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That would be very cruel thing to do.

In fact, I was thinking that if I got out, I would go to the north and free someone else.

That would give her very much more additional time out from the prison and she would be able to go north also and free someone else who would have even more additional free time. I don't know what would they do with that time, but anyways.

I think the problem in the current crafting system is that you always have only 1 option to do something when in real life you have multiple. For example, irl you can put the wine into the glass bottle, but glass bottles as an invention is quite new. The wine was not just some sort of "special feast drink", it was being consumed basically daily almost everywhere, in the days when the glass was rare. As far I've understood, the wine was not that kind of wine we nowadays have and call wine. The "good wine" was basically almost like grape juice, not very dense of alcohol. Then they had fermented "old wine", that was probably cheaper cause its more common and typically more for the drunkards. For example in Rome, the soldiers had their daily dose of wine from their government, which was typically cheap watered-down wine. Another old type of alcoholic drink was rum. Rum was being used in ships, cause it lasts for very long without going bad in wooden barrels. It could also be watered down.

Typically wine was being put into a wineskin and taken from barrels. Or something like that. Wine is one of the oldest known inventions. Together with for example cheese. Both are things that you don't need to invent very much. They just "happen" if you accidentally do certain things. (for example cheese will happen if you slaughter a calf and see what's in its stomach. (rennet)
You should be able to use normal wires and strings and if you for some reason want to be very special, you should also be able to use copper or, for the sake of memes, gold wires, I guess. There is nothing in wine that forces you to use copper in the making of process.

Also, I've also made several campfires from naturally dried dead wood from the forest, that I found just lying on the ground and no stone hatched or even ax was anywhere near. Only knife. (you can do it even without a knife) So I collected the wood, made kindling from the wood and set it on fire. Of course with modern fire-making tools, but there is nothing in the process that could prevent cave men also to be burning similar wood, made without a hatchet. You don't even need the fire drill.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9n9rqb-lvY& He is also in video firing a pot without using tongs. You can do the fire with just a stick and your hands. In real life, we can burn anything wooden. Furniture being one example. We can even burn wet wood if the fire already is going.

I know it adds little additional work for you if you have to draw new additional sprites to everything if different items are used. But I guess you could also do it in a way that you use the same sprites for the "key inventions" even when the item was crafted using 2 different tools. I don't see any reason to make the game overly complex to be played.

edit: And also, I like your game very much. I for sure think you've made something special in a good way. However, there always even in good things has some things that could be rounded.

Yes, just like in real life, if you don't have a teacher, it's much slower to learn a skill.

So it wouldn't remove your ability to learn the skill, but it would reduce your speed of learning. So by your own as a player who plays Eve, you would maybe learn only a few skills if you learn your whole life, but if you had a teacher, you would learn from the teacher many skills in a very short time.

So how would you play this?

- You will spawn as Eve and you right away start learning some basic survival skills, let's say, for example, 3 different skills.
- You will have a kid and you will teach the skills to your kid right away and the kid will learn, let's say 3 additional skills and teach them to you (Eve).
- Now you both would have 6 skills.
- Then Eve has another kid and the kid will be taught all of those 6 skills and then he would learn additional 3 skills and teach them to Eve and his sister.
- Now everybody would have 9 skills.
- Then Eve dies and her first daughter already has a kid who will learn from the other people.
- If some knowledge will be lost because of bad town management, people will have to learn it back in a hard way.

Where do I think this would lead naturally?

- In a town, they would need to have someone who knows what's happening and they would be leading and organizing it to a better future.
- Everybody would have some profession.

To make it work, there however would need to be some features to allow players to interact with the game. You should, for example, be able to see the skills other people have and what you have.

Why would you anyways move the spark somewhere? Shouldn't you have the tinder already there when you are using the stick to make it smoking from the friction between wood and stick? Then you move the smoking tinder to your campfire to make fire by blowing it.

You're maybe right that the learning queue would start being annoying if you have to repeat it every time you start the game. But I still think that some game mechanical principle would need to be invented to make the game understandable for new users.

Tbh, as a new player, I've never understood why people seem to think that to survive in this game is hard. I've found it relatively easy to stay alive to that 60 years whenever I want to. You always find something from nature or the village to eat. So you can just literally run naked around and collect food and live "happily".  Also, wild animals can be avoided easily by just standing on some items. So I learned I think in my second or 3th session, everything I need to know to survive 60 minutes in-game and be that naked barbarian in your village who is collecting stones or something similar dumb.

The problem for me is the "other things". In one world, progressing, and the "yum queue" or what you call it? So if I really wanna do something for the village or even get clothes, it's incredibly hard to figure out some very basic things. The steps needed to achieve basic things seem to make no sense. That's why I made yesterday that post where I am asking if the crafting recipes with at least icons and inventory could be improved. (Inventory, I believe would be easy to do, since inventory literally works in a similar way as if you had a 9 sprites personal land area "hidden" with you where you place your items. Part of it would be grayed if you didn't have a basket and backpack.)

People don't seem to love so much on teaching new players on stupid things such as "to make fire you need to find leaves" and then being forced to teach the tree type whose leaves only work with this etc. After reading these posts, I've become slightly worried if I could even ask them. (Why would you need the leaf to make fire anyways? Never needed that irl) But if that's what the game wants us to do, then I think the game should show it somehow. I think there are soon more new players than teachers when this game gets its next steam sale.

The teaching that has to be done to every player from parents could be done with some other cleverly designed game mechanic. The game could, for example, limit the abilities of kids so that the parent has to teach every kid. Not that the player doesn't understand how to play the game, but the game character doesn't. I think this wouldn't break the emotional chain in the game. In fact, it would make you love your mom probably even more if you every time had to learn everything from her and it was a game mechanic.

Let's say, if you need to learn to use an ax, the ax, for example, has to be given by some adult who knows how to use an ax. Maybe that adult would also need to show for the kid how to use it on something first. If no one like that is anywhere, you could learn it by yourself, but much more slowly. Or something similar. So in that way, you would know that you learned to use an ax or ride a horse because your mom or uncle taught it to you and your mom learned it from your grandma and she from someone else and Eve learned something very basic painfully slowly, etc.

That would make it interesting because in some future generations there wouldn't be any reason to teach your kids to for example to use that ax. So some "old" knowledge would become lost and then after the catastrophe, it would need to be reinvented, etc.