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[Toolshed]

New work space/bench/misc item: (material?)Toolshed > Stores up to 5-10 hoes, 5-10 sheers, (and less importantly 5-10 baskets)
New items: Hoe (quality?) > plant faster / plants start at 1-10% grown (based on tool quality?)
New items: Sheer (quality?) > harvest faster / yields 1-10% more crop (based on tool quality?)

(less important idea:) New items: Basket (quality?) > carry more crop weight back to stock pile

Add tools to make outdoor farming related tasks go slightly faster and done more effectively.  Colonists will visit the shed before plant cutting of planting.  They will also need to keep the shed stocked with tools to use for it to work.  Tools durability goes down.  Steel tools degrade faster than plasteel tools.  A steel tool is also less effective than plasteel.

Tools are noticeably better than bare handing the farm.

[Notes]

I think I have a great idea and format that can create an interesting remedy in certain situations.  In my first play through, I had a married man break his jaw.  He couldn't speak so it disables his social skill.  He was quickly divorced.  I also now have a problem where my group is looking for new ways to become entertained.  I could solve both of these problems with a few very simple and unoriginal items.  Keep in mind, the further down you go the less important it is intended to be, except for the core idea : Notes

New Items In Bold ... Low priority additional ideas that are not needed right away in italics.
Crafted from wood: Paper
Raw cut from burned wood: Charred wood
Crafted from wood and charred wood. Writing utensil (colonist pocket item) 500 stack limit, once you have it you never run out. (charred wood obviously leads to black ink..)
new ink ideas / colored varieties from blood, monster blood, flower pedals or misc sources
New item: note // Simply put it adds a new form of communication for colonists.
New item: Art
New item: Schematics
New misc for fabrication bench: Schematic file (drawer)

Note Rules
*Notes are written by colonists to other colonists or relationships, especially in more positive or more negative relationships, and especially used by colonists when speaking or hearing is an issue.
*Notes can be automatically written by a colonist who possesses paper and a utensil at any time, but they will most likely only use it if they have problems speaking or social issues such as bad relationships.
*Notes are automatically exchanged amongst your own colonists.  If it is written to a relationship in another tribe, it is exchanged next time that tribe is traded. It may also be sent in a pod.
*Notes are always picked up from dead bodies whenever a colonist picks up that body.  The note may end up being relevant if it was picked up in a raid.  Its probably simple trash.  Your colonist will discard it automatically if it doesn't have any importance.  But a note obtained from a raid could also start a quest.
*Notes are not be be read by the likes of us, we are not worthy.  They can only be read by the colonists in possession of the notes (for sake of simplicity. I'm not asking for you to write a book for us to read what they're writing.)
*Notes have effective quality determined by a possible new skill: Reading and writing/otherwise intelligence & social.  Awful notes may have a negative mood impact. Legendary notes may have a significant lasting mood impact/may even improve tribe relations or save a marriage.  Maybe it starts the love process.  Who knows! 
***I feel like reading and writing would be important to add, as it is intended to help get around social disabilities like broken jaw, hearing loss.  Injuries that could limit this skill: hand injuries, eye injuries, lack of sleep.  Environmental factors: indoors, lighting, lack of table***
***Notes should be seen as a must.  Humanity has had notes since before recorded history.  There are SO MANY DIRECTIONS AND WAYS that notes could make this game so much more complex from a social structure standpoint.