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gonna say no to the spiders, the locusts are bad enough.

I'm sure this has been suggested before, I know there's a mod for it, it just seems odd this isn't in the game. Sand is used in a lot of my favorite building materials and hunting it down in large quantities is difficult, particularly sand that isn't sandstone sand. My suggestion is to then either add a new mechanical device or use the existing ones to first pulverize the stones of a respective material into gravel and then to grind it in a quern into sand. Alternatively a new mechanical device to be hooked up to a power source like a tumbler to polish gems as well as break down stones into either gravel, sand or both with enough time.

And make it glow slightly if you're the hunter class

I would love to see a proper steampunk airship like a medium sized boat with a balloon above it a couple propellers a few sails and maybe a boiler. If anyone knows of it like the airships from the Urza saga from MTG. Perhaps start with hot air balloons and work through the tech. I'm not familiar with the lore I'm still new to the game but it wouldn't feel that out of place from what I've seen.