What?
Add one Yumako and Jellynut tree, and one additional natural Yumako/Jellynut soil (for a total of 2, including one with the tree) to the Gleba starting area. Also, perhaps add one iron and copper stromatolite as well.Why?
Bootstrapping Gleba is difficult, but for new players, it is particularly bad because they have yet to understand any of the Gleba concepts. The primary issue is that Gleba's mechanics require you to understand most of it before you can have even a barely-working factory, but there isn't really a good way to experiment because the closest Yumako/Jellynut trees are actually quite far away. So it is extremely frustrating for new players that there's not a good "playground". Plus, new players have no idea what any of this stuff looks like on the map. This is exacerbated by the current map generation requiring that you either hand-craft several hundred belts and landfill, or import them all, before you have a semi-working playground.A starting area including a single Yumako and Jellynut tree, with one additional soil patch, helps new players learn all the new concepts without forcing them to walk a long time and handcraft hundreds of belts and landfill. If things go wrong, which they inevitably will for a new player, it will feel less punishing.
Of course, ideally the farms should be located far away from your base, which the current map forces us to do. So this is why the starting soil needs to be extremely limited, to force the player to go out to scale.
