Hello!
I just wanted to share a quick suggestion that came from a talk I was having with a couple of friends about Stonehearth. We love the game but both of them came to me with the same “complaints” - they enjoy Peaceful mode however they feel it is lacking at some point because they can’t really test the mettle of their villages if they didn’t get the fountain for that, etc. I then said "well, play Normal then? 
" and then they said that it’s the opposite situation - things scale up too fast and even though it’s not hard, you have to basically play thinking of that and can’t enjoy free, happy building 
There are mods with alternative difficulties as well - but like I said, they don’t think Normal is too hard; they just wish they had “more time” before getting attacks (or could just build freely and then start getting attacks whenever they wish)
So we came up with the idea of a craftable (or maybe buyable) “Skull Pole” and “Hard Skull Pole” that once built, “switches” the game difficulty. So you’d start getting attacks, the Ogo campaign would commence, and so on…
I don’t know how feasible that would be - but it would be an interesting choice for people that would just like to plan the “perfect” defense and then test it out or something like that - or maybe just give you some days of preparation before starting things, etc.
Keep up the good work and have fun! 
