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Spoonwood where have you gone?

Bottles require fairly advanced tech to make and you need to be a specific civ type to make them and yet they are only able to hold four bowls of items and you need to get rubber stoppers (which is currently one of the most advanced tech in ohol) to move them around. Making them doesn't really make much sense since the alternatives, clay bowls and buckets, are so much easier to make* and can be made in larger quantities instead. The current most useful thing about bottles is that they help you drink wine, skim milk, milk and turkey broth for extra yum but as containers they are pretty terrible. They should hold at least 10 items to justify all the effort that goes into making them.

Also you should be able to put full bottles with stoppers in stacks next to each other (even if they contain different items).
*Clay is abundant
and you just need 4 milkweed+some boards to make a bucket

I tried making a railroad in bell town but the carts seem to break if you right click them or put an item inside them while they are moving. I wanted to know if this is intentional behavior. If it is, it should definitely be removed from the game because it makes railroads practically unusable since they are extremely easy to grief (even by accident).

I know in the future there will be more items added to the game and this update serves as a beginning of the industrial age. But as of right now is do the new machines give anything useful besides water?

Due to the current game mechanics, each minecart requires you to build a separate railway for it to work. This makes rails quite expensive and not worth what they cost. So ,I believe it would be reasonable to add a way to move mutiple minecrats at a time on a single railway.

And just to illustrate that adding it wont make the game beserk here are some things that could be done to make it work:
1.make it so that if a moving cart hits a stationary cart it just stops(and doesnt get derailed)
Or
2.add a way to put carts on or off tracks
Or
3 .Add wagons:a way to send chained carts instead.
Or
4. Add a way to detect carts/change rail directions.

Either way , its just a thought and I hope you agree with me

[Didnt read too long]: The new Apple tree item is intended to be built over generations (similar to the bell tower), unlike the monument however if it goes unattended until its done “growing” it will die out and turn into a dead tree. It will not yield any fruit while its growing (6-10 hours) so there will be no short term advantage to having it(think big people!).It can only be started at a root(cut) of another maple tree. Once fully grown it will not die out and will yield a batch of apples every 2-10 hours, but beware that like all other trees it can be cut down with an axe!

One of the things that makes this game so unique is the fact that players have to collaborate in order to achieve their goals, however many people forget how important it is to plan ahead for future generations by leaving them cues on how to proceed or building in a manner that will create a more sustainable large civilization down the line (by starting a civ near a large pool of lakes for example) .
We often get to see a single player who desperately tries to bake pies or take care of a farm but once that player dies from old age there is rarely anyone who takes his/her place , which eventually leads to death of the civ.
While You cannot force players to collaborate , but you can give them the idea of how it feels like to plan ahead: My idea is simple-A tree!
Hear me out, the new Apple Tree item will introduce a new mechanic where succeeding members of a civ will CONTINUALLY have to take care of it through time to make it survive,that is if in the 6-10 growing time period it doesnt get water and fertilizer (new item) it will wither and turn into a dead tree. Just to reiterate the key difference between the bell tower and the Apple tree is that you cannot stop “building” it midway and come back to it after half an eternity to finish it. The benefit of this structure will be that it will give a batch of apples every 2-10 hours after it has fully grown, yielding no short term advantage whatsoever (think big people!) . To avoid game balancing issues the tree can only be grown at a base of a chopped maple tree(the trunk), and as any other tree in game it can be chopped and can be destroyed by griefers. I was also thinking of adding an item that you get from a bear cave that is needed to plant the tree sapling but Im certain that Jason is a lot better at coming up at implementation details than I am.

Anyways, What do you think?