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If you are playing the game to make your family lineage last as long as possible you should always kill nearby families and block off the eve spawns nearby.

There is no reason other than it feels bad to kill helpful nice players to keep another family in your village.
First of all there is the inevitable fact that they will have a bad kid who will kill your family with swords if they have the chance, secondly whether or not they are aggressive to your family two families will use the resources in the area faster then if you just have one. This makes it harder for your family to last long term.

Irl humans have many reasons to work together with people from different families and cultures, there are biological reasons, economic reasons, technological reasons, educational reasons, etc. Also people from other cultures are not more dangerous than people from your own.

In one hour one life however Jason has created a species that reproduces asexually and doesn't need genetic diversity to succeed undercutting the original biological reason humans are altruistic to outsiders in the first place. We are more like a bacteria or a beehive then humans. A beehive will kill other queen bees to make sure their genetics survive. Virgins Queen bees kill all of the other virgin queens in the hive, they do not share the hive with another laying queen they don't need more bees then they can produce themselves.

In OHOL you can probably justify keeping males from other families if they look helpful (since they are sterile), but if you are playing to try to make the longest living lineage then there is no reason to keep other families in the area alive.

I think in order for a towns to always need walls there has to be a constant outside threat to balance the effort of making guarding and maintaining the walls. To me this feral eves just isn't enough of a threat to counter the downsides of town wall building.
Also the threat has to be dumb like an AI animal that attacks (for example we fence mosquitos it is worth the effort). If the threat is other people they will always find ways around the walls, and if to counter that Jason makes wall impossible to breach people will get bored of attacking towns and stop which makes the walls useless again.

This is the quote I was thinking about from Jason found in "Jason's vision" Forum thread by mr.bah

He says a bit more but just notice he mentioned gates and fences quite a few times so he really wants walled cities for this game

It makes me sad that this is the case but a friendly eve will eventually have a murderous descendant. It is inevitable. You can exist peacefully for generations but then one of your or their kids will be bad and the murderfest will start.
If you can tell who the bad apples are you may be able to get their family to curse the offender (If there is enough of them who are old enough) but it is much more difficult then just having a monoculture.

There is no real in game benefit to having a mixed family town only drawbacks I wish the game didn't push this attitude, I really like the language stuff it is fun.

You have a few options to deal with the dangerous feral eves:
1: kill them before the kill you, set up a town guard with a bow that shoots all outsiders
2: build a city wall/ cage for your village
3: turn all the springs nearby into wells to prevent close eve spawns
4: build cages around the eve spawns to trap eves. This is more difficult since Jason patched but you can still do it.  A 7*7 cage centered on the spring will catch most spawns and a 16*16 will trap all eves that spawns at that area.

I only like option 3 personally but these are probably your only options till at least monday.

Hahaha! I like this alot The villagers all running at a hostile with hoes and adzes everyone can join in give the kids a Sauerkraut Stomper!
Basically making it so if someone is being aggressive we have a chance to defend ourselves with what we have. (like the rock in rust Jason )

In rust you build to protect your stuff and yourself from other players. (And because buildings can look cool) In real life I don't live indoors solely for those reasons.
The primary reason for living indoors (especially in Canada) is the weather, the second is that it protects my things ... not from other people but from nature. Clothes and food don't last to long on the lawn.

In one hour one life I don't care about protecting my things from other people so the rust approach of locking up everything is really heavy handed. Why should I care about protecting my stuff from other players if we are supposed to be working together?

The main problem with buildings in this game is the space they take up, one whole tile per block. This is the same as minecraft and people obviously love building in that game right? However building in minecraft protects you against mobs and is very easy to do. Where in this game it only blocks movement takes up space and provides little benefit. People still build in this game though once they have enough food and feel safe.

Like someone said we are stuck on level one or two of Maslow's hierarchy of needs if you want to move past this to build for creativity we need to not constantly feel the threat of dying, or you will need to make buildings have a meaningful impact on survival.

All people are trying to do is express they are not happy with some of the changes. Most updates all you get is praise for the new items. At least acknowledge a lot of people are unhappy about warswords and the direction it moves the game. You don't have to make changes of course it is your game but people are allowed to be upset. At least try to understand where all the disappointment is coming from.

I am interested in this as well I re posted to the discord hopefully we can get some more votes

We were able to pull eves into the tutorial area after the server reset with the new eve spawning.

As far as making the most of life in a decayed town I find if you are up to organizing it can revive an area. If you organize the kitchen it gets swarmed by bakers, if you clean the farms and bring the tools next to it people will start farming again. I know cleaning isn't very fun but it can be satisfying when you see someone get to work because they know what to do now. Take the clutter out of town move tools next to where they are needed, neaten up the farms and sheep pen, and watch as the town gets back to work. Also I like telling people they are doing a good job so they know that their work is appreciated .

Okay so we need to make pens to keep the babies in preferably full of garbage and make sure not to cloth them. Got it