Impossible to find travel stone close to first farm

[ZohH]

Hi everyone, the game's quite good so far and the atmosphere's great, but something really pisses me off : i can't figure where is the very first travel stone i'm supposed to find, the one close to the first farm place in south field.
I'm exactly on the spot where it should be on the map but there's nothing, i've spent 30 min all around, trying to find cave entries around (maybe it's underground ?) but there's definitly nothing.

As that south field farm is my main one, i come back to it pretty often and everytime, I have to travel back to it from other stones, and walk for 2min. That makes the farm part a total chore and ruins that part of the experience.

Does someone know where's that damn travel stone ?

[CV_PS]

You'll need a mallet to smash some stuff. Have a look in the cave you first exited from.

[ZohH]

Thanks, finally found it, but that's not very obvious though !

If i can express a totally subjective opinion, travel stones should be way closer from the farms.
I still have to walk almost 2min just to go from the stone to my main farm, that's pretty tedious, considering you spend most of the time in game walking and exploring, you should be able to go back easily to your place for crafting an dstorage without having to spend 2 min of walking.

You guys created a very nice atmoshpere in this this game, but i strongly feel that some game mecanics such as level-design and general player implications could be improved.

Anyway that's only my opinion, thanks for the quick answer !

[Faybelle]

Yes, i agree! And i also still dont know what this blue dot with start icon means, some of them are travel things, but theres some i cant find out where they are either. I found this travel stone pretty easy, if you mean the sage stone. Theres supposed to be another travelstone in the cave right next to the farm but this one is also unfindeable to me.. ive looked in the cave, ive smashed everything, i dont know what to do about it...

[ZohH]

Travel stone is in the very first cave, the one you wake up in. It's behind some wood panel in the room where you fond your first spirit. I don't understand that level design choice, as the travel stone is far from everything (as every other stones in the game), plus since you don't have the hammer and the carfting material required when you first go there, you have to come back later, just for it (there's nothing else there). Just for the recall, that's the very first tp stone you find in the game, the one supposed to be used very often as it's the "closest" one from you first farm, which is i guess, the main one for almost every players. It 's against any sense, logical or just basic playing comfort.

There are lots of very bad level design issues, or very annoying things.

In the mountain biome, the travel stone is at the very end of a long road. When you finally arrive to it, it needs to mine 3 mining spot to be activated, but there're only 2 on the remaining part of the path, and you obviously mined already all the previous ones, so you only have two options : you go down to the bottom of the mountain to find one and it take you 5 min to climb again to the stone, or you wait a day so the mining spot respawn.

In the desert biome, the first time you go there (very soon in the game without spoiler), the travel stone is impossible to unlock the first time, since it's behind a spirit barrier you can't break at this point of the game. when you're done there you have to redo all the path in the other way (boring, especially considering the travel stone unreachable but right in front of you). For the record, I planted trees everywhere on my first travel. I came back later, just to unlock that stone and stop spending 50% of my game slowly going from A to B. The stone requires you to plant 5 trees... Of course i had no seed in my inventory, since i understood at this point of the game there was barelly any use for planting trees. So here we go again, it takes 10 min just to buy some seeds at the closest "city", come back, and make that stone do what it's supposed to do.

I've played 7 hours, and my game experience is FULL of those annoying things. I don't mean to be rude or disrepectufful to the devs, but seriously, has anyone tested that game before it was released ?

[CV_PS]

Originally posted by ZohHhoZ:

Thanks, finally found it, but that's not very obvious though !

If i can express a totally subjective opinion, travel stones should be way closer from the farms.
I still have to walk almost 2min just to go from the stone to my main farm, that's pretty tedious, considering you spend most of the time in game walking and exploring, you should be able to go back easily to your place for crafting an dstorage without having to spend 2 min of walking.

You guys created a very nice atmoshpere in this this game, but i strongly feel that some game mecanics such as level-design and general player implications could be improved.

Anyway that's only my opinion, thanks for the quick answer !

I hate to ask, but do you mind adding this into the feature request forum? i'd love to keep track of it as it's own topic (fast travel nearer to farms)

[ZohH]

Done ! To be honest, I'm not a big fan of your game but I do appreciate the way you listen to players and talk to them.
I won't write a bad review as I intended to do just because of that.
Wish you the best !