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When son to an Eve I usually fetch food while young, and set up camp as I get older. Eve has to focus on raising the babies anyway, and I hope her seeing me work teaches her how it's done. Sadly, most players die and I'm more often than not left alone as the sole male in the camp I worked so hard to build.

If I'm male in a village I'm super cautious for the inevitable murderer. I try and keep the town organized, watering languishing berry bushes and getting plates back to the bakery, hunting rabbits for backpacks. I build a sheep pen if there isn't one, or expand the berry farm if there's already sheep. I try and keep on the move so I'm not an easy "culling the herd" target.

I find it's often the women around the fire that become murderers when they see nothing but babies all over and are bored of feeding them with nothing else to do. I wish they wouldn't murder, since most of those babies die from incompetence anyway. The murder spree usually goes overboard and there's only menopausal women left and the town dies.

Baby carriers when?

Happy wives, happy lives.

Agreed. Take the berry carrot mash on straw step out, since the lamb already eats it to make dung, and it doesn't make sense to throw fresh food away for compost.

S+W=C on everything is boring. Instead of reusing the soil+water=crop mechanic on bushes again:

ADD FOOD SPOILAGE - like if you don't pick the berries they become rotten berries, and if you don't pick those they disappear and you have to wait again.

More useful cycling makes the effective cool down on edible berries more interesting and adds variety to crop types.

Add rotten food to straw for compost.
Or to feed pigs.

... Goin' on a boar hunt ...

Dead horses ... I hope this means foals are in the future.

Wish this was standard.
The 1080p version is a very realistic visual distance. Much better than the myopic view the game comes with.
Better yet have the zoom tied to the mouse wheel so we can zoom all the way out to 4K "10,000 foot view" if necessary.
Thank you Joriom. ZoomHOL is best HOL.

I've had very similar experiences. Either being the Eve, or her son, where the whole camp gets built and it's beautiful and not a single girl survives due to suicide or incompetence. I still don't know how they starve next to food - it may be suicide without running off first.

There is a steady "panic" while setting up initial camp, so there really isn't time for teaching new players beyond "farm the carrots until you're older".

There's that bit between having the farm running and having a sheep pen where the new players usually screw it up by "having too many carrot sponge kids" or letting everything go to seed. The problem is obvious because you told them to farm and it's boring and having kids is more interesting than picking carrots so they raise them. The new kids are told by the noob farmers to also stay by the farm and so that's when the population of carrot sponges happens.

Meanwhile, you're trying to smith a shovel with a dozen kids swarming you.

Then comes the really dangerous part... You built the sheep pen. But catching the mouflon lamb requires a bow and arrow - and by the time you've built that too you're too old to go hunting. So you give it to the most competent person you can find and hope they don't go on a murder spree.

THAT'S WHERE THE MURDER HAPPENS.

Please don't murder people.
I know there's a lot of them at this point.
I know they're super annoying.
I know the town is running out of soil.
Just get the lamb, and bring it back, and get the compost cycle started.

Chances are by the time you get back natural selection will have starved off the weakest players anyway.
You know how to forage.
Hunting is relaxing.
... and a shovel of dung never looked so good.

I already reported it.

Study crafting here:
https://kazetsukai.github.io/onetech/

Learn how to make a fire, a bowl, a forge, a shovel, a hoe, and composting ... try not to become overwhelmed.

Post to the bug report thread:
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1648

More iron please... less snakes.
Thank you, love the game.

Yes. Joriom's 1.5x zoomed out mod should be standard.
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1467

The field of view is much more realistic, and makes a huge survival difference.

How to make zoom mod yourself: https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1422

That's what legacy and progress are. People have projects that provide for others so they are free to worry about new things.

Not enough soil to grow milkweed leads to not enough thread for clothes which increases food demand which consumes more soil. This little death engine prevents towns from growing to a size big enough to worry about excess. Perhaps a simple but short lived option of digging on green space with a sharp rock = one time use (poor) soil and makes the sharp rock round again.

Bone meal plant fertilizer = speeds up plant cycling (example, domestic berry bushes now grow berries in half the time)
Well placement should affect refill rate.
Rollback branch respawning.
Saplings growing into trees needs to be a thing.
Reeds need to be farmable and more wicker craftable items should be possible.
There should be a low random spawn rate for plants, as they do take back the land in real life.
New plant = hemp, makes stronger string and rope so items last longer.
New animal, Bovine = milk (becomes) yogurt (becomes) cheese, meat, leather, an animal that can pull a plow.
Plowing empty green space should create fertile soil (trade off is that plow requires a lot of iron, wood, hemp ropes, a cow)
Dead lambs should have a purpose - meat, karakul fleece, compost.
Seal meat should be harvestable. (Google seal meat ... and Flipper Pie!)
Bears should be edible.
Penguins must be able to die.