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Oh, the culling is that brutal? Maybe Jason should have some of the man made objects act as anchors?

Books and writing are still high tech beyond our humble villages tech. But hey, Jason is starting to implement naming schemes! Hype!

Directly having them be food wouldn't work with this game... Having an involved process to turn graves into soil might be interesting though.

The fact that you had such an interesting experience about a crown goes to show that it is a good addition to the game (Not necessarily positive.)

As for me, crowns are useful as a way to point out who is in charge, and can naturally ramp up of progression of a village if the wearer is on point.

While I've yet to come across a village with all three crown types, I feel that a three crown system is the ideal role system to shoot for. You've got your leaf crown making sure that the fire keeps going, pies are made, and children are raised. Then you've got carrot crown watching the farm, seeding plots, wells, and compost. Finally, you've got wolf crown defending from bears/wolves/griefers, harvesting the sheep, and foraging for lost clothes/tools/carts.

Great explanation, the amped up murder consequence can be rationalized as the effort required to kill someone or the guilt in ending a life (especially in the cases of necessary population control.) However, going overboard on the consequence would remove that kind of motivation, and make strict population control impractical.

But bows are a serious problem because of the ease of making them in comparison to the damage they can easily cause. In reality arrows wounds in accidents are seldom fatal, so I propose a nerf of some kind to arrows Vs People. Something like two arrows required to kill an adult, each arrow permanently taking half their max hunger and only retrievable once they die. Kind of a middle ground between wolves and bears.

TL;DR: Dope Farm Layout, but seeding inside the farm is always risky, and are you outlining this farm with wooden flooring so that its easier for later generations to get the point of this farm?

I myself am a firm believer in being able to take stock of a farm at a glance, but I also hold the utmost importance in idiot proofing. Seeding on the farm can never be consistently upheld without someone constantly crying out about it and keeping a basket of carrots available for starving members who can't keep track of their hunger. I appreciate this layout for making full use of field vision and maximizing basket availability.

I have my own farm layout that I've been working on that focuses on being an easy to recognize modular chunk. 9 rows of 3 carrot fields, which are arranged in 4 pairs ending in the ninth. Outline it with wood flooring which are flanked with boxes. Wood floors are where emptyish baskets belong. Now, beyond the ninth row is a fenced off area where seeding plots belong, along with baskets containing ready seeds in case of incidents or reseeding.

I feel that rows of three when farming carrots work better because it fills five baskets, four of which fill a box while leaving one out can save a hungry villager running back from a long journey.

Your farm is definitely better in terms of efficiency and works great with a lead farmer who knows the rules associated with it, but I can see it falling victim to a lack of proper understanding from new settlers rediscovering it who decide that it's just a long farm and begin their cycle of farming without any proper guidance

Not that my layout is immune to that either, but it is my belief that by making clear distinctions with flooring and fences people are more likely to get the point or, failing that, a later more experienced farmer can easily fill in the gaps.

I hadn't considered using backpacks to hold seeds! It makes perfect sense!

I think it works well with the theme of progression and teaching in this game. Some actions, craftables , systems are either challenges you need to overcome, learn about, avoid, or wait til they are more developed to be practical.

Its about learning overtime that just because you can put everything in the pie doesn't mean you shouldn't, or just because wool takes so much tech to make doesn't mean its warmer to wear.

These kinds of pies are really just a decadent status symbol to have in bourgeoisie full wool villages before their snob town crumbles around its ears.

I always greet my children with "Arrogant turd child!" Whenever they try to say anything longer than F, o-l-d, or w-a-s-h-e-r-e.

A kids food won't go down if you are holding and can breastfeed, and only costs one food to do. So if you have the clothes and the villages is being managed, there isn't a reason you shouldn't show key locations and say general rules; don't pick this, don't cut this down, seeding, leave alone,don't drain ect. And then just plop them by the group fire if there is a feeder there.

This is a system that is hard to put into practice, granted, but putting the focus on making sure that each member is taught on a one to one basis is much better then just having a population explosion even if the amount of food allows it.

This system uses three queens to allow for a more stable way to progress, but I can see that in plenty of cases this may be vulnerable when it comes to key parts of the village vs their roles as queen.  Toil can't seriously work the farm AND give a tour to each fresh born after all.

So, this system only has a real chance of working in an obnoxiously stocked village that an eve stumbles upon.

This system is rather dependent on couriours to deliver supplies to Fire, and alert Shed and Toil of new births.

But I still believe in this system since is has such an ideal progression for a village to go through from rebounding to death;
Fire stocks the pies, once she becomes Toil she stocks the fields, and finally as she becomes Shed she tidy ups before she passes away for the new Fire to come.

As for those that want to leave, I believe that should be allowed, but they should be forced to replace what they want to take before they go

Currently, You get the perfect temp from standing in a slow large fire naked. Anything more like clothes, floors or houses will overheat you and make you just as hungry if you were cold.

Fully clothed babies in front of a large fast fire inside a bear rugged house would starve PRETTY quick.

It should remove a chunk of MAX hunger, like 1/4 which Insta kills unwanted kids/farm griefers, and the arrow(s) are/is stuck in them until they pull it off,which is what actually kills them.

This stops a killing spree, while keeping the consequences.

Plus, arrow storage!

Currently it is a matter of hiding arrows and making sure it's a pain to make them.