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jason obfuscated absolute cords.
it's only relative cords to birth. or triangulating from a bell tower. since it's 2d and square based, it's always same angles, so apparently one bell enough.

there was a bug with graves and messages. basically, relative coords based on birth. I was using a coordinate graphing tool to put them as dots. stdout txt had them, copy paste generate. first it took me long time. +- -- etc. hard to wrap your head around while playing. but once graphed I was able to visit 4-5 towns in a life, bell runs without bells but closer, like 300-900 tiles only. we had fun doing it. jason patched the exploit.

I forgot who made it, In an excel map he generated color codes on biomes, then you found a 3-4 biome meeting point, wrote down from middle to clockwise like 1 grass 2 savanna 3 arctic etc. 9 number, find in excel table. 3-4 biome mix was quite unique, with new map not so much, also making the table was long time.

tutorial and donkey town was somewhat fixed. but yeah, on wondible map you can spot a biome shape or city if you roughly know it.

travel has no point right now. I tried a few times, and it was fun with the bug to the graves, as nobody else knew it how, so it was like bell runs without bells. the travel stones are similar but with 2 families it messes you up. there were too many attempts to ruin coordinates and navigation, and the flaws with single families are kind of rough
but just as a game element, it makes no sense. it's like a sales pitch, 'oh the map is huge and you can never get to the end', why would you want to? around 150-200 hours in I realized the power of horses and stops, so I was designing towns in mind with running around on horse carts, and I was placing some fences 100-200 tiles in strategic zones.
there were some interesting towns, like one was 40+ gens the other started later and was around 25-30 gens, they were barely 300 away but a huge ice biome blocked any travel on foot, played for a week in both towns when I finally realized you can cross one to the other.
there were some lives where towns were 600-900 tiles away and tried creating a road, never finished.
there were some attempts when we made roads like 4-6000 long manually, connecting everything. you ended up with people stealing engines and anything of value. even when I locked up a horse cart and made my town again it was gone by the next time.
90% of players live their life within 50x50 tiles, some others travel like one direction then return.
rift was a bad idea for a whole server, but for a family, 200x200 isn't that bad.
the other issue is the 'everything runs out' principle. it's a game, it should be an idealistic world where you can fix everything, create endless value and live in harmony with the nature. mistakes shouldn't be final and you should be able to progress endlessly.

I had an idea back before, basically each family would have a seed, but each town would be a unit on it's own, with the ability to place it on a world map, basically teleporting it. the eve would mark a center tile, and gradually unlock 50x50, 100x100 up to 200x200 tiles. that would be the town. it would still have an area around it, so you could travel on foot. but it would be just a randomized land of a similar size, like 2-300 tiles.
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the towns would be placed in the middle tiles, and the area around it would be empty.
other means of travel could include trains or boats or airplanes
underground subways would be best, since it would show on your map but wouldn't need to be connected.
towns could upgrade it and travel to other places for a cost, instantly
travel is boring. finding towns more than 20 minutes away is hard, and boring and makes no sense when you don't live any longer than 60 and not fertile after 40, moving people so far is pointless
so this way you could have the travel but also would make the map more compact

there could be a ranking system or weekly limit of how much you need to achieve. then people would have their own towns they could return to and fix it up. people could rank map seeds with good or bad or more scaling ranks like 1-10.
then the bad ones could be wiped and replaced. it could even be a ranking system that places good towns closer to the center and would give more resources around it.

for the progression: the town should be a unit, with parts that count as sub unit. each item would be tracked around it, you couldn't take items from the town territory as other family, and travel methods wouldn't let it either.
there could be eras with requirements to build certain stuff, then it could reflect in the style of items. some items should be expensive, but the resources should come back endlessly, making work more important than the actual resources.

