

The trowel could add a flower planting mechanic to the game, as well as outdoor plants, and possibly even small trees. Trimmers could be used similar to the squeegee and walk up to a flower bed and use Mouse 1 and drag it around and clear the brush away. The lawnmower is fairly simple, just a WASD movement should do the trick honestly. Each of these could get its own functionality, and separate gameplay mechanic, some with a familiar assembly-esque difficulty option. Moving onto new tools, there could be a long awaited lawnmower, electric trimmers, a trowel, a rake, and a leaf vacuum just to name a few. This changes the wall length adjustment control from Q and the scroll wheel to Z and the scroll wheel. Instead of being accessed by Mouse 2, indoor tools could be accessed by Q, and outdoor by Left Alt. To start The outdoor tools could be placed into a second round menu that we currently have.

There could be more tools, more installation features, more items, and on top of all of that, at least three new gameplay mechanics in again, the same style they have already shown to this point. There are multiple different tasks that are going to be required outside to even begin to clean up, and design the houses that are currently in the game. The basis of the role playing aspect of the game is the skill trees and leveling up the different perks in each tree. There is already a framework in place to add a landscaping element to the game.

I think they will continue to build off the same VR Sim style gameplay we've experienced thus far. Empyrean has a history of VR games, which I think this game plays a lot like a house flipping VR sim. This is all under the assumption they keep the same design plan they've shown to this point. I'm not saying anything in this has to happen, I basically wrote this up to encourage discussion from a different perspective. This game has an absolute ton of potential, and is still obviously in the early stages of where the game can go. I want to preface this by apologizing if this is somewhere else, I just figured I'd give a different, deeper perspective than I've seen regarding the outdoor work that's being talked about.

I saw Empyrean ask on the house flipper twitter the other day for ideas for the gardening patch.
