Chicky Lumps

Examples of mechanics that really need polish: —Crafting recipes relying too much on certain recurring ingredients when realistically there should be alternative. e.g. Tule just being "grass but worse," when it should be an alternative to cattails in at least some recipes; flax farming being an ultra bottleneck for linen, when sheep should provide wool as an alternative. —Terrain generation being kinda bare bones, leading to that samey parabaloid blob world look lots of basic voxel games have. (e.g. Minecraft in its early days.) Craggy mountains or gradual inclines are very rare, instead any hilly place is full of way too many ultra sheer cliff faces. —Stacks of material in firepits reset temperature each time a single one cooks, making quicklime, calcined flint, and roasted meat take ridiculous amounts of time and fuel to make. —Story locations seem intended for different stages of progression, but the first locations are usually so far from spawn that starting the story ends up happening after I'm through most other progression. —Animal behavior being a bit one dimensional in some cases. Bears shouldn't constantly kill everything when not hungry, moose shouldn't hunt humans like polar bears, and chickens shouldn't readily swim across oceans. —Clutter having a repair cost so you have to be somewhat selective what you really want is a good idea. However, the current pitch glue cost per clutter is just exorbitantly high. Currently you have to choose between clutter either being completely free or ridiculously expensive, there's no middle ground. This is just reasons off the top of my head I voted for polish. Oh, and don't get me started on how jank and unfinished vanilla combat feels.