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It's funny you mentioned shops as a thing. I was think of a way to open a shop when I get the game, but I will post my idea here let the community try and make it a thing.

It would have to happen with everyone working in a functioning town(good food supplies, shop layout was started and ready for walls door and a lock).

When the building is done, pick a young female who is knowledge able in cooking trade through a crate in between 2 walls so no one can pass.

The female Baker will have the only baking oven, and it would be nice if players made sure there was only one place to bake.

The reason for this is because the skilled Baker could sell pies/stew for the items to make food, or for other items they are low on. They would be inventory managers, but can also control what the village grows and focuses food wise, because they cannot make food any other way other than berries.

The. Their children can take up the trade or the baker opens the door for them to leave.

It would be nice, because you. Ould trade for bowls, plates, wood, w/e.

It would encourat players to make plates, or bring them back and exchange them plus some(like a few rabbits, furs, beans, cabbage etc..) for more food.

This could take the place of the village cheif so to speak.

What's your opinions?

What I am trying to say is that "decay is a natural part of life. It makes sense for organic materials(wood,Reed) to degrade faster than stone or metals, which is the reason those materials are highly sought after, amongst most reasons."

You wouldn't buy cloths if they rotted off you the first day, but you don't think about it when purchasing things, because you are generally assured they will last until you need to get a new one, or want to change.

The problem with the decay as of now, is it is more of a binary concept rather than a sliding scale closer-to-reality concept, where the materials used to craft items should detirmines their durability, and decay.

Thanks for reading!

Decay is a great idea, when fully implemented and balance.

You just have a binary decay system where items decay or they do not.

Other options for decay would be a slider scale type of decay, where building materials decay faster or slower depending on their components/materials/use.

I can see why you would want to try and do a "hot fix" on 6 (out of over 600) items to try and balance the games mechanics, but in doing so, you either make things obsolete, or overpowered.

Looking at the problem as a mechanical instead of a human problem is what it is going to fix.

The players choose what is best, not the creator. The creator only creates toys, then gets to sit back and observe.

You are going to need a complicated system to balance a complicated situation. Quick easy fixes are not always the best choice.

I am just thinking out loud, with long term in mind. I know this game is new, and there is another to be done, but I would hate myself if I didn't say anything.

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Off work edit:

What I am trying to say is a perfect system is when minor tweaks are all you need.
My suggestion is to just make items, lots of items, and release those items in your weekly update, and then do a monthly mechanic update where it adds a whole new system to deal with.

Considering real world reasons why we use things  in our lives as real human beings, and why we don't use them, and then code those do and donts as mehanics.

Weight, rarity, cost, time for production,  durability, time of processing materials, technology to process those items, because the availability of cheaper, better, cost efficient materials will always be the ones that are mass produced and used by players because we are humans.

We don't use horses any more. Some kids don't even know what an abacus is used for, so naturally the cream rises to the top for easy pickings.

It is theorized that the wheat whose seeds didn't touch the ground to be eaten by animals, was the wheat that passed on its genetics as humans gathered it, and saved it to plant the next crop, generation after generation, eventually, until only the hardiest, biggest, most beneficial to humans is now the species that dominates all other edible grasses on almost every major continent, and can be traced back to the first times man discovered beer! That was almost 7500 years ago.

I don't know how far you want to take this (I have a tendency to take things to their conceptual limits) game, and how much you want to develop it, and to what degree, so only code for what you are willing to maintain

Thanks for reading it if you got this far XD

I wouldn't mind a ctatcombs type deal, where we can store bodies efficiently.

However, this falls into storage catagory... Which we all know there are issues with that ... No?

We could compost our food scraps.

Have a compost trash heap, where we throw cornhusks, or plant debris from foraging wilds.

Trim trees for leaves, or throw old food into it.

IRL the plants use up the soils minerals and carbon organics to produce leaves, fruit etc. Return those nutrients back to the soil for your soil losses.

Do you have any code of ethics as A greifers/murderers?

I mean, do you always intend on wiping out an entire village?

Or

More like kill one person and try and get away with it while keeping the village alive?

Out of curiosity.

Because I watched a full 8 hour stream, and out of the 5 villages that the streamer successfully lived to 60 building and maintaining a Berry farm, only 1 didn't end because of murderers and greifers.

I want to know how, as a greifer(senseless murderers are the same don't care how you slice it) what makes you operate?

And if it is to just wipe entire villages then I hope we never get new weapons.

Thank you the link! Just started forum and appreciate the help.

However, the curse on the grave mechanic only works if you are dead. And curses should be for the living.

Regardless , a karma system is the best approach.

My approach how ever :

1. Keeps the killer alive, and a chance to "atone" for their "sin(s)".
2. Help the community spread awareness of murderers and briefers.
3. Since only 1 person 1 neg point on someone, attacking, abusing, greifing a large town has greater consequence s.

And since larger towns have more power to mess one person up, being in a large town for protection builds that town.

Dead man tell no tales.

Sry at work