Originally posted by Zathabar:

Fair point, so whats you solution?

Thinking about for a moment I wondered if we could have "Carved wood" IE using the base wood stuff but adding some of the fluting and engraving you see on Darkwood but without the dark staining. Costs same mats cost a shade more in stamina to put down (to reflect the carving) but has same durability and requires a level 2 work bench to produce to reflect the added stuff need to decorate it.

Would something like that fit in the idea you have? If so flesh it out and suggest away! It could have legs!

I won't lie I don't have a solution, it's kind of a tough one. I'll definitely have a think about it if my input might actually be used in some small way.

Off the top of my head maybe some kind of "mini biome" that for example is a small version of the mistlands, just kind of nestled into an earlier biome, that is of no use in the way of game progression, but can be a good way of collecting the building resources you want earlier in the game. I have no idea how hard any of that would be to implement nor have I given it much thought but it's something.

I think a part of the problem would be that you wouldn't want to take away from the mistlands or whichever biome we're talking about. It's fun going through there and farming for those resources, so you wouldn't want less reasons to go there. I guess any other way of getting the building resources that doesn't involve going into the actual biome would have to be less efficient so that didn't happen.

Could you elaborate on your idea? Would it be a variant of the structure you're talking about? So you could have the cool pattern but it was missing the colour? Then you could essentially upgrade it when you are able to go into the biome? If I've understood correctly I do like that idea. It's just I really don't like any "whole/big" building structures being locked too far away, as they are now. A lot of games kind of do that with smaller decorative items, like little trinkets to put around your base, which I don't personally mind. It's just with the literal base building pieces, I'd like the option to use them closer to the start of the game, even if they take considerably longer to grind than they would when you're able to survive in whatever biome usually has them.