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You want to climb the tech tree as a society that overall is "your" goal one you set for yourself and hope others have as well. Doesn't mean it's exactly the same for other players, who may for example have already achieved top tier tech without you. Should these players just leave the game because they have reached your end goal. I would be a bit sad if they did, because then how would other players hope to reach that goal, when all you get is new players or even worse have no one to play with.

I agree with you that we don't need more ways to kill each other, but that is only how I feel about it because of the current state the game. If families were able to thrive in an almost unlimited way without any problems finding food, water and clothing then I might change my mind. This is what seemed like the case in this example, players having everything they needed and allowing themselves to live out some crazy fantasy. It's annoying because it is at the expense of other players who have worked hard to make sure they have those things, but I feel they also add to the liveliness and replayability of the game.

I tend to view this game as a social experiment of sorts, one where you have to get multiple people working together to try and better society. Doing this while trying to get those who just want to RP, kill everyone or just play selfishly adds depth to it. If we get are forced on to a track without any options what do we have as a player wants we reach the end? Do we just continue to hope Jason adds more content to the game or do we as players try to create our own game from the structure he has given us? This is the way a lot of game tend to fall end no new content and players leaving because they have done everything they can. By leaving the game open to being modded by other people he allows for it to have a continued lifespan like skyrim and other games do.

This got me so good man, fully dressed up men in a locked room pretending to be nursing what a way to control population. Even just mother's who are in on it who don't wanna have to deal with them. Only to then have some sort of reveal when it comes down to the last of the children and have them all freak out. Realise the madness they have gotten themselves into. Bloody Brilliant.

I would so be for wigs, though more like some cool cosmetic and obviously different to the base hairstyles (For now obvious reasons). Hopefully Jason can figure out how to make it work while covering the old hairstyle  earlier rather then later so when we reach the future tech the hair styles can get even more craaazy.

Bears as a whole can be annoying to deal with, but you can lead them away or try and be prepared before hand. This also means you can just leave the baby to die to the bear as well, or raise the child and then shoot them later since you have a bow.

The caves being there are always seen as a threat. They are no different to setting up in an area with boars, snakes or wolves. You have to take these into account when you first start setting up and prepare for them. The fact that a baby can do it or an adult can doesn't change to much since it will be annoying regardless of age, at least with the baby you haven't wasted time on raising them.

The mums who forget you peps are probably lagging. I know I have had it happen a few times when running around that I don't even see the child drop just hear them crying.

Some people enjoy figuring out a games mechanics and making the most efficient decisions possible. Take for example factorio.
I agree with the idea behind that a females have that strength of child spawning, along with what he is saying i wouldn't take it to seriously this is Joriom we are talking about . Nice guide btw, always gotta think of those three things that need rope, though what happened to clothing is it not that strong as I believe in conserving food?

Though I do wonder about saving children in the earllier stages if it is the case that these are the only children you will have the life, which I have had happen to me before along with happen to other females in a village. I have even had no children before. The fact that it revolves around server population always scares me. There is no guarantee you will have another child. Even in the suggestions that say child birth should be tied to some action. This doesn't guarantee that either since most likely another village is thriving when you don't spawn any children.

That's nothing more then an anecdote, we don't always get given the reason why we are left to die by our mothers, but I have had it happen more then once in the lives i've had. It could be a server based issue. I usually find it occurs with newer players, or players who have started working on an abandoned town they tend to say this a fair amount. It's interesting cause the issues stems from the fact that there is a big likelihood the boy you let die will just be reborn to your town again. I know I have had it happen where i died in a town only to respawn back and allowed to live because I was now female. I have had this happen more then once as well, but like I said this is an anecdote. It would be nice if we could get some of the numbers behind it.

If generations were allowed to continue through fathers, by allowing a male within a certain proximity of a female to become the father of that child, it would make for interesting gameplay since males could continue a generation. Along with being able to travel since they would not have the burden of having children. It would also allow for the linking of generations and families. I don't feel we need an increase in birthrate with males around because birthrate seems to be dictated by the amount of players wanting to join into the game. A questions that come to mind about males having an effect on birthrates are. What occurs though if there is seperate villages with the same amount of males to females or with less people in it then another? Do these rules have to apply to an Eve? Because if they do it would make creating new settlements very difficult when there are other ones already built.

I agree with Goliath, that the mechanic is broken. If you happen to kill a so-called griefer and they return to the village they can just kill you again and again as long as you have the village going. The reincarnation mechanic is a negative for both raiding, village creation and war. This is due to the fact that if you spawn in amongst the enemy nothing stops you from becoming trying to kill them from the inside. 

Goliath coming from Gmod probably respects the idea of rp death and that if you were killed by someone it is part of the game and you should move on, cause it happens. Yet even though his justification for killing the "old hag" is weak, you gotta look past it guys. The resources in this game are limited and people will eventually fight over them because they cross into each others borders. Even carrots in this case could be seen as valuable if they were low on seeds.

