Exactly, a well developed late game colony should have the capability to produce food indoors with heating and grow lights after investing in electricity and the infrastructure.
The game RimWorld (a colony simulator) has a huge emphasis on growing food indoors and outdoors and preparing for the long cold winter with temperature controls, hydroponics, and grow lights.
SO here is my post:
First off, thanks for all of your hard work. I tried to go back to vanilla 7 days to die and it was just so boring. I will never be able to play vanilla again because of how fun this mod is.
1) Grow lights are great and I would be super excited if this was implemented along with a heater of some sort to control the temperature within a room
2) Someone brought this up earlier in the thread but I also thought of a mechanic that can repair blocks. I am actually trying to play the game fairly and build an above ground base and I seem to be getting about 4 or 5 hordes a day (my day times are 2 hours long in real life). Maybe at some point a mechanic can be implemented that can slowly repair blocks IF THERE ARE NO ENEMIES NEAR BY within a large radius of him if he has materials available within a small radius from him. More automation for a developed end game colony.
3) Branching off of the end game colony idea, in my opinion the farmer should have more use and be far more important to an end game colony. The farm should be able to plant more crops, remove plagued plants, and harvest. Also the whole concept of having a snow ball upgraded seed container that degrades over time is kind of wonky. I think what bothers me is the concept that I have to harvest tons of snow now which technically has a limited supply in a very specific biome. Why not have the seed and harvest container be a special type of fridge or something that requires electricity to run eliminating the constant need for snow.
Or better yet, can I change it on my own in the XML file so that the snow upgrade does not degrade over time?
4) I am excited to test out animal husbandry and see how it works. I am reading that there are still some bugs but I am excited for it to be fully functioning again in the near future. Having a constant source of large animals for meat will be nice.
Thanks for your hard work.