tutorial / new recipes discoveries suggestions

[Bruudwin]

i started playing with a new player and they were completely oblivious and hardly noticed anything when new stuff appeared to them.

i don't know how to make hugin more noticable, they noticed him the first time but absolutely ignored him until i told em to interact with hugin. maybe have hugin constantly appear near them until they've been interacted with?

another one, everytime a new item is picked up, the associated recipes etc briefly pop up. perhaps put in a 'recently acquired recipes list' and\or, every time a new thing is unlocked, it'll have a constant hi-lighted look on it until the player mouses over it in the respective crafting\cooking menu. and perhaps have it that they have to keep the mouse over it long enough for the things description to pop up.

and as for looking for traders, perhaps special rune markers that can be placed around that'll help find em like the boss ones? i honestly would never have been able to find my trader if not for the help of a 'seed generator' website.

[jonnin]

the traders have a giant detection radius and a special marker when you get close, so you can spot them from boating around islands usually. They also have many locations, so you only need to stumble over one.

as for recipes, the crow does not really matter. What matters is simply making the stuff you can esp crafting materials. If you have a recipe to make nails, try making some nails, and see if maybe something else might unlock! If you have a recipe to smelt ore, try smelting ore, and see if maybe the ingot unlocks something! If you see something in the world for the first time, pick it up.

[Bruudwin]

Originally posted by jonnin:

the traders have a giant detection radius and a special marker when you get close, so you can spot them from boating around islands usually. They also have many locations, so you only need to stumble over one.

as for recipes, the crow does not really matter. What matters is simply making the stuff you can esp crafting materials. If you have a recipe to make nails, try making some nails, and see if maybe something else might unlock! If you have a recipe to smelt ore, try smelting ore, and see if maybe the ingot unlocks something! If you see something in the world for the first time, pick it up.

i'm saying, for tutorials and unlocking things, it needs to be more obvious to a new player unlocking new things. i had told the new player 'hey you picked up that thing, you should be able to craft X thing' 'person literally passed by it in their menu several times, despite only having like 6 items available on the menu at the time' they were that oblivious.

your statement is for a more inquisitive curious person, my person mostly had to be told / pointed out what to do XD

[pipo.p]

I don't remember what it looks like first time (I believe it's just the usual transient pop-up), but Hugin could appear first time a new recipe is discovered because we crafted or cooked one of its requisites, to stress on the player how new recipes are found.

Perhaps it appears first time we pick up material from the ground or we craft a basic tool without a crafting table, but this is long past when we start cooking or forging.