Goliath though you gotta realise as well that your aim to create a raiding village also crosses a line, if you constantly try to create a raiding village then you are also carryiing on previous infomation. Along with carrying on crafting recipes and rules that you may have created in previous lives so its more of a question on where each person chooses this line is. Like you said maybe during a war or raid you don't allow any new children to be born into the village as a rule you create for wartime. Maybe Jason makes it so on death you are forced onto another server, but eventually after enough deaths they may still come back wanting revenge. It is an interesting issue to think about dealing with.

I feel that calling someone a griefer for killing people in this game is ridicoulous, the fact that you can respawn instantly and have infinite lives, means you can keep coming back with no permanent effects on the land you came from, maybe you find it again maybe you don't but it will still be there waiting for someone to find it. I feel the true griefer within this game is those that permanently destroy resources making it impossible for a town to keep going or start up again.

It would be preferably in most cases to have someone who know what they are doing take care of the farm, and not have others help them with it. This is because for one you can manage seeds and carrots a lot easier and if you just use the help for watering well an advanced enough society will have mutiple water tools which will make it possible to water large areas of carrots at a time. This way you can allow the newer players to mess with things like pies, metal and wood and learn about the limitations of these types of things in a relaxed enviroment. The civilisations I see fall tend to be when everyone goes on to say I know how to farm and proceeds to constantly pick and water all the carrots with no management of them.

It would be better for newer players to not have to worry about farming to much, but more about how to explore, hunt and craft clothing. This would allow for increases in population because new players know where to find food when it starts to become difficult, have extra time to search for that food and the farmer/s to do their job.

They are significantly better you can place them where you want and they store more water,. Along with creating an entirely new regenerating water source. It's just if you want to have them in the village you need someone to manage it. At the very least they are now no longer permanently useless.

One problem I do have is the fact the shallow well keeps the charges it has when it becomes a deep well. It doesn't suddenly gain 7 charges like it does when you create the shallow well, which is kind of annoying seeing as it requires some resources, but probably not as valuable as a bunch of stones.

I feel it will be represented by some sort of milestone tool. Similar to how a blacksmith hammer lets you create all the tools you need. The ability to communicate like you said may be just the laptop or phone and its ability to communicate based around other structures that you need to create. So you may make something that looks like a touchscreen phone straight up but have to give it this ability to communicate by building towers and sending that satillite to space.

This would be looking at advancement more through the use of co-ordination rather than resources. Which honestly would make the game easy to those who communicate through other means, but would fit more with the tone of game, I feel.

Maybe though the pace will be slowed down, because we have to remember easy mode is on with the food consumption bonus and really only one path for agriculture. One possibility is that there will be extra steps to domestication of food, but more varieties of food in the different enviroments.

Other advice. I personally wanna give.
Not only will the soil disappear but seeded carrots disappear as well so you lose 10 seeds and the soil. Along with that you need a whole berry bush now for a bowl of berries and not only four.

Ask if you can work on the farm don't just assume, if they haven't given you a job don't mess with the guy who is creating your food, otherwise you are very likely to die. Through murder or lack of food in future. You are better off hunting rabbits no body will stop you and you will learn where berry bushes are along with what the area is like around you.

Carry some food with you, even if you are just a child carry that berry and use the time while you wait til it drains so you can fill youself as much as possible to explore.

You should look at keeping as many children as you can clothe, if you can't clothe them they will be a huge drain on your food supply.

Learn how to make the 3 basic rope tools at the beginning, an axe, fire bow drill and a snare. If you have these its easy to sustain yourself and get fully kitted along with caring for others. BUT:

Don't just aim for backpacks after hunting rabbits, they are such a waste in an expanding population with a lack of clothing. Better off giving people pants, and a hat. You will save a tonne of food and will get more hunters with it who wil bring back even more food and fur.

It'd be an interesting mechanic if it worked this way domestic bushes constanly regrow like wild until you take the last berry away, which is done when getting a bowl of berries. So it wouldn't mess you up as much if someone just ate a couple berries off your domestic bush.

As people have said clothing will help with the food problem, you should always look to clothe yourself even if it means less watering supplies. Supporting mutiple people in a village can only occur when they can be clothed and food shouldn't so much be a limit as the amount of clothing in your village is I feel. The fact clothing also disappears when you die on some plots is also annoying and would reduce the need for it if it just stayed around. doesn't help this either. Maybe it would just help if you were able to undo a lot of actions as well, eg make rope back in to thread again.

As far as dealing with people who just want to eat carrots and do nothing, killing them seems to be the best answer, like back then if people were dumb and mistakes meant the death of the whole village banishment, it's a great way to enforce rules right? If they get frustrated and bored because they keep being killed maybe they will put in a little effort to figure out how to start their own farms and learn why they were being killed in the first place.