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It's so fluffy! <3

I do sometimes cook carrot pies but tend to avoid domestic berries as much as possible. Are wild berry and carrot pies a bad choice? I'm sorry, I swear I read the thread, but math is not my strength.

Also sorry, not sorry, for going back off topic, but -

Being a shepherd with a grass system could be a potentially pretty fun job, right? Say you had to craft a shepherd's hook that made sheep follow you while you led them to different grassy areas? ..With your loyal dog friend? I just want an excuse to breed dogs tbh.

I'm sorry you're having a hard time with the game.

I decided to take a break, myself. Too much (self-imposed) pressure on keeping towns going, on feeding the family and getting water. I didn't find time to even teach new people, which I love to do as a fellow new person. I found myself playing either a frustrating game or a lonely one.

Your roads were very helpful. I hope they're bringing you some satisfaction too.

So cute, nice job Gold!

Well.. I'm not that generous. Usually I just bury them without a stone because of the clutter, but every now and then. I'm really enjoying this idea of useful graves, even though I know they're easy to remove now. I'll be part of your bear blocker if you'll be part of my mosquito wall.

Love it. Wish they were less tool intensive, but hasn't stopped me before. There's definitely a line between space and wasted space that I haven't figured out yet. The current bell town has the kitchen and fire so close to the farm that it can be annoying. I was in a town the other day where someone built it way too far, though, and the extra run was more annoying. I like the idea of at least three tiles separating any building or workspace, and one main farm road.

So interesting to see what things have changed and what hasn't. I can see how walls would be annoying. They do add something aesthetically, though. Were towns ever built with only specific areas walled off and the rest left out? I remember being in a town that had family fences and no one (at the moment) abused or objected to them. But there wasn't much inside, a little room with some pads, extra clothes, and a pie or two. Maybe it was a fever dream.

I feel so weird about being in a town when I see someone bring in a bunch of pilfered things. How do you know no one was using them? I've been on the other side where I make a little house and return to find all the work I did is gone. It's disappointing.

It would be cool if you could build some sort of catacomb that piled bones on top of each other. Maybe it would even record names of the bones placed in it. I agree they get a little out of hand, even though I kind of like burying people and all.

Not sure why, but I just picture four towns as close as possible with a stockpile in the middle.

Oh man. Thanks so much, pein. I kind of like the look of the adobe wall pens, plus the storage, the storage! The cow pen looks like a cow temple. Blessed milk.

Did you like having walled cities? They look nice, and I get that they had purpose back then, but were they a hindrance to gameplay or no? Did you notice it help in any way other than keeping strangers out?

Kind of silly, but I also wonder if a small part of this is a sandbox issue or a bystander issue? A lot of players seem lost or unsure of what is happening in their towns. A lot of babies come in and their first words are, "Job?" A lot of panicky or bad situations I find myself playing are just because a job has gone untouched. Is someone hunting rabbits? Is someone collecting firewood? Is someone making tools? Shrugs all around.

Not that they aren't easily fixed, but if you take one piece out of the tower the whole thing crumbles. How do you recognize surplus if you're scrambling for necessities? How do you supply someone for a trading trip if you don't have excess food to send them off with, a cart for them to take, clothes for them to wear?

Leadership could be helpful, but in this game style it seems inconsistent and possibly oppressive. Maybe someone with followers could suggest, "We need ___," and someone could reply, "I'll do ___," and their job title could be assigned.

Thanks Wuatduhf!

Questions for you/anyone:

Say it's a carrot bed, do you place slot boxes on the sides, corners, or crop area?

I've never seen a bakery built like this, if I'm imagining it correctly. Does it change room status? … Does room status matter? Also, how do you feel about the separation of bakery and eating area?

AND, to carry it home you can just wear it on your head. Plus plus.

Thanks though, you make good points and food math is interesting.

I see a lot of things that I don't understand. Like I said, I'm new, so I usually just miiiiind my business, but when I do ask people why they did it, they don't have a good answer for me. Maybe they think I'm just annoying them on purpose. Examples:

Cutting down all the branch and tinder trees near town
Emptying and digging up wild gooseberry bushes to build over them
Clearing out all the close ponds instead of keeping one or two for eggs/fletching
Feeding and shearing the same sheep to make clothes - especially when the well is dry
Making compost in small towns with deposits nearby. I hate to see dung wasted, but compost seems extravagant for a young town, or am I wrong on this?

So, a story example. I used to spawn in Zucc town a lot, surprise. I stopped moping for my bad luck and started trying to improve, what I thought, were some of the issues. I started changing weird roads, making grids out of odd shaped farms, building boxes, cisterns, etc. There was a spot near the blacksmith with a couple wild gooseberry bushes and a diagonal road. So I skirted the road around it, put up a horse fence near the blacksmith, and turned it into a garden of sorts. A couple milkweed, a rose bush, and a juniper tree, because there were no trees around that big, dumb town and starting a fire was awful. The tree wasn't visually intrusive on anything else, btw. I saw it once, with the tree fully grown and more milkweed planted by someone else. The next time I saw it, someone chopped the tree, dug up the gooseberries to plant more roses, picked all the milkweed without planting any, and turned it into a graveyard memorial. I did a blinking white guy, laughed, and decided maybe it wasn't my best idea to "fix" there. Oops.

I'm a relatively new player who's been mainlining this game since Dec/Jan. Figured I'd throw in my two cents. When I first saw videos and streams, although it looked fun, I thought the game seemed way too complicated to step into. (Btw, I'm old in gamer years and enjoy sims, resource management, and building more than panic situations.) I had to purposefully seek out tutorial videos and guides, Hi Twisted, before what I was watching really made sense to me. The slash command to learn objects was very useful for minor things, OneTech has been amazing once I figured it out, but I never would have even logged in if other players didn't make videos.

My city game play seems to fall into two categories: fixing issues and pet projects. Not that either is bad, but it's usually either frustrating or roadblocked in some way. Sometimes I'm in the mood to be a lumberjack though, so whatever. I can't quite pinpoint what it is about big cities that I don't like, but I think a big part of it is the communal pot living. It definitely makes sense in Eve camps, but when you get into the cities with different families, or your fourth and fifth cousins, it feels like nothing is personal. No one really cares about things in the city. They get left in odd places, tossed out in the woods, or stolen to cart off to another town. How many times have I seen a town with items it should not be able to acquire. Or spent my life making glass to log into the same town the next day with no glass in sight.

Quite often, once I'm old (since most kids will just stand there and starve, or die running back to bell), or after I've contributed something so I don't feel like a leech, I'll strip my items off and go explore, build a hermit hut, or a hobby town. I know this is a multiplayer game and that defeats the purpose, but ooh is it satisfying to me.

I guess what I'm trying to say, in too many words, is that my ideal gameplay would be based on a completely different city style. You'd have a main square with the well and a fire, maybe a couple tables for people to trade things, but families would have their own homes and occupations. So you'd be born into a home, where your family is doing one thing, and should you choose to stay, your job would be very clear. Everything in your home would be important, because it belongs to you, and if you leave it out in the woods, it costs your family to replace it. Some kind of responsibility or accountability. I would rather see a cooperation happening (I make pies, so I grow wheat, maybe berries and carrot, but I want some mutton, so I send my son to trade with the sheep farmer) than a pile of resources for the taking. Thieving or griefing would be more high stakes, something even for the antisocial types!

Also, can we stop with the endless fields of berries? Like.. pretty please?