Good Day Devs, my Suggestion is a wild shot in the dark, and might never get implimented. But I will give this a go.
So, we already have housing in place where you can buy houses around town all different sizes. But my suggestion is a bit “wild” and it’s not just to improve Housing, but general “farming”
Let’s start with the easier part.
When we go out to venture the world, we pick up / collect ingredients of all plant bases. Allow for these pick ups / collections of plants around the world to have random chances to also pick up a seed of the same type. The seed is not a guaruntee pick up, but should be at a lower chance as we don’t want this in abundance. Now you might ask what does one do with this seed and I am getting to that bit.
Back in town a seperate merchant should be added. This merchant allows for “island” purchase on a seperate plain as what the town hub and game hub would be located as this will just make management easier from your side. This merchant should also allow for Island expansions when you have the silver for it as your first island purchase is rather small.
On these islands we get a house in the middle and around the house we get bedding in which we can plant these seeds we collected. These seeds will grow to the item you got them from allowing for you to always come back to your Island and collect your harvests and make Food / Potions before you head out.
That’s the more or less of it. Now, how this should work and the mechanics.
- Think of this island as a simple piece of square with your basic housing in the middle.
- Your first island purchase should start with one patch of bedding for growing whatever crop you desire and a very basic house
- The merchant can be paid to expand your island. Island expansion will add more bedding for you to plant a more variety off different seeds.
- Your seeds does not always yield 100%. Some will sprout, some won’t. 1 seed equals 1 plant.
- Seeds work on a timer same way as the town hub. You plant them and come back after 24hrs to Harvest your crops
- Your basic house can also be upgraded to expand in to a bigger house. After paying also a fee ofcourse. This way players have more control on how big or small a house they need.
- We can use the portals to portal to our Island
One can get cheeky with it and also alow us to catch Chicken on the Beach, even add new animals. We can them catch them and breed them on our farm for slaugthering.
I think this will add a nice way of also Island management and farming things you need. Ofcourse this feature is not for everyone and that is fine. If a person choose NOT to purchase their own Island and do Island Management, they don’t have to and they can still choose to enjoy the game as it currently is.
The Island Housing System are for the people that want to do that extra and labour the fruits of it.