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I might have a solution for the griefer problem:

What if there was a way to "curse" people, like standing on someones grave and type "I curse you" or something similar. The cursing would function like flagging or reporting, and the player who had been cursed would be punished, like banned from the server for some time for example. To prevent misuse from griefers and trolls, there could be some simple rules for cursing:
1. A player must be old enough to type "I curse you" as a complete sentence.
2. Multiple curses from different players are needed to enable the punishment. I'd suggest three or more. They could be from different play-sessions though, like there would be an invisible counter in each profile that would count curses in the background. The counter could be reset after for examlple 24 or 48 hours so that accidents may still happen without serious reprecussions.
3. The grave has to be fresh to curse it, old graves don't work.

Of course for that to work it would be necessary to tie the (fresh) graves to the player who died. I don't know, if this is possible, but it would be nice also for other reasons, like checking who died recently. (I often wander off to do something and when I come back and find a new grave, I wonder if it is my child who starved.)

This system would still not be easy to pull off and therefore be engaging gameplaywise:
- The community would need to kill the griefer first.
- The curser would need at least the support of two other players to set the curse, that way griefers would not be able to misuse the system.
- Only adults can speak curses, that way griefing babies would not be able to run around and curse everyone; they would have to contribute to society until adulthood first.
- Alternatively: A one-use-cursing-item could be required (like: charcoal + short shaft = cusing marker), that could only be made by a more advanced society (but please not with limited recources) so that misuse would require lots of grinding.

When the curse hits, the cursed player would see a message instead of the log-in-screen, like:

You have been cursed.
(Three or more people have voted to ban you from being reborn.)
Please wait <time> until you can play again.

What do you think of my idea?

Yes, decaying basket spit out items, but only, if there is room around it, as far as I noticed. So yeah, don't store things in baskets, they might dissapear on you.
I like the suggestion with the domestic berries. You really need someone, who maintains the berry farm once in his life. Like harvest a bunch of berry bowls, harvest the rest in baskets, so that your people can eat them, and water them all. Repeat next generation.

I agree, it would be much more efficient if children stayed with their mom until she can't breastfeed them anymore. That way they could learn what their mom is doing, learn the location of the resources and tools and then begin their adult life more efficient. Right now it's like this: Your mother dumps you as soon as you grow hair, then you run off and look for the farm, maybe die in process, if you survive you eat much more then you need, you can't help as good, because you run slower, can't push any carts and so on. Many players die before the age of 12 because childhood is very hard when you compete with adults for food. Moms should be more caring for their children and help them at the start. And children need to be more aware of their abilities and possibilities of survival.