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Oh man I am so happy about the Steam release. So many CLUELESS new players to teach, and there's hardly ever a guarantee of spawning into a comfortable life anymore. Things were getting far too comfortable post-Donkey Town and pre-Steam. I'm so looking forward to my work and teaching to actually mean something again.

I have a better idea involving iron that will also make the game a little more interesting.
Have the wild animals get ornery at whoever is disturbing the ground. Pulling iron could attract nearby wolves and release nearby bears, who will also come to investigate the perpetrator.

Add a mountain lion to the game that actively hunts like the bear, but detects from a larger radius and has a dash like the boar, where he goes from slow and stalking at a distance, but his attacks are fast and long (5, 10, 15 meters) ranged. Give him evasion, so arrows don't always stick. Make it a group effort to hunt, like we had to do to remove sabertooth tigers before we could peacefully settle in any of their habitats.

Make wolves rally into packs and travel across the land together.

Cutting down swamp trees should have repercussions as well. Add a chance to release a jaguar when swamp trees are cut down.

Bobcats that stalk the prairies, randomly eating rabbits, but that get particularly aggressive when there are no rabbits. If a field of rabbit holes is left unculled, it spawns predators that, if left unchecked, would reach a balance between rabbit family holes, and predators. Remove the predators prey and they get increasingly aggressive over time.

Add gazelles, at zebras, add lions, add content that engages with content, make people excited to rally together; bows, knives, spears and shields in hand, to take on the wild and claim the lands holding resources.

Make the game more exciting over time, not less.

"Send the scout out on horseback, our resources are dwindling."

"The scout has returned!"

"I've discovered an iron node 200 meters northeast. It's surrounded by four bear caves, and a pack of wolves patrols the area. Gather sufficient food and weapons, we must take these lands, for our family!"

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"The rabbit populations have grown exceedingly large. Dozens of holes with full families will soon attract predators."

"Help" "Pls" "My" "Mom" "Died" "Getn" "Rabs" "NE." "Bob" "Cats" "Atak" "Her." "Pls" "Help"

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Come on Jason, stop treating a number tweak like 0.001 to 0.0005. Like a weekly update. Every keypress you make writing in this forum could have been a keypress into a new objects .txt file. Every hour you spend reading our comments could have been an hour spent drawing or roaring into a microphone.

Make us happy with new content and we'll make you happy with exciting new stories, new families, and new lives.

Sit down with your kids, watch a documentary, share a moment with them, find inspiration for a new idea and bring it into the game, for everyone to engage with.

Don't waste your time obsessing over the way milkweed, soil or iron works, only to find that 3 months later you've just made matters worse and now want to tweek it again. Don't play with the chess pieces on the board, make new ones. Playing with them is our job. Making them is yours.

Interview after interview, you are promising people weekly content added to the game. You sold the game to people with these statements. It's time to bunker down. 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, find what you want to add, decide on it's role, how we're going to interact with it (or it with us), draw it, give it life and set it loose.

This is your mason jar and we're your little caterpillar. Don't just put a leaf in here and watch us die. Move us to larger and larger terrariums. Forget the pet store; you are the factory, you are the industry, you can give us anything, from anywhere, from any time. Don't just leave us here in this mason jar with a leaf and a stick and expect to find a butterfly when you get home from school. We need a lot of nourishment, we need fresh air, we need the humidity and all the things that our ancestors adapted to so that we could become the creatures we are today.

Give us the world.

We're starving for it.

Give us the world!