@Paka Early access or not, they should give the guy some regular inventory to trade with. I really don't have any need for a Santa hat but any ore, surtling cores would be useful.

I did buy the headlamp though. Very useful.

Early Access. I imagine they haven't added everything he will have and may even sell some items as temporary placeholders until the other biomes are added and they can be found/crafted normally.

yea right now he just sells some pretty niche items, the belt and fishing rod should be craftable, I still havn't seen a merchant without booting up a seed I had to look up.

Mods are your friend

One of his items crafts a good melee.
Fishing stuff is good for certain high level food.
Weight belt and head lamp are really nice to have.
Santa hat ..... well it's a cosmetic

The point is each thing is an item that can be used in different ways. This I think was just the "test" phase of development where they wanted to make sure the mechanics of the things involved worked before they started to pile items into the inventory.

I believe the cosmetic options on some shields etc are the same kind of test and a lot more things will have a lot more options in the future.

Actually kind of excited to see what H&H might offer in that regard. Hopefully we will see a lot more options as they flesh out the bare bones systems they created and have tested well so far.

Originally posted by Crystal_Pistol:

What's the deal?

You are in a early access game.