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Frankly I only suicide if I find the situation not to my liking, which takes a few seconds of observation at least. I'll always stick around if I seem to be the only female of the newest generation. I'm not that cruel

But giant cities with all the jobs taken and stacks of food piling up? Boring.

An eve setup in the middle of green with no water or desert anywhere near? Gonna die out anyways.

A freshly spawned eve with no campsite yet? Probs gonna abandon me to search.

I'll stick around in these situations sometimes if I'm a girl and they keep me, if only to have a "pseudo-eve" run and relocate to start my own camp, whether it be in a better location or simply an outpost of a larger city.

But my problem is with mothers relentlessly running after babies that go to suicide. It's a waste of time for both the child wanting to be reborn, and the mother, as well as her hunger pips. If a baby doesn't want to live, you can't force it to. You might be able to convince it if you can type fast enough, but running around picking it up doesn't help.

Stupidity as a child is another matter, and for once I agree with you. Its not worth my time feeding a baby who refuses to stay put on a warm tile and tries to follow me everywhere when I tell it to stay. Or babies that sit on a warm tile and spam F every two seconds when I know for a fact their hunger isn't dropping that fast.

I don't have a link as it was months ago, but my best Eve run was around gen 14 or something close to that. Haven't had anything near it since though v.v

I kinda wanna add onto this:

If a child is acting sketchy- jumping out of your arms frequently, dodging being grabbed, humping weapons before it can pick them up, refusing to speak, avoiding being named- it's best to just let it die. I may even go as far as to suggest telling your new babies to say something and abandoning those that don't. The consequences of keeping a sketchy child and it turning out to be a griefer are worse than letting an innocent die and respawn.

I made the mistake of deciding to let one of these cases starve too late. It managed to get to a warm patch and survived til it got its hands, then proceeded to run off with the nearest tools [bowdrill, hatchet] from our second-gen camp. Was a cursed kid. We were fucked anyways since she was my last child and the only female but still

Followup: If your baby is trying to suicide, for gods sake don't run after it and try repeatedly to "save" it. Most people suicide if they don't like the camp they're born into, whether it be a really big town or a badly placed early camp or just a straight up eve. You grabbing it as it tries to run off only wastes your food and time. You aren't going to change its mind, because chances are it's not going to stick around long enough for you to say anything. Let it go and move on.

Welcome to the game!

I'd be happy to mentor you via twinning if you'd like.

Can help you cover the basics of starting out as an eve and forging iron tools if you need it. There's also a bunch of resources and guides on the forums you can find for just about everything, though they might vary in quality and comprehension. I'd definitely advise OneTech for any crafting recipes you're unsure of.

Feel free to hit me up on Discord @Jk Howling#4468 if you'd like to follow up on the mentor idea.

Christ that eve had a shitload of children. 16 kids born to one person, and she didn't even live a full life. That has to be like, a record or something.

Actually I just finished my first tutoring session with someone who approached me on Discord after seeing this thread! We had a bit of a rough start, as they wanted to learn smithing and we kept getting born to or as eves. Snakes were really out to get us haha.

Eventually I recalled being able to enter the Tutorial as twins, so we did that and walked through the smithing process pretty smoothly. It was enjoyable, if not a struggle prior to remembering the extra tutorial zone. I'll definitely keep that in mind for next time.

Unfortunately it also made me realize that trying to work with someone and teach them something more advanced like compost would be difficult. Perhaps in the future we'll get more advanced tutorials to teach compost and tending the sheep. Would be very good for 1-on-1 sessions rather than having to go through multiple lives til you spawn in a village.

I usually like cooking, usually pies/stew and more often as a female as it'll keep me near enough camp to raise my children while I work. Either that or tending the sheep and getting compost going. As a male I can venture out a bit more without having to abandon either my work or my kids, and will opt for iron runs or rabbit hunting.

Frankly I'll suicide if I'm born to an eve most of the time, because usually they're set up in the middle of green or don't know what they're doing.

Sometimes I might stick around if I'm a girl and treat it as a pseudo-eve run, running off when I'm old enough to find a better location. Or I might stick around if it's a decent spot, but that rarely seems to happen with early gens. I also stick around if i'm the only female in town, if only out of pity.

