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before urbanization, farming develops in genreral where ever multiple people get too old to migrate with the rest of the family, or where ever populations get too dense. these settlements are WAY too small and short lived to be called "villages"
age and higher population density have the effect of more stationary "temorary settlements" (usually onlky a few lucky generations of less than a dozen old or weayk/injured/sick people) , usually using alcohol/cheese to preserve food, just to have enough food to survive with diminished mobility.
these often drunk and way more stationary elders are than the foundation of locally bound culture, medicine/shamanism/religion, where usually a tradition is generated, where wisdom/religion/health is exchanged for donaions, usually food or wealth.

in ohol, farming anything but milkweed at the same place over and over seems to be inefficient, compared to mostly living off wild berries along a long road.

you easily achieve lower populationm densities by building one long road, that zigzags between cities/ruins.
more people moving along the road depletes a city a lot slower (mostly with wild berries alongside the road)
And these people still mix and match all the time, by passing by each other on the road.

occasionally you give birth on the road wile building the road, and occasionally this revives a city along the road, and ive seen them boom to populations of 20 within 3 hours once, to then just chose to explore and equalize that population boom.
theres always bells along such a road, and the road itself, that lure explorers and gatherers away.

males become road builders or they bring stuff from north and south to the road. (mosaly gathering flat rocks AND iron ore, and milkweed)
females become gatherers, that just gather all the things on the road to more populated areas, especially babies and firewood and bowls full of wild berries.

this works, because wild milkweed (and anything else, flat stone/ores) respawn faster than roads decay.

farming anything but milkweed is wasting time anyways.
just build roads that connect wild-berries instead.
I get that youre lazy enough beerrymunchers to want to centralize a city, but instead you can have houses along one long road, supplied by whatever is north and south of it. that road than turns into an assembly line, with long thin (milkweed) farms close to it.
a long line covers more area than a city blob.

it is not just picking up diing babies, its also client crahsing to feed berry to diing baby,

family died out, but has a mimic by name by another eve (not mine).

families spread and mix more, less localized legacies are fun.

this time, long roads keep nearby towns more alive/useful, if only as temporary storage dump to be looted occasionally, and then likely repupulated for a while.

i constantly transport tools , backpacks, ore west.
i made a lot of the long road to the west.
i placed a lot of waystones, for ORIENTATION, by breaking monotony of a long road and by referring to places that people may remember by label.
waystones may make for a nice pen someday.
with waystones you can more easily tell WHERE alnong a long repeating straight road you are, and they usually lead towards a bell, in case no bell has been rang for 10 minutes.

this works fine, as ollman family is roughly half of the server population in the EUropean morning of 19.12.2019

yes, whhere the long straight west road ENDS , then 520 west and 120 south, THERE you find "ollmann" town. it lacks clay, and a tower, is a semi-ruined frontier outpaost stuffed with backpacks and tools.
what it ladcks, it makes up for in a large stack of backpacks, steel and a large libraty of blue papers, most of them also set in stone there.
"ollmann" is roughly 3rd largest family for the last 6 hours, occasionally largest family but never for too long. base idea is, motivate people to raise children and explore there, they may not stay in that place, as it lacks bell s and soil. Those then likely find some good place nearby, as this place is soon surrounded by smaller settlements..

game is playable again.

firstly, this is just an inefficient novelty bandwidth/code wise. though it sure in general is a cute lovely idea.

secondly, roads in ohol have always been ridiculously overpowered. no need to make them stronger (or to get a semi road just by walking anywhere).
No need to tell ignorant people to explore, as they will just ignore it either way, and they will just end up trampling in tight circles, making cities even laggier.

instead of farming berries (or anything) just build long roads.
instead of building round cities, just build long settlements only alongside long roads.
long roads quickly get flooded with items near them. usually more cloth and stone than you can wear or make towers with.
ie buzild a 5k long road network in the 3 weeks when the rift was "on vacation" and was testing the "the road provides" thesis, and its great, even in a total warsword chaos full of murder(ed towns) all over the place.

sure, this makes raiding and sheepkilling easier if many small huts are only placed alongside roads, by thinning out a decentralized population (when swords where just silly and sardistic) , but it is still worth the risk of having a long string of campfires raided/sabotaged.

you can play the singleplayer platformer "celeste" in "assist mode", without using any of its cheats, like slower time, more airjumps, or invulnerability.

you can play an ohol modded client without using most of its functions, only for emote hotkeying.

hooray, turkey feathers got some utility!

yes, i turned one rift into a featherless wasteland full of bears, and then build one long 5700 tile long road trough and around it.
It could have become a racetrack loop.

yes, i jokingly pretend to grief more than i do, because that just lures the dumb people, so i know whom not to waste my time with. its like making fascists admit to being fascists on twitter.