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I disagree that pies are late game.  Rabbits are often caught very early.  As long as you aren't getting in the way of the early game blacksmithing there's no reason to not use those first rabbits for some food diversity.  Apart from plates, the other ingredients are dirt cheap and pies keep noobs from berry munching.

Learn the Yum System.  See here: https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2397

Basically, diversify the food you eat as much as possible.  If you don't know how to do anything, do at least this.  Don't just eat berries non-stop.  Also, realize that not all food is equal in terms of how much it fills your hunger bar.  Try not to eat until your bar is low(ish) otherwise you're wasting food.  Don't waste food. 

Learn berry maintenance first so you can at least keep those going.  The next thing you should learn is composting and how sheep work.  Soil is the most important resource.  More than backpacks, clothes, and knives.

Learn how temperature works.  It's nice to have clothes but it's often a bad thing given how most villages are placed (near deserts).  Overheating costs food, in other words.

Don't WATER too many carrots.  Feel free to plant them but only water as much as is needed.

If you're an adult male, do your best to eat outside of town.  There's plenty of food not far from town -- burdock, onions, wild berries, cactus fruit.  These will bump up your Yum score and you'll soon find you won't need to eat as much at all.

Other easy but highly valuable tech: shallow wells, catching rabbits for pies, baking, omelettes.

I think there are probably workarounds to the issues limiting growth (communication, short time scale, lack of incentive to actually work [i.e. barter system, ownership]) but they would involve fundamental changes to the game.  For example, off the top of my head, a workaround could be a RPG-type class system (farmer, cook, guard, etc.) so you know what lane to stay in.  But that would change the game.   So I dunno.  Let's see how far Jason can take it with this model?

You forgot string instruments which probably came right after drums.  Could get sinews or hair from animals, a gourd (dried squash maybe?) or wooden box, a skin, and some bone tuning pegs.

I appreciate how much fun you are having role playing.  However, your fun is ruining others' fun.  Find a game where your fun doesn't ruin others' fun and go play it.

jason will never allow:

Of course it's not the same.  I stated that.  I was reacting to TrustyWay who stated: "Where I live racism doesn't exist except if you are dumb and believe everything."  I wasn't addressing the point of you having the freedom to say the n-word in OHOL.  However, now that you mention it, I would support Jason prohibiting people from using hate speech in OHOL.  Regardless of the differences in racism between the U.S. and the rest of the world, the N-word is hate speech.  That's inarguable.  There is no way possible to argue in good faith that the N-Word is not hate speech.  It's impossible.  It simply is hate speech.  The fact of the matter is that English is a global language.  The N-word is an English word.  It is well understood by anyone that speaks intermediate or above English that the n-word is hate speech.  Therefore, its use shouldn't be supported.  I don't know the equivalent words in Spanish or Swedish or Japanese.  But hate speech in those languages should be prohibited as well.  It isn't censorship.  It's being a good person and citizen.  And furthermore, it's not difficult to avoid.

It's disingenuous for you or anyone else that speaks English fluently to claim that the n-word has "no meaning to them."  If you're a non native English speaker you might claim that "grommet" or "aleatory" or "umbra" have no meaning because you might not know the meaning but anyone who speaks fluent English knows what the n-word means.  Therefore, it has meaning to you regardless of your claim.  To be sure, it doesn't have the SAME meaning to you as to an American and I agree that it's probably not as offensive to non-Americans.  Sure, of course.  But why risk it?  For fun?

I would add that it's defined that way due to either ignorance or willfully to advance a pro-white political agenda.  Either way it seeks to redefine the term racism.

This is missing a key point that changed my game regarding clothes.  For the longest time I had no idea you could get thread from sheep.  I always assumed it was milkweed only. 

So, for the new people, fleece from shorn sheep plus drop spindle equals a ball of thread you can add to the bone needle for multiple use sewing.

I spawned into a massive city once that at one point had everything.  But almost everyone was gone, the sheep were running wild, and there was a field filled with dozens of wooden tongs next to a field of mature trees.  I can only guess that some jerk or jerks demolished the pen and took all the branches from the trees and made tongs from them.

I kinda understand the murder griefers because that's quick, spur of the moment, scratching the boredom itch.  But to systematically ruin things over the course of an hour?  It's bizarre to me.  I have way better things to do IRL.

I think you mean cast iron. 

I like the idea of cupboards.  More carpentry! 

I'm not of Asian descent but I live in South Asia!