Game Development: Chessebell Poaching

We've been developing, and here's what's new.

New Implementations
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• Added "Belltower", A massive structure to support a bell. You ring the bell by pulling (Right-click) the rope. The sound it makes varies with the metal used to build it.
• Added buildable chess pieces.
  • The ability to build chess pieces is acquired by learning a new skill "Boardgames".
  • Chess pieces are built from a new input type "Sculptable Material": wood, metal, clay, or stone. (Debated including snow, but decided against it for now.)
  • If you use Wood Blocks for "Sculptable Material", it will present visually as the bark material of the wood type in question, whereas Boards will present as the pulp material.
  • Moved the old curiosity "Tafl Board" in under the "Boardgames" skill.
  • You can, of course, put hats on the chess pieces.

• Added "Poacher's Pouch", a "Creel" alternative for hunters. The "Poacher's Pouch" can hold: Raw hides, raw meat, bone, animal fat, intestines, entrails, and small animals/birds both dead and alive. Suggested, perhaps among other places, here.
• Added "Dumbledore", a friendly beetle which sometimes lands on its back, needing help to find even keel again.
• Added "Driftwood Crown", crown, curiosity. Suggested here.
• Added "Black Henbane", flower, curiosity. Grows in "Badlands".
• Added "Raven Black", hair color. Suggested here.
• Added "Mouflon Horn", finebone recieved (between 0-2) when butchering Mouflon Sheep.
• Added "Cavecakes", hardtack bread made from "Cavedust".
• (Re)Added "Glow of the Cavebulb", a buff recieved when eating most any food made from Cavebulbs. Makes you glow slightly for a spell.

Key Fixes
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• Added a brief hourglass timer to the action of taking possession of "Study Desk"s, to prevent you from accidentallying your buddies' desks. Suggested here.

Small Fixes
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• Redrew icons for "Driftkelp" and "Fairy Mushroom" in 4x resolution.
• Made stackable: "Driftkelp". "Fairy Mushroom"
• Fixed a bug by which "Lake Snail"s were accidentally no longer "Snail"s. (AKA: padding out the changelog by introducing dumb bugs and then fixing them.)
• Improved the error messages when attempting to found a new village too close to, or on the land of, an already existing village, by presenting the blocking village's name, and by being hopefully a bit better worded.

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In the Pipe
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