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The closest I've seen to locks being used well was the town with the hospital and clinic. When I was born into it it was clear the hospital had been griefed, dirty bandages on the floor, antivenom hidden behind trees, but the clinic was locked and the bandages secure. I got to work cleaning the bandages in the hospital and someone saw what I was doing and gave me a key to the clinic.

The thing is, most people didn't understand why the clinic was locked. I spent a lot of time by the clinic closing the door (there was another key in town) explaining to the people around that there was a hospital and the clinic needed to be locked to prevent griefing. It was backup, you see? Many people understood what it was for in that lifetime by the time I died, and I passed my key on to a kid and gave her a full explanation of what to use the clinic for. If the hospital is griefed, heal at the clinic.

But the intended use gets lost over generations. If there isn't someone standing by the clinic shouting it's purpose to the entire town their whole life, it doesn't do them much good. This is where communication in game is important and overlooked unfortunately. Also explore your towns people. If you only ever lived by the berry farms there, then you wouldn't have seen the hospital and thought the clinic was all you had.

I rarely find a perfect spot and usually end up with the second one, with the wild food a bit too far away. I've had reasonable success making sure I take a break while setting things up to do a quick food run here and there, then sending my first kid in the direction of food to bring it back. Rushing omelettes makes this a pretty dang good strategy. Just talk to your kids when they're tiny, before they grow hair and run off. Let them know where the food is, or better yet, show them and grab a quick snack while you're out. If they have a basket with a berry in it and you throw them in the direction of the food, most of them will make it back at least once.

After your first kid starves, you should have omelettes and a farm getting started, so nothing to worry about.

This is a sad story, and I'm glad you had a good time with your mom, but keep in mind that cursed griefers can and will act innocent when they are born with black speech, then going on a killing rampage once they have everyone's trust. If you give a cursed child a chance, at the very least keep weapons secured, and keep an eye on them.

But it's really just better to stab them and not risk it. I'm with Betsy on this one.

Yeah, I've been having a lot of good runs without kids lately. It's almost like having no kids makes it easier to set things up or something.

But seriously, I need to have more kids in this game. It's been a real problem for me lately.

I got it to work yesterday; I was just a bit behind on my Windows updates. But thanks for all the suggestions!

So it is!

Well would you look at that, it seems you were my first kill all along.

Did you have a taco party first? And did you have an old uncle who kept complaining about his bits dangling out of his coat, but he still refused to take my pants?

Best I've managed personally is 13 gens. I too would love to know how some of the more consistent Eve's manage it.

The technique that usually gets me at least a few generations goes like this:

Fire-making tools, kiln, fire three or four bowls and plates each, along with the nozzle for future smithing use so they don't have to waste kindling later. Cover the kiln for charcoal if it doesn't go out before I'm done. Fry up some eggs on the coals of the fire I used to make the pottery.

Usually at this point I have a kid who sees me making eggs and they'll focus on gathering eggs. Good, more food while the berries are growing.

Set up three by three berry farm, and maybe another if I have time. If any of my kids seem like they're taking over and handling the farm, get the rabbits started. I have yet to birth a child who actually comes back when I send them off to hunt rabbits, so at this point I usually just take over this job. I almost always have a kid who wants to take over smithing and gets all up in my way if I try to do it as an Eve anyway, so I leave that to them.

Get the pouch for the bellows put together, and focus on making backpacks for the rest of my life. You'd be surprised at how much backpacks and baskets improve the chances of your future gens, and few people ever make them.

I might bring back seeds for new crops too while I'm out hunting. Corn is great for the kiddos.

Would be interesting if it is, but just because there's only one bite on your body doesn't mean you don't have both working against you. I had a baby get stabbed a while ago and when I picked her up all her wounds healed. She still died.

I'd like to see someone test this out though! You know, for science.

Yeah I'd be up for that! How long have you been gone? I assume you're looking for stuff like how all the farming works now and what natural resources do or don't regenerate these days?

I'm not a discord expert, but I put together a server if case anyone's interested. I might need some guidance on how to manage it though since I've really only ever used discord for D&D.

Also if someone could point me in the direction of the official discord, that would be great

Thank you JK for stepping up and offering to twin mentor people as well. I'm seeing you in other forum threads making the offer and that's great!

In my experience it's usually the second one.