Trading

Don't you think there should be an interaction between orcs and man-flesh?

Here I suggest:

• a special mini-quest where they ask some man-flesh to players (it could be implemented in all possibilities for gathering food mini-quests)

• When there is man-flesh to the ground nearby, orcs would rush to take and eat it. Opposing to orc-draught or maggoty bread, man-flesh would fully restore their health bar in one shot. (if you worry your own hired orcs steal man-flesh you want harvest, only non-hired orcs would look for man-flesh at ground)

• And finally, the possibility to directly give man-flesh to an orc by right-clic on them by holding a hunk of man-flesh. Doing it would give +1 alignment to the faction of the orc to the player and/or the orc will give something to the player in return. (a bit like trading gold with piglins) They could give you orc steel, maggoty bread, orc-draught, morgul-draught, gulduril, rotten flesh, suspicous meat, bones, arrows, poison bottles, sticks and so on. But be warned! Orcs might don't give you anything and just say thanks. Because orcs are treacherous creatures! Don't expect much gratitude from them, even for some man-flesh.

The suggest is done. You can leave now.

Edit: And trading man-flesh with an orc would give you a new achievement: "Looks like meat back on the menu boys!"

So, I was thinking recently, and I have no idea if someone has suggested this before or not, but here I go;

What I propose is that you be able to "apprentice" under the smiths of the various factions. What do I mean by this? Similar to how you currently have Buy/Smith/Exchange Coins, you could add an "apprentice" button.

If you have under 1000 alignment with the respective faction, the smith will say something along the lines of "I do not give my trade secrets away to just anyone, come back when you have a little more notoriety [player]"

However, with 1000 or more alignment, the smith will say "So you want to learn the forging secrets of [faction]? Fine, but I'll need you to do something first." And would then give the player a quest. It could either be simply one of the quests which the faction already gives (For example, a dwarf smith could ask you to kill 30 gundabad npcs), or it could perhaps be a new custom quest to give them a weapon or tool with specific modifications, the specifics don't really matter. But once you've completed the quest, clicking the "apprentice" button again will now open a new screen, similar to the trade screen, except the smith is now selling you smith scrolls of some of the better versions of modifications (Ex; Enduring Scroll, Legendary Scroll), to represent him teaching you some of the smithing things he knows, but for a price of course (lessons don't come free).

The reason for this suggestion is to help alleviate some of the grindier aspects of the late game, in this case, repeatedly reforging or grinding NPCs in order to get weapons, tools, and armor with the specific modifiers you want, and due to the alignment, quest, and cost, I feel it's a reasonable barrier to get a nice selection of modifiers.