Sayanna
Greenhorn
Hello!
Remember sad Shane, putting things in shelves, depressed about his life and his existence? Heartbreaking moment to see a young boy being so sad and unhappy about his life.
What about your farm animals?
I think it is time is to have more duties with your (farm) (and) (animals).
As soon as you are rich enough, you can buy the collector... And then technically you have nothing else to do with your stable pets.
To have animals is nice, but ... You technically have nothing to do than to USE them for making money.
They just need to exist for making you rich, sometimes you need to regrow the grass and get your stuff from them.
Thats it. Isn't that a real sad way to keep living Beings? Kinda the "Joja Way"?
You CAN say "hello" to them, but there is no really need for.
Also your dog or cat needs no food, chickens eat hay ... (not really).
So I want to tell you three points I would like to change (if this would be my decision).
1. Specialized Food for a more realistic gameplay
In real you feed animals with more than just hay. A chicken or a duck would never eat hay. Fresh grass yes, but no dry hay.
To support them with everything they need, you need to feed them wheat and seeds.
(for the eggs they need chalk but maybe that goes too far...)
So this are my ideas for animal food:
To introduce special needs, animals will have now TWO different heart bars.
The first one with red hearts is the one you already know - love your pet, talk to it, care about and hearts will fill up soon - means better Quality for your products they'll give you.
The second (new) one will show you, how good you care about this animal. Just let it exist and gain your products by the collector won't fill your heart bar in any way.
But talk to it, pet it and give it every special need will fill this bar with iridium hearts (picture 1).
Next to the age above the hearts you can see ►►► Symbols. That means, how fast the heart bar will fill itself. It will only drop, when you forget to feed or let sleep outside.
◄◄◄ Just means, the heart bar will fill very slow.
Reason for this idea: Do something to get something! You can't expect, that you just need to buy some animals and let them rot in their stables while producing high quality things.
Who needs what?
a - Give chickens and ducks wheat and wild seeds; rabbits carrots, meadow hay and shamrocks to eat, as they do in real too.
b - also add green hay for the horse, sheeps and cows and goats to eat (so you differentiate between hay for sleep on and hay to feed)
c - feed pigs with acorns, vegetable waste (made from cooking things. If you have no kitchen, you cant get vegetable waste and you cannot buy it elsewhere) and shamrocks.
d - give dinosaurs fizzlehead fern, common mushrooms and dandelions. You have special animals, so you should have special food aswell to make them happy.
e - (since the update for ginger island, i've seen ostriches, but for them I did not create food ideas because for now I have just an egg and don't know how to breed it)
Reason for this idea: Tell kids correctly, that it needs more than just hay. Teach them to CARE about special needs, make it more realistic, because I think, in our real world there are enough super big industrial "breeding machines" and much too less farmers, who love and care about their animals. Dont tell Kids the "Joja's way" of "using" farm animals, pls!
Where to get? (just the new objects)
- shamrocks you can collect by using your sickle on your meadow fields (or maybe you can grow them by seeds... It's not up to me, which way it will be, IF it ever will be)
- wheat seeds will drop when you use your sickle, same as when you pick up sunflowers and seeds drop.
- green meadow hay will now collectable when the meadow is green. You get yellow hay when it's autumn or by collecting wheat.
- carrots (the orange ones) can be grown by seeds and harvest in summer.
- vegetable waste can be produced by cooking things. It's the part of your vegetables, you usually would throw away.
- dogfood can be cooked from meat which you can buy at Marnie's ranch or by farming in mines.
- catfood can be cooked from fish which you can catch by yourself or buy from Willy.
Caring about all 3 special needs (just 2 for chickens and ducks, cows and sheeps, because these mostly are beginner-animals and we don't want to make it too difficult for them) will result in more love to the farmer (and will be important for step 2)
If you don't care about the special needs, you will NOT get dung to make fertilizer (which should worth a lot to make it more attractive). The heart bar of your farm animals will grow, but of course slower, as you would care for their needs.
It would look like this then (with no full heart bars, because they first need to grow with a better ministration) (and yes, I forgot goats):
Or like this, when you don't care about any special needs:
Now let's talk about, why special needs are so important.
2. Cleaning up Stables and craft fertilizer from dung
Maybe you already noticed
- My Intention is to make animals more worth to care about. Animals love clean stables, so why not more care for them?
Why not having a win-win situation?
Happy animals (and I mean really happy ones, not such pets who are happy just to exist) support your farm not just by giving milk, wool and stuff...
The happier they are, the better poop you gain for making special fertilizer.
When you google about dung, you can find 4 types of dung.
From chicken, sheep, cow and horse. Here you see how long they fertile the ground:
(I think it would be enough to have a fertilizer about 1/2 and 1 year, otherwise its too easy. )
The quality of the dung depends the ammount of the fertilizer.
Dung Buckets are rare and you cannot buy them anywhere.
There are 2 ways to fertile a field. Decide, what you would prefer.
