I'm not sure how much I'll like the leveling system blocking crafting recipes, but I'd say this is a pretty worth while game even if you have to craft a bunch of items you'll never use just to get the skill's exp.

Edit: Yeah... I'm kinda getting sick and tired of the leveling system. The grind is tedious for certain skills but quick and easy for others so the scaling or level of tedium for gaining exp for certain skills is really really, and I mean a giant pain.
Like I went from level 1 husbandry to level 48 in half an hour. But my crafting skill is still too low to complete certain quests which I find strange given how much more considerable time I have spent crafting things to build a giant base with. And that's a second thing. The grind.
You have to spend so much time in the sandbox element to gather resources and loot chests and fight enemies to level up all of the necessary skills to advance. And that's ignoring the main leveling system regarding your character's level. This exp bar is the slowest of them all. I'm only level 15 and it's been almost a day of playing this game. How realistically am I expected to reach level 25 let alone anything past that with how petty the rewards for quests are? That's also ignoring there's no basic ranged weapons.
You have to level up abilities to get anything canon fodder or range related. No bow? Spent ages trying to figure out how to craft one. Can't. I can't get anywhere in the third zone because of how slow the pvp is. Dodging and weaving in this game is really boring. Like REALLY boring. I spent all my skill points from player leveling up on using less stamina on running and dodge rolling. I have nothing in actual abilities because if I didn't have them fights would go on longer as I would have to run away and hide to get my stamina back.

The difficulty curve doesn't make all that much sense. It seems like certain enemies are just op for no reason other than that they can. While it seems like anything around that enemy is just swiss cheese. This game plays very similar to Starbound because I used an RPG mod to have specialized classes and a leveling system. But at least with that, anything you did contributed to your player level instead of just the specific skill stat. Maybe this game does that too and it was too little to actually do much. The only exp I really seem to get are from fights, looting chests, or quests. The quests are kind of dogsh*t too. Not because they're boring or anything. It's that they have prerequisites. Especially the ones in the third zone because the game expects you to be a certain level in your skills to complete quests which frankly doesn't make much sense.
You can't craft items being asked of you, and either have to buy them from merchants selling them from previous zones, or grind leveling for it. There's no good way of grinding your grinding skill to unlock flour recipe or unlock corn. You can't get corn in this zone or any previous zone so it mystifies me that there would be a quest that required it. You can buy the cornmeal which is what you need, but still.
The money grind isn't as tedious as other games because you just gradually accumulate wealth and can sell junk for quick cash. But I find myself spending quite a bit of it on basic items because of them being tedious to craft or harvest, and wanting to craft the raw resources into items I'll actually use. I mean I get that's the appeal of MMO's or whatever but like this game is designed to have multiple playthroughs. How the hell is that ever going to happen if I'm stuck on one character that can't get past level 15?


Edit 2: I'll thank you to not convolute basic game mechanics or better yet not account for reactions people will have to certain dialogue results. Why would you have like "Oh the humanity." or "I'm just a small little goblin please do not kill me!" when not killing certain individuals will actually prevent you from completing the game or getting rewards like exp or gold? Like you can't even go back on certain actions.

Game has no wiki so there's no way of knowing before hand. So the fact you peacefully resolved the issues between the elves and the humans of whatever the name of the second area is means you've essentially made it mandatory to play the game from start to finish a second time to actually complete the game, 100% which the game really wants you to do.

So why it would f*ck you over and make that impossible is beyond me. Like you can't kill what are certainly individuals you will be tasked to kill later on, ahead of time, and instead have to figure out who you need to talk to, so you can do the thing you already knew you were eventually going to do.

I can't stand it.

You can have items needed to complete quests ahead of time but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tedium of stalling the inevitable is such a pain in the ass. I don't know why you'd have things that are straight forward and just convoluted something that should be just as simple. It's not fun. It's annoying. Keep it simple. Not like this game will get that update anytime soon.

