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Hi Filenzi,

I was one of those kids from this morning. I usually hate when people destroy things in the game, whether it's randomly stabbing people or even something small like harvesting milkweed that isn't fruiting. Up till today, I had owned knives and bows many times in the game but never killed anyone except once (when there was one of those rando-griefers in the village who was going to kill everyone). Here is my side of the story.

Yesterday my friend and I decided to try playing on an empty server to see if we'd be able to play together. It worked, and we stumbled upon this settlement that had a carrot farm and some tools. So we decided to live there, and we spent hours working on it. We started a big wheat farm, made many piles of compost, built two cisterns and filled them with water, made more water pouches, built an oven and a pie-baking area, and we baked a bunch of pies. We also built tons of boxes, carts, and baskets and organized the whole place because it had been lacking storage space and had been a little cluttered.

When a baby was born, did we just let it die so that we could keep playing alone and monopolize the space, the way you guys would have? No, of course not. There was plenty of food, and the more the merrier, we thought. And it was great--the baby grew up and that player worked with us and it was a lot of fun. S/he built a lovely sheep pen and domesticated some sheep, and we started learning how to make wool clothes.

So that was yesterday.

This morning, when my friend logged on, you guys were the only ones online, so he kept being born to you. You guys were living at the same settlement, which had plenty of resources and wasn't short on food or clothes or anything, but you just let him die over and over. Which is fine, I guess. Personally, I think it totally sucks when people don't take care of babies, since that (to me) is one of the big parts of the game. But I get that some people apparently can't be bothered when they're busy working on something, so maybe you two are in that camp. The bigger issue to me is what happened when my friend respawned near the settlement as an Eve, and had this conversation with one of you (which I saw because I was in the room looking over his shoulder, going "oh, try talking to them"):

Friend: Hey you guys, can't you be a little more welcoming? We put a lot of work into this place yesterday.
You: We start this base
My Friend: Yeah, but we put a lot of effort into improving it. Let's work together.
You: But we start this base
My Friend: Yeah, but this is a public server. Can't we just build together?
You: Public, yes. BUT IT IS ALSO PVP.

And then you (or your friend) proceeded to run off the screen, come back with a bow, and kill my friend.

Seriously, WE were the ones who asked if we could just work together. Multiple times. And the response was a very slap-in-the-face F*** You. We were pretty angry. After we had spent so much time building there yesterday, you two were completely monopolizing the place (and thereby kind of monopolizing the server) and not letting anyone in--if we spawned as babies, you let us die, if we spawned as Eves (which was always nearby) and came anywhere close, you shot us.

So our mission for the day changed from one of learning how to dye wool and build more stuff to hunting you two down and getting revenge. We would have been 100% happy to play alongside you, but since you guys decided to turn this into a "PvP situation", we decided to follow suit. And if you weren't going to let us play there, then we weren't going to let you play there either. So yes, we led a bear to the settlement to kill you guys and then proceeded to destroy the place.

TLDR: We would have been perfectly happy to play alongside you, but you wouldn't let us. YOU let us starve over and over again as babies even though you had plenty of food. YOU fired the first shot, without any explanation other than "this server is PvP." And after we literally asked you, peacefully, if we could play together.

I totally agree that murderers and griefers suck, I just find it kind of funny that you made a post like this when you guys were very clearly the ones who didn't want to build and work together without any murders. I'm just going to assume that first conversation between my friend and one of you was with your friend, and that you, Filenzi, were not there. Maybe you didn't realize how much of an a**hole your friend is and that you guys fired the first shot. Because otherwise your post is kind of hypocritical.

To everyone else out there, I'm sorry that the settlement is such a wreck.