A few QOL suggestions

[veronicaab]

I've been thinking of a few things that would be nice to have in the game!

• A confirmation before reading a book, just like when you eat something. Whenever I try to gift someone a book, there's like a 25% chance that I'll accidentally read it instead
• The ability to call Willy on the phone. I'd like to be able to check what bait he's selling before I make the trek all the way to the beach
• Changing the dresser UI so it's possible to put on or take off clothes while interacting with the dresser
• Something in the menu that shows the current racoon request. There's a good chance that I'll forget within 2 minutes of walking away from them, and I'm even more likely to forget if I have to wait for a crop to grow
• Change basic retaining soil to unlock at the same time as basic sprinklers and quality retaining soil to unlock at the same time or before quality sprinklers. I often don't have a reliable source of iron when I reach level 2 farming, so I might not be able to craft many sprinklers. But by level 4 farming I usually have acess to a steady supply of iron, so the newly unlocked basic retaining soil is already obsolete. Same with quality sprinklers at level 6 vs quality retaining soil at level 7. It would be so nice to use the retaining soils while working on getting ores for sprinklers!

And a couple things related to gift tastes. I wouldn't call them quality of life changes, but I'd still enjoy seeing them:

• Make Emily actually vegetarian. She's pretty close already! She already dislikes or hates several dishes with fish. I think it would be a neat detail if she disliked/hated everything with fish in it
• Have certain geode minerals be neutral or liked for Emily (crystals) and Robin (building materials like marble and granite). Also I always feel like Jas should like fairy stones because they're purple and associated with fairies, but she doesn't
• More characters returning stuff to you if they hate it, because it's funny. I love that Elliott will give you back a no-quality super cucumber if you hand him one and I'd like to see more of that kind of thing!

 

[WanderingWendaline]

I've been thinking of a few things that would be nice to have in the game!

• A confirmation before reading a book, just like when you eat something. Whenever I try to gift someone a book, there's like a 25% chance that I'll accidentally read it instead
• The ability to call Willy on the phone. I'd like to be able to check what bait he's selling before I make the trek all the way to the beach
• Changing the dresser UI so it's possible to put on or take off clothes while interacting with the dresser
• Something in the menu that shows the current racoon request. There's a good chance that I'll forget within 2 minutes of walking away from them, and I'm even more likely to forget if I have to wait for a crop to grow
• Change basic retaining soil to unlock at the same time as basic sprinklers and quality retaining soil to unlock at the same time or before quality sprinklers. I often don't have a reliable source of iron when I reach level 2 farming, so I might not be able to craft many sprinklers. But by level 4 farming I usually have acess to a steady supply of iron, so the newly unlocked basic retaining soil is already obsolete. Same with quality sprinklers at level 6 vs quality retaining soil at level 7. It would be so nice to use the retaining soils while working on getting ores for sprinklers!

And a couple things related to gift tastes. I wouldn't call them quality of life changes, but I'd still enjoy seeing them:

• Make Emily actually vegetarian. She's pretty close already! She already dislikes or hates several dishes with fish. I think it would be a neat detail if she disliked/hated everything with fish in it
• Have certain geode minerals be neutral or liked for Emily (crystals) and Robin (building materials like marble and granite). Also I always feel like Jas should like fairy stones because they're purple and associated with fairies, but she doesn't
• More characters returning stuff to you if they hate it, because it's funny. I love that Elliott will give you back a no-quality super cucumber if you hand him one and I'd like to see more of that kind of thing!

I like most of these suggestions (Jas not liking fairy stones has especially bothered me since she likes fairy roses, and the stones look like the roses), but I'd just like to add that if there's a confirmation before reading a book, I'd like to be able to toggle the confirmation off because I like spam reading. It wouldn't be the end of the world if I couldn't spam read anymore, but it's nice when I'm trying to save time. (you might wonder where or how I'd ever get so many books, and the answer to that is item spawning cheats)

 

[EliteDangerGamer]

I like most of these suggestions (Jas not liking fairy stones has especially bothered me since she likes fairy roses, and the stones look like the roses), but I'd just like to add that if there's a confirmation before reading a book, I'd like to be able to toggle the confirmation off because I like spam reading. It wouldn't be the end of the world if I couldn't spam read anymore, but it's nice when I'm trying to save time. (you might wonder where or how I'd ever get so many books, and the answer to that is item spawning cheats)

I wish there was a way for me to read a whole stack in a second

 

[Nonak]

I'd just like to add that if there's a confirmation before reading a book, I'd like to be able to toggle the confirmation off

I was gonna say the same thing! Except I buy them from the travelling cart when I have extra money and want easy mastery points.

The ability to call Willy on the phone. I'd like to be able to check what bait he's selling before I make the trek all the way to the beach

Huh, never felt the need to, but would be nice. Just don't make it so two numbers are pushed up and made unusable.

Something in the menu that shows the current racoon request. There's a good chance that I'll forget within 2 minutes of walking away from them, and I'm even more likely to forget if I have to wait for a crop to grow

Yes please! I always forget, especially if I currently don't have the right crop. Imma start writing it down somewhere till this gets added (if it does ofc...)

Change basic retaining soil to unlock at the same time as basic sprinklers and quality retaining soil to unlock at the same time or before quality sprinklers. I often don't have a reliable source of iron when I reach level 2 farming, so I might not be able to craft many sprinklers. But by level 4 farming I usually have acess to a steady supply of iron, so the newly unlocked basic retaining soil is already obsolete. Same with quality sprinklers at level 6 vs quality retaining soil at level 7. It would be so nice to use the retaining soils while working on getting ores for sprinklers!

When I see suggestions about it its usually to make it either work for all the tiles or not at all. Would be nice to have it changed in both ways.

Make Emily actually vegetarian. She's pretty close already! She already dislikes or hates several dishes with fish. I think it would be a neat detail if she disliked/hated everything with fish in it

Then also add some dialogue about it!

Also I always feel like Jas should like fairy stones because they're purple and associated with fairies, but she doesn't

Yeah same, was disappointing to find out after giving one to her.

More characters returning stuff to you if they hate it, because it's funny. I love that Elliott will give you back a no-quality super cucumber if you hand him one and I'd like to see more of that kind of thing!

I forgot he does that, yes, it is funny! On a similar note, more dialogue from villagers when you give them the wrong quest item (for example, in The Pirate's Wife quest).

 

[Hedhogthe3rd]

On a similar note, more dialogue from villagers when you give them the wrong quest item (for example, in The Pirate's Wife quest).

I want Sam to question me attempting to give him some old guy's underwear, yes!