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Biome segment:

Tell me gentlemen, where was every single civilization worth its salt started? ... That's right, by a body of water, particularly that of fresh water rivers! Yet, the only examples of water in this game are minuscule duck ponds. What is the solution? Rivers, generated very rarely, and emanating either from an underwater spring or a mountain top (though a half-screen wide underwater spring hole would certainly be easier and make more sense for the game than a small unclimbable mountain). The rivers would be approximately half a screen wide, un-traversable except at randomly generated fording points (would be represented by rocks sticking out of the water, and a rocky bed visible beneath the shallow watered area). That, or you could have shallow/deep rivers, with the former having fording points, and the latter having none at all. The rivers would end in either a lake or an ocean biome, but a lake would once again work better with the current game mechanics.

This would open up a multitude of tech tree opportunities, ranging from boats for river-based travel and commerce to bridges, fishing, and so on. But the greatest and most important part of the river? It's bonus to soil fertility. Soil around the rivers would be permanently fertile (unless a drought occurred or a dam was built upriver of it, which would be neat but brutal features). If you built a dam, the whole river below it would dry up, and a lake would form behind the dam. Droughts could be an every epoch event, every few epochs, or whatever Jason prefers.

In closing, rivers would help with the advancement of civilization in a logical way (that maintains difficulty by killing unprepared civilizations via drought >:] ) and make the wild lands away from rivers all the more frontier-like, as the river civilization would inevitably expand into the interior.

Man segment:

There is Eve, and the child of Eve, but there is no Adam. Why would that be? Allowing Adams to spawn (albeit at a lesser rate than eve for rebirth purposes) would do wonders for civilization. Rather than waiting to birth a boy, and taking the time to raise him before he can be truly useful, there is a man already grown to do the necessary civilization building without fear of babies randomly popping out.

I could get into the possibilities of a sex system (ala Minecraft bumping, hearts, that's it), but that isn't anywhere near as important as the inclusion of Adam as a spawnable individual. I'm sure Jason has a very good reason for why he hasn't implemented an Adam, but it may just be the shot in the arm the playerbase needs to succeed, with emergent Adam and Eve families carrying the metaphorical torch of civilization.

( if a sex system was implemented though, what would it do? I have my own ideas, but I think they would harm the amazing emergent nature of the game)

What are yall's thoughts on these two ideas?