Way 1: You can craft this fertilizer by yourself by collecting dung buckets, transform them to fertilizer and use them like any other fertilizer too.
Way 2: Marnie will get a new dialogue and offers you to fertile your farm, if you have the ammount of dung buckets wich are needed for. (see the cyan boxes, left image)
You can only fertile your farm in winter and only prepared parts with your hoe can be fertilized. (Means, if you want the maximum fertilization, you need to use your hoe every step)
The nice thing is: Once you've worked the soil and it loses its usable area (for example if a rock appears there and you haven't dug up that piece of land anymore), the soil will be still fertilized for the remainder of the fertilizer's durability. All you have to do is dig again. (So it was worth digging all over the place, huh?)
In the picture on the right I just created a fertilizer with no trace of which animal it came from.
__
Last but not least:
3. Pet care!
This game can be played by kids which are 6 years and older.
In this age kids REALLY want a pet.
Dogs, cats, horses, hamsters, mice, whatever.
In my opinion kids should always learn, that nobody and nothing can live just from air and love.
They need to eat, they need to drink and they need a cuddle, same as humans too.
Nothing of this is part of this game.
You can "click" your pet and it will tell you "
".
You can ignore it for 5 years - it will always say "" when you click it.
In my eyes thats not enough.
Imagine you're a dog or cat and your owner ignores you most of the time.
You get water when it rains, you get food from... well, from nowhere, if you don't hunt by yourself like a stray dog/cat.
Why you should "" your owner then? Why you should even want to live there?
When you decide to have a pet, it costs money, time and it needs to be fed.
Always. Not just, when you remeber or when you have time.
This should be possible!
You can buy this food from Marnies Ranch and you can cook it by yourself, when your kitchen is avaiable.
It even gives you XP!
Dogfood is basically made from meat, catfood mostly made from fish.
Maybe you have some ideas too for a good, tasty recipe.
Where can you get meat from? Yeah, good question. You can't slaughter your animals, so I think you should collect it in mines, where you also get bug flesh.
Or maybe Marnie sells meat, which you can use to cook.
IF there would be some changes because of this ideas, I think, the time should tick a BIT slower.
Or pause the time in stables, so the farmer has the chance to clean everything up before the day is lost to other things. (Cleaning will take a while...)
That's it for now.
I've been worked on this pictures the whole day and I'm sure, there are a lot of wrong words (I'm german and a bit rusty with my english) but I hope, you can follow me and know what I mean.
Good night and have fun with my monster text. (Well.. when you read this, you're already through it )
Let's hope, all this work was not a waste.
~ Sayanna
Remember sad Shane, putting things in shelves, depressed about his life and his existence? Heartbreaking moment to see a young boy being so sad and unhappy about his life.
What about your farm animals?
I think it is time is to have more duties with your (farm) (and) (animals).
As soon as you are rich enough, you can buy the collector... And then technically you have nothing else to do with your stable pets.
To have animals is nice, but ... You technically have nothing to do than to USE them for making money.
They just need to exist for making you rich, sometimes you need to regrow the grass and get your stuff from them.
Thats it. Isn't that a real sad way to keep living Beings? Kinda the "Joja Way"?
You CAN say "hello" to them, but there is no really need for.
Also your dog or cat needs no food, chickens eat hay ... (not really).
So I want to tell you three points I would like to change (if this would be my decision).
1. Specialized Food for a more realistic gameplay
In real you feed animals with more than just hay. A chicken or a duck would never eat hay. Fresh grass yes, but no dry hay.
To support them with everything they need, you need to feed them wheat and seeds.
(for the eggs they need chalk but maybe that goes too far...)
So this are my ideas for animal food:
To introduce special needs, animals will have now TWO different heart bars.
The first one with red hearts is the one you already know - love your pet, talk to it, care about and hearts will fill up soon - means better Quality for your products they'll give you.
The second (new) one will show you, how good you care about this animal. Just let it exist and gain your products by the collector won't fill your heart bar in any way.
But talk to it, pet it and give it every special need will fill this bar with iridium hearts (picture 1).
Next to the age above the hearts you can see ►►► Symbols. That means, how fast the heart bar will fill itself. It will only drop, when you forget to feed or let sleep outside.
◄◄◄ Just means, the heart bar will fill very slow.
Reason for this idea: Do something to get something! You can't expect, that you just need to buy some animals and let them rot in their stables while producing high quality things.
Who needs what?
a - Give chickens and ducks wheat and wild seeds; rabbits carrots, meadow hay and shamrocks to eat, as they do in real too.
b - also add green hay for the horse, sheeps and cows and goats to eat (so you differentiate between hay for sleep on and hay to feed)
c - feed pigs with acorns, vegetable waste (made from cooking things. If you have no kitchen, you cant get vegetable waste and you cannot buy it elsewhere) and shamrocks.
d - give dinosaurs fizzlehead fern, common mushrooms and dandelions. You have special animals, so you should have special food aswell to make them happy.
e - (since the update for ginger island, i've seen ostriches, but for them I did not create food ideas because for now I have just an egg and don't know how to breed it)
Reason for this idea: Tell kids correctly, that it needs more than just hay. Teach them to CARE about special needs, make it more realistic, because I think, in our real world there are enough super big industrial "breeding machines" and much too less farmers, who love and care about their animals. Dont tell Kids the "Joja's way" of "using" farm animals, pls!
