Improvement Suggestions

When voting to ratify a constitution, non of my friends can vote unless I port forward our server. Even though they are playing on a game that is being hosted from my computer already. I feel like the game should not need to re-direct you to a website to engage in core mechanics of the game, it should be self contained.

Make settlement culture based on several inputs instead of just based on player rep and painting culture. for example: towns 50 points total -- 10 points towards culture for the top x number of properties in the settlement and how much housing bonus they have combined. -- 10 points towards culture for average food bonus for active citizens -- 10 points towards culture for settlement foundation deed culture -- 10 points toward culture for highest or top 3 or what have you rep of citizens. -- 10 points toward culture based on the number of active stores in the settlement -- 10 points toward culture based on number of trees planted and living in the settlement influence -- 10 points toward culture based on the number of asphalt / stone roads in the settlement influence -- 10 points toward culture based on the number of streetsigns / stopsigns / streetlights etc just a few ideas to make culture not so linear.

For recipes with multiple variants like lumber, I think it would be better to have a dropdown to choose the variant instead of a dialog where you craft the variants. Problems with the current design: There is no easy way to know what the "Order" button will craft. So you basically get a random variant. If you want to craft a specific variant all the time (e.g. the generic lumber), you always need to use the Advanced Crafting dialog, which is one click more. The game does not remember you last decision The "x/y" information will show you the amount in storage for any variant, not of the variant you want. In the dialog. this information is no longer available. Once the dialog is open, you no longer see the amount it will craft (the dialog behind resets, and even if it didn't, it might be behind the Advanced Crafting dialog) I imagine an alternative design as follows: By default, recipes will use the generic variants You can change this variant with a dropdown in the recipe list. The game will remember the last variant you selected for all crafting tables The "x/y" information will reflect the selected recipe, i.e. it will only consider hardwood when you want to craft hardwood boards There is no more Advanced Crafting button Follow-up suggestion that builds on top (has been requested a few times in the last days in Discord): For ingredients that are a tag, there could be a dropdown menu to choose one mor more specific items. This should also be remembered. In a world where one of the variants is more plenty than others, you could make sure that one is used for recipes where the variant does not matter.

Pretty basic, just show which chunk you are adding the fertilizer to a little more clearly when a fertilizer is in your hand.

The elevator is nice! When you only want from highest to lowest point. A wall mounted item, that stops the elevator would be nice. So yes, when you have 5 diff floors, you need to press the button a bit more often, but Im pretty sure, people would be totally fine with that, because the other option is to use the stop button and hope its not too high or too low A small and a large modern elevator would be the other option! Small one not for vehicles, just for players. And when you click the button (the only button), you get a small display and you can see for example: -1, 0 and up to 5. (The names of the wall mounted elevator level/stopper) and the elevator is going there without any more stops

Street lights are on all the time, they should shut off at dawn and on at dusk or at least have an option for this. In another game I play, they allow you to place a "controller" that lets you set color of lights and if they are always on or dusk to dawn. Color is less important, but dusk to dawn would be nice.

Currently mining rewards XP (0.1) when you mine a block. This leads to a decent advantage in XP early on for people who settle in the desert because being capable to one hit break sandstone with a stone pickaxe. Every other rock multiplies the calories needed for that XP by the amount required to hit the rock. I'm suggesting making mining reward XP per swing like woodcutting does, this includes breaking the half slabs. This should make it feel much less bad to settle outside the desert.

Currently, it's very hard to figure out what you need to do to get a sufficiently high water flow. there is no documentation in the object description of what flow a water pump can provide once placed down, there sometimes is a flow indication in the pump, but I guess it's only the current flow, and not the capacity? It does not say it, but it fluctuates. It's hard to figure out if there could be an issue with the source pipe. users like the combustion generators say something like "available at x (of max y)" but it's not explained what this means (is the max the available capacity, or what the combustion generator could use?) the combustion generator no longer shows anything regarding water at all once the sewage is full, so you need to fix that before you see the water again (but you might need to get the generator working to get sewage working...) some object just say that "Water is not currently needed", but do not show what they would need if they were active (so you need to queue up a recipe to find that out) there is no documentation on whether the pipes have a flow restriction (someone in Discord said there is not, but you don't find that information in the game) it's not clear whether you need to put pumps in parallel or in sequence to improve flow (putting them in parallel and then merging their outputs seems to work) It's not clear whether elevation makes a difference for water flow All things combined, it's very hard to find out what you need to do when an object is not working because of not enough water flow. Only partly related, but these issues increase the frustration with setting this up: the output of the waste filter says "water", but it's not compatible with "water" inputs. maybe split the names to "cleaned water" and "fresh water"? the electrical water pump seems like an upgrade to the mechanical pump, but it's not clear if this is actually the case. In my test, they did not improve the situation. However, they made it much worse because combustion generators and electrical water pump had a cyclic dependency on top of that, the combustion generator seems to swallow a full piece of charcoal every time it turns on and off again, which can be cyclic in case of a pump issue. So it burns through the whole stack you put in while you troubleshoot

Many loggers are reluctant to sell plain logs as fuel but it is THE tier one fuel. Adding firewood would clean up shops significantly by removing every log and just adding firewood. Firewood would be a slight improvement over logs but differentiates it from their raw resource which most people don’t like to part with. Firewood would be made obsolete by charcoal. Could differentiate between “wet wood” and “dried firewood” by having a drying rack that must be stored outside, some areas dry faster than others, so you’d split then dry logs.

Would be really helpful to avoid over an over changing buy order amount (because it doesn't fit the wight capacity of your storage) to have a button in the "buy" area of the shop window, which allows to buy exact the amount of stuff which fits in the related storage you have with you, like cart or boat.