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I think we knew we were working on something special even before the reveal, and that a lot of the player fantasy of restoring the kingdom would naturally lead players to want to take over ruins and renovate them. Having said that, there's a difference between knowing something is good, and having three million players play your game because the building is cool! From the interior design goblincore chalets to the community that rebuilt Minas Tirith, and all the others working on things from fiction... it's a lot and we're just so happy to have given so many players the tools to create cool stuff. I think personally the only thing I'm yet to see is someone build a 1:1 replica of Star Trek's Enterprise.

TopCat: Yes we have thought about that opportunity but since one of our core aspects of the game world is a lore which makes sense it would certainly break the immersion when a player travels the abandoned lands of Embervale in order to search for the next Metal Scrap and al...

1 & 3 are somewhere on our backlog, no ETA yet.
2: We're still working on water, but as Antony replied elsewhere, water is *very* complex to make interact in a meaningful way with a voxel, fully terraformable world.

There are technical limitations for this. The game has to be playable, stable, and have decent performance for not only the maniacs out there who stole a supercomputer from NASA, but also for their little bro who's playing on something that barely scrapes by the min specs. And that's even without factoring in the fact that we're also going to be releasing on consoles in the future, which means that *those* also have to be stable, etc etc.

Gems in your equipment, you say...? What a fanciful idea of yours, some would say, a final fantasy, even...

Sorry, this is way outside the scope of this AMA and what the world team is working on!

The "build anywhere" option is probably not a very advisable one if you want your computer to remain in a functional, non-melted state. A lot of it will also be a question of ensuring the game runs well on the specs mentioned on our store page, as well as the upcoming console versions.

No spoilerinos for the world events part, you'll just have to see... I read in another comment that we're talking about our upcoming plans more early next year? Keep an eye out for that.

We have been trying our best to keep up in adding as many in-game props to the craftable stuff. It's a long and arduous job, mostly because of the amounts of things in the game! But we're doing our best to add stuff to the list with every update, on top of the new craftables if there are any, so we hope to eventually work our way through the backlog and give people to as many things as possible to craft.

Very sorry we made the spiders bigger that one time. Happy to hear you're enjoying the game with the new accessibility options! As to your question, I've answered it elsewhere already, see https://www.reddit.com/r/Enshrouded/comments/1hbvfl5/comment/m1j8mnx/

There will always be an area just out of your grasp that looks awesome and where you want to settle in, and eventually we NEED to find a way to make the world finite, and it will hopefully not be a painted wall and fake sky like in the Truman Show. So... keep in mind that if we make the inaccessible accessible, we will need another boundary and eventually, it can't be boundary turtles all the way down.

So Jonas confirmed with our creative director Antony that actually, after assigning an NPC to a bed, you can resummon them elsewhere and *there* set them a roaming perimeter... I never even knew that! It's huge!!

As for "can I get my NPCs to do chores for me", I've fielded a couple of similar questions elsewhere, please keep an eye out. ;)

If I understand your question correctly, the answer is linked to the size of our voxels: they're half a meter a side, like our blocks. So this pretty much locks how granular we can be with our tools.

We've been looking at ways for players to share their bases with one another, but I'm not sure we intend to have anything akin to a blueprint system. It is a popular request on FeatureUpvote, though, so definitely drop it a vote if it's something you're keen to see! https://enshrouded.featureupvote.com/suggestions/524261/building-blueprints-custom-blueprints

Reception of our Townsfolk NPCs has been really positive from everyone, which is something we expected, but perhaps not to that extent! We've already had numerous requests for extra features for our NPCs, such as putting them to work around the base and its surroundings, or having them guard the area from enemies and wildlife. We've even got several requests from players who want to go the whole nine yards and marry their favorite NPCs, which I think means we must have been doing something right with them? Anyway as I'm sure you've seen, the NPCs are bringing a huge amount of complexity to the game, and as a result they brought a slew of new unexpected behaviors, bugs, and other fun things. Emily Fray wasn't meant to be hanging out on a roof, and the blacksmith going out for cigarettes never to return is also not what we envisioned for him. Not to mention questions of pathing in a world that at any point in time can be remodeled, because it's so easy to throw a grenade inside your ...

We're always looking to improve the experience of Enshrouded, and we have brought and will continue to bring QoL features to the game. Signs have been part of our roadmap for a long time, so I can definitely confirm that they are coming. I can't speak to these other features, as they will have to be evaluated against other features and content we're developing, including suggestions from other users, but what I can say is we're far from done when it comes to making Enshrouded better for everyone.

Best game community award when???

I'm only half kidding too, we rarely get our work recognized and damned if we aren't pulling all the stops to make Enshrouded's community as welcoming as possible for everyone...

May the haunting memory of their demise push you to become a better shepherd.

Really neat. Better post again when it's fully done

This one has been going around the office like a brush fire. Very poignant story, heartbreaking and relatable, and also funny as hell.

Anyway one of our QA prodigies has a solution that might satisfy your competing desires: build an altar in the wild, dump your unwanted animals for release there, and then remove the altar. The animals will then "return to the wild" and disappear and you won't have pixelated blood on your hands.

How does that sound?

Oh well that's good to hear! If that happens again, you know where to reach out!

Please note that this comment does not constitute commitment to bringing great swords or other weapons to the game. I would personally like it and I know the request is popular with a portion of the dev team, but as with everything else, it has to be weighted against other additions, features and improvements. So this isn't a promise, just an acknowledgement that your comment was more amusing than usual.

Coolrainonyourparadebro out

Can I ask you to share your save with us, both world save and character save? Might be easier to do this on Discord as I'm not on here every day.