Hey all, good input...I like the idea of custom settings. If I can figure out a way to add some more customizable settings from the main menu, I will do so. I may have to make something ingame to allow a player to turn on or off some settings.

SurvivalGal,
Thanks for posting and for the feedback! Good to have you here. If you would like to disable bats for your own custom setting, follow the instructions below.

Myst,

The machete has +8 damage and a bonus +20 damage to flesh. It's the best melee weapon against natives. Also increase the chance to get bark from palm trees.

I have added the +20 bonus to the description when viewing the machete in inventory.

what to do late game? Your missing the "end game scenarios" that have not been added to the mod yet. There a few prior posts explaining several options...most agree on 2 and maybe a third.

1) Building a special "signal fire" to alert a passing boat or plane.
2) Building a ship that could sail you through rough waters to civilization.

Either would end your game.

The passing boat or plane would be based off a random monthly attempt to signal either. The signal fire would require much material to build along with ethanol as a quick start fuel. The last 2 factors would be if you make the signal fires in the best location on the island to be seen from afar, or building several to catch them from any direction. Even still, only a slight random chance they rescue you ending your game.

The building a ship is based on the idea it would take time well over a year to construct a 4-5 part ship that you escape the island from. Each section of the ship would require much resources from wood, cordage, sail material (skins), and other stuff needed like nails? bars? And some undecided factors behind what it would require, realistically. (keep in mind depending on each games random obstacles that need to be over-come, the player may take several or many years, to build a ship worthy of floating an ocean.)

Escaping the island would be the end-game your missing right now...once you do most everything there is no end to the game yet, unless you die along the way. When the end game is added, you would be working towards one of those goals, and eventually end your game.

After end game is added, when you start a new game...you only win if you do not die and if you escape the island...right now you die and continue if you want to...but if you died once you really lost the game already (the island won). I give the player the option to continue playing their game if they want through auto save, or manual saving. When you die though, you really lost that game.

edit:The steel hoe is an upgrade from the iron hoe...it is required to do other stuff like plant trees or palms, where an iron hoe would likely break. The iron hoe is still required for other stuff, like gardening, it weighs less than a steel hoe, and still does 7 damage vs 9 with a steel hoe.

Aedolaws,
love the speeches.
Again good input, and will work toward achieving much of those things between now and end game additions. Also the natives and events are not finished...the animal event animals WILL be looting storage's of your stuff while the coming Native Events will be natives attacking your buildings and storages...if you don't stop them they will be destroying your shitt when your away. I won't make it to ridiculous, but it will add challenge to secure your stuff, and add drama, and reason to have large stock of stuff, or replace losses. o.0

edit:Some natives may shoot fire arrows to burn your buildings down, unless you fight them AND the fire successfully(so you'll need those extra water bottles), or they may attack melee style with axes and machetes...based on easy, normal, n hard modes. (so you'll need the best weapons for different reason/different attacks) rebuilding things will likely be required at times, and building defenses like Watch Towers and Palisade Walls will likely be important too.
Event Animals will target specific foods relating to the animal, like the bear target fish raw and cooked and berry/milk storages...deer target corn crops and corn storages, bats, fruits, insects, and then wolves red meats (raw or cooked), live chickens and roosters.(just examples, not final a list)

edit 11 : What if during a Wolf Event...every once-n-a-while, you saw a white wolf, or brownish wolf, in the pack attacking....if you throw him meat(like throwing a banana to the monkey) he becomes tamed...performing similar to the money....but becomes your pet wolf/dog? If you choose the white wolf, no more will you ever see a white wolf in the Event pack. You could have 2 dogs if you wanted...a white...or a brownish, or both...if both then you will never see them again in any wolf pack event.

Speaking of water, here's a suggestion. Small freshwater ponds in the interior of the island that, instead of giving you regular water, will give you pond water. The difference would be that the pond water has a chance of making you sick if you don't filter it with the distiller or boil it, giving the cooking pot another use.

though I was mainly wondering what things I could work on while waiting for those end-game scenarios to be implemented.

Myst,
poisoning works on everything just like it does the player. It slowly depletes the victims life in addition to any bleeding, or damage from a weapon..

Myst thank you...nice find. I guess i forgot to change the ethanol lamp to subtract the ethyl fuel from the rucksack. Ingame they are the same, but there is actually 2 models. When I made the eythanol lamp I copy n pasted the Oil lamp and changed the ID's. but missed what is subtracted so it was subtracting oil, and looking for the ethanol fuel is why it would go out. o.0

my bad...fixed

btw...the lag when frostbitten might just be the slow motion effect. When your frostbitten your freezing and slow down in speed/sprint. I was checking it out, and I think that's what your feeling. Like you can't run to a fire very fast cuz your bodies freezing. Thus the slow heartbeat.