Industry Maintenance vs Equipment Lifespans
0xHelium
Getting farmers to visit / utilize a farm is a difficult task for land owners without large followings.
Having regular users of plots / industries and benefitting from their surplus is generally accepted as the primary benefit of owning and developing a land as well.
Proposal:
Instead of chickens, queen bees, drills, etc having lifespans; require maintenance to those industries by the land owner that requires an equal or greater amount of resources.
Example:
(current) a chicken lays “x” eggs in lifespan and costs “y” to replace
(proposal) chicken lays “x” eggs and requires a resource input equal or greater than “y” to continue producing eggs
Benefits:
1) Small landowners can more easily retain their farmers and have a chance to grow over time without potentially having to start over continuously as farmers’ equipment expires.
2) Build additional sinks / loops around required upkeep materials.
3) No more unnecessary chicken, bee, or other lovable farm animal deaths
Nelliel
Merged in a post:
Industries Durability: Maintenance and Repair Solutions
Joshua Ciar
Industries have durability but can also be fixed. Add an item like a maintenance kits to prevent damage, and a fixing kits to repair if it's already broken.
for example: 1 elite metalworking kit = 6 elite maintenance kits
1 elite metalworking kit = 3 elite metalworking repair kits
Nelliel
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Add new mechanic : chicken feeding
Exele Alexandre
Chicken can't simply make eggs from thin air or survive without food!
Use grainbow or a new type of wheat to feed chicken in order to get eggs.
Keep the chicken fed to keep getting eggs. Fforget about them and they'll ~~die~~ uhm i mean run away from the coop.
Nelliel
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Industries to need 'Repairs' or decline in output
Scara
Industries should get wear and tear and decline in output over a set amount of time unless the owner 'repairs' it.
Payable in materials or berry