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Sorry, but the first question doesn't make sense. Is a 1 "very new" or is it "not at all new?"

I was amused that Annabell Orange used Morse code.

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With the new war update and the push for town defenses, some people on discord and I were discussing a way to alert the locals if there was a raider/griefer within the city. This means no matter where you were in town, as long as you were within a certain radius, you'd hear the bell ring for a bit, and know there was danger and to engage a fight or flight response, possibly to the town's panic room.

The issue I ran into was that there would be players just crying wolf whenever they used it. People could spam that bell and no one would take it seriously anymore. Then when there actually is danger, some people would have already died by the time people knew what was going on. My solution was that the bell could only be activated by an injured player, someone who's been stabbed or shot (Or wounded by animals such as bears, town medics can recognise that the sound means someone must be injured), with a 5 second cooldown between rings. It's no longer a false alarm, someone actually has been attacked.

A few drawbacks with this idea though; firstly, for the bell to be activated, someone has to die, unless there are meds nearby. Secondly, a griefer/raider who is only stealing without taking lives will not cause an alert. It is up to the people to spread the word in this instance.

Another problem I ran into as well was that this bell takes two gold to make. That's hard to come by, so younger towns will be at a disadvantage. Also, that gold could be put to use in a belltower (If the town even wants one as of now), and some toddler could ruin the bell tower project by placing the bell on some random fence/wall, depending on how the panic bell would be crafted. For the latter issue, there would be a timer before the bell would become permanent, so some other player could easily reclaim the bell.

Anyway, thanks to Humboldt and Mofobert for the idea

He's a literal child, you're only encouraging him by humoring his posts.

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jasonrohrer wrote:

Question:  how does the outsider baby get a sword?

Aren't you already being careful about which random baby gets a knife?  I'd say, maybe, that you never trust an outsider baby with a sword, unless they learn the language enough to talk to you and convince you of their trustworthiness... and why they need a sword in the first place.

As someone who has cleared enough villages I can tell you I get the sword by disarming the idiot who chases me around with a snowball, or find one that's been hidden away.

jasonrohrer wrote:

The thing is, you have free walls that can be used to keep out outsiders.  You don't really need to worry about someone coming in and killing your whole village, unless you just sit back and let that happen.  The fences are free.

That video of the crusader, while hilarious, represents the sword how it was a long time ago.  I think I changed the way that it worked after about 24 hours of that.  So there is a cooldown now, and it's viable to fight back with the other weapons. Safety in numbers.  I've seen it happen.

Is there safety in numbers?
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The ten seconds of full running speed while being unable to stab does NOTHING to stop what makes the sword overpowered. You can hit and run an entire village, you can juggle breast feeding while doing it, or any other ridiculous thing. These are both from after you nerfed the sword to ten seconds of no stabby. Saying that the video doesn't represent the current sword is shenanigans because the only difference is that Michael Punch would just be running a few more seconds before kills.

And it's NOT viable to fight back with a weapon what are you even talking about? You don't ever gain ground on someone with a sword who can tap anyone he runs by and keep running until eventually there's no one left. 

That video absolutely represents what a nightmare dealing with someone competent with a sword is like. I couldn't even defend my kids against attacks because they stood still.

                 Malicious spirit I’m dieng lol
But it’s a pretty cool idea I would love to see ghosts picking up my shovel and putting it 200 tiles behind a tree.