Enshrouded's 2024 roadmap includes animal farming, weather, world events

eurogamer.net:

Following Enshrouded's impressive early access launch back in January, developer Keen Games has shared the first iteration of its 2024 roadmap for the co-op survival action-RPG, featuring the likes of animal farming, weather, world events, and more.

Keen Games revealed its roadmap — heavily inspired by the community's most-requested features — over on Steam, explaining, «On the one hand, we have big ambitions for the game, and loads of ideas! On the other hand, Enshrouded is a brand new game, and some of the things we want to do might turn out to be more difficult than we can anticipate! It's a push-and-pull of wanting to keep you interested, without over-promising on our capacity to deliver.»

To that end, Keen's initial 2024 roadmap includes a mix of smaller-scale and more ambitious features — spanning everything from new biomes to the ability to sit on chairs — with the following all planned to release as part of Enshrouded's «next few updates»:

• Mountains biome
• Hollow Halls dungeons
• Animal farming
• Musical instruments
• Weather system
• Vanity system
• New enemies and bosses
• Location improvements
• Nameable map locations
• Multiple NPC instances
• Townsfolk NPCs
• Townsfolk pets
• Enemy patrols
• More trees to grow
• Potted plants
• Round doors and windows
• New building materials
• Named tombstones
• Nameable bases
• Editable signs
• Sitting on furniture
• Workshops craft from magic quests
• Replayable world quests
• Better quest sorting
• Improved loot UI
• Better stack splitting
• Reassignable glider shortcut
• Multiplayer pings
• Performance improvements
• Smoother high FPS gameplay
• Improved post processing
• Fixes and polishing
• Portals to other servers
• Server gamerplay settings
• Server user rights
• Steam Deck support

It's an exciting list (even if the vast majority of my time in Enshrouded has so far been spent obssessively prettifying an increasingly