NEED IDEAS: Unique early game extension mod

[thorny patio]

I will be making a mod to extend the early game (pre iron), and I need some ideas for features.

Primary goals:

• Be different than just flint tools and collecting rocks
• Incentivize exploration
• add value to the gameplay progression rather than simply adding steps for the sake of it
• not be annoying

[thorny patio]

bonus if anyone can think of a way to make getting food less annoying (so not having to worry about causing a mass extinction)

[gleaming shale]

That second one could be solved by removing the "if theres no animals here, make it less likly for new animals to spawn" feature to be fair

[amber wigeon]

For this one, you could consider having occasional migrations of large numbers of wild animals. For instance, pigeons.

[ebon latch]

i don't know if this is a good idea but would panning for resources be interesting? you could like make a pan out of wood and have to find rivers (incentivizing exploration) with either gravel (or a custom block) that you can pan to find resources to make further things

ig my idea doesn't add much value though

[amber wigeon]

That could be fun, though I feel like it would be really tedious.

[thorny patio]

hm, if combined with biome-based loot as a supplement to the main progression rather than a requirement it could be interesting