Where to get? (just the new objects)
- shamrocks you can collect by using your sickle on your meadow fields (or maybe you can grow them by seeds... It's not up to me, which way it will be, IF it ever will be)
- wheat seeds will drop when you use your sickle, same as when you pick up sunflowers and seeds drop.
- green meadow hay will now collectable when the meadow is green. You get yellow hay when it's autumn or by collecting wheat.
- carrots (the orange ones) can be grown by seeds and harvest in summer.
- vegetable waste can be produced by cooking things. It's the part of your vegetables, you usually would throw away.
- dogfood can be cooked from meat which you can buy at Marnie's ranch or by farming in mines.
- catfood can be cooked from fish which you can catch by yourself or buy from Willy.
Caring about all 3 special needs (just 2 for chickens and ducks, cows and sheeps, because these mostly are beginner-animals and we don't want to make it too difficult for them) will result in more love to the farmer (and will be important for step 2)
If you don't care about the special needs, you will NOT get dung to make fertilizer (which should worth a lot to make it more attractive). The heart bar of your farm animals will grow, but of course slower, as you would care for their needs.
It would look like this then (with no full heart bars, because they first need to grow with a better ministration) (and yes, I forgot goats):
Or like this, when you don't care about any special needs:
Now let's talk about, why special needs are so important.
2. Cleaning up Stables and craft fertilizer from dung
Maybe you already noticed
- My Intention is to make animals more worth to care about. Animals love clean stables, so why not more care for them?Why not having a win-win situation?
Happy animals (and I mean really happy ones, not such pets who are happy just to exist) support your farm not just by giving milk, wool and stuff...
The happier they are, the better poop you gain for making special fertilizer.
When you google about dung, you can find 4 types of dung.
From chicken, sheep, cow and horse. Here you see how long they fertile the ground:
(I think it would be enough to have a fertilizer about 1/2 and 1 year, otherwise its too easy. )
The quality of the dung depends the ammount of the fertilizer.
Dung Buckets are rare and you cannot buy them anywhere.
There are 2 ways to fertile a field. Decide, what you would prefer.
Way 1: You can craft this fertilizer by yourself by collecting dung buckets, transform them to fertilizer and use them like any other fertilizer too.
Way 2: Marnie will get a new dialogue and offers you to fertile your farm, if you have the ammount of dung buckets wich are needed for. (see the cyan boxes, left image)
You can only fertile your farm in winter and only prepared parts with your hoe can be fertilized. (Means, if you want the maximum fertilization, you need to use your hoe every step)
The nice thing is: Once you've worked the soil and it loses its usable area (for example if a rock appears there and you haven't dug up that piece of land anymore), the soil will be still fertilized for the remainder of the fertilizer's durability. All you have to do is dig again. (So it was worth digging all over the place, huh?)
In the picture on the right I just created a fertilizer with no trace of which animal it came from.
Last but not least:
3. Pet care!
This game can be played by kids which are 6 years and older.
In this age kids REALLY want a pet.
Dogs, cats, horses, hamsters, mice, whatever.
In my opinion kids should always learn, that nobody and nothing can live just from air and love.
They need to eat, they need to drink and they need a cuddle, same as humans too.
Nothing of this is part of this game.
You can "click" your pet and it will tell you "
".You can ignore it for 5 years - it will always say "
" when you click it.In my eyes thats not enough.
Imagine you're a dog or cat and your owner ignores you most of the time.
You get water when it rains, you get food from... well, from nowhere, if you don't hunt by yourself like a stray dog/cat.
Why you should "
" your owner then? Why you should even want to live there?When you decide to have a pet, it costs money, time and it needs to be fed.
Always. Not just, when you remeber or when you have time.
This should be possible!
You can buy this food from Marnies Ranch and you can cook it by yourself, when your kitchen is avaiable.
It even gives you XP!
Dogfood is basically made from meat, catfood mostly made from fish.
Maybe you have some ideas too for a good, tasty recipe.
Where can you get meat from? Yeah, good question. You can't slaughter your animals, so I think you should collect it in mines, where you also get bug flesh.
Or maybe Marnie sells meat, which you can use to cook.
IF there would be some changes because of this ideas, I think, the time should tick a BIT slower.
Or pause the time in stables, so the farmer has the chance to clean everything up before the day is lost to other things. (Cleaning will take a while...)
That's it for now.
I've been worked on this pictures the whole day and I'm sure, there are a lot of wrong words (I'm german and a bit rusty with my english) but I hope, you can follow me and know what I mean.
Good night and have fun with my monster text. (Well.. when you read this, you're already through it
)Let's hope, all this work was not a waste.
~ Sayanna
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