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What's special about this arc?

Hmm.  Why?

Ah yes, great idea.

I like the seasons idea. How long would a season need to be to feel like an appropriate length? Half an hour?

Map is pretty cool.

One thing I want to add about the excess backpacks is that it actually made sense before to flood a town with backpacks since they were and still are a superior storage option to baskets when used in a cart or box. Its essentially upgrading your baskets.

What if we had a hay crop?  In real life it makes up the bulk of a domestic farm animal's diet, supplemented by grains such as corn or (bowl of) threshed wheat (source: I grew up on a ranch adjacent to my grandparent's farm).  Visually it would be a pale green version of wheat that doesn't need to be threshed.  The issue is it would be incredibly inefficient if treated the same as wheat, you'd need to get at least 4 servings out of it to be not be horrible compared to how things work for current domesticated animals in-game.  On the other hand it would nerf other good food sources such as milk, mutton, and carnitas in a similar way to how rabbits are being nerfed, if the goal is to create strain on late game food options.

I learned rubber and partially stew from the tool tips as well.  On my first day I had a great Mom teach me every step of compost (i was really startled when the sheep immediately grew after i fed it). She asked me if I knew about yum-chaining and I said that I did, but later she caught me eating some berries and directed me to the kitchen where I could collect a pie. She started teaching me stew when i had my last baby in my arms, but died during the early steps of beans.  I felt really sad after she died and ran around for a while until i settled on trying to make as many batches of compost as i could before i died (i think i made two).  She might have been the reason I continued to play after that day.  Earlier i had spent an entire life struggling to grow a single row of carrots, which had me feeling really useless, using only the tool tips.

New players don't know what things are at first, making the already difficult to use tool-tips even more challenging.

For me I'd say frustrated more than bored.

I didn't mind the limited field of view as much before, but now as I've got more experienced I find it really limiting. It gets tiresome running circles around town looking for an item I saw a few minutes ago, and when doing a multi step activity it can happen multiple times consecutively resulting in a lot of wasted time and really taking the wind out of my sails. I definitely would enjoy a bigger field of view. I've never modded a game before because I'd rather feel like I'm enjoying the genuine intended experience, but I might have to break that for this game. I don't really want the extra hacks that come along with the mod. I don't want a software advantage over less knowledgeable players.

I have mixed feelings about the changes. I don't really like the rabbit change mainly because it's an occasional fun and fulfilling activity when the village is in need of clothes. It feels really satisfying to bring back ~17 rabbits and turn it into clothes and backpacks for some naked kids. However it's possible this will still be similar in a lot of cases, since generally a village lacks clothes only early game.  A positive is It will reduce clutter in late game towns where clothing has stockpiled to that point. I think I would like it better if rabbit clothes didn't decay now. People are gonna get mad if rabbit fur is used for anything other than backpacks, though I would still miss the rabbit gathering for clothes aspect.

I am interested to see how it impacts late game food dynamics due to the prevalence of rabbit pies as a staple, however there are other similar food options like mutton that will most likely just take the place of rabbits, since rabbits are one of many cheap food sources.

The pond change is fine I guess, doesn't really matter too much other than ponds that haven't been visited in a long time won't fill back up anymore, making previously used land slightly less useful.

Do we get one or two rabbits out of a hole before it stops producing?

I think it would be a good idea to have more opportunities for new players to learn in some fashion. Whether that be a solo world they can play around in, or an expanded tutorial. For example a tutorial zone that teaches the basket/bowl/soil interaction and the bucket/bowl/water interaction, since it is fairly non-intuitive and frustrating until you learn how it works.

Also connectedness of a town would likely improve if the field of view was expanded. Without a zoom mod you don't see a lot of what's going on. It allows issues such as the confessed domestic boar breeder to go unnoticed by the village. I tend to move around pretty much constantly to "extend" my field of view, but it's still pretty limited and can get frustrating when time is wasting away.

Based as my own experiences as a mother in this game, there are still plenty of new players; there is still a market to potentially be captured.

I've been taking a break from the game to satisfy my own annual fall urge to play stardew valley.

With the right decisions there is potential this game could stabilize long term.  That's not say it should imitate stardew valley.  I think this game is most similar to don't starve, but with it's own unique and more complex elements.

I like the premise of this idea. The text could even just appear in seperate color, or play a special tone when your name is mentioned on screen if the 'hearing stuff off screen' idea is too much. There's been times where someone is trying to talk to me and it takes some persistence from them before I clue in that the name they keep saying is mine.