Bringing Balance to the Forage

[Scilly_guy]

Then again, my issue remains: when out foraging I ignore the spammed rubbish stuff because I'd only be picking them up in order to drop them again 1 second later. Yet on the stuff I do pick up, the chances of spawning a nice extra is drastically lowered because those extras can also be spawned off rubbish. What about rubbish not spawning them in the first place, and keeping the spawn rates of 7-uses and the like off other things as it was? Or do you want us to be picking up everything in sight only to drop it a couple of seconds later?

This is a fair request, but the problem is that I would like for new players to get the 7-use inspirationals and I consider a new player the most likely person to be picking up the rubbish.

There could be some balance stuck here, obviously the point is that newbies can get the 7-use and 10 use inspirationals from foraging and either use them or sell them to help them along their way. But an experienced player shouldn't be punished and made to pick everything just to find the 7 use ones. If the 7 use ones had a slightly higher chance of being on the rarer items than the common ones then that seems logical. You could also have less useful random drops from the common stuff, like duck eggs in reeds, a turkey egg (plus argo in the darkness) in ferns, snake eggs under gneiss (quzelcoatl or whatever in the darkness), a very hungry caterpillar on honeysuckle. Grass is good enough by itself.

[RickyP602]

i don't think that means what you think it means

I disagree, as forage should effectively lower the saturation of the 'plentiful' items and replace them with the more valuable and rare ones.

Then again, my issue remains: when out foraging I ignore the spammed rubbish stuff because I'd only be picking them up in order to drop them again 1 second later. Yet on the stuff I do pick up, the chances of spawning a nice extra is drastically lowered because those extras can also be spawned off rubbish. What about rubbish not spawning them in the first place, and keeping the spawn rates of 7-uses and the like off other things as it was? Or do you want us to be picking up everything in sight only to drop it a couple of seconds later?

I second this, and would also like to add a little tidbit more. With the introduction of all of the mostly useless other stuff, you have also lowered the rate at descent stuff spawns. On top of that with the added reduction in finding the 7 use inspirations is now two fold. They have less of a chance to spawn, and also we are picking up less stuff.

I would also like to mention that even noob players (I still consider myself one) will not pick up the useless stuff for long. Maybe a day, possibly two? before it loses it's usefulness or it never had one to begin with. Overall, i'm fine with a reduction in the amount of stuff you forage, I just think there needs to be some balancing with the 7 use inspirationals, since a lot of us new players use them as our main form of currency, literally right behind, if not ahead of, silver from charms.

[Dallane]

I would also like to mention that even noob players (I still consider myself one) will not pick up the useless stuff for long. Maybe a day, possibly two? before it loses it's usefulness or it never had one to begin with. Overall, i'm fine with a reduction in the amount of stuff you forage, I just think there needs to be some balancing with the 7 use inspirationals, since a lot of us new players use them as our main form of currency, literally right behind, if not ahead of, silver from charms.

I went out to forage today and had zero problem collecting 7 uses. Silver from charms is more then enough. I made around 2k in those alone.

[Thor]

Sometimes I get 7 uses inspis and sometimes I dont. RNG is a mean ***** from time to time =P

[RickyP602]

I would also like to mention that even noob players (I still consider myself one) will not pick up the useless stuff for long. Maybe a day, possibly two? before it loses it's usefulness or it never had one to begin with. Overall, i'm fine with a reduction in the amount of stuff you forage, I just think there needs to be some balancing with the 7 use inspirationals, since a lot of us new players use them as our main form of currency, literally right behind, if not ahead of, silver from charms.

I went out to forage today and had zero problem collecting 7 uses. Silver from charms is more then enough. I made around 2k in those alone.

I've never made 2k from charms in one forage session, even if it was hours long. The most I can recall bringing back was 12 or 13, and I traveled a very long way. In order to get 2k you'd need close to 70 charms.

[TotalyMeow]

A lot depends on how inhabited your area is. A highly active town, for example, will have a lot more spawning in it's area stumps and logs than a hermit's claim.

[Dallane]

I would also like to mention that even noob players (I still consider myself one) will not pick up the useless stuff for long. Maybe a day, possibly two? before it loses it's usefulness or it never had one to begin with. Overall, i'm fine with a reduction in the amount of stuff you forage, I just think there needs to be some balancing with the 7 use inspirationals, since a lot of us new players use them as our main form of currency, literally right behind, if not ahead of, silver from charms.

I went out to forage today and had zero problem collecting 7 uses. Silver from charms is more then enough. I made around 2k in those alone.

I've never made 2k from charms in one forage session, even if it was hours long. The most I can recall bringing back was 12 or 13, and I traveled a very long way. In order to get 2k you'd need close to 70 charms.

You need to learn how spawning works. Make a path, check every stump and log along the way. Do that every few days and you will profit.

[Blood]

i have also found turning on wander/forage and walking in a circle in my town i can find 4+ feathers on the ground in ~5 minutes.

[Perchik]

It's become too easy to collect organic for composters and fish traps.
I think that must be remodelled.
Compost bin must have direct weight limit. For example 50kg, where 1 kg of organic will become 1 piece of humus.
Therefore, if you have x10 any plant with weight 0.1 kg you will get 1kg humus.

For fish traps it must be a special craftable item "fishy food" made from any plant, that requires more plants for 1 fishy.

[JackSkeletron]

It's become too easy to collect organic for composters and fish traps.

Less "grindy". I like it the current way.