A underground water resource that your Hearthling’s can use to build Well’s or Hydraulic Pumps to draw water from the ground to water Crops or for Drinking / Brewing
Cave System
Randomly generated network of cave systems that your Hearthling’s can explore for resources or to battle enemies. Example’s
Just because Dwarf Fortress has done a few of these things, doesn’t mean other games can’t.
What’s wrong with trying to make the world of StoneHearth expand to be a little more realistic and explorable? I see nothing wrong with adding more layers to the game to give the player a more enjoyable and fruitful experience.
water as resource is already talked/planned/worked on.
the current map gen is a bit tricky with caves, since the player got no real fog of war or influence area, so caves and dungeons would be completely visible from start and dungeons can be undermined…
I’d rather have most of the game played above ground. Instead of delving into a mine, why not have an explorer class that takes your choice of 3-5 hearthlings to a randomly generated “off-map” site for you to explore, where you could find all sorts of weird goodies and have random encounters. Going underground has always seemed tedious and boring to me.