Text pop-ups and Fire (Patreon)

I'm slowly adding more recipes and collectable map items, but the main work this week was getting the firePit working so you can cook items. So far you can only melt snow and make Detox Tea, but that will expand. You start a fire by dropping any burnable item into the firepit and then placing the cookable item on top. I also, got pop-up descriptions for inventory items working when you mouse-over for 2 seconds. The image below shows both:

For example, To make Detox Tea: You could drop Larch Bark into the fire to get 50 seconds of burn-time (which also raises your Temperature as a bonus) and then put the cup of snow on top. It takes 20 seconds to cook into water. Next you'd put the cup of Water, Agave Flowers, and Blueberry Leaves on the crafting board to make the Detox Tea which recovers 10 Water and 25 Health upon consumption. I considered requiring the Water to also be cooked for 20 seconds to make "Boiling Water" for the Tea... but it just seems like extra steps for the sake of "realism" that doesn't add fun to the game... so I chose the simpler approach.

Oh yeah, I easily changed the inventory interactions to drag-n-drop and it works fine... but, I don't actually like the feel... I will leave it in for the next update so players can try it and decide finally at a later time.

Next week is more of the same... I'm getting a bit bored of inventory work, but not sure if I want to switch to something more fun, lest I forget what I was doing when I return later. I am getting near the end of the basic recipes though, so they should be ready by the next playable update on November 3rd.