Thought experiment: Filling out the biome-locked resource mix

denriguez · 2019-11-22 21:48:43

As a thought experiment, what if each of the three specialty biomes was essentially equivalent in what it offered the specialist tribe? What would need to be added for each biome to have a naturally-occurring food source, a dangerous animal, a food source you had to cultivate, an animal you could domesticate, etc.?

What would be added if Jason were to eliminate all of the N/A cells in this table? Of course, there probably aren't many plants that would grow in the tundra, but who knows?

Melea · 2019-11-22 22:45:51

Honestly, I'd love for all the biomes to be more fleshed-out. Like the community crucible server, where each biome can support a basic village but in different ways. (https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6794)

Villages in different biomes could have different 'flavors' - grassland villages based around thatch or sod huts, jungle areas with bamboo housing, tundra with igloos (as Jason has already done) or animal-skin lodges. Different species of basic furbearers, not just plains rabbits. Variations in livestock and in the starchy/main crops available to support a town. Like having the option of raising sheep, goats, or llamas for wool...or cattle, goats, water buffalo, camels, etc for their milk. Other sources of essentials like starter water locations, tinder, etc.

All that works in the CCS though because each biome is much, MUCH larger. So people have to be able to make a viable go of things in any particular biome, without absolutely needing resources from outside to live. Current OHOL is very compressed, you can often see three biomes in a screen's width. So nearly every town is the same grasslands-next-to-swamp with stone and plastered adobe buildings, rabbits, sheep, wheat, and three sisters crops. Because that's all that's available.

IDK. I just like variety. It'd be nice to have a llama-wool-farming town, even if they're just reskinned sheep.

pein · 2019-11-22 23:53:49

latex not renewable anymore can be planted but gives rubber once

eajorstad · 2019-11-23 01:10:17

Polar bears!

denriguez · 2019-11-23 03:06:47

pein wrote:

latex not renewable anymore can be planted but gives rubber once

Ah, didn't catch that. Thanks!

arkajalka · 2019-11-23 06:44:54

Young tips of a spruce tree are edible, tho they serve minimal nutritional value. Usually you cultivate it into syrup or a drink tho.

kuusenkerkkä

For cooked edibles, almost any stem/root is edible when cooked and serves decent nutritional value.

+1 for polarbears

Plants for domestication could just be the edible ones.

Little monkeys for jungle to domesticate! Also jungles are a bug heaven. Bring bees into game. Domesticate mosquitoes for honey making machines and rename em as bug swarm. Tundra could have reindeers.

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