Let me return to this reply to address the more substantive reflections about Terroir and affinage - absolutely agree, and I have added your comment into my notes for the future work developing these areas. You're right - it's a rich vein waiting to be developed further. In the meantime, I've made some immediate changes in this patch to address some of the more mechanical stuff - e.g., adding more backpack upgrade options that are easy enough to find from NPCs and from loot drops. You'll see in the devnotes for 0.3.8 that there's a lot in there thanks to your suggestions