While this is likely one prong I thing the biggest thing is just more syncs for sap. You naturally get so much of it but you only really use it for codex pitch or sugar. Having some other uses as they expand vertical progression I think should be the main focus though. Than balancing costs from there.
#Increase the sap (sugar) cost of potions
quick yacht
feral relic
I agree, I think it definitely needs more sinks. I do think that at least for now we could scale healing potion costs and that would at the least be something
Could use more cooking recipes with sugar too, toss it in the deluxe recipes like pie.
quick yacht
cooking I think would be nice since otherwise everything just takes salt. But than again it would make the sugar deluxe so much easier so they'd have to be weaker until they stop flooding inventories
peak hill
sugar could be an ingredient in the baked line of goods, those take so many steps plus the time gate of the oven, it would balance out the ease of using sugar