First of all, thank you for this amazing game! :3
I've had a lot of fun exploring and figuring out the lay of the land (and sea :V).
I'm taking it slow, so I did not confront endgame bosses yet.
I've read through this thread and I would like to point out a few things which did not come up before.
1. Using "active" skills, like fishing or disarm trap, is not covered in the manual and was not very obvious. This might be a me thing, as I don't have a history with more old-school roguelikes like Adom, but just adding a blurb about how you can use skills from F3 menu would have helped me a lot.
2. More or less the same as above, "Apply a nearby terrain feature" is a single line in manual which does not elaborate on what a terrain feature even is. I'm pretty sure I figured that it is for using crafting stations by accident, and opening/closing doors was an accident too. On the other hand, bed is not a terrain feature, while I expected that using "a" near a bed would make me rest on it.
3. It would be nice if merchant's dialogue hinted on the restock somehow, maybe something along the lines of "I'm getting new wares delivered in a couple of weeks, come back again!".
4. Ivory stacking was brought up quite a few times already, but still: wouldn't it make sense to always pick up the whole stack without confirmation? It always drops in stacks, and pretty much never want to pick up, for example, slings from goblin peltasts, so using "pick up all" is not always feasible.
5. If there is only 2-3 items in the cell, maybe you can just list them instead of a "There is a number of items here"? Checking what I dug exactly quickly get tedious when most of the time it's just a couple of different rocks, but there can be an ingot there too.
Thanks for this, Lustrecia, and sorry I didn't respond earlier.
1, 2, and 3 are all good points. I'll add them to my list of suggestions for future versions.
For 4 and 5, I'm unlikely to change item display behaviour, and you can pick up everything on a tile via ";". If you just want individual stacks to always pick up the maximum, there is a setting in swyrm.ini that you can update:
; When enabled, picking up a stack will always prompt the player for the
; number to take, assuming no autopickup.
prompt_on_stack_pickup=1
There should be a swyrm.ini in your user directory. You can set that setting to 0 for the behaviour you're looking for.
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