I can understand the frustration, especially if you have a great spot picked out for camp but your children simply suicide upon seeing it isn't set up yet. But I also understand the frustration of being born to the same location time and time again, and really not wanting to be there.

You do have to think, why exactly are they suiciding? Most don't do it just for the heck of it. It's usually because they don't like the situation, whether because of the newness of their mother or the camp/lack thereof, or because they're trying to spawn back in a specific spot, or simply because their male [which is dumb imo but happens.] The best you can do is try to create an atmosphere that's worth sticking around for.

I think it was moreso a point of enabling people with these limitations to be able to play on an equal level with those that don't have them, rather than a gameplay point of view. Yes its a life simulator. It's also a game, and one that people with these hearing limitations aren't able to play as well, because they don't get the audio cues that we do.

Compare it to Minecraft, for example, which is another simulator game with important audio cues. They have a "subtitles" option that gives a visual cue for those who can't/don't want to have their audio on. Its simply a small pop-up in the bottom right corner that'll list audio cues as they happen, and a small arrow pointing the general direction it's coming from. Example:

Simple but effective, and doesn't hinder or enhance gameplay much at all. Unless you count being able to listen to background music while playing, which I'm sure a ton of people would like to do. I would if I didn't have to listen for rattlesnakes and other wild animals, murder screams, and occasionally a crying baby. Or certain griefing actions like chopping trees and shearing/killing all the sheep.

Surprising tbh, usually they die off because the farms are so massive that every bit of compost and soil ever made goes straight to them instead of being used to grow crops for better foods. Or they run out of carrots for compost because people eat them all waiting for the berries to grow back. Or the wells run dry trying to support all the berries. Etc.

I do see now that you were around gen 4 when it happened, I didn't check the link originally so I assumed it was another "giant town dies to berry famine" story, my b.

I notice that often eve runs seem to starve out at about gen 4-5, if they don't die off right away. I think it might be because the foundations of the farm tend to be berries and maybe carrots, from personal experiences. My better runs have only gotten to around gen 15, but I think they might've lasted longer because other crops were planted in gen 2-3, encouraging the next generations to work towards pies and the likes rather than focusing on berries.

Then again, your village seemed to famine because it didn't focus on berries, or maybe farming in general, enough. That's a big oof in its own right. It did seem to survive a few more gens though, so that's a plus. Maybe someone fixed the farm eventually.

He did, it just only happens if one of the twins/triplets/quadruplets are murdered. Normal deaths like starving and such don't trigger it.

Nice basic guide for smithing and crafting recipes, I'm sure new players will definitely find it handy, especially with the picture guidance. I know smithing can be complicated to learn given how many components it has, so that'll definitely assist people.

This is super simple but really effective- past guides I've tried to read have mostly just been paragraphs of explanations that tend to go over my head, so I've had to figure things out on my own or wait for the rare patient player to teach me. Having an image for example helps a ton.

Maybe a more in-depth eve guide could go with it, sort of as a companion? This seems mostly to be a "here's what you need and how to make it" guide to match the tutorial, so something that gives some bonus information about things you'll face outside the tutorial might be helpful in this simple picture-esque style as well.
Maybe answer questions such as:

Where should I set up a base?
[include basic camp spot requirements (water/swamp, desert, big grassland), how to temp-run while searching, what to do with kids when searching, etc.]

How do I raise my kids?
[includes basics on child-rearing, such as tile warmth, how many to keep, job direction, whether or not to keep any while still searching for a camp, etc.]

How should I set up the farm?
[includes basics of farming. How close to water, on what biome is best, keeping things in smaller patches VS one massive farm, etc.]

In what order should I be doing things / When should I start doing this?
[includes a quick list of what things should be done in what order. For example: kiln first, then small farm, then smith (what tools first?), then expand farm, then sheep pen?]

How to domesticate sheep?
[Maybe a basic run-down of what you'll need and how to make them + get the sheep. A bow+arrow, a rope, carrots and berries, maybe a brief easy trash-pit pen guide. We do have a Pein guide for pens but I personally found it a bit confusing and long-winded, even being an experienced player.]

I know eve runs rarely get as far as sheep during their generation but it doesn't hurt to have the knowledge.