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Yeah, berries will not regrow until the bush is picked clean and then watered, so the best thing if you pick any is to pick them all and then water so they grow back as soon as possible. However, if you can't or won't water it after you pick the last one, then it's best to leave one on because an empty bush that's not watered will eventually die, making it a waste of the soil it was planted in and requiring steel tools to remove.

If it's a quick fix, I'd like to suggest making it so that you can't keep eating if your hunger meter is full, to prevent griefing by eating all the food. I've suggested a more complicated system on the suggestions reddit, but if this is a simple edit I think it'd be worth it to put in place until you have the time to implement a more nuanced system if that's what you'd prefer.

I think it's odd that carrot-rabbit pies are completely discounted because "who wants to catch rabbits" when, if you are making clothes as suggested, you will already have rabbits to use and they would add calories that take no water or soil to make.

Edit: Okay, the argument was who wants to catch 30 rabbits an hour, but I think part of the problem with posts like these is that they are assuming people are being completely efficient. When I bake pies in-game I'm usually having to grow the wheat and make compost myself, sometimes stop to fire more plates, run off to fetch water to make dough, stop to make a fire, raise a kid, or help a new player, etc. I'm lucky if I get six pies out before I die, and that's assuming I start in a settlement that already has a carrot farm, fire-making tools, oven, kiln, etc.

I don't know if that makes it more or less efficient to make pies, but if there are already people doing the carrot farming, then why shouldn't I aim for the thing that is more efficient in regards to space or portability instead? It's more fun if you're not just doing the same thing every game anyway.

I use O all the time for "Oh" as a reaction. If mom is old I'll just jump down and run to food or another mother and ask for food again.

Also, just remembered K - "Okay"

The last game I just left was refusing any new females because they were putting a strain on the population when they came of age and started having babies all over the place. Males were allowed. The one daughter rule is very common for this exact reason. It's included as one of the major Tenets, in fact.

There was originally a big calorie expense for having a baby, but it was removed. Jason has said that he plans to add it back slowly over time, though.

Abandoning kids does not help with continuing the generations, so I don't understand why males are bad if the solution to not wanting to raise children is to just not do it. If it's so important you need to do it. If it's not important and you don't have to do it, then what's the complaint?

How are you alone as a male? You can only exist as a male if you are born to another player. Help your mom and siblings, having babies is not the only way to help ensure the survival of the next generation.

Farming is not the only thing to do other than having babies. There is baking, carpentry, smithing, pottery, trapping, hunting, tailoring, composting, well-making, animal husbandry, knitting, wool dying, scavenging/gathering, and more to come as the game continues to be updated weekly.

In a recent game as a male I was able to get a lot done, making a good back-up of compost, building a cistern (and learning how to do it for the first time), and teaching a couple of others (both of which happened to be male as well) how to continue my work when I was gone, and I certainly didn't feel like I was alone or worse for the village at all. Almost every time I've had a chance to learn something I didn't know before it was because I was male and had more time and energy to spend on things that weren't immediate necessities.

Finally, you will only be this character for an hour, max, and you will have experiences as both genders as you play. Sometimes you will have to deal with having children, sometimes you won't. If you only prefer one kind of play, that's fine, but plenty of people have different preferences. Females have children whether they want them or not, males don't have them whether they want them or not. That is the balance.

There was another update today, he made food give more calories, compost give more soil, domestic carrot seeds can be used twice, and carrot farms degrade more slowly. Please voice your concerns, but there's no need to panic! Try again with these new changes and see if that helps, or if you think further tweaking is still necessary.

You do need to replenish soil by composting. Carrots only need it when seeding, but it still makes you put in extra work into the soil to sustain the farm. Crop rotation would be interesting, but I think composting is filling that niche atm.

You can breed live stock.

you actually can select the individual items in a basket, with the exception of things like Basket of Soil and Basket of Coal, which are completely new items. It's tricky though, since the selectable area is so small since each item is being overlapped by the basket and other items put in after, so if you put in a smaller item and then a larger item after, the larger item can completely cover the smaller one so you can't get to it at all.

Edit: Also, buildings do make you warmer. Or so I've been told, haven't been many places with them myself.

