I think this reach progression milestones and move forward to new biomes is the going to make my game feel fun again. As I liked to stay in one POI and travel only when necessary.

My end goal will be settling down in the Wasteland biome and travel for additional resources when needed. I'd probably set up in a tall building and make it zombie proof with a land claim and traps!

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I think Biome Progression won't be too onerous a thing in this run, because I know what to expect and am getting ready for the trek to the Burnt Forest. As I've got to get enough Forged Ahead to craft a Workbench, since I found enough Vehicle Adventures to craft a bike.

Once this is done, moving base will be possible.

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It's cool that Glass Jars are back, but, they work really weird. They still have that issue of by default getting destroyed after drinking water, coffee, or assorted teas (unless you set the recovery rate to 100%). What's really weird is that the Dew Collector and Apiary just magically create them...

However, outside of aforementioned methods of obtaining cheeky jars, finding them in loot or buying from traders...The player needs a crucible to make glass jars, which is really far up in the tech tree. The Fun Pimps always felt that glass jars hurt water survival in their game.

What the actual issue is: they didn't consider how to make water survival an issue until the player reached a high tech level.

Given that there was a use of nuclear weapons in the location that the player exists in...They could've made water survival more intricate by making us purify water in stages. Different types of processed water, would be less or more hydrating depending on the methods used. They could have secondary impacts on player health that would need to be managed in order to stay healthy and hydrated.

Alas, this was too much work for them.

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It's also funny that they brought back the Smell System from Alpha, but in a weird way. Eating debuffs you and you are smell for longer distances outside vs inside. This is weird to me, because I assume most of the foods the player character eat are lukewarm not hot. Colder food tends to smell less than hotter food (unless you use really pungent ingredients). Given that the air is moving outside, smell debuff should degrade faster outdoors vs indoors where air circulation is less robust.

I feel when the player is cooking food, smell needs to be the strongest and attract zombies to your base at a reasonable 10 meters away. Most food smell debuffs honestly need to be adjusted to either a 1 or 5 meter range; animals should have better scent detection vs human zombies in general. Zombies should always be attracted to raw meat and meat based foods vs vegetarian fare. As most of those meat based foods seem to have pungent ingredients.

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