kiuru

Good idea. Migratory birds, geese and waterfowl were a huge source of meat eggs and feathers. Especially birds like geese flock seasonally in their thousands in suitable places. Goldeneyes, ducks and other waterfowls have been used to harvest eggs and articial nests have been built because they keep laying to replace the loss. Chickens originate in SE asia, maybe this is a more climate suitable option in some biomes? Magpies could be a slow but cool way to get metal nuggets/gems that they store in their nests. Pest birds like thrushes, fieldfares, crows and jays would disincentivize players from leaving berry bushes unharvested for too long / to use straw figures to ward them off (exists ingame). Eagles, large hawks and ospreys could be early game enemies but also swans, capercaillies and turkeys are large and territorial enough to become a threat when provoked. Birdsong could be a fantastic way to incorporate atmosphere in the game, it should be season or even month specific with most noise in the spring-summer. Other seasons you could hear crows croaking and woodpeckers knocking. If taken to the extreme, many birds have warning calls when a player/ predatory animal is nearby. Would love to see awebos too.

Very simple premise, many plants and vegetables are successfully and commercially grown accross the globe in conditions where the growing season is not long or hot enough for direct sowing outdoors. This would be a way to extend the growing season in colder climates for crops like corn, pumpkin, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans etc. Ceramic bowls filled with fertile soil / compost could be placed indoors 2 x 2 and sown with crops while outside temperatures are still freezing and then planted out to kickstart the growth. This is intentionally not scaleable but represents a midway towards a greenhouse, which is and should be a more expensive endeavour. On a related note, many cereal crops like rye and wheat are often sown and germinated in the late summer/early fall, whereupon they develop shoots that overwinter under snow and continue growing to be harvested midsummer. Some hardy veggies like parsnips are sown before snow to get an early start when the snow melts and the seeds germinate in early spring.