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Simply put we need leaders to keep people coordinated. You don't need to control them, just guide them. Watch over the village and let people know when there is a problem, or rather a lack of vital tools or resources.

If the fertile women in the village are left to have every child then the village WILL starve. This is why places like china (one of the most overpopulated places in the world) lets you only keep your first two children by LAW. We also need to make sure that we have a competent player handling sheep and the newer players making compost rather than just eating berries. In the mean time for starter villages we need our vets managing the higher technology such as making newcomen pumps and cisterns.

When your village has sufficient compost start making milkweed for ropes! These are needed for buckets, handcarts, and a ton of other tools!

You can't possibly coordinate 50 people in one village. This also reduces the life of your steel tools. Eventually something is going to run out and there isn't going to be much time to react to it. If you run out of kindling, ropes, and axes/hatchets all at the same time you're going to have an awfully bad time trying to cook pies and blacksmith. Make sure people know what the village needs and find someone who knows how to do it.

Don't keep each and every baby. Keep girl count reasonable. Too low and the generation may die. Too many and overpopulation is exponential.
Keeping sons isn't so dangerous because they don't produce more kids, this is a double edged sword. They are less of a risk of overpopulation but they also risk under population if the pop is all male.  They also eat food like all babies do and food costs iron, stones, or skewers as the cost of hoes.
A likely strategy is to send your boys out into the wild to gather iron and other materials and keep an eye on the girls inside town. Yet again i cannot stress this enough. Do not keep every child.

Keep small villages under a population of 10-15. Its not a magical number, its just a good one. If you do find a magical number report it to your nearest ministry of wizardry. Long distance gatherers equipped with backpacks can survive off wild food and pies so make sure you inform them of what the town needs before they head out. Iron is one of the big ones.

This is a guide to help people who are having trouble learning how to live inside a village with the new update. Villages use to be an easier place to learn the game. However, the chaos created by the temperature update has left villages in a constant cycle of starvation. It is my hope that someone finds this guide and learns how to maintain the basic necessities of a town.

Resources consumed by a sustainable farm: Iron for tools(breakable), kindling to make charcoal(fuel for water pump).
A sustainable farms produces its own water with newcomen pumps and soil through composting.

Important jobs:
Farmer See composter and sheep tender below, you can't farm without soil and water!

Water sources: (note: found in swamp biome only)
-Canada goose pond: Use bowl to collect water. An empty pond can be combined with 10 round stones and shovel to make shallow well.
-Shallow well: Use bowl to collect water. A dry shallow well can be turned into a deep well. This requires a stanchion kit. To make a stanchion kit you need two straight branches in a stack, use an adze to make fence kit. Combine fence kit with a bucket to get stanchion kit.
-Deep well: This requires a bucket to collect water. Bring the bucket back to the farm you're watering, use a bowl to collect water from bucket.
-Newcomen pump/kerosene Newcomen pump. See wiki: https://onehouronelife.gamepedia.com/Newcomen_Pump
Add bucket of water and then charcoal to newcomen pump and light with a firebrand. This produces 3 buckets of water, add one bucket of water back to boiler so that you do not run out. Take the remaining 2 buckets of water to the farm or put into a cistern to be used later (holds 10 buckets).
-Cistern: Used to contain buckets of water, does not generate water on its own. See wiki:https://onehouronelife.gamepedia.com/Cistern

Soil sources:
-Fertile soil deposit: Found in grassland biome. Use basket to collect soil, right click to empty basket on ground.
-Wormy Empty Fertile Soil pit: An empty soil pit turns into a wormy pit, use a shovel to get more soil from it. After empty its gone forever.
-Composting: See Compost Maker below. Requires: wheat, carrots, berries, water, sheep, and sheep poop to make new soil.

How to farm:
-Planting new crops: Take a basket and collect soil from a nearby deposit or compost pile. Place the soil where you're going to plant your crop by right-clicking the ground. This makes a pile of 3 soil on the ground. Separate the soil piles into groups of two. This saves soil and hoe durability.
Next find a steel hoe, stone hoe, or skewer. Whichever you can make or find available. Hoe the piles of two soil to get a deep tilled row. Adding any seed to a deep tilled row and watering it with a waterskin or bowl of water produces whatever crop you are growing. Some crops consume two soil per harvest however some crops leave behind a hardened row. Harden rows take 1 soil and a use of hoe to make a deep tilled row.

-Warning: The growing of carrots, cabbage, and green beans is time sensitive. If you are growing carrots or cabbage it is best to leave the seeds dry until you need them. If grown carrots or cabbage are left in the ground they turn into seeds(after 5 minutes of being ripe).Seeding carrots and cabbage disappear entirely if left alone for 10 minutes. When growing carrots always leave one or two rows in the ground, this produces 7 seeds per row and consumes the soil. Seeding cabbages only produce 4 seeds. Beans have two stages: their ripe stage 'green bean plant' which can be harvested for edible green beans and a dry stage after 2 minutes. Dry beans are used for making three sisters stew and used as seeds. Green beans and dry beans can be harvested with a clay bowl. Harvest all but one or two full rows of carrots to be used for sheep and composting and rabbit carrot pies. When your seed carrots and cabbages have turned into seeds harvest them before they disappear. It is always a good idea to leave extra seeds laying around to be replanted in case the last row of carrots is accidentally harvested. Carrot seeds do not decay, however cabbage seeds do! Put cabbage seeds in a clay bowl to stop them from decaying.
-Most other crops can be left to grow on their own without worry. Always replant after harvesting. Two soil + hoe + seed + water.

