Suggestion: Koi Scale Roofs

[Lunauroran]

Let me start with saying that I really love this game - I've put hours and hours into building my bases, and it's helped me get through a lot of my struggles with scary animals attacking me in games by sheer force of how much I want to play it despite the scary spiders. However, it seems like some of the resources available are really underutilised (probably because it's still in EA, which is fair). For me, the biggest example of this is koi scales! They're a difficult resource to locate, but they're the prettiest one, and would be pretty hardy and handy - but all we can use them for is a suit of armour that doesn't seem to even have a lot of practical use. It seems like a waste. I would love to be able to use them as decorative items, like being able to mount them on the walls, but I think the best use of them would be as roofing material. There are a few reasons that I think this would be a really good idea to implement:

- They're uncommon and hard enough to access that it would take a lot of farming to collect them. The crow feather roofs are something I never personally use, because there are too many other uses for crow feathers and they're extremely hard to collect, but koi scales (while still being balanced by the difficult access and limited amount of collection per day) are a reliable resource, making it much easier to use koi scale roofs in large bases.

- It would be an excellent way to keep people using the pond, which is a biome I personally love exploring! SO much work has obviously gone into this biome, and it's so beautiful, as well as offering interesting challenges that other biomes don't. Once you run out of things to explore in it, though, there's not much use in diving back in, except maybe for tadpole meat. Having to regularly go into the depths to dig out koi scales for base building seems to me like a good way to prolong the pond experience.

- I know the devs have weather events planned eventually, and koi scales would be the perfect rain or raindrop proof roofing material - they're sturdy enough to be used as armour, and they naturally overlap each other while on the koi, so they would fit together well. Add a little clay and voila!

- It would look so pretty! It's obvious that a LOT of thought has gone into the aesthetic of this game, and one glance at the reddit forum shows how many people love basebuilding in it. Adding a really gorgeous roofing option would be the cherry on top for a lot of people, and koi scales would be the perfect material.

 

I'm not sure how much attention is paid to this forum, or if this is even an idea that's new (it makes too much sense to me to not be something that's at least been considered by the dev team), but if this does happen to be seen, it would make at least this player really happy to have something to do with all their pretty koi scales. Thanks for your time and the amazing game you're making!

[ScritchOwl]

Not to make a stink but that sounds malodorous.  I remember the smell of the cleaning tables growing up and boy did that make a funk.  Hopefully petals and potpourri is included though it might make your base less friendly to smell sensitive buggos

[Lunauroran]

Good thing we can't smell it! 

[Satin Warrior]

That is a good idea