This is an industry that can be massively expanded in to a beautiful and endless array of autistic spreadsheets and we need it ASAP.
Every meat should be able to get hung and dried on a drying rack the same way fish is for a lowered hunger and focused FEP alternative.
This whole process could also be massively expanded by the implementation of marinades and drying already smoked meats.
Meats should be able to undergo any or every part of this multi step process for different results.
Imagine being able to turn a simple piece of otherwise useless meat in to something great by simply pushing it through an easy process of which the highest cost is simply the time it takes.
Expansion of time-specific resources
Things that happen only during the night or on certain times of the lunar cycle add a whimsical immersion and sense of FOMO to the game.
- Cicadas in the summer afternoon? Obnoxiously loud large flies that buzz and hum in the tops of trees and spawn like mistletoe.
- More diversification of what animals appear in high and lower spawning numbers based on seasons.
(e.g. - less bears during summer, more during winter?) - More seasonal variants of animals, even if the hide variations are purely aesthetic, it is still fun.
- Loons at night? Been suggested before many times but I mean come on.
- Treefrogs at dusk and dawn? Chirping little beaded toe frogs clinging to trees and rocks and shit.
- Worms popping up and squiggling around and leaving behind tiny little dirt mounds at night?
- Entire ingame years that have dynamic spawning rates for certain foragables and animals. (e.g. - a year where grasshoppers and mushrooms spawn at much higher rates but foxes and flowers spawn much less)
- ^ this idea, but some years have entirely exclusive foragables, fish, insects, or even animals
More alternatives and variation to existing flora and fauna
Foraging is fun, especially when the resources you forage actually make good shit. Fuck our shit up with diversification.
- ANIMAL VARIATIONS - WHERE IS BABY BEAR, WHERE IS WANDERING FAMILY OF BOAR? PLS JORB
- Watercress - wild tuber alternative that grows in water! (FUN)
- More spices!! Where is fennel, chicory, parsley????
- Sunchoke - wild tuber alternative that grows on land!
- Fresh water fauna variations! non-swamp turtles, CRAYFISH, clams etc.
- More rare and exotic biome-specific flower variants! Edelweiss and Bluebells are OLD NEWS
- Expanded seaweed diversification - badderlocks, bullkelps, irish moss, dulse, spirulina, algae ???? hello ??? so many possibilities
- An actual wild onion variant?? It's 2022!
- Arugula, Dandelion, Cress - WILD LETTUCE ALTERNATIVES
- Cave cultivars variations for pottable plants