Stone Oven & Windmil Suggestions

[Aimee]

Right now these two crafting stations have little use and require resources from the Swamps.
However the things you can craft with them (bread and lox pie) are endgame Plains biome resources.
With only 2 crafting recipes, the space it takes to place these two buildings, and the gap between the game progression and its use. I think it only makes sense to expand upon the crafting mechanics of both buildings.

My suggestion is to make recipes that use one or both buildings, and ingredients/resources from the swamp and earlier biomes in order to get use out of them. To put them more in line with the game progression.

Mechanical Suggestions;
- Use the Windmill to grind down vegatables and fruit for recipes in the Stone Oven.
- Use Black forest biome and later resources, mainly to keep crafting difficult early game.
- Recipes should use one or both crafting buildings.

Food suggestions;
- Carrot Cake, carrots could be grinded down in the Windmil if both crafting buildings should be used. Then baked in the Stone Oven.
- Turnip Pie/Roast or Fish Platter, can combine Turnips with any meat or fish. Fish would make the most sense progression wise since they come after the black forest just like the swamp.
- Roasted Bone Marrow, use Bone fragments for this recipe as they dont get much use and are easy to come by. Add Thistle as herb.
- Blueberry Brownie/Crunch/Tart, combine berries and honey.
- Roasted Mushrooms, normaly you want to roast mushrooms if you dont want them to get soggy or rubbery. Having a recipe for the Oven instead of Cauldron makes sense.
- Fish and Fruit, combine in the Stone Oven, its used quite a lot in real recipes and is hard enough to come by for a mid game recipe.

Bukeperries could be made useful as a resource as well, by grinding them down in the Windmil and creating a new recipe. Right now they have little use for how much they spawn, and could be part of something unique like a fruit jelly. Where the bukeperries would provide the jelly and you add blueberries and/or raspberries into the recipe.
Its ''poisonous'' origin could also be negated with the healing properties of honey, for realism.

Stone Oven specific Crafting;
- Burned bones, could open completely new crafting recipes.
- Turning wet ingredients into dry/caramelized versions, works best with honey or fruit.
- Turning unwanted resources into Coal.
Windmil specific Crafting;
- Bonedust could be used as fertilizer like in minecraft, or for other recipes.
- Grinding down berries or vegatables.
- Grinding down metals, could be used for many things like fireworks.
- Grind down stone for clay/dirt, could be used for planters/pots/fertile dirt.
- Grind down wood for Fibers, could open up crafting options.


Hope this is useful in some way.

[vinyblaster]

They are unlocked after killing the 4th boss, so just before getting to the plains, so just when necessary.

Not against more applications for these stations though :)

[Aimee]

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

They are unlocked after killing the 4th boss, so just before getting to the plains, so just when necessary.

Not against more applications for these stations though :)

You are right, my bad.
They require the Artisan Table, I vaguely remember being able to build the Stone Oven with unlocking the stonecutter. But i might remember that wrongly.

Will keep the post up for the suggestions, regardless after a slight edit.