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Okay I got some ideas:

 

Eclipse: day/dusk is as dark as night for 1 day.

 

Dry spells:  sometimes rabbits, birds, frogs or spiders wont come out for 5-10 days. (aggressive animals= 5 days, non-aggressive animals=10 days.  This is to throw you off and keep you from having that consistent food.  There is atleast one dry spell a season (default).

 

More wave monsters (like hounds), more monsters to track (like koalafant).

 

Hardcore mode:  Adds water into the game.  Funny enough water is needed less often then food.  Your character doesnt actually "hold" any pure water in their inventory.  There is a canteen meter added between the hp/hunger indicator.  This "holds" your water.  Your character will automatically drink from this when they are thirsty (there are no drinking animations).  

 

Because of this some new mechanics, monsters, regions and machines will be needed.

 

Water sources: ponds (unfiltered), Snow (unfiltered/winter only), mountian streams (pure), and Oasis (pure).  

 

First let me explain the filter mechanic.  Water can only be added to the canteen meter if its pure water.  Otherwise it will be added to your "pail", a easily constructed item made from a hollowed out log.  To purify water, you will need a "water purifer", a new machine that will purify your unfiltered water making it addable to the canteen meter.  Because of the default dificulty of winter, thirst is made real easy by having a lot of available nearby unfiltered water (snow), that is as long as you have a water purifer.  

 

So you know about ponds and snow, lets talk about the Mountian streams.  A *new* area is added to the game, yay!  I was thinking it would be a good idea if this was a landmark, kind of the way caves are.  The area on the landmark will be represented by an area that takes up one screen and looks like tall misty mountians.  If you click on this then you enter the mountian area.  The mountian area has a couple of new things.  The mountian area is made to look like misty mountians in china, because of this we have: pandas, bamboo shoots, a broken bridge and a mountian stream.  The mountian area is semi linear, with the point of reaching the top.  Im not sure if I want the pandas to be aggessive or nuetral, but they will definitely drop a good amount of meat  There are two types of bamboo shoots: edible and choppable.  All bamboo shoots grow back.  The smaller bamboo shoots are edible but can only be eaten on the spot.  Bigger ones can be chopped down and burn for a long time.  Then theres the broken bridge that helps you cross a gorge.  This bridge needs to be repaired once with 3 wood planks and a hammer.  Once you reach the top you find the mountian stream which has pure water to fill your canteen meter with.  It also has an inexhaustible amount of fish in it.  You will need to fish here quite a bit if you want to catch the magical koi.  Which I will cover in the next paragraph.  But first lets talk about the levy.  Dont want to have to make a trip up to the mountian everytime to get water?  Well if you build a levy at the base of the mountian you can skip the trip and just go to the base of the mountian everytime, however it takes alot of wood planks and cut stone.

 

Now for the magical koi, why do we need this?  Well, the magical koi has a special organ you will need to make your "raincatcher".  The Raincatcher is a new machine you make to help lessen trips to water sources during the summer (since during winter theres lots of snow).  Whenever it rains, the raincatcher will "catch rain" and store it in a basin.  If you have a water purifer made then rain water caught by this machine will already be purified when you harvest it.  More then one rain catcher will make your thirst problem lessen, 3 and you probably will never go thirsty during summer, that is if it rains.  However you will need to catch more magical koi.  [Magical koi catch rate=15%; only in mountian stream].  Koi organs needed to make Raincatcher:2 + other more common materials.

 

Last is the desert area.  Which has the pyramids and the oasis.  On the edge of the map somewhere you will find a land bridge leading to the desert.  On this bridge there are alot of warning signs about the desert ahead.  In the desert, you pointlessly go through infinite desert, if you turn around you will instantly find the entrance to the desert.  But if you have a compass in your inventory you will find the pyramids instantly.  Sometimes you will random encounter an oasis in the desert, which has pure water. 

 

 In the Pyramids you will find the greatest things and the most evil things.  In the pyramids you will find gems, marble, maybe even some thulecite.  There is even an eygptian god statue boss at the end who drops living logs.  However this place does not come with out its dangers.  This area is the most dangerous area in dont starve. There is an abundance of enemies who when they attack you, they negate your armor. 

 

 First theres scorpian mobs, their physical strikes are blocked by armor their posion however is not.  Their posion does damage over time but can be remedied by an "antidote patch", which is made by combining Papyrus and one of the items they drop, scorpian tails.  Scorpians wont bother you unless you get near one of thier nests, which is many times unavoidable.  However Andtidote patches can be made on-site because duh this is an egyptian ruin, theres bound to be plently of papyrus in breakable clay jars.  Antidote patch works as a decaying item, only decaying when you would be taking posion damage. 

 

 Then theres zombie mummies, possibly the most dangerous normal monster in dont starve.  There isnt anything special about their health or attack damage.  However their normal swiping attacks ignore your armor, completely (except if you are wearing nightmare armor).  So their standard attack is dangerous right? Well they have a second attack where the lock you in a grap and leech your health away, thankfully this attack doesnt negate your armor.  You will need to spam buttons to get out of their grab sooner.

 

  So the egytpian pyramids sound pretty nightmarish right?  On top of this there isnt really anthing to eat around (besides monster meat) so bring lots of jerky.  Atleast the pyramid is in a constant state of day.  Well never fear there is a bittersweet side to this.  Occsionally(not very often) there will be traps.  These traps can either contribute to your death or help evade it.  You can use the traps to help kill enemies, sweet right?  The traps include arrow traps, boulder traps, and exclusive to the boss room, the log trap.  

 

So pretty much the last thing to talk about is the Egyptian boss.  This boss can come in the form of thoth, anubis or Horus and is actually a giant statue made of living logs. Despite the different gods the statue could be, the movesets are all the same.  This boss takes some strategy to beat.  Theres different phases, such as "evade projectile spam and flip the swtiches".  I havent really thought this one out but the point is to flip the 3 switches to activate the log trap which releases a giant log (or dildo or whatever) on a pendulum which smashes into the boss monster exposing his weak spot on his back.  Oh and there should be arrow traps, to help kill you, but not the boss.

 

 

So thats it, I REALLY hope Klei reads my ideas and considers them.
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Dry Spell: Removing mobs from the game for days at a time, will just make the island feel empty and boring...

Water : The guys at Klei have already made known that they won't add thirst as it will result in too much micromanagment. So this and all following suggestions for this mechanic are a big "No"

 

 

It doesnt remove all mobs, it picks one and maybe it would bejust a good idea to have dry-spells for non-aggressive animals.

 

And the water thing is supposed to be for a hardcore mode not the normal mode, hope you atleast read my ideas and dint just skim the first lines.

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