What summer needs

[SaltyPepper2231]

So basically everyone can agree that summer is the most annoying season in this game, and most people say it because wildfires suck. I think a good solution would be to add wavy air, like heat haze in real life, and make it something that happens every 3 days or so. This way you know when wildfires can happen. I also think summer should bring more rewards. Winter brings tammies, walking canes eyebrella and ice as a reward for dealing with freezing, deerclops, crops not growing and snow blocking turfs, while summer brings overheating, antlion earthquakes, wildfires and dried up crops, and your reward is some weird teleporting thing that only works in multiplayer. Summer should maybe make tumbleweeds spawn everywhere and have increased rare loot chances. Maybe camels could spawn in the desert and be able to carry chests and be rideable. Summer should encourage ocean exploration by making the ocean cooler, and make some sort of new island that is like a shipwrecked island, that has a crocodog spawner, and when your near the island the distant crocodog sound will play, the island contains chests that have a pirate hat, from shipwrecked and boost your sanity by 4 per minute in land, and 8 per minute on the ocean, but at least 2 screens away from land, and boost sailing speed and good treasure loot by 8 percent. The caves should now overheat the player just like normal.

[Gotheran]

Once upon a time D-Fly was the season guardian, and its scales were the loot for summer, which still isn't a great reward but now d-fly is an any season boss and is probably best tackled during literally any season but summer.

Antlion's rewards are a teleport item that only functions for multiplayer making it mostly useless for solo unless you need a cheap way to tank your sanity. And the turf raiser helm which while neat is mainly a qol tool for megabasers. It also gives some blueprints for Cult of the Lamb crossover content which is mostly for show, two turfs and an altar which gives sanity at a fairly slow but cheap rate.

Honestly winter has all the seasons beat, largely because it was developed first and for a game without extended seasons, so its seasonal rewards are a mix of items useful for winter, generally useful year round, and with added RoG content useful for both upcoming seasons.

Summer has one in season reward that helps with the season in the form of Cactus flowers to make Floral shirts, but as has been established in other threads summers mechanics encourage not leaving your base and swapping thermal stones in a fridge to deal with heat. An argument could be made for the sunfish being useful for winter but boats would need to be given some resistance to summer heat.

An idea for a generally useful item could be antlion dropping its claw as a weapon/scythe tool.