Hi, I'm a fairly new player with a little more than 20 hours under my belt
And I noticed a few things in the early game that for most older players might already be common sense.
And I wanted to bring them to attention, and to know what others think about these things.
If you only read the highlighted text, that's like 90% of what I'm saying lol
1) Light mudbricks cost twice the clay of regular ones. Is this intentional, or at one point mudbrick clay cost got reduced, but whoever did it forgot that white mudbricks also exist?
2) Muddy gravel seems to follow different physics than other gravity affected blocks. I play with sideways instability, and I noticed that this gravel type doesn't instabilize sideways. Also if I try to place it to the side of a block above air, it will not let me, stating that this block needs solid support unlike the other types of gravity blocks which are placed and fall just fine.
You could say I relay like playing in the mud for giving so much attention to mud related blocks, but i actually like both of this unique behaviours. Well, I wouldn't complain if lightmud wouldn't be more expensive, but maybe its not a mistake and reflects real life?
3) field fires. I also turned on lightning fires thinking it's a security risk to highly combustible builds perhaps, but otherwise most things are fine, since the rain puts them out soon enough. Turns out lightning often strikes without rainfall! Now trying to put out a prairie fire was a thrilling experience, but in the end I discovered at least a dozen dead animals who fell victim to it. Now this was quite the ironic situation because I'm playing a tailor right now, and never have I ever gotten so much animal products before, actually it took an entire day to figure out what to do with all of it. Why I'm telling all this? Well a burned field with charred animal corpses was sure a great way to get more feathers than I'll ever need! Or in other words, shouldn't fire kills affect creature drop rates like being crushed or munched do? Right now I have only greatly benefited from this lightning behaviour that is turned off by default, and is listed as a "challenge"
4) PLEASE do something with tule! I know exactly why is in this weird state of having a use but not actually having it, because grass outclasses tule in straw block production in every way, beside the fact that grass has many other uses and tule only has this one. So if you don't want to remove the old grass recipe to not confuse or displease older players who got used to it, at least make tule recipe more efficient! Funny thing is I actually still used it for straw roofing because while I was discovering the game I saw that straw is used to make straw roof, but didn't check straw roof to see that is it only made from straw, or perhaps other materials can be used for it. I also checked out hay, but not hay blocks, which would have displayed the old straw roof recipe.
(By the way I was thinking of talking about how its strange, that an axe is more efficient at removing lake plant roots, and maybe you should use a shovel, but this was done in the new patch, so I'm very pleased! But this brings me to my next point)
5) The axe cuts mushrooms faster than knife. Why? make knife the right tool for mushrooms! Well this is technically true to all wild flowers...
Also the new version seems to be less performance efficient than the previous. Is this something others noticed as well? sometimes the crafting grid gets bugged, and I once had a placed torch which did not give off light, so I had to break it and put it back on the wall. But nothing mayor. I do have to reload the game when the crafting glitch occurs.
Some improvements to the guide book are also due, but its already far the most well executed tutorial I've seen in a complex game. What I mean is that for example when I first collected bony soil I was excited to see what obscure and potentially dark magical uses this rare block might have but found that its a plain entry only referencing that it drops itself. So I thought "its fine this game is still in 'prerelease' development, so they wanted to add cool stuff to the ruins, but haven't integrated them into the gameplay yet" How foolish I was! Turns out there's this thing: panning, and bony soil is the treasure trove of the early game! Also you can use panning to get copper bits, so scavenging for them is not necessary. Maybe this is mentioned at copper bits, but definitely not referenced at sand or gravel that you can pan them. This might be fine, since its ok that some parts of the game you don't discover immediately, but also panning is available day one, so maybe the game should still mention it. There is a tutorial, but you would only find it if you just decided to search for panning out of the blue. There's also a reference to small and medium raw hides at the uses for large and bear sized hide page, but how to convert them is not mentioned. Maybe this was removed?
As a finishing note, I do want to add that this game is amazing. It got me supper addicted! I don't remember the last time I was this exited over a game.
So if you actually read my entire post, you must be really bored, but thanks anyways! And have a nice day!
