Late game farming and cooking

[Imverytired]

I'm not exactly sure this is the correct place for suggestions so please let me know if it isn't. 

Two of the most frustrating items to gather are honey and eggs. I propose that in the late game you can build devices to produce them, namely the Beehive and Chicken coop respectively.

For the beehive I'd imagine you'd need wood, nails, honey, and a new item called a 'Hive frame'. The hive frame would only be available to craft with late stage farming skill (either through southern farming or skill point level up).

The beehive would produce 2-3 honey a day (additionally it could produce wax as well) and take up a foot print of two tiles wide and one tile tall, although visually leaving half a tile space on either side.

For added difficulty you could make it so a specific kind of outfit must be worn around the bees (ie: hazmat suit or bee keepers outfit) or they will sting, inflicting damage.

For the coop I'd imagine you'd need wood nails, plant fiber, and iron. You learn the recipe from mid-high level farming skill (either through southern farming or skill point level up). I imagine it'd be about two by six tiles wide and three tiles tall with the literal coop taking up two by on by two tiles in the corner. The rest of the space is made up by an area enclosed by an upgradeable fence (wood to steel progression). I think it would house 3-4 chickens. I'd imagine zombies would be interested in eating your captive chickens and so you'd have to protect them (or use them as bait).

Since there are already chickens in the game I think it'd be fun to add a snare or other live trap of some sort and allow the player to catch live animals, either as a means of storage, distraction, or to deem them a pet. If this is added I think you should be able to grab chickens and put them in the coop.

Otherwise I have two ways to put chickens in the coop without chicken grabbing macanics: 1. Just have the coop come with chickens (kinda boring and nonsensical, but very simple) 2. Give the coop an 'incubate' function. Put in an egg and it has a chance to hatch.

Anyway thank you for listening to my rant

 

[Riamus]

Yes, this is the correct place for suggestions.

Regarding your suggestion, eggs are basically an early game food item that you shouldn't even really need to use by mid game once you can cook other food.  So a late game option really isn't needed, imo.  They also said no to any kind of animal husbandry stuff (like a chicken coop), so that probably won't change in vanilla.

As far as honey goes, the late game option is to craft antibiotics and/or herbal antibiotics.  You also shouldn't need even 1 honey every day to deal with infections in this game unless you're not wearing armor, so even if there weren't end game options available, you wouldn't need to make 2-3 honey per day.

 

[Imverytired]

I enjoy cooking in game and quite a few recipes involve eggs but I find searching for nests annoying. For the honey my reasoning is that honey could be used in future recipes on top of its antibiotic properties (think honey glazed ham) and wax might be interesting to implement later on (Candle crafting, water proofing, mold making).

Thank you very much for your input and for letting me know about their stance on animal husbandry.

 

[Riamus]

I'm not sure they'll bother with more recipes.  There are already more than enough.  It just doesn't matter much what you eat.  I make what is readily available to make.  If I have the ingredients for better food, I'll make it, but I'm often just making stuff like meat or vegetable stew because I always have the ingredients for those and they work just as well as anything else, even if you need to eat more to equal the best food.  And egg foods are generally not worth making once you can make anything else.  I suppose if they reworked the food mechanic to give different buffs or something, then it might be worth considering other types of food, though I don't see them doing that when they're trying to finish the last few things in the game so that the game can be done and they can move onto their other game.  But who knows? 

 

[Suxar]

Two of the most frustrating items to gather are honey and eggs.

Honey is not a problem at all at the end of the game. There is so much of it that sometimes you want to sell it to a merchant.

Honey ceases to be a problem after finding the first volume of Wasteland Treasures. After finding this book, there is nowhere to put honey.