Just some cents on 'trash regrow' …
I don't think waste resources should regenerate ... instead we should be able to build everything from scratch sooner or later. They should deplete much much slower though.
So at some point in the distant future there should be no more usable waste left, other than ofc 'player generated'
Hmm thinking of player generated trash ..
Basically everytime some one drops an item from the inventory ( known as deleting ) after some random time, one could add one layer of waste terrain, depending on the components of that item. A timer is to prevent abuse. Same could happen every then and now when a non looted player body decays.
Last is easiest to implement i guess though …
I think it would be a very bad idea to allow the generation of scrap heaps. They are supposed to be the dregs of a destroyed civilsation, I certainly dont want trash coming up around my town or city.
Something should be implemented to allow the management of discarded items, like Wurm has the bulk compost bin, thingy, that allows items to decay and an accelerated rate. Its an excellent idea, of course you could also implement trash bins, a similar thing, but the item can be deleted as soon as its deposited. I suggested this for RV as well, to save crap laying on the ground everywhere (of course everything in RV could be dropped on the ground, a much better idea for a sandbox IMHO), and a trash bin would have deleted the items from the world.
Kinslayer, being able to drop items on the ground was really good in RV but it lagged the game to death. No other game has tried to do this since.
It is a nice idea but not possible really.
There's an old landfill not too far from here that wasn't quite covered up well enough. Usually it looks like regular old grassy hills but occasionally after a heavy rainstorm stuff "emerges."
So how about, once all the original junk piles are depleted, the devs can create new junk piles by having a giant rainstorm that "uncovers" new junk. That is, take what are currently grassy hills and re-skin them into junk piles.