swamp & desert resources

[theTrav]

I'm not entirely sure what resources you could have in a swamp... perhaps some healing components, perhaps some crop that grows vastly faster in swamps, maybe some creatures that are worth hunting that only spawn in large bogs...
I'd suggest crocodiles but that's not really thematically appropriate.

Desert currently has clay-pits, but maybe have the deserts spawn scorpions which can be gathered for poisons (or sting people who move slowly or stay stationary near them for too long).

I also feel that deserts and swamps shouldn't really be terraformable like grassland and forest. Even building a paved road shouldn't really be possible if it's a sand desert as the road would be buried relatively quickly... Possibly make such areas larger as well so they can block off large corridors.

[Ferinex]

Cranberries grow in bogs.

[loftar]

Swamps will most likely have something unique to them [they already have leeches, though ;)], but I find myself a little surprised to see people referring to dirt-land as "desert". It is intended to represent, simply, grassless dirt, and I would have thought that it should be obvious from the color of it. Is that not the case?

[niltrias]

I think it is pretty clear that it is a patch of vegetation-free dirt, but what else can we call it? Vegetation-free dirt patch takes too long to type. Deserts dont have much in the way of vegetation, so its the closest thing to it. And the clay pools look somewhat like oasises. Oasii?

[sami1337]

Swamps will most likely have something unique to them [they already have leeches, though ], but I find myself a little surprised to see people referring to dirt-land as "desert". It is intended to represent, simply, grassless dirt, and I would have thought that it should be obvious from the color of it. Is that not the case?

When i saw it, i was thinking desert. But after seeing a beach, i was wondering if i was right..But still, we all refer to them as deserts.
I think they are too large to be grassless patches.

[loftar]

Well, then it's one thing, of course; since theTrav mentioned scorpions, I thought people might have gotten the idea that they really were deserts, though. I digress, but how about just calling it "dirt"?

(Btw., Wiktionary lists the plural form as "oases". I must admit that I, too, didn't know.)

[Rift]

well.. theres already dirt in general, lets call it a dirtpit or mudpit.

[sami1337]

well.. theres already dirt in general, lets call it a dirtpit or mudpit.

Then what do you call infinite source of clay?

[Rift]

Uh.. a clay puddle? a mud puddle?

[Raephire]

Uh.. a clay puddle? a mud puddle?

Last I checked, they dont form in deserts.