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Looks like you named people in alphabetical order for the most part. But I am surprised there is no Bruce Lee!

No, the filled trash pits are permanent. If you fill an empty pit with a shovel it will quickly disappear, but if you fill it with trash it never goes away. See https://kazetsukai.github.io/onetech/#6 … -Trash-Pit, there is no entry for the trash pit plus time leading to empty space.

Dug rocks can easily be moved by griefers or noobs and let the sheep out. I'd prefer even a home marker to a dug rock, at least with the home marker someone has to find a sharp rock to get rid of it, not just click on it.

Oh cool! I didn't know that. Maybe I should think about cooking mutton more.

I need to give a word of warning about getting stuck as a follow-up to my post. I was playing around with the setup shown in the image and got myself in trouble. When you shear a sheep, the sheep with the wool on him counts as a blocked tile. If you are standing on that tile when it becomes blocked, you can't move down through it. So if this configuration is set up, only shear from the pit, never from on top of the sheep itself! If you shear from the sheep's tile, the tile will become blocked and you will have nowhere to drop your shears, so you can't pick up the wool and will be unable to move out! Luckily I called for help and someone rescued me by picking up the wool and I was able to escape. But I nearly starved to death. So watch out! That's a definite advantage of a larger pen over a more compact design, it's much less likely for you to get stuck inside. It also seems likely that you wouldn't get stuck if the opening was above or to the side. I'd like to test those configurations out.

Goliath, picture this:

You are born to an Eve. She is clearly a very experienced player, dashing from berry bush to berry bush. She raises you expertly and you both barely survive. You scout out a nice spot near some ponds for a farm and you both migrate your belongings there, farming, building baskets and collecting furs. You eventually have a couple of kids, and the four of you are surviving nicely on this farm. You are tending the farm when all of a sudden a suspicious man shows up. He is saying something about a town to the south, how it's low on food and full of murders, and he wants you to come help. You tell him you want no part of his drama, he is welcome to some carrots but to please leave you alone. He leaves, and soon Mother dies of old age. Some time later, a man with a knife (the same one?) shows up and slaughters your son without warning. You, being an experienced player, run around wildly making it near impossible for him to kill you. He eventually just takes a basket of carrots and disappears. You return to tending the farm, but live in constant fear. The man comes back once in awhile to take more carrots, and eventually starts taking Mom's clothes and furs. Soon two of them show up. At least, you know there are two because the man is talking to someone, and you can hear two sets of footsteps and objects are flying around in invisible hands. The second person is glitched out, invisible. The man is saying something about them being raiders, and he's telling her to be careful where she right-clicks so she doesn't accidentally drop the knife and give it to you. You try to run around as usual, but against an invisible opponent you really don't stand a chance and you are stabbed. Your little family worked your whole lives to carve out that small farm in the woods, and this is how it ends. Roving invisible murderers working together and killing you for no reason at all. You would have been happy to share your carrots after all.

You're about to just quit for the day, frustrated. But then you decide it's worth a peek to see if you respawn among this group of bandits. You spawn in a big village. Your mother quickly gives you a full set of clothing, including a backpack with a knife. In fact, everyone has a knife in this village, and nobody seems to be stabbing each other. She tells you that your job is that of a raider, and there is an old man lecturing everyone about the pride of being a raider. Could this be that town to the south? You get raised to independence, and curious, you grab a basket of carrots and head north. Sure enough, only a short hike away you find your old farm and your own fly-buzzing corpse! Those bastards! Surely you would immediately begin plotting revenge? Especially when you return and mention the small farm you found, fishing for information, and your own mother gloats about murdering the "old hag"? The nerve!

Goliath, I'm sorry I ruined your RP with my revenge, but I hope you see things from my perspective. I had no way to know that this was an RP situation where I should not use memories of my past life. I thought it was just random griefers doing their thing. I agree that respawning on the same server in the same area can cause a lot of problems, especially with loyalties, where you are harboring a secret enemy. I think the game ought to put you on a different server each time you are reborn to prevent this sort of thing from happening. It's nice to be able to continue a thriving village once in awhile when you are reborn into it, but I think that kind of works against the spirit of the game, where you are meant to have this one short life and that's it, and never get to really know what came before or what will come after.

In any case, I object to you calling me a "griefer" that you had simply "raided." From my perspective, you were the griefer, and I didn't bother anyone who didn't bother me. Revenge for being murdered is not griefing, as I see it.

I spent the rest of my life trying to kill what turns out to be Aname for his murderous village, but he is too experienced in PVP and never stood still, so we had a stalemate until he died of old age. He ended up just murdering the last boy in the village who was farming (who I had never attacked as he did me no wrong). Pretty low-life. I went to his new camp often, in fact it was my own "old hag" farm in the woods. I could hear his "family" doing stuff there but couldn't see them, they were permanently invisible and glitched out. I had nothing left to live for so I just stripped naked and went to the camp and stood there, saying I can't see anybody, and someone promptly stabbed me with a knife. Seems about right.

