Trees fruit and sap cycle and visuals, blooming period
I'm very glad with introduction of non-wood resources from trees in experimental branch, but i'd like some adjustments to it, to make it look better and play somewhat differently.
First of all trees are big aesthetic element to the game. I can see what you tried to make trees that are ready to be gathered for additional resource be easily to distinguish, but it doesn't look very appealing.
Aside from changing models I suggest this system for trees:
1. Add blooming stage for fruit-bearing trees.
2. All trees have same bloom - bearing - rest cycle tied to game days. e.g. all watered chestnuts bloom on every 5th day, bear chestnuts on 10th and drop chestnuts on 15th.
3. For tapping - first tapper has to tap tree for it to produce resin or sap.
4. Tapped trees also have cycle when they produce resource every X days, then they rest.
This supposed to have better tree visuals, scenery that changes with time and slightly different gameplay than crops.
Comments: 5
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07 Dec, '21
Gin FuyouI mean that chestnut trees constantly covered in chestnuts look weird. I usually plant a lot of trees around my settlements just for visuals, and putting gatherers \ tappers all around would just overflow my warehouses.
Additionally if sap collection is cycled it can work with seasonal jobs, e.g. resin will be collected during dry cycle, after it collected on tapped trees during temperate season, and with end of drought tapper will move to man pump or some other seasonal job. -
30 Mar, '22
Jason MergedThe art for the chestnut tree and the leaf icon is beautiful, but of the unrelated horse chestnut tree, which is in another plant family.
The reason this matters to me is because I volunteer bringing back the edible American chestnut, Castanea dentata, which is native to the eastern USA & was almost wiped out by a blight. There are still many surviving trees left, & we'd often get calls for what people thought were surviving American chestnut trees, but were actually horse chestnuts, which are not native but were commonly planted in cities because they are very pretty.
It would be super cool to spread info of how American chestnut leaves and trees look by making the art reflect the tree!
True chestnut trees from America, Asia, & Europe in the Castanea genus all have similarly shaped "simple" pinnate leaves and so it'd be recognizable in other continents. Horse chestnuts have palmate compound leaves.
I love the game by the way! Only reason I have to comment is that I love chestnuts -
30 Mar, '22
SirMichael Admin"The chestnut art depicts the unrelated horse chestnut. It looks nice but true chestnuts are super!" (suggested by Jason on 2022-03-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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30 Mar, '22
Gin Fuyou AdminJason, oh, yeah, I knew it's horse chestnut and it's chestnuts look different, edible having different kind of spikes, but didn't know trees themselves look notably different. Do you have an image of a tree in blossoms? Search seem to give results with a lot of horse chestnuts mixed in.
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07 Apr, '22
antonOverhaul I love the idea of seasonal jobs.