You work harder than most devs man. I hope you flesh this out with deeper RPG elements and post a full game on steam for some economical rewards and not just praise from randoms in these comment fields <3
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May I ask.. what's a "homestead"? Is it just a walled-in base? Because I can never place any of the items in the "H" page because it says it requires a homestead.
Thanks Tim!
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Thank you Briarios! I really appreciate the kind words. Oh don't worry, it is being fleshed out and I'll probably have to at some point soon draw a line in the sand for the itch.io version, so the Steam version can become what I always imagined for the game (and also there'll be an incentive to buy it rather than just play on here haha). At the end of the day, I'm here for the praise from randoms - I mean, I just am happy to be making something people connect with and enj
Thanks so much, Briarios, I really appreciate that. We're only at the very early stages of this game - I have huge plans for it and yeah I'm aiming for it to evolve on Steam so I can make sure it's sustainable. To be honest, what spurs me on is just making a world and sharing it with random people who come along and take an interest. But yeah, I want to really make this into one of the most complex, deep, mind bogglingly epic open world RPG roguelike simulation type games out there. And I couldn't do it without all the bug reports and feedback I've been getting (and yeah the praise is always nice but not why I do it!) so I'm hugely thankful for that!
Re: your question, here's the deal with homesteads. A homestead is a 32 x 32 plot of land that you personally claim in the overworld. It's your pastoral base for raising livestock, milking animals, and making cheese. To get one, you need to buy a Homestead Deed from a general store vendor:
- 200g at Tier 2 general stores
- 150g at Tier 3+ general stores
Once you have the deed, use it from your inventory while standing in the overworld. You'll get a placement cursor to choose where to put the homestead plot. After that, the H key build menu will work for it but only when you're standing inside your homestead bounds. That's why you're getting the "requires a homestead" message. The structures (troughs, milking stools, cheese vats, cheese presses, cheese caves, fences, gates) are all homestead-only buildings.
I do worry it's too arcane or specific as a feature - that's almost certainly the case actually. So I will need to at least make it more accessible but happy to take suggestions. I might just ditch the homestead plot... I dunno yet.