odessacubbage.
taganayaSince it seems Jase and Nilla are mainly testing Seafarer I decided to test the other challenging start – mountain/small/harsh/survivor. It’s a bit easier to survive initially because there is a lot of food, but stones and boulders quickly become a problem.
I played a map that had 22 boulders on it. That’s it. It’s enough for a thingstead and a smithy, but I could easily see random chance giving such a start even fewer boulders so there aren’t enough for those essentials. And millstones, which must be made from boulders, became a problem later on – you can trade for them, but they don’t show up that often. And as far as I can tell, you can’t trade for boulders? I also ran out of stone by year 22.
Ideas, not suggesting all of these, but pick and choose what you want:
-more boulders
-ability to make boulders from stones
-ability to trade for boulders
-ability to make millstones from stones as well as boulders
-something craftable without trade to replace ropes as a requirement for quarries (iron is also in short supply but iron mines are easier to build)
-ability to mine boulders
taganayaAlso, you cannot build a campfire without clearing all the resources from its location. This is unrelated to bogland and this is the only building that requires this. Why? Does it have to be like this?
Tom SawyerThat’s great you test these conditions! I have a bit stress with another project and decided to delay the release of 7.1. Actually I wanted on March 21 on equinox (sacrificing feast and so on) but that was yesterday. Now we have some more time to adjust things.
In general I’m happy with the abundance of stone but you are right about small mountain maps. There is not much space for stones and boulders. What should not happen is that you can’t build a thingstead or reach iron working on any map. I will check some small maps to decide if to slightly increase the chance of boulders. I also think to remove the boulder from smith workplace (they can also use a smaller stone), then to make 2-3 millstones from a boulder instead of 1-2 and to let people mine boulders from a quarry as an option or random in addition to rubble stone.
About the campfire I thought people would make it on free land in real and not where trees have to be cut first. But I can change it’s if more comfortable the other way.
odessacubbageOh, I really like the boulders from quarry idea, makes a lot of sense to me!
