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I've been thinking on how to expand the existing pool of jobs that can be available in a town across the town life-cycle.

The "clay tech tree" seems rather underdeveloped and could potentially help as quality of life improvements to town life.

I would divide Clay Products into four categories:

• Utensils: clay spoon, bowl, plate, mugs

• Storage: clay jar (solid storage: carrots, grain, onions, tomatoes), clay jugs (liquid storage: water, salt water, vinegar, milk, cane juice, palm oil)

• Decorative: vase (flowers, bonsai), art, small statues

• Building Materials: bricks, tiles

Lately I've seen more and more kilns separated from the main forge area specifically dedicated for clay products. Unfortunately there are only so many bowls and plates you need in a town. Having a larger array of options for pottery would be awesome.

While pottery could be used for "high capacity long term storage" that would probably be a bit unbalanced as pottery is rather early tech. Clay based storage could serve more as an everyday storage kind of niche. A couple examples:

• A clay jug could maybe only hold 3 water bowls, making it impractical for farming, but could be good enough to keep one in the kitchen for pie making.

• A clay jar could perhaps only hold 5 items such as carrots. That is a carrot stack which would not improve overall storage but could help in transporting those carrots from one place to another. I could have a jar of my own and go refill it whenever I needed more items.

• Clay jugs could help unclutter some of the intermediary products such as vinegar, cane juice, palm oil. By having each jug hold 3 bowls' worth as an example, players could start working on actively making those ahead of time before they are needed. Could potentially create an entirely new profession.

Decorative vases or random art could also be fun additions. Perhaps a "vase made by" message when you mouse over it as well. It certainly wouldn't hurt towards the road to 10,000 items haha.

Bricks and whatnot could potentially also had additional options for construction. Perhaps could be a more efficient version of adobe? Or maybe have adobe come from mixing reeds with soil instead? I'm not very enthusiastic about this category but I'm sure plenty of people in the community would love to have new materials to play with.

What do you guys think? Would extending pottery in the game be a good addition? What other items would you guys want?

Capacity for 3 people including driver.
4 boxes on the back for a total capacity of 16 baskets.
2 horses
Regular walking speed.
Mandatory for the settlement of sattelite towns, family migration (imcluding their belongings) and long distance trading.

Please Jason.

After a playing a few games and going so far as actually owning a house inside a fence (like a real life house with a garden) I reckon people will inevitably tone down these "property projects".

While having a farm inside a fence might be cool. There are considerably annoyances regarding distance of walk, non availability of water and constant need to reinforce tens of rickety fences.

I believe we will eventually move towards a more modest and smarter way of handling property.

Before the update I was planning some fences like these:

I implemented it a couple times and saw others doing the same but I ran into the problems I mentioned above.

Instead here what I believe is the future for farming:

The important tiles are actually only the seed row and possibly a bow with seed bowls. Having a couple gates right next to each other should allow you to easily access the area without too much hassle and close them just as easily. This should keep maintenance to a minimum while still providing the essential function of keeping seeds available which might or not be an issue depending on the surrounding environment.

In real life Norway exists the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_ … Seed_Vault) containing next to a million plant seed samples in an effort to prevent the permanent loss of plant species for whatever reason. In game we could perhaps have something similar in a couple closed box with bowls of all the seeds we need (carrot, wheat, milkweed, beans, squash, etc). Maybe this way we wouldn't need to have one box per farm.

For storage we might go a more modest direction:

Having knifes, bows and other sensitive stuff such as keys behind property protected boxes might help mitigate the access to those objects from griefers or just newbies who don't know how to use them. Right now we end up with people carrying 4 knifes on their inventory or to try to pick some random person to give them the knife before they die. Bows hidden far away from town forgotten by the ages which no one knows where they are when the random bear attacks. Perhaps we could also have an extra area with protected pads & needle to help make sure those are available when that naked kid starts walking around with the bow in his hands.

Having sensitive items in a centralized designated area and whitelisting people who are trustworthy could allow better item management and ensure their availability.

Or maybe property fences/gates are destined to allow the storage of keys. A sort of two-factor authentication in-game.

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So far the most useful thing property fences allowed was for me to have my own "yum storage" while being the last female. I actively made each type of food and stored it inside only giving access to the area to my daughters/granddaughters. It was great having those available without the fear of them disappearing to some random dude who didn't care about yum and could be eating mutton pies instead.

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What do you guys think? Are fences/gates here to stay? Are they really going to be family based? Profession based? Or will access be divided "by class" in which people considered useful/experienced members of society will have access to additional goodies such as knifes, bows or keys?