New Skills!
This is a far off consideration... but what's the fun of thinking of only things close at hand! If you had to choose one new skill or skill tree of your own design to be implemented into the game whole hog... What would you make?
My contribution, a bit cheap as Stoot once hinted they had big plans for them, Crystaloptamology I and II! These cryptic bits of knowledge grant a Glitch the ability to mix all sorts of far flung ingredients together with their crystals to make new more useful and more valuable ones!
This skill would require the use of the gool ol' Crystalmalizing Chamber.
A couple of (possibly terribly) balanced recipes:
Red Crystal: 5 meat, 25 cherries, 4 apples, 5 strawberries. Worth 500C.
Blue Crystal: 10 Butterfly Milk, 20 Blue Bubbles. Worth 650C.
Obviously there'd be bunches more crystals, and there's probably some other skill they're tied into since they're highly refined crafting items, but if you have an idea for what they might be for add that to the discussion too : D
My contribution, a bit cheap as Stoot once hinted they had big plans for them, Crystaloptamology I and II! These cryptic bits of knowledge grant a Glitch the ability to mix all sorts of far flung ingredients together with their crystals to make new more useful and more valuable ones!
This skill would require the use of the gool ol' Crystalmalizing Chamber.
A couple of (possibly terribly) balanced recipes:
Red Crystal: 5 meat, 25 cherries, 4 apples, 5 strawberries. Worth 500C.
Blue Crystal: 10 Butterfly Milk, 20 Blue Bubbles. Worth 650C.
Obviously there'd be bunches more crystals, and there's probably some other skill they're tied into since they're highly refined crafting items, but if you have an idea for what they might be for add that to the discussion too : D
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(Maybe you'd also/alternately use it to make firefly jars of various hues, for decorative purposes?)
To create a more concrete idea you should be able to fuel your Condensinator with crystals of a single color and your random item will be drawn from a pool of items that are also that color, or associated with that color in some way ; ) So a blue fueled Condensinator would produce things like blue bubbles, butterfly milk, berry bowl, blue sno cone, flummery, tangy sauce (blue lid
Also b3achy's ideas are great too! Making clothes in game has always seemed like a good thing to have, though it's not my particular niche.
Now, does anyone have any other ideas for totally new skills?!
Some painting skills so we could paint the ceramics. But we need a way to make paint...maybe some of the fruit mashed with some of the barnacle powder?
A kiln to fire the ceramics, so we could use them later - dishes, vases, flower pots (though maybe a pottery skill for flowerpots), statues, etc.
If we did pottery, we'd need a way to get clay...and we'd need a potter's wheel...and some music from the movie Ghost, when it is used...
Maybe we can feed various fruits or vegetables to some new creature, and it makes colorful plops which we use for paint. Maybe it's a type of colorful bird, like a parrot, so the plops are more the consistency of paint, rather than the firm plops from pigs and batterflys.
I also like the idea of giving the items to a mantis shrimp for the actual dyeing, since I found that the underwater regions (although hella cool) were somewhat lacking in content. (Associated skill: Shrimp Schmoozing?)
To acquire and use clay, you'd have to refine lumps of earth or loam, which also requires a skill (Earth Sifting? Mud Molding?)
@Ariaste, Shrimp Schmoozing is a great idea! Perhaps buttering that shrimp up so that it will give you a better quality of dye? Or you could "schmooze" in different ways so that you could get specific colors of dye.
Then you can use the wicker to craft baskets for giving away items, as described elsewhere. I think.
@"Ariaste" I'm no coder, but I feel like it might not be terribly hard to have different mechanics work only in certain regions? The game would just detect where you are and if it detects you're in any non underwater area it brings up a failure message instead of the craft screen! Again not much coding experience but I feel as if it could be done : ) And not only because I'd personally rather have the Underwater Basket Loom be an in bag item ; )
(Okay. That's a lie. But I would make a LOT of clothes.)
Also, pasting this in from the animal skill thread (https://humbaba.elevengiants.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/3267/#Comment_3267), since it ended up not really being an animal skill:
I love the idea of musical instruments! That could be a whole new skill tree-- several skill trees! There could be several levels of Instrumentation that all unlock new instruments to build, and a Musicianship tree that unlocks new tunes to play, and maybe a Music Appreciation skill that would also give you more IMG for listening. To play in-game for other players, it would probably be easiest to just have a menu of the tunes you've unlocked, rather than a way to create the sound on the street. But maybe to unlock the tunes there could be a Guitar Hero sort of minigame, where you listen to a tune and have to recreate it with your instrument's controls. The game could even be an instanced street like Game of Crowns, where you can invite other players to listen, in a nightclub or concert hall setting. And at the highest levels you could unlock multi-player tunes and have a band!
Ooh, and in addition to crafting an instrument once, there'd be some harvesting and crafting skills you needed for upkeep-- making strings and reeds, which would only be good for a certain number of uses.
I really really want this now! We wouldn't even need yaks; we could do this just with wood and fiber and barnacle glue.
The same with clothing. If we could add beads or gems to items (not a custom design, but if we could choose from a few pre-designed choices), that'd be awesome, too. Even if the beads or gems don't show up in the final design, it'd at least give them another use in-game. Different clothes already in the game could also have certain requirements and necessary items to make them for "free."