Warly Rework Ideas

[theMCwolf]

Here are some rework ideas for Warly I have sorted into their own categories, These are all kind of spitballing, so I wouldn't expect all of these ideas to make it into the original game if my suggestion is seen (my ideas don't matter but I like to talk, a lot XD)

These suggestions are all organized into their own tabs, separated by a line and title in bold, feel free to read them in any order, and comment your ideas on ways to improve them, buff ideas for base game mechanics instead of reworking them, or criticize things that you wouldn't want added (constructively please my feelings are fragile :'D)

I may add art for these things if I feel like it :P

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[Food Memory]

You ever think Warly's food memory is nothing more than a nuisance? Probably spam meaty stews instead of actually cooking a variety of meals, I have the rework for you 

Food Memory Queue 

This is my idea for fixing Warly's food memory, instead of having a time limit for each food, instead Warly has a list of what he last ate

For example, if you ate meaty stew for your first meal, you will receive a food memory debuff, the debuff is semipermanent, it will last until you have eaten 3 other types of food

So lets say you ate a meaty stew on day 1, then ate meatballs, then ratatouille, then a fist full of jam, you would then be able to eat meaty stew again, with no food memory penalty

But what about if you eat meaty stew again before eating 3 other foods? Meaty stew would still be last on the queue, but the penalty would take effect, or get worse depending on if you ate the same food again and again

This means that if you ate meaty stew, meatballs, meaty stew again, ratatouille, then fist full of jam, you could eat meaty stew again with no penalty even though you ate it 2 meals ago

I believe this feature would make food memory less of an annoyance, and more of a fun challenge to get around, without automatically being a death sentence for Warly, winter would be especially difficult, because you would have to find different foods for the season, or keep ingredients from the previous season

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[Chef's Pouch]

Chef's Pouch has always been a "maybe ill craft it, but really what's the point? I could just craft an icebox for home or consistently gather ingredients to cook myself meals." Its a really weak, early game item, and being weak for an early game item can be a death toll, especially for a character specific item.

Well I say instead of buffing a weak item and possibly overcompensating for it, we rework it completely.

New Chef's Pouch

Instead of Chef's pouch being a backpack, I propose it works a little bit like a bundling wrap, but for Warly's kitchen set, and you can access it whenever you want

Chef's Pouch can now sit in the inventory, instead of being worn like a backpack, it can also no longer be worn as a backpack, however you can only carry one chef's pouch at a time

Now Warly's Chef Pouch can carry one type of each kitchen set item (These items being portable crock pot, spice grinder, and portable seasoning station) as well as 10(Possibly more, depending on how powerful New Chef's Pouch should be) of each craftable spice(Garlic Powder, Honey Crystals, Chili Flakes, Seasoning Salt)

The new chef's pouch would also carry 1 of each future item that Klei may or may not add to the kitchen set

This makes the chef's pouch not just an weak early game, but a decent item that saves you inventory space, allowing you to lug around your kitchen set items, putting the portable in portable crock pot!

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[New Kitchen Set Items]

Warly's Kitchen set doesn't really have that many items to it, and while they are strong, I would love to see more.

To be clear however: None of these kitchen set items can be moved with ingredients in them, as soon as food is in any of these, they're planted to one spot until the ingredients are removed

Portable Drying Rack

This handy little gadget takes up slightly less space than the average drying rack, here's the materials used to craft it:

3 sticks, 2 charcoal, 2 rope, 1 gold

This drying rack can be disassembled only when there is nothing drying on it, as soon as anything is drying on it, it is planted where it is until the drying is done. Furthermore it does not dry things any faster than your average drying rack.

Portable Ice Box

This cool customer has the same inventory space and around the same size of a normal icebox, but its... portable, wow, crazy how that works right? It also doesn't really have any features besides that, its a portable ice box that halves spoilage rate, just like a normal ice box!

Here's the materials used to craft it:

3 gold, 1 handful of gears

The portable ice box can't be disassembled unless you take out everything that's stored in it. It can hold anything that can spoil.

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[theMCwolf]

Also if anyone is looking for a mod for the warly food memory idea (cause I was for a while) I found one!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3327800451&searchtext=warly+memory (To be clear, its not mine, credit to the name of the creator is on the link's page)

Please remember to like it if you decide to download it