Iron Valley
Iron Valley v1.1 is HERE!! 🎈🎁
Update 1.1 is Here!! 🎁🎈
The latest update to Iron Valley adds 100+ pages of new rules, oracles, and options for returning players and new ones! Here are some of the new features that are part of this update:
💖 Cultivate Relationships with Gift-giving!
Earn favor with Townies by gifting them their favorite items! Every Townie is different and the more favor you have the more you get to know them. Will you unlock all the heart events for your favorite Townie?
⏩ More Moves, Still as Simple as Ever!
This update includes six new moves to enrich your gameplay! Go foraging, set up a shop, trade with Townies... and even receive presents from them?
🤝 New Game Modes!
Play with friends with new added game modes and optional rules to further customize your version of the Valley.
🐮 Livestock? We Got Options!
Livestock is looking better than ever in version 1.1! Raise cows, chickens, alpacas, and even... slimes? Included in this version is a whole slew of fantastical livestock options. From the curious Pitcher Crab to the Beaver Weaver, these Iron Valley critters are ready to join your ranch.
😲 And More!?
This update has doubled the length of the original book and contains updated tutorials, explanations of the rules, and of course... oracles! There is literally too much to explain in just one bullet point, so you're gonna have to download it to learn all of the new content~
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Some thoughts:
There's some contradiction between the How to have a Job section ("you won’t have to Try Your Best!! to get a job in the Valley") and one of the Your Truths options ("Starting Promise: Get a job to pay the bills")
With the starting promise for inheriting a farmhouse ("fix the old farmhouse"), traditionally in farming games you would essentially gather building materials (mostly via foraging, logging, & mining) and then trade those to the carpenter who would then come out to your farm and repair it. This sounds like the "Root Around" move and then "Let's Make a Deal" - but neither of those can provide any progress towards a promise...
For "Let's Make a Deal", I find the process somewhat confusing. If I've crafted a complex item with a value of 15 (5 value of starting materials and a three-box promise to craft), and I want to trade it to a townie for fish (a forageable) - how is the price determined? Do we use the table (and if so what column - forageables or complex items?), or do I just use the already-determined value (15) of the item I'm offering for trade?
Finally, the chart in "Make a Promise" confuses me, specifically in that "urgent" and "critical" promises - where you're under time pressure and presumably are willing to get less resources/satisfaction/favor in order to complete the task before the deadline - take longer than "laid back" promises, where presumably you can take your time to get the best results.
I'm so sorry, Itchio didn't notify me of this message 💔
First off, thank you so much for taking the time to write such an in-depth post! I really, really appreciate it. Iron Valley is still in development so there are rough edges for sure.
To answer your questions,
1) On the contradiction between How to Have a Job and Your Truths. This wording issue was not intended, thank you so much for pointing it out!
2) On the issue that Root Around and Let's Make a Deal do not provide progress towards a promise. This is a very valid piece of feedback. Thank you. My gut feeling tells me that the most immediate fix would be making it so all moves grant +2 progress on a strong hit and +1 on a weak hit. Seeing as how Time Passes is universal across all moves (happening on a weak hit or miss), moving the progress-making mechanic would, if anything, provide more symmetry between all moves. Thank you so much for pointing this out.
3) On Let's Make a Deal. I completely agree that the move is not clear enough. Again, I really appreciate the feedback. Version 1.2 is coming a lot sooner than I expecting, and I will expedite a clearer explanation of this move, along with any mechanical changes it might need.
4) On The Make a Promise chart. Although this may be a little counter-intuitive, seeing as how a laid-back promise asks for less progress boxes than an urgent or critical promise. This is working as intended. The idea behind making more urgent promises ask for more boxes is to reflect the time investment required to bring them to conclusion. A laid-back task like growing a simple crop (say, lettuce), makes sense because there is little time investment pressure. Those lettuces will get done when they get done. Now say something like hosting a birthday party for your crush is a lot more urgent, it for one has a deadline and a lot of moving pieces you have to coordinate. The higher number of boxes reflects the time investment pressure. Although I recognize the counter-intuitiveness things are working as intended. Laid-back tasks of low complexity ask for only a few progress boxes while critical tasks of high complexity ask for the most. All of this being said, the number of boxes is a suggestion of a promise's projected completion time. As per the move Reap the Benefits, you are allowed to complete a promise at any time. What you earn is based on the number of boxes fully filled. And, as mentioned in the book, you can fill more boxes if you want (or less). I didn't mean to go so long on this point. Maybe there's a way to phrase that chart in a way to clear this confusion. I'll think on it!
Once again, thank you so much for your feedback--and sorry it took me so long to reply! 🙇♀️💕💕
Hey, thanks for the response! I'll definitely keep that explanation in mind for Make a Promise, and go with your gut feeling on the Root Around/Make a Deal.
And I'm really looking forward to 1.2 :-)
Congrats, looking forward to trying this!
Just downloaded, one very minor suggestion:
-Mr. "Let's make all our downloads share a common prefix" ;)
Thank you! I will be fixing this as part of a small update (very soon) 👍
I am so excited about this! Already printed and bound! I’ve been checking back daily hoping to see this!
Happy to hear that~! I hope you have fun with my game 💖
Me too! Take my money!