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Yes, absolutely! And I understand the impossibility of imposing a fixed ideal design on villages, when the appeal of communal building is the variety that comes from working together with multiple people over multiple lives to build and expand.

And also agreed to this, I'm a building game fanatic and I love looking at town layouts (hence the sweaty diagrams), and spending too much time thinking about it. And my absolute favourite towns have a unique feature like gardens, side buildings, interesting graveyards.

I guess my post addition will be a bunch of "best practices" for maximising efficiency. I'm always thinking about user experience when I build, some people think in terms of maths/maximising space, but the most unique thing about OHOL is that I can't think of another multiplayer game where so many people use the structures you build.

1. BERRY CARROT
The most tedious task in the farm is the berry carrot bowl, requiring a ridiculous number of clicks for a single object, and needed for sheep, rabbits, pies and early game compost. Additionally, carrots always spread to take up space around them, with floor stacks of carrots being superior to slot boxes because you can directly click the berry bowl on the carrot pile. (Slot boxes are neater though, so I am slightly torn between the two.) Additionally, bowls of carrot seeds all over the ground are messy. A lot of people don't even use buckets or carts (or they may not be available) and simply make a single bowl then run to the sheep pen/rabbit area and run back, which means making this more efficient would benefit a lot of players.

• Berry/carrots should always be adjacent, ideally with carrot between the berry. Most people already know this and it is the most common meta positioning for farms.

2. WHEAT CABBAGE
This is the second most tedious farm task and the position of the wheat/cabbage/sheep pens as well as the position of the compost affects the overall efficiency of the farm. It's also common to find wheat and cabbage on the two furthest edges of the farm, meaning you have to run the longest distance to make compost, and straw and cabbage require a cart to transport, while wheat needs a bucket.

• Wheat and cabbage should be planted adjacent. Both can be planted in larger sizes than 3x3. Ideally wheat should be near the kitchen and the compost space should be nearby. Leaving a space for compost in the centre of the farm increases efficiency of farming for all crops.

In my initial farm layout I also tried to group crops by other categories, including crops that stack on the ground (wheat, cabbage and squash/pumpkin); crops that use skewers (cucumber and tomato); crops that need a flint chip (corn, pepper, cucumber, wheat, cabbage, squash). I agree that that's an unreasonable amount of micromanaging and too sweaty to realistically implement in game.

Grapes I totally forgot! But it always comes later in the game so it's on the outskirts of the farm and isn't included in early game farm layout planning, and it doesn't have a symbiotic relationship with any other crops.

Game already has interaction, it gets old fast. Game does not have longevity or enough development from eve to end game.

Also I left a year ago, still not interested in coming back.

Suggestion: new tech that allows for SPRINKLERS. but they must be linked to a diesel well. Honestly early game tasks can be tedious and (reality aside) I want a game progression that is satisfying in that it allows me to do more for less work.

Agreed, early game is fun. The challenge of eve runs, of planning and building the town, of getting the Newcomen pump going. The fact that having multiple people working towards the same goal makes things go faster. There's an urgency in early game - need to get the sheep pen before we run out of nearby soil, etc. Late game feels meaningless - I run around and stare at the piles of food and don't really feel like doing anything.

Some issues I have with this scenario Jason wants

- you mentioned caring about your 3 children - you only have 3. I have had hundreds of kids across my many ohol lives - of course I stop caring about them, because who can keep track of hundreds of kids? Who can remember the difference between kid 301 and kid 302?
- meta is kids stand on a fire. ironically this decreases the bond between mother and child. previously you had to carry your child around with you as you continue your job, child sees what mother is doing, etc. I would tell them what im doing, say help mum with x when you grow up. now you drop your kid on the fire and run off. most of the time mothers on the fire don't even interact with the kids.
- after the kid runs off at 3 to start their life you rarely see them again. you might not recognise them in the crowd of people, unless you specifically go looking for them. and why would you look for them, when you never had any conversation after you named them and dropped them on a fire?
- the base zoom is a problem. with the base game zoom it's like living in a bubble. with the zoom mod you see and hear much more of life in the village.

my favourite part of the game is the multiplayer interaction. lives spent alone but getting a lot done are satisfying, but ultimately less memorable than the ones in which I had a fun conversation. I rarely pick a single job and do it, I also try to see what needs to be done urgently and do it. so it's possible two people saw the same need and started work on the same task. it happens. in that case I like to work together to get things done faster. It's also satisfying to be working together towards a common goal, and having some patience even if the other person is slower than you, or you accidentally get in each others way.

it happens at 5pm for me so I see this being asked in discord constantly.

Thanks! I do mention it, but maybe I'll redo some of the pictures to show the seed bowls.

I stabbed the boy who stole the forge stones. He got my mother to help him, and she chased me for ages to avenge him. Tried to stab me, then picked up a bow to shoot me. She dropped the bow to feed a child and I took all the arrows, then eventually shot her too. All I did for those first few years was fight over the flat stones and play fatal tag.

Village is doing ok, population boom when I died.

??? No? I mean literally how the servers were down this time and from the big server update. And he popped into discord to talk to people a few times too. And the update happened but no actual update report.