DeanF

Yes...? This would be for a food source, not capture for domestication. Thus, ideally snares would be available in the early stone age. Or am I missing your point? I was thinking smaller animals, honestly. Racoons, foxes, hares, etc. (Squirrels would be nice to have for this too.) But maybe there could be a larger size of snare that could handle pigs, smaller deer, goats, and maybe even wolves. I'd be happy just with the small game snares, though.

The reed basket trap sounds handy, but how about snares?

Stone makes for a very poor shovel material. It doesn't stand up well to prying or levering without snapping, a wide flat blade would be hell to knap, and unlike in an axe it's mass is of no benefit. In fact the extra mass is a liability in a shovel- you have to swing it around without it helping the shovel's function in any way. And the advantage of flint for knives, spears, arrows, etc. was sharpness, which also doesn't help a shovel very much. Well, except for some tasks some cultures reinforced a wooden shovel's blade with stone chips to make it sharper, like for peat cutting, but that is the closest there ever was to a practical stone shovel, and even then bone was more common. There were certainly stone adzes and hoes. But historically, primitive shovels were either wood or bone (bone shovels usually being made from an animal scapula)- well into the iron age, as a matter of fact. Stone shovels are essentially absent from the archaeological record, other than maybe some ceremonial objects.

Ah, so no, not an existing game option. But thanks- I'll try the mod! EDIT- The mod works great! No more thumb arthritis. That plus jumping to mantle 2-3 blocks as I described would be amazing.

Once I heard about it, I was very interested in trying out dirt instability. I hate having floating dirt blocks and large dirt overhangs everywhere. And a lot of the dirt roofs that I see in videos would not be stable- they would need bracing nearly every other block. But the switch seems to make dirt just as unstable as sand or gravel, which is too much. Especially for dirt stabilized by grass or other plants. It turns every hillside into a threat to your life. So I'm not using it any more, but I would still like to have cave-ins if I dig out something unstable in a dirt mound, or try to make a dirt overhang too large. Maybe one or two block wide tunnels could be pretty safe, but when they get wide they start getting questionable. Same with large overhangs. In short, I think that dirt instability needs to be somewhat less severe than sand and gravel instability.

I absolutely would not want full-on parkour mechanics in this game, but it feels like we should at least be able to mantle up two blocks, and maybe even three. A seraph would probably be able to reach up and grab a three-block-high ledge, assuming that they are human-sized. Obviously, pulling yourself up three blocks would take longer than two, etc. And right now one block is basically just walking. A lot of terrain in the game is very broken up, and these short mantles would help a lot with mobility. I know that there is a mod that does this but it is much more involved than just mantling- it is almost a parkour system, according to the video that I watched. And also I can't seem to get it to work right, anyway. And while I'm on the subject, is there a switch like in That Other Voxel Game to make stepping up one block automatic instead of needing to jump?

Fair enough. So is the feeding trough just to get them to breed or something?

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.