One Hour One Life Forums

I would starve my whole family to keep my cute doggo eating steak and mutton. "BUDDY YOU MUST SURVIVE"

I'm actually really loving the food update currently. It's not the easiest to survive early on, and later in big towns you still do need to have multiple people working on food + soil. But you can have a generation making stew which sets the next generation up to advance. Gives everyone more time to be able to learn and talk too. I think Jason found a good balance atm.

Ah you were the one I saw smithing so much
I was Abraham West:
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … &id=316204

We had no sheep left when I was born. I ended up bringing a lamb back to restart the sheep farm, which got composting back on track.
We ended up running out of axes, hoes, and needed shears. Someone made a couple axes with the huge amount of steel we had which allowed us to get more tinder to make pies to get out of a starvation period. I also brought back a cart full of soil after bringing back the sheep to get berry production back, which was limited. Someone else helped to really get it going though. We also made a LOT more bowls and plates (nearly 15 total). I used the steel you made to make more hoes (all ours broke) and shears as well, allowing the town to get back on track and more advanced. Made some carts and buckets too, allowing us to get more wells online and a deep well too. I died soon after restarting a small milkweed farm. The town was on a downturn but during my generation we were slowly getting back on track. Hopefully someone can finish the stew I was working on at the time though to really get you guys set.

Moving uses energy, so you have to eat more. Usually it's fine to move as a baby is if your mom places you on a tile that's cold, and the tile next to it has a heat index more towards the center, but more experienced players tend to know which tile in their town is best for heat when they do place you.

Nope, lineage just ended from a troll that used the sheep pen knife to kill off all the kids. Titan Stark killed basically all my kids and so everyone gave up.
When I spawned there was no iron. Made some tools we needed, but had to find more iron. When we finally had some iron, someone stole the file to make the saw so we could get carts (I made adze, and was going to make froe and saw so we could start pumping out carts and buckets)

I seriously hate trolls.

Yeah...
I just had a horrible life where my mom was hunting rabbits when I was born. I followed her all the way back to camp like a good little kid, looked around, found we had huge farms but no tools and under 5 bowls for all the farms. So I went to work to try to smith. I made about 10 more bowls, some plates, and my uncle ended up being able to make quite a few stews thanks to it. I had to go get iron myself, get tinder myself, reorganize the whole cluttered camp that had a million seeds everywhere.
Then there was my brother, Issac. He literally stood there half his life moving bowls around. I'd move them away from the smithing area so I had room to make some iron. He'd move them back and then attempt to put iron ore into a bowl. Or into a firing kiln (not a forge). Or a wet clay bowl in his bare hands when it is firing and wonder why nothing is happening. (I told him to watch me and instead he would move into the way) He ate half our food and spend his entire life literally moving things I moved out of the way back into the way. I'd make a hatchet, go grab some stuff to make tinder with, come back, hatchet gone. My brother took it and was trying to use it on a tree.

Like I *think* he was new, but the way he'd purposely troll seemed more destructive than a new player. I told him to use the wiki and please move out of the way so I could make the tools for everything, but instead he'd stand there in the way of the forge and move things I needed out of the way, and things I moved out of the way back in the way. For example, I went to go grab some tinder stuff a second time for more charcoal, come back to my round stone being gone. Went to get another one, he randomly started a fire with my tinder and it burnt out in the time it took for me to finally find one and get back.... (our area had like 10 sharp stones littered around but no round ones lol). I'd be smithing and he'd pick up the steel ingot randomly I went to grab with his hands. He moved the flat rock when I was trying to place the steel down onto it then stood in the way. Basically I could only make at max 2 things per firing because of him being in the way all the time.
Because of him I only managed to make half the tools in my lifetime as I had to spend most of my time trying to repair the situation he'd ruin, or work around him being in my face doing nothing productive but eating all our food.
Another example: my one uncle was trying to make a backpack. I helped to move all the furs together to make it, and went to get the 2 cut furs. I come back and my brother turned it into a rabbit fur coat instead in that time. We were all like "wtf?" and my uncle got pissed off and just peaced out and let himself die to a snake.

And idk how to even fix that because I actually tried to help him by telling him to watch me, read the wiki, etc. And asked him to please stop what he was doing as it wasn't helping and only hurting the family. In the end my only sister starved because he ate all the berries when she was around 10 (even though we had both popcorn I made and stew my uncle made ready for him and next to him) which led to our line dying out. She went to eat the berry and he picked it, ate it himself, and she died in front of the bush.

I feel like stuff such as this isn't just new players but more trolls. I've seen some bad youtubers do shit like this for "entertainment." Like "omg I'm naked? I need some pants!" And it's just a horrible experience dealing with such players. When I finally got pissed I told him to please just leave, he's only hurting us, and he went and killed himself on a snake. It was the greatest moment of my life, alas too late as he had already killed off our line by making our sister starve.

Ever since the most recent update I found that the "mono diet" isn't actually a thing. The thing is, berries give the least pips of all food sources currently, and so are great for kids and elders, which is in fact 1/3 of your life. It's also a good source to fill up if you're missing a few pips before going out on a long journey too, albeit you really should focus on pies as an adult. Pies are still king, and carrying one around with you is still best during your adult life.

Since the most recent update I've finally started seeing a lot more developed towns again. Yes, berries are a great food source, but the real reason behind a ton of berries is you need it for both compost and to feed sheep. Berries are extremely important in this matter, especially since now compost is required quickly since soil is needed for all other crops. While you can feed a whole town using berries, it sucks up your water (which in larger towns I find isn't as plentiful after 15+ generations), and also reduces your ability to advance and grow as compost isn't able to be made as frequently, and sheep aren't able to be fed as frequently.

Right now carrots are ONLY really used for sheep, compost, and pies, which is honestly what they should be used for considering a few updates ago I've met a lot of people complaining about eating carrots raw, that you should to save for pies. I've seen large towns begin to fail during my own generation due to people only focusing on berries and ending up using up all the well water. They travel farther for water and there ends up only being a couple more ponds even left that can be turned into wells.

With how the game is designed you can't simply look at it as a generation by generation type deal, but rather, the culmination of all generations together. Water is something that begins to actually dry up after a multitude of generations use it up, and then they are resorting on refill rates. This makes it so berries after so many generations can only be supported based on the amount of ponds within the area you can build wells on. Eventually, you can't support an endless berry field. You need to focus on advancing to better food sources like popcorn, pies, and hopefully other foods in the future. Berries being cheap is required to allow this to exist. They're a bad food source in the long run but good for the younger and older folks of your generation due to their low food amount.

Now, while popcorn is actually better because it has more "eats" and also provides a lower food amount each time so it's good for kids + elders, it takes so long for dirt to become tilled again that often times corn is just not there for your generation to eat. That's where this berry problems really stems from. Other food sources are better, but because it takes an entire generation for soil to be able to be tilled again, it denies you access to it for most people. Like one town I was born into had literally over 50 rows of dirt, all being wormed for carrots and corn. I only saw it finally being able to be farmed later in my lifetime, and that's basically going to be used in the generation after me, not for me. That's not how a food should work.