So you shouldn't have any issues with the landscape engulfing your factories as far as the Northern Forest is concerned.

Now, as for the feedback that we've been getting, we've been getting a lot of positive feedback.

A lot of people love the look of the new fresh look of the Northern Forest.

I mean, the new assets, et cetera, are just a higher quality as well.

The lighting and fog changes seem to be received well as well.

However, some people have some concerns.

Some people are a little bummed that, you know, it looks a little more earth-like and less alien-y, right?

You know, the white willows, for example, are gone as well.

And a lot of people were partial to those trees.

And so we've seen like a lot of people's comments about that.

And in fact, on this week's stream, we stream every Tuesday, twitch.tv slash CoffeeStateStudiosDevs.

This past stream that just went by, I invited Hannah, the world designer, to join the stream to just talk about, yeah, just the teaser, you know, the Northern Forest Remark in general, as well as addressing some of those concerns that people had.

So she talks about, like, the motivations and inspirations for why we're making these changes, why we're going in this direction.

Also just issues, like, specifically about the willow itself, that, like, issues with, like, its asset quality and also its inability or that we struggle to find

a way to have it work with other assets in a nice way.

And then as for like the alien-ness of the way that the area looked before, she talks a little bit about how that alien look was just an accident.

It was mostly just a bunch of random things that we just put together as opposed to an intentional crafted alien look that the biome had.

And so with this new approach, we're having a more intentional look and feel.

whether or not it looks more alien to you or not, you know, but at least this part of the northern forest is a more cohesive look.

Anyway, I can't really explain it so well, okay, I just make shitty YouTube videos, let's be real here, okay?

I'm not a level designer, I'm not an artist, so I've actually highlighted that segment of the Twitch stream, so if you're interested in a more sort of like in-depth discussion about that, and to hear it straight from Hannah's mouth directly, I'm gonna leave a link in the description below, you can go watch that

highlight from Twitch.

I'm just paraphrasing, so don't really, don't listen to me, all right?

I'm just giving the TLDR.

But for the most part, the response has been great for the Northern Forest rework, and that's really exciting, especially since there hasn't really been a world update for a long time.

Something that Hannah talks a little bit about in that Twitch highlight as well.

So I highly recommend, if you care about this stuff, to check out that Twitch highlight, for sure.

Hashtag save the willows, by the way.