suggestion Trader Purchasable Recipes: Incense

[The Feng Hunter]

Aromatherapy is a clinically documented and accepted practice. It’s also been a part of Native medicines throughout the world for millennia. 

So let’s build on that — let’s craft incense!

Incense Recipes would be available for barter from The Trader.

The idea is simple enough:

By gathering and mixing things that already exist in game — Cedar Tinder Plugs, Prepared Birch Bark, Cat Tail Heads, even things like the left over Acorn Hulls, you would be able to  prepare them by creating a thin, Water-based paste with that can be divided into batches of 5 incense sticks after spending days drying under pressure.

There could be variant recipes, things like buffs to help you combat Cabin Fever and Insomnia, something to help you clear a your respiratory tract of toxins (Chemical Exposure), something to help alleviate Pain, &c. Granted, the pain relieving effects wouldn’t be as potent as Pain Killers, but would shorten the amount of time you are in pain by half … which doesn’t sound like a lot, unless you’ve been trampled by a Moose and really, really need to heal — it could serve as an absolute last resort alternative to an Emergency Stim, for instance.

AND maybe there would be free-floating combinations about which no one knows … and you could only find through experimentation!!! 

Use of Incense would be an OPTIONAL Quality of Life improvement, focussed on improving immersion, reducing time penalties associated with Afflictions, and even giving purpose to some of the “trash” that ends up accumulating over time in-game so that nothing really goes to waste!

[Pyroxene]

Great idea!