Finally! A New Villager!

Even though I was on the fence about continuing with Dinkum, I decided that I would try to play it in shorter bouts and see if my experience improved.  It did!  A new villager (and fortunately one who sells something useful) finally decided to move to my island.  Rayne, the farm goods merchant, joined my town...now, population 3!  Now I finally have a source of seeds and can spend more time farming.

Finally!

I think I'm going to pop in and out with Dinkum and see if I can't attract some more residents--it feels like I'm finally making some headway.  I still think some systems could use some work--I'd like to be able to repair my tools (still can't!) and I wish visitors would stay for slightly more time.  I also built two houses that seem pretty pointless.

In between Dinkum sessions I've been replaying Assassin's Creed: Origins.  Origins is my favorite of the RPG-style AC games and I still think it's the best of them.  There's just something about Egypt that makes it so much more interesting than some of the other settings (namely dark ages England in Valhalla).  Plus, Bayek is a great character.