If no one has replied to this, with the exception of those rare few that have no cones at all, most of us are caused by a vast majority of one type. Your best choices are avoiding colors with similar intensities in addition to color types, maybe light blue and dark red or ideally allow an option in the hotkey set up to flag type of colorblindness. Red-green gets blue and yellow bars, blue-yellow gets red and green and total gets really dark and really light grey-scale. I actually made it to lvl 2 smithing before I realized the failures weren't level based. The bigger issue I have is the difficulty acquiring some ingredients. In general, never make basic crafting tools and the most common secondary ingredients require rare drops/merchant spawns 2nd tier recipes or worse a chain of multiple tier 2 recipes. Specifically where's the sugar, to make ethanol, to make both dyes and varnish. I have only gotten 3 varnish and 1 ethanol, so the only source of wax for recipes I have atm is the merchant. Also either slow down or completely ditch the dance dance revolution mechanic in spellcasting. There are a few spots things can get trapped. There are a few spots along river banks and outside caves you can't stop onto to pick items up and they just stay there. Also, as pretty as it looks, the area around the rock by your house can trap you till your garden finishes growing. A path behind it, like the one at the opposite corner could fix it. Last bug I noticed, and I don't remember which skill, but one of the VP/WP skills scales like a standard 5lvlspec instead of the 25/50lvl one. This is intended to be constructive. I will post any other bugs and suggestions I find. The game has my interest, as it reminds me of legend of mana (I think) from 20ish years ago.
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Hi Thedu!
What version of the game are you running? I tried addressing the colours of the craft bars in the current <Winter> 0.1.4 release, so just wondering if you might be playing an older version of the game. If not, then I may need to take another look at the colours again.
In regard to sugar, I'm going to try to add it as a growable plant in the next release.
As of the <Winter> 0.1.4 release, Wax can be acquired from harvesting the Beehives in the forest.
In regard to the attack chain mechanic, most of the attacks only require the arrow key inputs and the same attack always uses the same combination in the same order every time, the speed is also significantly slower than most other games that use this mechanic. If I slowed it down any more the whole mechanic would become pointless.
In regard to items getting stuck on cliffs, and river banks, can you post a screenshot so I can see the exact locations that this happens on. Some of the cliffs can actually be climbed up to using the vines.
In regard to getting trapped by your own plants, I was assuming people wouldn't do that. I have been contemplating to set the first stage of growing plants to have pass-ability, so I may just add this in the next release too, so people would be able to walk through them.
In regard to skill scaling bug. I didn't quite get what you mean in your explanation. Do you mean when you use the skill or when you level it up, or?
Looking forward to your reply, and any future bugs and suggestions!
I updated thanks, the real problem at the moment, is rng. I have only had the merchant get varnish once, and I was starting out and could only buy 3. So I've been doing a crafting route while I wait. BTW, kudos on the colorblind friendly bar, I can make out everything including the critical success.
That's great to hear, glad the new crafting bar works for you!
I am actually planning to introduce an Alchemy Hut with an Alchemist Heroine within the next few updates. She will sell some of the Alchemy products and reagents, such as Varnish, Glue, etc all the time so it will make it easier to obtain such ingredients.