I would also love private lands. for example each town would have a town center, 50x50 always shared, the outer ring could be taken as private lands, like a 10x10 plot, and you could fence it up, and automatically leave a road in between. these lands could be used to produce things.

for all these the whole game should be changed in a few ways.

search for the email and at the end there is a 20 characters long key in the download link

there are cloud gaming services that work on mac. boosteroid for example, but the servers are in europe. ohol can be installed but it's a bit tricky. you got to go to the menu of the steam from the cloud pc, which only happens with games that allow that, like pro evolution soccer (free demo anyway) and then find ohol on your steam list, install, log in and play. the bad part is that your settings won't be saved, and you got to install it each time you play and can't be more than 10 minutes inactive. you can do a macro to move your mouse before each 10 min but if you just play a few hours that's entirely fine. it installs it within a few seconds. have been playing INL like that, my pc only has intel hd video card and the unity for INL is a bit more demanding than ohol, so I can only run it on medium and close range but can run it on max settings in cloud. usually I got like 20-30 gb extra space in cloud and the install is super quick. I guess if ohol would be on their list then it would be simpler.

not much really, as a baby stay in the fire, don't waste their time and food bar, the colder you are the more you eat, so walking around it's not too efficient for them. also get used to lower food bars, the chimes are annoying but you won't die by only eating each minute once. better players know the timings but panicking and running after them might get you starved.

better players usually tell what is needed or what is their plan. usually it's ropes or boards or more pottery or storage always welcome. generally I give a small task to kids, or tell them what is the most important, but they might not know how to do it. also bad players give bad instructions so listening to them is also bad.

in exchange for raising you it's nice to do one small boring task, like adding soil and watering plants, making compost, killing wild animals and collecting rounds stones, rabbits. but the majority of vets don't expect you to do much, try to not fight over resources and respect others privacy/properties, and have fun.

I mean pigments in the skin adapting to heat or cold isn't a big of a stretch. but it's hard to make significant to be important enough but not more important than other things.

They made INL and it is fun but since some of the mechanics are just reductant, like having babies is actually annoying. the playerbase there is more hardcore since it needs a better rig and more knowledge and another payment. and the age is limiting you from doing things while you are born on the same place anyway. so all in all being a baby is bad, and starting as an adult is good.

so no reason fixing Jasons nightmare updates, just scrap it, the game can have a new identity with new mechanics that make sense, good reward and punishment systems that aren't too complex and just make sense.

@selalov734 the way Jasus did the characters, their head positions or hairs are completely different positions so they aren't interswappable, I tried it. I even made a working, decently looking character but it's a pin doing it. the eyes are also way too low resolution, 9 pixels are already huge, kind of the same as the biggest one, and so it can only be black and white.

yeah the engine limitations are crap, we could make nice looking mods that are easy to install but can't fix the crap ui and can't add stamina or hp then can't really make it any better.

checks the 8x8 for temperature, the player is top left of middle tiles. walls limit the 8x8 to smaller size. walls and floors add insulation values. overly complex for like 0.05 bonus when a fire is already almost perfect

actually 2 fires with 2 free space create 4 perfect zones in L shape both top and bottom, also 5x1 room with a fire on one edge makes perfect temperature on the other edge.

turn it into a gen z snowflake game even more.

when idiots could be killed the game was way better. honestly if you suck at it you deserve to be harassed. if you can't even reflect on mistakes or get butthurt by legit claims then the problem is you. if you can't ignore bullshit the problem is with you.
being offended doesn't mean you are right
everything is your fault, either you allow it or attract it in your life.

you could stop any time

I play YAH on emulator, I'm slower than usual and got to work side to side when combining. has the spiral and the old good mechanics, and some quality of life changes. most players are dog water tho, as you can imagine. there is a mechanic that you mark a town for your spawn so you get back if someone buries your bones and you play 10 minutes meanwhile. it's not 100% to get back but it's still fun to continue your town and sometimes play with others.

I would. that's why I killed people who were intentionally ruining things. But slowly the community turned into gen z idiots who got offended by anything and everything and in all the wrong categories. For all the things Jason was going against the majority he choose the killing to be removed for a magical bullshit system where noobs are your leaders who can't even understand some basics. The meme score is not a guarantee they would able to be an Eve and make a working city, and the requirements are way too random for it.

