How can you add maple trees, and not give the ability to harvest them for maple syrup? How?
But no really, I like the new variety of trees, and it's cool to have maple trees, but it feels really wrong that there doesn't seem to be any maple syrup to go with them.
Might as well use some more of the plants to spice things up. (I played only a few minutes of A18, forgive me) The big smelly flower would make for an interesting crop if you could use it as a sort of animal-repellant. Sure, not enough to hold-back manhunters or starving predators, or even animals who lost their noses in fights; However, it should keep the wolves out of your general chicken-pen/early days food stockpile.