Males have an easier time doing different work. Raising children is work, and not all females need to be involved in it. It is a bit more advantageous to do work closer to the village while you're of child-bearing age, so you can dump your kid at the fire for someone else to take care of, but it's still possible to go out and just have a kid follow you back while you carry whatever you went out for. I do it all the time, and it's actually necessary to do as an Eve. Similarly, males can raise children, and I have raised orphans as a male before, it's just not as resource efficient, and harder to do outside of settlements.

- an SJW who discovered the game

This is definitely something I've seen people discussing before, and there are some good suggestions here. Here are some of my thoughts:

Home markers really aren't too important, you can get by without one if you have to, so not really worth the space imo.

Geese should not be hunted for food as they are an unrenewable resource, and should only be used for smithing where they're necessary.

Wearing a full suit of clothes means that when you die, someone will find them on you, and they can just put them on, so no need to worry about them taking space.

Only really need one snare and one water pouch when starting out, space would be better spent on something different.

Here's an example of a good kit that can fit on one person:
- Full set of clothes
- Backpack with Fire Dill Bow, Stone Hatchet, Water Pouch/Bowl, Snare
- Basket with Carrot Seed, Sharp Stone, Pie/Carrot

This has everything you need to start a farm, make a fire, and catch rabbits for tailoring.

If you only have a backpack, I'd recommend keeping the backpack contents the same as these are all constructed objects made from multiple parts, while the rest are much easier to find or make from nothing. You do have your hands free though, and I'd recommend carrying a sharp stone so you can make a basket when you get the chance.

If only a basket, I'd recommend Fire Drill Bow, Hatchet and Pouch/Bowl. If you already have clothes and something to water with, a snare is not as immediate of a concern.

Of course those set-ups both require finding food in the wild, so if that's a concern use the basket suggestion in the backpack along with some food. For the basket, get rid of the Hatchet as it's slightly easier to make than the Bow Drill.

These kits are also useful if your settlement is having a population problem and you want to gear up a kid to send out on their own. This helps contribute to there being more small camps to run across for Eves, and also helps continue the generational line if the main one collapses but some of the offshoots survive.

I think that theoretically adding disabilities would add interesting gameplay, as you would need to adapt your strategy for either playing or caring for these characters. I am worried that a lot of people will not want to deal with it though, especially at this phase of the game, and that players will just automatically either let these babies starve if it's a visible disability, or if you're born with one just run off and starve so you get reborn, as we already frequently see people letting babies starve based on sex, either males because they can't continue the generational line, or females because they're afraid of a population explosion that will wipe out the food supply.

From just a gameplay perspective, I'd say that's fine as people can choose if they want to participate in that particular gameplay element, but then there's a part of me that cringes thinking of a game where a popular strategy is to just kill disabled people, as that's a serious real-life issue, and disabled people actually do get murdered because their parents or caretakers don't want to or can't handle caring for them. Of course, making a simulator where disabled people simply don't exist isn't really great either. There is evidence that even ancient societies cared for those who couldn't contribute as much as others, so maybe it should be up to us as players to encourage the caring for those who need it. Maybe the current strategies of letting babies die is helpful immediately, on the small scale, but it creates patterns that will harm us in the long run, and we should focus on survival for all, and if we can't all survive together then we go down together.

The intersex idea I think would make things interesting and could also throw a wrench in the gender selection some players do. If it's possible that not all who appear female can have babies, having only one and killing the rest would be a more dangerous strategy. Likewise, even if you have children who all appear male, if it's possible that one could have babies your generational line may still be able to continue. Again, killing off all your sons with the hopes of eventually getting a daughter (who may not even be able to have kids) would be a less viable strategy because you could be inadvertently killing the child who could continue your legacy. This would most likely be relatively easy to implement as well, as it could just be a difference of appearance, and the mechanics could otherwise remain the same without having to add extra code. And of course, intersex people do exist in real life, and that's a pretty strong argument in and of itself.

Men can already carry more because they don't have to carry babies.

There is literally only one thing that females can do in game that males can't, and that thing can be as much a burden as a benefit. The idea that males are useless is ridiculous, unless you think that the only useful thing to do in game is sit around and pop out babies and nothing else. The game shouldn't be made unbalanced because some people have gotten this weird idea in their heads.