DeanF

Ah, ok. I guess that changes things. Wild peas might be a thing.

Not really- it is functionally impossible to remove every scrap of root, and they grow back from the tiniest fragment. Like sunchokes. You can feel certain that you found every tuber, but the things just grow back the next year anyway.

I'm new, so sorry if this is a dead issue.... So if I understand the wiki correctly you have to feed livestock from a trough, and there is no pasturage. It seems like the sheep and goats at the very least could somehow be pastured. (Though technically goats are browsers, not grazers.) And pigs traditionally have been released into forests to forage things like acorns, and they get rounded up later.

IRL that is totally true, but I didn't think that it would pass game balancing. And as you point out, the spoilage time is an issue- it would have to be changed.

I'm new, so sorry if this has been hashed out already... Beans other than soybeans, I mean- some sort of climbing bean, pea, or lentil. These generally don't have usefully edible wild equivalents, though, having undergone massive selective breeding since the seventh century BCE to produce the domesticated varieties, so you might have to get your initial seed stock from a trader. Some exceptions: There are sea peas, but they are slightly toxic and cause lathyrism if you eat too many. There is a sort of a "wild kidney bean" in North America (which is actually more closely related to the lima bean than the kidney bean).

I was surprised (I'm new) that the game didn't allow the use of willows for basketry. Willow or rattan furniture would look neat, too, with those curving lines. And canebrakes would be awesome! I should stop now, shouldn't I?

New here, be gentle. And sorry if this has been hashed out already. Loving the game, by the way, and I haven't even gotten farther than building a rammed earth hut. So, according to what I read in the wiki if you cook and eat a reed's roots (rhizome), it is gone forever. So you have to make a choice about whether you want to eat it or replant it, and if you eat them you will deplete the local reed population, leaving you without reeds to make baskets, etc. This gives me anxiety- I never want to eat one! I propose that when you dig up a reed's roots there should be a small chance that two are produced instead of one. "Small" meaning less than than 0.1, though I'm not sure what exact figure would be appropriate. But 0.01 seems too small, so somewhere in between? Anyway, then you could eat one now and again with a clear conscience.