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EDIT: this is old. The new changes give compost 3 soil and now 1 carrot seed plot can seed 10 plots. This changes the conclusion and makes farming with a larger population much more viable.

I just spent a life on a server building a sustainable farm from scratch using 2 pieces of soil.

What I found was that your population is dependent on the amount of berry bushes you have.

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My process:

everytime I get berries I get a seed and make compost

That compost is then used to make a new berry bush and refresh carrots seeds or make a new carrot plot

then those new berries restarts the cycle.

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Now what this process does is stagnant your soil meaning at most you are making 3 plots of edible carrots on your first life (only enough for 1 person).

The only way you get more soil is when the berry bushes replenish their berries (meaning now there is 2 composting soil at once) which requires waiting an epoch(60 years).

what this means is in perfect conditions without major hiccups your village population can grow by as many berry bushes replenish once per epoch.

1 turns to 2 turns to 4 turns to 8 turns to 16 as long as each composting soil makes a new berry bush.

The next problem is reeds which are required to make compost which replenish once per epoch. So your farms size is will be based upon how many reeds are around your farm.

which makes 16 or even 8 people supporting farms non-viable (so 4 or 5 population will probably be the max if not then 3).

Also you can always start with a higher population by laying down more soil and making more berry bushes.
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And remember this is all based around the farm not having any major hiccups.
if you start a new farm and a new player walks up to your farm and decides to eat and live with you. You are dead.
If a player picks too much of your berry bushes you can't make compost and then your population drops.
If a player leaves a carrot in soil too long for it to become a seed you lose that soil and your population drops.
If a player eats your seeding carrots you cant plant enough carrots for next time and your population drops.
If too many reeds are used up you stagnant and lose compost and your population drops.
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Its not impossible to make a sustainable village so good luck.
And remember soil is dead.

Sometimes people are invisible to some other people.
They can play the game and pick up objects.
Kids i think can be fixed by picking them up.
But the player sprite and the players text don't show up.

I made a map of the roads and current known areas that have coordinates on server3.

if you are on server3 feel free to use it sometime especially if you find a road.

here's a google doc showing some of the major structures at locations (use them to find out where you are):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KA3 … sp=sharing

if you dont know how to join server 3:

you can join the server by changing 2 files in the settings folder:

useCustomServer - change the 0 to a 1

customServerAddress - change localhost to server#.onehouronelife.com
# = the mainserver you want (with this map its 3 so server3.onehouronelife.com)

if you want to play normally again just change the 1 back to a 0

I wanted to come up with an ideal set up for a village. This is what i thought of:

jobs:

Tool maker/smith - makes requested tools and develops smithing tech

clothier/hunter/animal caretaker - makes clothes and tools that require fur or animal hides. when not doing that they are out hunting rabbits or wolves
or they are working with domesticated animals.

farmer - makes carrots and milkweed also looks over crops making sure no one eats from the farm

cook/firekeeper - maintains fire near village center for toolmaker and mothers. also cooks meat the hunter gathers and makes pies.

helper/gatherer - asks the major jobs if they need any help or materials and gets them what they need ( not everything is going to be at arms length)

mothers - keep baby around fire near village center so you can go around and still do your jobs

this set up relies on around 6 people (1 for each major job with 2 helpers) to manage properly
but can be cut down to 3 people
with 1 being a farmer, 1 being a tool maker/firekeeper and 1 being a helper
with newer people taking over the jobs that have not been filled

the biggest problem is setting up and maintaining order in the village but that's always been a problem
maybe we need a village elder.