-Watering Domestic Gooseberry bushes: This is commonly the first task people learn and is quite simple at a first glance. Take an empty clay bowl and use it on a pile of soil. Use the soil in bowl on a languishing gooseberry bush ( appears to be dry and slightly browning.) Next use your bowl on a water source, you may need a bucket if using deepwell or newcomen pump. Use the bowl of water on the soiled gooseberry bush. Success! The bush will now produce 7 more berries! That is only the beginning of the job though. Gooseberries are commonly wastefully eaten over better foods such as stews and pies -- see baker below --and thus require a lot of soil to maintain. This makes the constant need for new soil a more difficult job, so eat berries sparingly! New soil is made from the process of composting.

Compost Maker: Makes soil for the village. To do:
-Collect 6 berries and 1 carrot in a clay bowl. Use a sharp stone on this to mash it up.
-Harvest a wheat with a sharp stone and seperate the wheat from straw by using any curved or straight branch. This also makes threshed wheat.
Threshed wheat can be collected with a clay bowl and is used to make dough for pies and bread.
-Combine a mashed bowl of berries and carrot with a straw. This makes a dry compost pile.
-Water the compost with a bowl of of water. This makes a wet compost pile.
-Get a shovel and bring it to sheep pen. Then collect a poop with the shovel and use it on the wet compost pile. This makes a composting pile.
-Start another pile while your previous one turns into fertile soil pile. You can NEVER make too much compost.
-When your compost finishes turning into fertile soil pile collect it with an empty basket and distribute it to the various farms.
-An efficient production of soil allows for more types of crops to be grown including squash, corn, and dry beans for stew. Stew is an efficient food.
-Excess soil produced can also be used for rope production via growing milkweed. Only harvest milkweed when it is fruiting. Fruiting milkweed can be harvested for milkweed stalk AND seeds. Other stages do not produce milkweed seeds.

Sheep Handler: Aka a Shepard. Breeds sheep for fleece, poop, and mutton. To do:
-Collect 6 berries in a clay bowl and put a carrot in it. This is sheep food.
-Feed hungry lambs to get adult sheep and poop for compost.
-Shear excess adult sheep if you have more than 2. Always leave 1-2 at LEAST alive and unshorn. Shorn sheep do not produce lambs for compost.
-Kill only excess sheep that have been shorn. Use a knife on a sheep to kill it and again to turn it into mutton. Mutton is used to make mutton pies.
-Do not kill your last sheep!! Be careful with knives, if you are a sheep handler keep the knife in your backpack or near the sheep pen.
-Keep the sheep pen clean, remove sheep corpses and dead lambs from the pen.
-If you have ONLY shorn sheep then immediately start feeding them berries and carrot bowls.
-Shearing sheep produces fleece which is used to craft thread, Wool Clothes, and Medical supplies. Shorn sheep do not produce lambs.
-Killing a sheep with wool can be skinned with a knife for a sheep skin.
-Warning about shovels: Moving poop out of the pen with a shovel is a waste of shovel durability. Only move the poop from pen to compost pile.
-If there is not enough room for poop consider making more compost or building a bigger pen. Remember to remove sheep corpses.

Baker: Cooks bread and pies for village. To do:
-Collect threshed wheat made from composting process using a clay bowl, see above.
-Grind the threshed wheat in bowl with a round stone. This makes bowl of flour.
-Use a bowl of water on the bowl of flour to make dough. This can be left to sit to make bread dough. Use immediately on 4 clay plates to get 4 pie crusts. For bread put the leavened dough (which sat for 1 minute) on a clay plate and use knife to make slits. Be careful to not stab anyone.
-Find a filling for your pie, skip this if making bread:
    -Mutton: This comes from using a knife on a sheared sheep. Do NOT kill your last sheep just for a pie. Use mutton on pie crust to get raw pie.
    -Rabbit: This comes from snaring rabbit family holes and skinning rabbit with flint chip. Do not use snare on rabbit hole if it has no baby.
    -Rabbit continued: Mash rabbit in bowl with sharp stone and use bowl on pie crust for a raw rabbit pie.
    -Rabbit & carrot: Combine a rabbit and carrot in a bowl and mash with sharp stone. Combine with pie crust to get raw rabbit carrot pie
    -Carrot, carrot berry, and berry pies. Without meat these become very inefficient. It is a waste of soil. Meat pies are the best!
    -Rabbit & berry: This is also a waste of soil because rabbit pies use way less soil due to only using wheat.
    -Rabbit, carrot, & berry: This pie is a waste because it provides more food than can be eaten due to hunger cap.
    -As a wise man once said to me only eat meat, vegetables are a waste of soil. I think he was talking about pie filling.
    -See food efficiency: https://onehouronelife.gamepedia.com/Food_Efficiency
-Now for cooking pies and bread.. Find kindling and place in your empty oven. Light oven with a fire brand (long straight shaft + fire)
-Wait for the oven fire to die out. This makes "hot adobe oven." An adobe kiln is not used in baking.
-Now pick up pies / bread and click on hot oven to cook. Right click to swap your freshly cooked pies with other raw pies nearby.
-An extra step for bread: It must be sliced with a knife before it can be eaten. This makes sliced bread. Be careful when using knife.

DO NOT DO EVER:
-Do not kill last sheep. This ends the compost cycle and starves a village. No sheep = no soil and food.
-Do not eat last row of carrots, these are FOR SEEDS. Carrots turn into seeds when left in the soil for 5 minutes. Leave seeds dry until needed.
-Do not cut the last row of wheat. These are for compost, if you run out of wheat you can't make compost with straw. Replant after harvest.
-If you run out of wheat plants for seeds you can use bowl of wheat on deep tilled row to plant new ones.
-Do not use the last soil on one crop only, balance soil use on carrots, wheat, and gooseberries.