Turn the invisible berry bush bug into a feature

[bpdlr]

I was thinking, if the devs work out what is making the berry bushes invisible, maybe they could tie that code into the Foraging skill system, so that at different levels of Foraging, different plants become visible, like berry bushes at low level and herb plants at high level. This way, the player might just "bump into" a bush they can't yet find on their own (just as you might find some berries while out hiking despite not being Bear Gryls).

 

This way, Foraging could become an active skill rather than the current clunky menu and progress bar affair. There are already plant textures in the game that could be re-used for the various herbs and berries, you could just add a bit more colour to them to make them more easily distinguished from the other flora. For worms, you could add a small mud patch, and for frogs maybe a stone that makes a "ribbit" sound as you get close (using the same text system for sounds as the radio and TV). As for the bugs, maybe a patch of grass with little dots jumping about for grasshoppers, a small pile of twigs or logs for cockroaches, and a patch of grass making a loud chirping sound for crickets. 

Edited July 7, 2018 by bpdlr