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Scipio

25 Jan @ 5:01am

Suggestions: after seeing what's coming later.

Nice things that could be added in the future:

1. Water for brewing is very important. So, a room with a well and equipment to purify and improve water quality would be nice p.s. ( it does not have to be complicated, it might just allow to improve water in 3 stages e.g. stage 1 clean water just brought up from the ground, stage 2 purified water and so on).
If dedicating a room to water is too much a simple well that you can see going down underground until it reaches a stream is enough.
Also bringing water up could be done by buckets and later by pulley system and maybe Archimedes' screw powered by a little donkey going round.

2. Appeal of this game is to a large part about the visuals, so Botanical Garden building would bring it to the next level. It could be pure decoration or serve a purpose like unlocking new ingredients or mildly tweaking existing ones.

3.Abbey in the end of the day is religious institution, so ability to upgrade the church using excess finances and maybe even make it into a cathedral later on would be great. Upgrades could increase fame and grandeur of the abbey and so on.
Also clicking on the church door should open them and allow to see inside of it as we can see inside the rooms we build, while clicking on it again would change it back where only facade is visible as it is now.

4. At some point we should be able to get rid of bandit protection and build our own guard garrison that costs to maintain. Does not have to be too complicated just a nice guard tower with beds and armory.

Tutorial:

1. Tutorial should clearly state and show that to complete an order you have to press and hold on it in the map. Took me 5min to figure that out :D

Love the game, hope it will become more and more beautiful.

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Dr.H [developer] 25 Jan @ 6:11am

Hi there! I am working around the clock to prepare the release, but your feedback was too genuinely good not to address it right away ;)

1. I love the idea (and it shows that you know brewing pretty well too ;) ). I just added a note for the future (definitely post release) about a Well room, it's pretty cool and gave me some nice ideas.

2. I have this idea, for a "remote" future, of a Garden DLC with the full cycle of ingredients in-house production, including malting the grains, etc. For now it's pure theory, but if the game goes well who knows :D

3. We already implemented in the full build the ability to upgrade the building a few times, so that it grows and supports a larger and cooler monastery, more news soon!

4. I love this idea too. It makes a lot of sense for late game. We want our game to have stuff distributed over the course of a long progression, and this sounds ideal when the player has had their share of bribing the bandits!

Tutorial 1. >> Addressed already, we are improving that whole part of the UI, added a tutorial specific about it, and set a sign that says what to do with those orders :)

Really really happy to hear you enjoyed the game, it boosts are enthusiasm to make it shine as much as we can!! Now I am back to implementing stuff!

Cheers
Dr.H

Bursty 26 Jan @ 9:03am

Awesome

Rusteve

31 Jan @ 12:37pm

I can't remember if I've seen this idea on here before but I was thinking an apiary might be good as it would give honey and could give a boost to the plants growing in your garden from having the bees nearby.

Dr.H [developer] 31 Jan @ 1:10pm

Originally posted by Rusteve:
I can't remember if I've seen this idea on here before but I was thinking an apiary might be good as it would give honey and could give a boost to the plants growing in your garden from having the bees nearby.

We might have mentioned it somewhere! Not for now, but for the future, i'd love to focus a whole DLC on making Mead (as i love brewing mead too), having the apiary for honey, and a some different set of recipes and rules (one idea is also for cider, but for now the eyes are all on the release and a gigantic and rich base game first :D )