes (randomly) after eating any cooked food the hunger meter is stopped for way longer than it's supposed to. for me it also happened with milk and berry juice. i am pretty sure that drinking 150 sat of milk shouldn't give half a day of free food

In my case it only works after one turn and the press needs two turns. However the press always juices at full speed regardless of how much the screw is turned, so the screw needs to go down just for resetting, quickly right clicking to start squeezing makes it easy to use 2 presses at the same time. With that said the only advantage (that i can see) of a screw press over a gravity press would be giving an extreme squeeze without having to manage giant weights, and even then automatically resetting the press on command would be easy to accomplish with a simple crane and a transmission

i personally do not enjoy holding right click on the press, i believe there should be an upgrade to the press where we can use heavy stone blocks or forged metal cubes to replace the screw/plate combo. maybe have it available after getting iron tools, i suggest needing an iron chisel to shape stone slabs into cubic stone weights to put over the press' metal plate then have both a recipe for that and a way to recover the metal from the screw press. maybe we can also have this new press not need a minimum quantity of fruit and/or have it being able to hold more fruit.

I get the same problem, when pressing fruit mash stacks only if you do the same actions in the same order with the same timing. If you put back into the press totally dry mash it goes in but doesn't get consumed from the stack, you can then pull out the duped mash and it'll often stack with the one you put in (but not always)

i feel like the devs should add this as an option in the installer when it asks you where to install the game