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After a period of being obsessed with making sure I was clothed I noticed I'm more often overheated than not which has made me pull back from the obsession.  The current meta sees most successful settlements being built in hotter areas which seems realistic to me.  So the most important time to be clothed is as an Eve, running around trying to find a good place to settle.  Otherwise, you're mostly in the desert where clothes are a detriment.  Yes, in a "city" you often move around colder biomes but it seems more trouble than its worth to be constantly putting on and taking off clothes.  Plus then people tend to steal 'em.  I guess you could just stay as much as possible in one part of the city...

Anyway, I'm not into nudism, so what I'd like to see is some hot weather friendly clothes--sarongs, saris, chest wraps for women (whatever you'd call a primitive bra I guess), thoabs (a long, dress-like cloth Bedouin men wear), etc.  Our civs have evolved out of cavemen clothes long ago...  Where's the cotton/linen?

I couldn't get to that section in the tutorial for some reason.  I tried.  I'll try again....

PEIN:

Here's what I did:
  oxoxo
  oxcxo
xxoooxx
xooooox
xooooox
xooooox
xxxxxxx

with the c being a berry bush.   The cow walked over the bush multiple times.

Basically, dirt management.  You have to have people aware of how important it is and so are keeping an eye on the necessary resources for compost.  People who aren't munching berries when there's six other food items strewn around them.

In my opinion, the weakest link is almost always a lack of a solid sheep pen with pooping sheep.   The next weakest link is people not understanding the "yum" factor and food and just munch berries all day.  It's important to NOT munch berries when there's other food around because it's needed to produce sheep dung and the compost material itself.  We're all guilty of it, I know, but the more you can limit it and eat other stuff (pies, omelettes, cactus, even carrots which tend to be overproduced) the better.  Then people don't tend to keep an eye on compost.  Then I always have to go running around looking for the darn shovel. 

In larger settlements, before you start making a road, backpack or walls, check on how you can contribute to the compost chain including by making pies from the mutton chunks and rabbit carcasses which are almost always strewn all over the place.

The only reason that would make me agree is the suiciding baby phenomenon (and yeah, I'm guilty too). 

But otherwise, then you should keep all males and as few females as possible.  One or two. 

Personally, I prefer playing a male.  I can contribute without interruption and I can eat while ranging.  Eating while ranging is an extremely valuable skill in the early game.  It's much harder as a female.

Stepwells as a higher level tech for water.

Bricks is brilliant.  They've been around for 10,000 years.

Cobblestone would also be good.

Wait, pig infections?  there's disease now?

My first reaction too.  However there's yucca the tree and there's yuca the tuber.  I think the OP meant the tree.

I agree that the berry focus can ruin a town.  I'm tired of constantly either producing compost or going on soil runs because people don't know any better.  But, although I'm not entirely new to the learning curve of this game, the "yum game" is new to me and I would never have understood it without hanging out on this forum.  So in that aspect, this game models life's constant struggle against ignorance.

Maybe we need dedicated town criers/preachers who just stand around yelling slogans.  Or maybe we should be able to produce inspirational signs.

More water solutions:

Clay aqueduct
High capacity stepwells

Why can't we eat them or make shoes out of them?

Point taken (and I realize you're only the messenger) but counterpoint is that an Eve wouldn't be able to manage the agricultural tech behind it as a gatherer and so would still experience the sacrifice you describe, in particular if she's alone.  However, a new mother in an agricultural town with a family network and easy access to woven cotton, silk, wool or straw, wouldn't experience the same sacrifice IRL and so shouldn't be penalized by not having access to it.