Regarding the quirk loving insect meat, could you make it possible to make insect farms/breading grounds or something?
Like for example tempering, with the insect hives so they produce harvestable scarabs, defensive warriors, haulers or produce glow pods & jelly?
My second idea would be implementing a teaching system. Like having a mentorship program, trainingrooms, library's, etc.
My third idea would be adding more security settings/measurements/systems.
* Like a guard room with security consoles:
> early warning system for attacks/insects/disasters
> allows set to high alert button, which causes colonists to take up arms & follow preset duties
> creation of a better firecontrol system than the foampoppers
And finally, here are some small improvements:
* Add a button to set selected items to be designated priority. Instead of having to select a colonist and then have him/her prioritize items individually.
* make things like advanced research bench moveable/reistalled
* Improve Caravan managent:
> Allow caravans to be edited while they are still forming. Like being able to remove/add items/colonists after the initial loadout was selected.
> Allow the saving of Caravan presets for loadouts.
> perhaps add some more camping options, like setting up a tradepost or somthing.
* add storage tanks for liquids, rice, grains etc.
* Add some more floor varieties.
* allow the choosing of what form sculptures will take, with an option of random appearance.
* Allow linking/dividing up rooms. A.i. allowing to link adjacent rooms, so one person can have a room with an private prayer room, study or something like that.
* Add some sanitary facilities to the game
Thanks for the hard work.
Unless they have changed anything, insect hives are presently farmable. You leave them alone in the daytime and sneak it to steal their insect jelly when they are asleep.
To 'slaughter' your insects you would install a line of steel traps and bait your insects into them.
Tynan could treat Insect hives like he treats Dryad trees right now.
A "nest" spawning the "units".
Animals that could be farmed for Insect meat or milked for Insect Jelli.
It should propably be a distinct meme like "Insect Farmer", rather then something you can just get for choosing Insect Meat: Loved. As that option is currently not locked.
Well the insects aren't really your friends if you eat them.....
Having the insects become out friends so we can harvest their insect jelly would be helpful. I just cannot see how we are going to end up farming insects for meat. Maybe a better option would be to have the hives give us insect eggs for food. Gives me Morrowind vibes for some reason.....
Quote from: GoblinCookie on July 29, 2021, 10:48:10 AM
Well the insects aren't really your friends if you eat them.....
Having the insects become out friends so we can harvest their insect jelly would be helpful. I just cannot see how we are going to end up farming insects for meat. Maybe a better option would be to have the hives give us insect eggs for food. Gives me Morrowind vibes for some reason.....
When you are ranching cows you:
- Milk the female cows for milk
- kill most male cows and old females for meat
And that is how you would farm Insects for their meat too.
Quote from: zgrssd on July 29, 2021, 01:04:25 PM
When you are ranching cows you:
- Milk the female cows for milk
- kill most male cows and old females for meat
And that is how you would farm Insects for their meat too.
That isn't what we are talking about; we were talking about making friends with insects, like we do with the dryads. To do *that* you would need to acquire baby insects somehow and then you would raise them like regular livestock. There really isn't any special mechanics, let alone memes that we would need for that, just baby insects in our care.
And we could steal baby insects from insect hives and destroy the hive in the process.
Quote from: GoblinCookie on July 29, 2021, 06:38:40 PM
Quote from: zgrssd on July 29, 2021, 01:04:25 PM
When you are ranching cows you:
- Milk the female cows for milk
- kill most male cows and old females for meat
And that is how you would farm Insects for their meat too.
That isn't what we are talking about; we were talking about making friends with insects, like we do with the dryads. To do *that* you would need to acquire baby insects somehow and then you would raise them like regular livestock. There really isn't any special mechanics, let alone memes that we would need for that, just baby insects in our care.
And we could steal baby insects from insect hives and destroy the hive in the process.
I am
not making friends with Dryads.
I am
not capturing and raising baby dryads.
It take control over the nest/tree where the queen resides, and Dryads have to follow. If they like me or not. If I like them or not.
The means to take control of a insect nest would be different - but the effect the exact same.
Quote from: zgrssd on July 30, 2021, 03:36:39 AM
I am not making friends with Dryads.
I am not capturing and raising baby dryads.
It take control over the nest/tree where the queen resides, and Dryads have to follow. If they like me or not. If I like them or not.
The means to take control of a insect nest would be different - but the effect the exact same.
In my experience there isn't any need to 'gain control' over the nest, you just need to wall them off to keep folk wandering in for whatever reason and then sneak in to steal their insect jelly as they sleep. All we need for insect farming as I said, is the ability to steal insect eggs from the hive at the same time and raise them separately from the hive they came from for food.