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You definitely do not need to go outside to learn the game. Part of the intention of the game (originally, before there was the wiki or onetech) was to learn the game ONLY in the game.

I've learned almost everything I know by asking other players in-game and by reading the hints.

I'm not saying everyone has to do that, or that everyone should do that, but a) it's definitely possible, and b) some people prefer it. And I think that Jason would prefer that it be the main way people learn, and that learning the game by just reading an instruction manual should take some outside-the-game effort.

Jason included player killing as a solution for griefing. "Griefing" is subjective, so naturally the definition migrated to "anyone who is detracting from my enjoyment of the game".

It also put power into the hands of the experienced players, since new players aren't as good at obtaining and using the weapons. So naturally the mechanism evolved into one whereby the experienced players punish newbies who aren't playing the game they way they want them to.

As a social experiment, it replicates the real world pretty well. The use of force inevitably enables the elite to command the weak.

Killing / cursing people because they don't do what you tell them to do is also shitty.

Some of you are dumbfucks and assholes for murdering and/or cursing players simply because they're bad at the game.

I once had a child when the camp was dying, and I had an inspired moment when naming her.. I'll call her Hope! What a great name, and so appropriate give the situation.

"You are Hope"

... and she said

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and then I realized that maybe my flash of inspiration wasn't so original after all.

Compost is a net positive, with two exceptions (iron and water). One batch of compost can generate far more of the resources used in its production than are consumed in its production.

Compost consumes water but does not produce it, so water is a limiting factor, although compost consumes far less water than farming itself does. Natural water replenishes, albeit slowly.

Natural soil does not replenish, which is why you need compost (although compost would be beneficial even if soil DID replenish, because of transport distances). Compost is a complete substitute for natural soil.

Compost consumes iron. Iron does not replenish (and is scarcer now than it used to be, which is causing veterans no end of heartache). Iron is the ultimate constraint on the amount of food that can be produced by farming.

Compost also consumes wood, but wood is abundant and replenishes (and can be farmed in case nature isn't growing it fast enough for you). It also consumes straight branches, which replenish but can't be farmed. It also requires baskets to make and to use; they are not consumed, but they decay over time; they are not replenished, but can be farmed. As a constraint on farming, wood, branches, and baskets are all incidental to iron.

All resources - even the ones that don't replenish, like iron - are effectively infinite because the map is unimaginably large; if you run out, you can just go further afield in search of what you need. However, search times and transport times eventually become limiting factors.

That is the Awbz modded client. You can get it here: https://github.com/Awbz/OneLife

It needs to be a LONG while for that to be true.

It takes two minutes to go from Empty to Languishing, then thirty minutes to go from Languishing to Dying, and then another sixty minutes to go from Dying to Dead. You can bring it back to Vigorous from either Languishing or Dying for the same price (one soil one water), so you have 92 minutes from the time you pick the last berry until the time where you've wasted resources.

But in the meantime, if you don't pick the last berry, then when you do have soil and water close at hand you'll have to wait an extra two minutes before it can feed you (the two minutes it takes to go from Empty to Languishing). Those two minutes can be critical. So go ahead and pick the last berry, even if you don't know where the new soil and water is coming from! You've got one and a half lifetimes to solve that problem!

I got bit once, after a while I recovered and got my full bars back, after a longer while I got bit again, and a short while after that instead of recovering I died of yellow fever.

Iron being rare is fine. The problem is that it's too rare right now. We think you nerfed it because "the math" told you there was plenty of it everywhere, but your calculations did not consider search time as a factor.

There is plenty of iron available if the players could go directly to it. But we can't; we have to search for it. Including search time as a factor, iron is an extremely scarce resource, scarcer than it probably should be.

Children should eat berries because the better foods are wasted on them. Adults should eat better foods because a) they're better and b) the berries should be saved for children so that the children don't have to eat the better foods which would be wasted on them.

Children should work the berry farms because each step is straight-forward; the tasks keep them close to their food source (the berries), and the work can tolerate being frequently interrupted as the children eat.

Berry farms should be large enough to support the population of children that are anticipated to arrive in the near future. If the town is growing, the berry farm needs to grow with it. If the berry farm is large enough already, then the soil / hoe / labor is better spent elsewhere rather than planting new bushes.

Berry farms should be kept fully maintained so that they are always ready to support the children when they do arrive. Adults should make sure the children are maintaining them; then the adults should go someplace else, do something more productive, and eat better food.

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