QoL and Contents Suggestion

[Kisstouch]

Hi there!

First of all, thank you so much for your incredible work. I was completely hooked by Don’t Starve and its expansions, then by Don’t Starve Together, which I still regularly play with friends. So it was with great pleasure that I jumped into the Early Access of Rotwood. It fits perfectly into the kind of game I love to farm in between long sessions of big open-world adventures like Red Dead Redemption or The Witcher.

After around 50 hours of playing Rotwood, I’ve taken some notes on things that I think could be improved from a quality-of-life perspective:

QoL improvements

• The new farming system is great and helps reduce the grind needed to upgrade gear or craft decorations. However, I don’t find it intuitive to select seeds with the right stick while the character is frozen. It feels more natural to use the left stick, like in most navigation menus. The same goes for cooking: why confirm with X instead of A? Making interactions more consistent would improve intuitiveness.

• Sorting options for gems would be amazing. With the ability to store and dismantle them into dust, the current organization feels a bit chaotic. A sorting system would make management much more comfortable. This would also be useful for weapons and armor.

• Map navigation: I’d love for the run selection to be free, instead of locked onto each destination. It would make traveling between regions more enjoyable.

• Teffra Saturation: it would be helpful to have a visual indicator showing how much each path increases progression. For example, filling the circle around the icons with color or adding an upward arrow to highlight the path with the highest progression.

• Snowball Power: currently, the icon doesn’t show the number of stacks, unlike other powers. Having this information would be really useful.

• Loot speed: I find that items move too slowly when being collected. In town, some even get stuck behind background objects or buildings. Making them faster and not constrained by object or building hitboxes would ensure players always get their rewards.

Content ideas

• Armor gems: this would open up tons of new build possibilities, even though I know it would be a massive balancing challenge.

• A compendium: an in-game reference with details about powers and upgrades, bosses and their abilities, monsters, gems and their effects, weapons, and even mechanics like poison ticks (how much damage they do, and what scales with heavy attacks, light attacks, or basic attacks). It would also enrich the lore and help players theorycraft builds.

• Detailed character stats: showing totals like run speed, crit chance, and crit damage increase. Since a single power can change the outcome of a run, having this info would allow players to make better decisions.

• Different types of training dummies: to better plan and test builds, it would be great to configure dummies more accurately. Right now, they seem to simulate enemies that are always at full health, which doesn’t reflect real combat. Adding areas that simulate boss, mini-boss, or mob damage could also be great. Allowing players to test powers directly in the training area to experiment with gear synergies would be awesome too.

Thanks again for this amazing project! I’ll get back to farming long hours with my friends. Keep it up! I can’t wait to see where you’ll take this little gem. Big shoutout to the animation team, the art direction, the monster design, and all the funny little punchlines hidden here and there!

Kisstouch

[FeverPyretic]

I have recently returned to the game.

I have noticed that although there is an option to increase text size (this is a tremendous help) i still find it a little difficult to read options, the font and background are just too similar.

This is especially frustrating when trying to purchase from the various vendors.

I'd greatly appreciate an option to adjust this, even if it doesn't look as good, it would help so much in allowing me to play.