Opinions on improvements after 40hrs of play

[dire python]

The game is good and loving it so far, been waiting for a game like this to release for a long time now. But i feel some improvements would be needed but it's early access so i have no complaints and have hope for the future.

1. Villagers need working to add a loadout slots specifically for weapons and shields: as of now villager AI drop all weapons to go to work but do not pick back up which makes defending against raids extremely tedious as you now half to go to every villagers to re-equip and feed in the time it takes bandits to arrive.

2, Food consumption for AI: the AI seem to always be hungry and power eat all the food to quickly making saving stock a nightmare to manage and the buff they get seem to be way short also annoying to enter a fight and have companions or guards walk away mid fight because they somehow became hungry after just a handful of minutes fighting.

3. The day cycle: Day cycle seem short with all the micromanagement needing to be done for the AI like equipping them and making sure they are fed and not being able to fast travel with you makes it hard to go anywhere after preparations are made to conduct raids or much of anything.

4. Bandits and Raiders: They seem to have unlimited stamina able to constantly sprint even though they are fully equipped with armor and big weapons and shield meanwhile when i equip such things i take a major nerf to speed and stamina making it already a disadvantage in an already disadvantaged fight.

These are just some issues i would say could be worked on it's early into the games life I'm not a game creator so i do not know how much work it takes to do such things and I'm not expecting changes of this caliber from one day to the next but these are points in my opinion that could be worked into and balanced. As stated in the beginning loving the game and will continue to play just wanted to give my first feed back so far on the game.

[summer abyss]

All valid Points 😊

[dire python]

Another thought that came to mind as well,

For guards how about letting us set limits or boundaries for them to wander around rather then them roam freely all over the place?

[crisp forge]

food consumption is actually fine
never had a problem with it nor with having too little high quality food
ppl just need to learn that berries and mushrooms arent enough
will probably take a while until they learn it
what I agree with is rather the food management - that you have to give every single soldier food
a setting where we can set up how much food they should take when ordering them to the food storage would be really fine, should be locked behind a tech tier building

[dire python]

agreed with what your saying berries and mushrooms arent enough but even making stews and jam and anything substantial i run into the issue that the villagers consume more of it like it was their last meal of their life my stock can barely stay idk maybe im just not producing enough but im still working on mechanics and learning this new game and scouring the forums for tips and ideas as well these were just thoughts so far.

[turbid elm]

For the food if you set someone with a decent cook skill to only cook and delivery(priority on cooking) and then set up three or four cauldrons set to make fine stew, berry jam, mushroom stew and meat stew you will start to get a pretty good buildup of those items. Once I started having plenty of those and building up raw meat I turned the smoker back on, but since currently you can't set a limit and they burn it if night falls I go to the menu screen and turn it on in the morning and off part of the way through the day. With this set up have been feeding fifteen in the main and send some fine stews to the outpost. For raiding if you give them these items and a back up before you go they will follow you for a long time without getting hungry