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Soo... are you pro or contra the berryfarm building?

furniture: A small table where you can put 2 full or empty bowls or plates. Put a table next to the place you setup the stew, so you always have a dedicated bowl there. Or put bread and butter on a table, on a 2ed table put empty plate and knife (yea would be cool if we can put knife on it too) -> its a butter bread station. Put a table to the farmer, so he can put his bowls of seed on it. Small table would help organize and save a little space for full plates/bowls.

I don't like how rooms work. If the room is too big You don't get any effect of it(depending where you stand). If a room is too big and the fire is on the opposite of the room you don't get any heat from it. This is neither realistic nor practical. I am sure I can heat up a 10meter x 10meter room with a large fire over time. Especially if the wall are massive stone walls and not some cheep wood walls. Also a room adjected to another room will not isolate each other. Or a warm room with a fire, that has a small room on it with an open door. The small room should get warm too. I would be fine if rooms just work like in rimworld: A room has one global temperature and the walls (and outside temperature) determine how much heat that room loses. Open doors lose more heat. A room surrounded by warm rooms don't need it's own heat source. And so on..

wood (coal) stove: It used some iron to build, but produces heat from wood over a longer time then a large slow fire. Or using coal to produce heat over even a longer time.

buff: feeding adult sheeps: Right now it's a waste to feed an adult sheep. So we feed a babysheep which gives us 1 poop, 1 wool and 4 meat. To make one Wool Sweater we need 6 wool. So for one sweater we get 6 poop and 24 meat. Another 4 for Wool Hat and another 4 for 2shoes. So to make clothes for one person (without pants..) you need 14 wool -> 14 extra poop (so much compost just for one person?) and 54 meat (so much food just for one person??). So what if we feed an adult sheep we don't get poop but 2 wool? This way we could really start producing wool clothes for everyone without a massive stockpile of poop and meat.

Let us combine letters to books. In book we can not only write longer sentences but also add small sketches. This way we can explain future generations what we wanted to build. Future generations don't need to follow this, but at least they will understand the idea of the initial creator. Plus you can tell future generations about iron mines, where iron is already looted, where maybe a closeby town is.. and so on.

Better agriculture:  Using horses to tile the soil, multiple rows. Better watering system (maybe combine backpack with bucket so you can store water in it? then you can leftclick with bowl on backpack to get water out). Maybe later automated watering system. Will cost a good amount of iron to setup (pipes) but once placed saves a lot of worktime.

Most things I listed here are stuff that actually leads to building a real culture.. And I would prefer that 10x more over gimmicks like planes.

You have to consider that a lot of oldagers die at something like 57, that will as starvation.

I do (ok not all rabbit fur, seal too)

Okey.. why even make rooms/walls then? Just place floor everywhere. Maybe use the stone you would have used for walls for stonefloor, that will visually separate the working areas.

@DestinyCalls: Setup a windows server is super easy: Download the win_full folder: https://github.com/Awbz/OneLife/release … Life+_v199
Then go into the serverfolder. run the .bat file (for me the bat file didnt work, so I had to copy the commands and run them in a cmd(commandline), the .bat only create a few softlinks). After that run the server exe then connect to localhost. There are ini files in a config folder, on of them you can set at which age you die. Set it higher and you have more time to test.

Yea for us it's easy. But for the casual player, who probably never heard of zoom before it's hard. If I am Eve or am just outside the town and have a child without zoom and say follow, I have to walk slower or he will probably get lost. Also with zoom a kid can easily zoom out and see where food is, or which berrys are already eaten. Without zoom he would need to run around to find berrybushes and hope he doesn't find an empty one. So indirect it affect us too.

I also wonder if the game gets balanced more around the zoom mod? (for me this game would be too frustrating without zoom. I prob. would have given up already.)

Uh, which generation were you? Can be that generations before made big mistakes by running to much fires at the same time nonstop.

And high water consumption comes from high food consumption and that comes from the lack of clothes and people who don't work but just eat. You could go out with a handcard, search for dead people with full set of clothes and bring the clothes back. This will lower the food consumption and add value to the town.

In a bad spot? I mean if the town is build on a desert then I agree I would run away too, or just die. Because this town will not make it for too long.

keep the boy alive, kill a girl.

To the last part about the milkweed, that is why I like to craft my 3 starting tools in a different biome and then travel to a new one with fresh milkweed.

I understand your argument with the Backpack. However I see it that clothes not only benefit me, but also future generation. And on top of that natural food drys out much slower.

If someone dies, in this early game, you will probably notice it and you will probably find his corpse. So you can bring the clothes back (take a naked baby, put all clothes on him, run back to base). If someone with a backpack died you also want to bring the backpack back. So no difference here. However the guy with the backpack eaten more natural food. Food that could have been eaten by others or later generations.

I was born to an early camp where all had backpacks but were naked. I went scavenging - brought milkweed, iron and even clothes (and yes for this job a backpack is very handy). But I tell you this camp struggled with keeping up food production. And I strongly believe if most of this backpacks would have been clothes this camp would had a much easier time. (they all died to starvation but me who was a boy and my mom who was too old).

Hey beatme really interesting stuff you have here! Also I like that you try to take labor into some calculations. Yumbonus can actually lower the labor cost by not having to get back to food so often. However if you work close to the kitchen or have a stewpot next to your workplace, you don't spend much time to get the food. But if you work a bit outside and dont have a packpack with a pie in it, then YUM can add extra value by not having to run for food so much. On the other side YUM can also increase labor time, when you search the one food you not eaten yet.
I personally like to YUM when population count is lower and I know where each food is. With higher population I waste to much time searching for the food I need, as food gets eaten and replaced somewhere else pretty often. I still YUM to maybe 5, but sometimes I also just eat the same pie over and over again.

In crowed bigger towns the labor cost can increase massively. If I cook stew alone, I can be fast and produce stew after stew. But in a city with too many people I may take 10x the time to produce a stew. First there is no sharp stone left in the city and I don't want to steel it from other workplaces. So i get me one. Then all my bowls get stolen in the middle of making. Then someone plant milkweed in the soil i prepared for the squash seed. Then there is no more soil for a new row for the squash seed.. And so on. Labor costs can increase very high in too crowded citys and I think this can be one reason why citys dies out.

I think a lot of more experienced player do this. Last time I toke one fur and a needle with me and then wander a bit until I find an untouched green biome. Gathering milkweed and kill 2 seals, crafting pants and then two seal clothes, wearing one myself and bring one home. We had lots of fur at home but no more milkweed in our biome, so I repeated that two times until we made all fur into clothes. If I want to add value to the town what I also like to do is pickup a handcard and go out a bit. You will always find dead people with full set of clothes. Put em all into handcard and bring em back home, tada 2min spend for a "new" full set of clothes. I however much more prefair to do this as a boy and not as a girl.

I find this a very good point. I think the next step for a civilisation would be knowledge and organisation. Like right now there is nearly no way telling important things to future generations. Letters are a joke. We need books where we can tell more and make sketches. What if I find an ironmine but can't use it yet. Future generations will never know about it. With books and sketched maps we could tell all kind of things. But also the current organisation of bigger towns is super hard when not impossible. If you have 5-10 people its not that hard. But if you have 20+ people you lose the overview. Did our rabbithunter die? You will probably never know or even realize. In reallife you know each other and if the rabbithunter does not come back after 2 weeks you know something bad happened and you go to search him and/or send someone else to hunt rabbits. In OLOH you don't have time to know each other, its all too crowed with too much people. You can't read anything if multiple people speak.. and so on. I think knowledge organization would be the path to real civilisations...

And adding cars and airplanes is, if you ask me, just a gimmick