Wonderful! Thank you again for such a thorough response! I appreciate you being willing to take the time to reply to my inquiries. It makes me anticipate future updates more, as well as helping me to better enjoy the game as is!
I don't want to take up more of your time that could be spent working on the game :P However, I really like little secrets like those you mention, but am not great at finding them. Perhaps you could eventually include some sort of hint system in the game? Maybe like a fortune telling npc that appears randomly on the map sometimes, and gives cryptic hints on how to find a new secret? I'd really enjoy something like that! Anyway, just something to think about :)