I'm not sure how much I'll like the leveling system blocking crafting recipes, but I'd say this is a pretty worth while game even if you have to craft a bunch of items you'll never use just to get the skill's exp. Edit: Yeah... I'm kinda getting sick and tired of the leveling system. The grind is tedious for certain skills but quick and easy for others so the scaling or level of tedium for gaining exp for certain skills is really really, and I mean a giant pain. Like I went from level 1 husbandry to level 48 in half an hour. But my crafting skill is still too low to complete certain quests which I find strange given how much more considerable time I have spent crafting things to build a giant base with. And that's a second thing. The grind. You have to spend so much time in the sandbox element to gather resources and loot chests and fight enemies to level up all of the necessary skills to advance. And that's ignoring the main leveling system regarding your character's level. This exp bar is the slowest of them all. I'm only level 15 and it's been almost a day of playing this game. How realistically am I expected to reach level 25 let alone anything past that with how petty the rewards for quests are? That's also ignoring there's no basic ranged weapons. You have to level up abilities to get anything canon fodder or range related. No bow? Spent ages trying to figure out how to craft one. Can't. I can't get anywhere in the third zone because of how slow the pvp is. Dodging and weaving in this game is really boring. Like REALLY boring. I spent all my skill points from player leveling up on using less stamina on running and dodge rolling. I have nothing in actual abilities because if I didn't have them fights would go on longer as I would have to run away and hide to get my stamina back. The difficulty curve doesn't make all that much sense. It seems like certain enemies are just op for no reason other than that they can. While it seems like anything around that enemy is just swiss cheese. This game plays very similar to Starbound because I used an RPG mod to have specialized classes and a leveling system. But at least with that, anything you did contributed to your player level instead of just the specific skill stat. Maybe this game does that too and it was too little to actually do much. The only exp I really seem to get are from fights, looting chests, or quests. The quests are kind of dogsh*t too. Not because they're boring or anything. It's that they have prerequisites. Especially the ones in the third zone because the game expects you to be a certain level in your skills to complete quests which frankly doesn't make much sense. You can't craft items being asked of you, and either have to buy them from merchants selling them from previous zones, or grind leveling for it. There's no good way of grinding your grinding skill to unlock flour recipe or unlock corn. You can't get corn in this zone or any previous zone so it mystifies me that there would be a quest that required it. You can buy the cornmeal which is what you need, but still. The money grind isn't as tedious as other games because you just gradually accumulate wealth and can sell junk for quick cash. But I find myself spending quite a bit of it on basic items because of them being tedious to craft or harvest, and wanting to craft the raw resources into items I'll actually use. I mean I get that's the appeal of MMO's or whatever but like this game is designed to have multiple playthroughs. How the hell is that ever going to happen if I'm stuck on one character that can't get past level 15? Edit 2: I'll thank you to not convolute basic game mechanics or better yet not account for reactions people will have to certain dialogue results. Why would you have like "Oh the humanity." or "I'm just a small little goblin please do not kill me!" when not killing certain individuals will actually prevent you from completing the game or getting rewards like exp or gold? Like you can't even go back on certain actions. Game has no wiki so there's no way of knowing before hand. So the fact you peacefully resolved the issues between the elves and the humans of whatever the name of the second area is means you've essentially made it mandatory to play the game from start to finish a second time to actually complete the game, 100% which the game really wants you to do. So why it would f*ck you over and make that impossible is beyond me. Like you can't kill what are certainly individuals you will be tasked to kill later on, ahead of time, and instead have to figure out who you need to talk to, so you can do the thing you already knew you were eventually going to do. I can't stand it. You can have items needed to complete quests ahead of time but the fucking tedium of stalling the inevitable is such a pain in the ass. I don't know why you'd have things that are straight forward and just convoluted something that should be just as simple. It's not fun. It's annoying. Keep it simple. Not like this game will get that update anytime soon.