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I think the developer should turn building rooms and structures into an essencial part of surviving and structuring a civ in game before the Steam release, as I fear there will be many new players that jump into the game with the intent of building their own houses and structures and seeing little villages form (like how is shown in the trailer), just to later be frustrated/disappointed by the fact that building is only aesthetic and hinders survival and effectiviness more than it helps (especially now with the chest blocking griefers running wild). I say this because it's pretty much what happened with me when I first started playing, but I stuck around. That said, here are some of my humble ideas on how to turn building into a core aspect of the game:

-More Simple Building Materials: Thatch(Straw)/Planks.

-Mouflon Hide + Any Floor = Simple Rug (not as good as a bear skin rug, but it is a simple way to buff the temperature of a tile inside a room)

-Rose Seed + Bowl of Soil + Water + Time = Potted Rose Plant (Just decoration)

-Primitive Stove: Serves as a hot adobe oven and a hot flat rock at the same time that is able to cook food without having to wait for the fire to turn into hot coals, being a more convenient way to cook inside structures.

-Table: A "container" that is especific for food in wich you can also place 6 plates/bowls on top allowing you to make pie crust and other itens in a restricted space.

-Fire lasts longer inside fully enclosed rooms: Fire 1min ---> 3min / Large Fast Fire 30s ---> 1min / Large Slow Fire 4min ---> 6min.

-Clothes (when not worn), Carts and Baskets have longer decay timers inside fully enclosed rooms: Clothes (Rabbit fur/Wool) 5h ---> 10h / Carts and Baskets 10h ---> 15h.

-Simplified Milkweed and Pine Panels: Milkweed should be simpler to farm (not consuming soil and leavind a hardened row) and wield more (2 stalks from every plant), as for Pine Panels they should be way cheaper to make. E.g. Two Shafts + Long Straight Shaft = Three Shafts + Long Straight Shaft = Four Shafts + Rope = Wooden Frame + Rope = Netted Wooden Frame + Pine Needles = Pine Panel.

-Adobe Floor and Cooling Adobe Structures: A full adobe room will have a cooler inside than the outside, making building in the middle of the desert viable.

-Windows and Shutters for Room Temperature Regulation: If a room is too hot, opening a window would release some of the heat and vice versa, this would allow for some nice variation between biomes, such as desert houses having lots of windows and houses in the arctic having none.

A Possibly too Far off suggestion:
-Raccoons: Very common animals in the green biome that would eat food from the ground, baskets and boxes if they can get to it, incentivising playes to build storage rooms.
-Raccoons would be very fragile animals, requiring only a long straight shaft to be killed, but multiplying every 10 minutes.
-They would always run from the player, but if you ever come into contact with one you'd be scratched (maybe even contract rabies on VERY rare occasions?) and be unable to pick up itens for 10 seconds.
-Dead Raccoon + Flint Chip = Skinned Raccoon + Hand = Raccoon Pelt + Needle and Thread/Ball of Thread = Hunter Hat (I thought it would be funny to have those cool raccoon hats in the game )

And these were all of my ideas on the matter, I hope some of them can make it into the game in some form eventually, but for now feel free to add upon/discuss them on the comments
-Thanks for your attention.

I've been really enjoying these latest farm updates. I was so excited to try out all the new recipes and crops, but the amount of clutter on the ground makes things so much more difficult to manage and do. The developer should really consider adding some more storage tech in next updates, or even allowing a crap ton of things to be stackable just like stones.
Seeds became a big concern now that there are several types of them laying around occupying such an unnecessary space for a minuscule item. We should be able to use rabbit skin to make some kind of seed pouch that can hold a large amount of seeds and be carried around, and maybe even make so that seeds that are stored inside a seed pouch won't despawn (like wheat seeds for example).
These are just some humble ideas that I had while playing the game yesterday. I'm very interested in seeing what the developer comes up with for the "storage part" of the tech tree.