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Eve Fucile located a new camp on the desert/green edge. We were quite good. Many noobs, but also a lot of learning. One of my aunts located second settlement 2 bioms north. Everything was going great. Farm of berries, milkweed, we were making steel tools, no griefers, many sheeps.

But, at some moment we realised, there are no females in the camp. So, as I knowed where is second settlement, was given a backpack with 2 pies and went north for female. When I achieved desitnation, there was living a single Fucile older man, also no more females.

2 flourishing settlements and no hope, no legacy. So sad. I decided to find the edge of the world, but died of starvation during journey (phone distracted me).

Lessons learned
1. We need sex division of labour. Female do stationary job at camps (smithing, cooking, farming). Kids to stay by them, especially by the farm. Males can run around scavenging for resources and fighting bears.
2. We need horns, or other far distance communication. I will made a new suggestion for distant communication and different types of markings (marking, home, bell, horn).

There are currently multiple threads about very same issue, eating.
The mono diet
Dying of starvation a few steps away from food
Having some trouble with farmed food design
So many bad players
While there are many solutions to solve many problems, humanity IRL developed the greates one: cooking

Problems:
1. Kids bored at camp, exploring and dying from starvation. Same for elders.
2. People trying to min/max and not waste food, eat only near starvation. It keeps young/elders off better food sources and makes adults prone to starvation of lag.
3. People focusing on beries as early meta.

Solutions:
1. Greatly decrease calories of all raw food and simple meals. Kids and elders would not worry about eating while farming, while it is still calories wasting, as cooked meals exceeds base ingredients calories input. But for adults, it will create a rush for cooking, as leaving camp with so timid berry in the hand would seem as leaving with almost nothing in hand. What is more, cooking is a big activity performed at camp, co kids and elders would be motivated to stay cooking. They would be safer and would feel more useful for colony.
2. The more sophisticated cooking recipe, the bigger calories intake, exceeding the base sum of all ingredients. Just like pies currently, but we need more recipes. It will make people farm different crops just for recipes, the most complicated, the more food sources they need.
3. The greatest meals instead of fullfil hunger gauge at once should have less hunger fill per bite, but more bites (just like corn). This way, people would not worry about eating while hunger bar is in the middle. Pies (with 8 bites instead of 4, like pizza) would be useful for teenagers and almost elders without wasting food, while adults will be eating while hunger is in the middle, without waiting for starvation phase to min/max it.
4. More cooking stations:

# single vegetable soup. No meat in such small clay pot. Recipe is just an example, may be tweaked
carrot + simmering water = hot carrot soup on coals # simple food, 1 hunger bars per spoon
carrot soup soup + onion = hot carrot and onion soup on coals # 2 bars. Different variants for different order
hot carrot and onion soup + burdock = hot vegetable soup on coals# 3 bars. 

# such a bowl is too hot to carry in hands
flint chip + yew branch = flint chip (-1) + spoon stockpile # IRL yew is used for it. Allow to stockpile them in the beginning, like 3 at once, because spoon blocking entire tile seems odd :)
spoon + hot vegetable soup on coals = spoon with hot vegetable soup + hot vegetable soup on coals (-1)
hot vegetable soup on coals (5 minutes) = cold vegetable soup on ash # 1 calories per spoon
cold vegetable soup on ash + bare hands = carried cold soup bowl # you can carry it around and drink directly from it

Such a soup should fill a grown man with all gulps, while still not wasting food by kids and elders. So maybe 6 spoons/gulps per hot soup? Cold soup would be not so fulfilling, so allow for 2 gulps (you can dring more cold soup per once than hot) for 2 bars (slightly worse than 1 ingredient soup).

# need to poach meat stew?
3 long shafts + water pouch = 3 long shafts and water pouch # maybe 3 water pouches?
3 long shafts and water pouch + rope = skin pot tripod kit
3 long pod tripod kit + pit stakes = skin pod tripod with stakes # just take stakes away

skin pot tripod + water = skin pot tripod with water

# skin pot cannot be put above fire
wooden tongs + stone = stone in wooden tongs
stone in wooden tongs + fire = hot stone in wooden tongs
hot stone in wooden tongs + skin pot tripod with water = wooden tongs + skin pot tripod with simmering water

# put here stew recipe. Should be able to fill 3 bowls with spoon

bowl + spoon = bowl with spoon
bowl with spoon + stew in skin tripod = bowl with soup # much cooler than simmering water, possible to carry away. Much more filling than vegetable soup

How to make it less tedious? Put pot above fire in the wood hanger (2 long shafts + rope) or on the stove. But for this you need bigger pot than bowl and which is not made of skin. Think about potter's wheel and cast iron pot. Such a cast iron can be useful also for fire striker I suggested already in Wider tools variety on low technology level

What about rotating fire pit grills? With meat and many vegetables, maybe some sauce on the plate and fork.

Such a cooking is sophisticated and fun (at least I suppose). Elders and kids would have purpose making gardens (a little of everything) instead of monocultural farming. For gardening it makes sense to carry soil, for farming not. Therefore my suggestion about tilling on bare ground can be abandoned At least, until we create plough Also, staying at camp would make now much more sense.

I know it is a longterm crafting reference, but for sure so enjoyable for players. And possible fun for Jason, as he seems to enjoy creating new items and creative crafting recipes

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