Like people do not care about the location and advancement just to have their clothes and can fuck around. If you would be wearing clothes, they would accuse you of random bullshit just because they are envious, even if you made all the clothes yourself.

The name doesn't affect anything, it's certainly not something that ruins a city. Might ruin an rp baby life, they might die early if they get a troll name, but it's certainly not something anyone should curse for. And a bunch of people curse for this dumb reasons, meanwhile their contribution toward the town is negative.

There are people who overdo things, and ruin a bunch of stuff without asking, it's like they not bad, they fast enough to survive and produce things, they just don't have a sense of what is needed and how much. In YAH I met one of those, and I was pissed. So I just said 'why didn't you do the tutorial dumbass', as at least they got a tutorial. The ohol tutorial is dead. Like 80% of people can't Eve, can't help an Eve and do all the wrong things in all levels of camps. Like double fire, filling plates with eggs and making graveyards. You can't even ask them to get branches for tool making. And before you could do the important things, they got grandiose plans they will never finish. And a bunch of people side with the griefer just because they are their ingame mom/grandma/sister or whatever.

one time I tested, was griefing the town over and over, making Newcomen bases to block things, converting oven to kiln or destroying it, hiding tools, like bellows or axe, fire tools, burning food, filling stuff with seeds, wheels, repeating over and over with some variety. I usually didn't grief towns, especially good ones, maybe some shitty camps where someone pissed me off, but like just a few troll things, not completely destroying it. it just was a test that what would piss off others that much to get killed.

well turns out that most of the new and medium new people didn't care. they were annoyed but they just assumed that I'm new and I don't know any better. I was naked the whole time.

what eventually got me killed was the one time I named one baby some medium troll name, not even something rude. so they don't care until you mess up their dumb rp. a bunch of people are fine doing nothing for hours but don't dare to say anything negative to them.

With a horse is way different gameplay. Distance would be an issue normally, so those  numbers aren't that good. If you plant the milkweed you already waste the uses, the other thing is the stones which add up over time. Either too many or too little. I usually dig the closest big stones so they don't make sharp stones all the time. Flint works on wheat or reed, don't take a sharp stone to the swamp just to lose it. The other thing is the jackpots, there is a small chance that all items become a jackpot so if you find one burdock, flint or sapling there gonna be more next to it, so that really helps with finding things.

You can take a stake and round stone in your pack, a shovel and 3 fences. Make fences around renewable resources or groups of resources. I already did this after like 100 hours but rarely saw anyone doing it. You can do fences in the city too. 2-3 tiles next to wells, compost (because they usually too lazy to take where it's needed), next to kiln, oven, or just empty locations. This way you can group things like dropping items needed for smithing, cooking, cutting boards, etc.

You wouldn't normally stop for a sharp stone or some logs, but with a horse you got space and save time picking them up. So it's a bit of time setting fences but saves a lot for others after you. Also might help them to find the city if they lost. You can hit a straight and a diamond stake pointing to the city from the fence too. If you don't have a fence, horses are biome locked, so a tiny biome holds them in place. You can also get down next to a tree and stand on the other side, it's first movement will be toward the tree and will be blocked. You can also cut off some tiles he can run to by placing 5? (might be 8) items in a row or a wall to a connected biome he could run to.

You can build a cistern near wild soil. if there is like 6-8 or more pits, it's worth it. you can also disassemble it and relocate, you only lose a limestone really. it's rare but some cities got like a decent cactus farm and the city is far from water but close to soil, it's viable, but needs a bit of different tech ordering. you rush buckets, cistern and you can get a bunch of water using 4 buckets in a cart. Reversly you can make compost near ponds and use it up for milkweed or wheat.

not sure if this works, someone should check it. it works in yah. make a fnece under a stump and the goose stays on stump and won't decay.