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Looking at the recipe it looks like digging just spooks the rabbit, it flees and makes another hole a little way off.

Either that or make the efficacy of a curse scale according to genetic fitness. So noobs cursing will count less than it does now but skilled players cursing will do more. That way you're putting more weight behind people that know the game and have the judgement to decide whether it's justified. Instead of the current system where a skilled player might receive several punishing curses after killing a griefer, and their one curse doesn't do much.

Was it? I tried to put steel pipes in a basket in the last hour and they didn't fit. Maybe I just barely missed the window.

I really care for this. I would feel like we've missed something without this post.

You may think it's conservative but Jason tends towards radical. A system like this could easily flag players that don't deserve it as griefers. The same way that towns often misunderstand. You kill two griefers in your life and suddenly you're flagged as a griefer too. The sandbox nature of this game really makes it impossible to automate the process. Yesterday someone made every fencepost into a gate to let all the sheep out. I got killed by a naked idiot for chasing them off. You'd see this constantly with a karma system, but automated and unavoidable. Undoing a griefer's work would count as griefing.

Pine doors being new or not isn't the point. Their widespread usage is new. Before they were made cheaper they were effectively never used. Since they were never used, this problem went unreported. Now that they're then standard, they need to be lockable.

I mean, what magical properties do pine doors have that makes it IMPOSSIBLE to install a lock? It's unrealistic, silly and clearly not working as intended.

You can't install springs onto pine doors either, are you going to tell me that was also intended? No, there's no reason not to let them spring open and shut other than it being an obvious oversight.

Cheaters deserve to suffer.

DISS-GUST-TANG!

This is also why bags are by far the most desirable clothing item.

When you have a bad mom who doesn't clothe you this often becomes an issue. You can't even reliably make your own clothing without a backpack because someone will always come along to steal the wool from sheep you fed and make their own clothes, or a bowl of pads or something. Same with hunting rabbits. You can take a basket to try and make it work but then someone comes along and steals your emergency food, steals your needle and thread, etc.

In towns like this I kill thieves on principle. I'm poor and trying to make something for myself. When you steal that I have nothing to lose. Yes it's usually pointless and I'll get revenge killed anyway. I don't care. Get me out of that awful place so I can find a new, better town.

I recommend building an eve-style camp for new players. Embrace the fact that you'll die a lot and use every death as a learn experience. Necessity is the mother of invention here.

Oh, now I'm having kids. How do I feed them? We need to plant. How do we do that? Great, now you're learning farming. Getting soil, tilling, watering. Firing clay bowls and plates. Baking. Expanding the farm, getting wheat and carrots. Building a well. Making fire. Crafting a bow and arrow, making sheep pen, domestication. Basic smithing. Hunting rabbits for a bellows. Basic fur clothing. Hunting and skinning animals. It teaches all the basic skills in a very immediate way.

Make it a goal to learn one new crafting recipe each life. Focus on one thing you need and make it. This applies even after you graduate from primitive tech. For example, where does soil come from after you exhaust the ambient spawns? Hey look, you're making compost. That's sustainable soil!

Same goes for food recipes, smithing, clothing etc. Eventually you'll find you can make most things. Then you can move on to luxury tech and more difficult recipes. Upgrade from rabbit furs to dyed wool clothing.

Players are usually much better at a game than the devs are. It's a different skill set. The dev builds the world but doesn't inhabit it. I wonder how many engines jason has built in-game. At the same time, he's written thousands of lines of code.

Devs focus on abstraction while players are practical and creative. That's where the potential to grief comes from. Waystones blocking movement is intuitive, it's a huge block. Them being difficult to remove makes sense, they're important markers. He probably thought about how they could be used, but not about how they could be abused. That comes later after players get a chance to try the new tools.