Add Clay, Pottery, and Food rotting (spoilage)

39 votes

Add Clay as a resource, possibly have to be harvested by river bank or during dry season. Clay can be used in pottery to make pots, and storage vessels (useful if fruit trees and alcoholic beverages make the cut), and to make decoration items, such as a clay roof, clay tiles, planters, and possibly pipes or pump improvements. If adding as food storage, then may need to have a way for food to deteriorate to provide reason to use storage containers.

Under consideration Suggestion Suggested by: SirMichael (19 Aug, '21) • Upvoted: 06 Feb • Comments: 4

Comments: 4

19 Aug, '21
SirMichael
It could also allow better grills, and street lamps
19 Aug, '21
Gin Fuyou
Clay mining was also suggested in https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/199374/different-soil-types (see linked spreadsheet)

Not so sure food spoiling would be a good fit - I have doubts that with a lot of food, harvested at different times and stored in different warehouses would be a pain to track spoil rate (if you mean spoiling system alike Don't Starve).

But aside of that - I vote up!
06 Jun, '23
Adam Olsen Merged
I'd like to see a bricklayer building which employs a beaver to go around upgrading paths. This would happen automatically, avoiding the issues of manually deleting and constructing new paths. Even a modest 20% speed increase would be worthwhile.

(Optional) This could include wear, so even after the whole colony is upgraded there's still a sink for bricks.
(Optional) The bricklayer could try to upgrade more heavily used roads first, rather than radius like a forester. I'm doubtful of the value though.

The bricklayer should also upgrade platforms, also using bricks. Otherwise you have a weird situation where you discourage vertical construction.

A consequence of a bricklayer is needing a clay and brick production chain. This would be a new endgame or midgame resource similar to metal mines, encouraging players to spread out on their map. Requiring updated maps is a major drawback but probably worth it.
07 Jun, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Bricklayer building, clay end-game resource" (suggested by Adam Olsen on 2023-06-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.