Small world, eh?

I wonder what the relationship is between bears and caves, and how exactly bears spawn.

Sometimes there is a bear cave right next to a village, but bears never seem to come.

Other times there seem to be no bear caves nearby, yet bears attack constantly.

I do this once in awhile for fun and don't feel guilty in the slightest. You are not harming anyone, you are only stunting your own effectiveness by not leveraging the resources already built by other players or the power of cooperation. You can run off in any direction at any time and reinvent the wheel. Maybe the far-flung seeds you plant will become a more promising development than the resource-starved and noob-ruined common areas anyway.

In fact, the game seems meant to support exactly this. It's much easier for a lone person to get effective work done than to coordinate since there is a single goal, single plan, and no miscommunication. It's also easier for a lone person to establish a village/farm from scratch, especially with a limited berry supply. Try playing as Eve in the wilderness once while raising several kids, and again letting every kid die, and see which ends up more long-term productive for the area.

Completely agreed.

Ponds are easy to restore, even if it means traveling to the next biome to reseed the water. Geese are not critical, and die permanently when they get used anyway. You only need one to make one file, and that is enough to service a village practically forever, files don't get lost too easily.

Milkweed is harder to restore as you must potentially travel a great distance to find more, but milkweed damage is completely reversible. As more players gain experience, milkweed patches are becoming more common and easier to find. Not to mention that the huge milkweed patches required by large villages are big enough to easily survive a few noobs picking incorrectly. Only a determined griefer can do major damage, but he's working to upset sustainability anyway, and there's nothing he can do to clear any stumps that have already been picked.

Rabbit hole preservation is the most important thing to teach noobs as they are so easy to permanently destroy if you happen upon snares lying near non-family holes. Every time this mistake is made, permanent damage is done. A noob trying to clothe himself could wipe out an entire field. Eventually no rabbits will be left, permanently crippling nearby villages. Goodbye backpacks, no additional water skins, and the village will have to rely on reed skirts and wool (for at least shoes, if not hats and coats if no wolves or seals are nearby), both less warming than rabbit fur, or else transport furs over great distances. And sheep are extremely high tech compared to furs, needing shears off the top of the blacksmith tech tree. Clothes have to constantly be remade after being lost from dying on farms and bones, whether through ignorance or accident, so sustainability is very important. Pies are crippled too, without the skinned rabbits.

Chopping down useful trees is another permanent no-no, and so easy to do for a noob when axes are lying around. If it makes kindling or tinder, leave it standing! If you don't know the difference between trees, don't chop down any at all! This is nearly as important as rabbit holes as if enough damage is done a village can find itself in a situation where it is practically impossible to start a fire (tinder and leaves have two minute despawn timers), ending pies and all crafting, dooming a village to eternal carrot farming.

Wells are easy for noobs to drain and ruin for ten hours, but wells aren't terribly useful anyway even if handled by an expert. I believe wells are a waste of space and resources and shouldn't even be built in the first place. I would rather have the stones.

Digging wild carrots is permanent destruction, luckily carrot farms are common and domestic seeds are stronger and sustainable, so while it's nice to have wild carrots nearby for supplemental seeds, losing them to noobs isn't terrible.

In my opinion, the easiest and most common way for a noob to ruin your production cycle is by picking a berry from the domestic gooseberry patch to feed himself when he is young, or is getting hungry at any time. This ruins one bush and therefore one compost for an hour plus the required time for someone experienced to notice and go through an irritating correction process picking the bush and re-watering. This problem is made much worse because new players often spawn as eves in the wilderness and learn to survive by picking berries, and domestic berries look exactly like the wild berries they are used to living off of in the wilderness, so they will have literally no clue that they are doing anything wrong or that the berries behave completely differently and won't grow back automatically. While this problem is not permanent damage, it is common and confusing and disruptive enough that I believe it needs to be promoted above the milkweed rule as a law.

So if I were writing three laws for noobs today it would be these:

1. Trap only family rabbits
2. Do not chop any trees (or only chop trees that do not produce any item when clicked)
3. Do not pick domestic gooseberries

Exactly. Holding your kid is much more efficient than dropping them off at the fire constantly since they will never lose hunger and it's free for you. As this is the case, showing them around and giving them tips or rules is the best way to be a mother. The only thing that throws this off is if you have a second kid while the first one is not yet independent.

I want one for "Show me around" because when I'm a baby I like to start planning how to help the village by looking at what's already in the village. I can't do that if you just stand by the fire for five minutes.

It sucks that when you are first born you only get one letter, and then only two letters, limiting many acronyms to when you are already half way to independence.

You probably have useCustomServer.ini set. Setting a custom server prevents you from getting updates. A typical bug of using an old client is that objects weirdly look like different objects. Set useCustomServer.ini to 0 and launch again to get the client update, that should fix it. Then you can go back to your custom server.