Hi, you probably know I’m a builder for this game. Recently, with the new developers in place, I’ve had the thought that maybe I now have more freedom to build the things I want, as long as they’re up to my standards and go through approval from big V.
I have a lot of ideas myself, but I want to see what people in the community think. You could suggest an island, something in the wilderness for a future island, a puzzle/riddle, a terrain feature, a biome, or really anything. I’m sort of just browsing around for inspiration.
On that note, I wouldn’t bother fleshing out anything crazy, like a magic-imbued dark sea island, or a castle town. I’m finding I still hit limits pretty early on with what I can get away with, so I’m looking for slightly more generic and plausible yet interesting ideas for wilderness islands.
Crystal cave sounds like a good idea, reminds me of the WoM plains with the Aurem in the caves. And ever since the bronze sea volcano got cancelled I’ve had that black sand beach / bamboo jungle biome sitting around for a hot minute. Needs to be used.
large swamp island with a lot of wooden bridges and/or wooden platforms (can be partly broken but does not have to be) connecting areas
(similar to pink swamp from frozen soul/dream game if you have played that)
picture of pink swamp from hit roblox game frozen soul (formerly dream game)
Would probably need either less dense trees or large wooden platforms to find and fight bounty npcs on
I also only want the swamp area, i guess the cave area could work too but dont remember much besides the swamp to give a opinion on it
also maybe it would be cool if there was an island with a bunch of geysers that periodically go off and had like acidic pools with bones and stuff but that might be a little much
Hm, maybe an abandoned hunting camp of Bearpaw Bandits, where they killed bears for pelts? I loved the destroyed magic council camp in WoM, and we already have the analogs for Gravy (beached brig at Blackreach) and AS (Wind-Row)
island that is completely comprised of passive animals, like it has its own barrier of lingering spirit energy protecting the land (also i dont know if this is possible, but normally hostile animals like bears and wolves would be completely passive in this area)
An island similar to the whispering caverns that is half submerged, it is one of the more difficult & fun islands to explore for the first time when you find the flooded area
But instead of mines, it could be a place that was previously fortified, with the underwater part maybe being a prison or dungeon area
Could be on the edge of a wilderness island facing wherever enemies are expected to come from
I think islands which do verticality or shape well are always pretty interesting (Ierochos!!!) so stuff like a more complex cave structure or ravines (There’s plenty of tall islands, thinking of wind-row and ice mines, but they’re kind of just tall blocks) would be neat. Otherwise I’ve always thought a beach island with a bunch of shipwrecks all stacked up would be neat, but we have quite a few of shipwreck islands already.
