Sleipnir

Oh, for sure! I plan on releasing a developer diary that I've kept these last three years when I release 1.0 of Odd Realm. It documents all the challenges during the game's development.
That being said, it's more of a spotlight on game development and less of a how-to for creating a game. My entire solo dev career has been full of learning from making mistakes. I started out as a fairly novice, self-taught programmer and the initial architecture for Odd Realm was poorly executed. I've been paying for these past mistakes with the update I'm currently working on because I've had to re-write a lot of systems. So, I'm not sure I'd be able to write a book telling you how to write the perfect system, but I could certainly tell you all the mistakes I've made.
One book I read earlier in the game's development was Robert Nystrom's Game Programming Patterns. It's really easy to digest and has some great patterns that I use all the time.

I hear you but, unfortunately, I'm reserving 'Grove' for new Gwdir rooms.

I believe this is fixed for the next game version. I'll see if I can reproduce.

You can remove the tree without worrying about fall damage. Alternatively, you could build a ladder up to them.

Thanks for letting me know about the issue!

Tree fruits aren't necessarily harvested in the same way that normal plants are. You get apples/coconuts from Apple Trees and Palm Trees by either waiting for them to drop the items or cutting them down. Keeping in mind that they only produce these items in the correct season (generally summer).
So, with all that in play, you should be 'harvesting' apples and coconuts as long as your forester is cutting down those trees in Summer. Which they will automatically do if you have the arboretum set up around those trees.

Heck ya! Good luck and thanks for the review! :)

You're welcome! It's one of my favorite challenges to start a brand new settlement on an inhabited tile and try to take it. Very difficult, though.

Thank you for your suggestion. I see where you are coming from but I won't be changing the age mechanic. We used to have it so a year was one unit of age and it was simply too long a time to wait for settlers to grow up. However, I could probably add in an option for before you start a new settlement where you can edit various things like this age rate.

Any time you settle a tile where a settlement is, you'll be attacked. If you can defeat the inhabitants, you'll get their houses and supplies.

There's a new room called the Arboretum in the next update which automates tree planting.

You're welcome! :)

You need to make arcane dust from bone at the Chaos Construct.

Oh! Thank you for letting me know and for the kind words. I'll check this out and fix. Cheers!

Great ideas! Thanks for the suggestions. I'll reference these when I'm adding some more content. Cheers!

Agreed! Sand blueprints are in the next update. :)

Thanks for your patience, friend!

When the update comes out in the next few months. :)

Ya, walls aren't really walls in the current version. I'll be changing it so there's a max height which entities can climb to fix this soon.

Thanks!

You should be able to mine them. Might be a bug if they aren't mine-able. When you select the mine job, they don't let you place any?