a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
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Another option: make people take a little while to die from being shot, like how it works with other animals. The murderer wouldn't be able to recover the arrow until the person died, and it'd give them a chance to warn people. Could do something similar with the knife.
I agree this is weird. I had a bit of a test of this and if you run off from a fire and don't release the mouse you never get cold even when starkers. It's kind of exploitable.
This post is super creepy and also would just mean everyone would die.
In an established village it's already naturally happening that new mothers (or other caretakers) and children gather round the fire and pass on wisdom. Trying to get everyone on a server in one place would lead to very rapid collapse at the moment.
The other I took out of town and hid behind a random tree a couple screens away.
Between hiding knives and secret gardens, searching behind trees is going to become more and more lucrative...
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a 5x5 grid would work for most characters if we use single character, so like Milkyway would be:
You can do a reasonable font for English characters with a 3x4 font, eg:
If you're in a tribe with lots of babies... get the hell out of there.
I've had pretty good success a couple times by just heading out of town for maybe 5 or 10 years as I see it start to fall apart from overpopulation, then coming back when the population is back down to a manageable level to help recover.
I just realised that as we get towards more people being in sustainable settlements, the birth rate will drop (possibly drastically) as fewer people die young and have to try and respawn repeatedly. If everyone managed to consistently live to old age on a server with a stable number of players I think you'd expect to only have one or two children per lifetime.
It's interesting how this roughly fits with how birth rates have interacted with infant mortality in reality.
Some players feel like it's mean to just kill them
Spoken like a true villain.
My mother didn't know what she was doing. I decided at a young age that sticking with her was a death sentence, so I struck off on my own as soon as I could carry a basket and get away from that place. I never saw my mother or small brother (or maybe sister) again and in some ways I am glad of it, I can't imagine her passing was pleasant.
I found a nice little spot next to some ponds, with a few fields dried out but waiting. No fire tools, but some milkweed around and one dead rabbit left by some kind and long gone soul.
It was just enough to scrape through to carrot production, losing a couple children along the way but my one son managing to get through to adulthood.
I had a daughter! What a joyous occasion that was just as I was starting to think I would be too old soon and the family would fade away. She grew old enough to feed herself and I took it upon myself to teach her our ways. Until she wandered a little too far one day and died within grasp of the plentiful carrots we had by then.
I discussed with my son, suggesting he head off into the world to find someone to live with or to come join us on the farm. I said goodbye thinking he had gone, but he returned with a bowl of berries, asking for clothes and a bag which we didn't have.
And then, hope lost, a new family comes running by, infant child wailing. We take them in and I later regret telling her son that he wasn't really my grandchild, I should have just let him believe.
As I passed 50 I had some time to teach the basics of carrot farming, preach the laws, and ask them all to please get dressed.
I passed away of old age waving a leaf around to amuse the newest baby joining the farmstead, the carrot fields productive and milkweed growing.
digging up and replacing the home marker did not seem to remove it from the previous owner.
Had an unfortunately horrible death today due to getting lost because I dug up my own home marker in a pinch to cook a rabbit, assuming this would still apply. Let's just say that digging up your own one definitely does remove it and that I didn't notice until it was too late.
Do you have reasoning behind berry orchards not supporting large families?
The problem with berry orchards long-term is that they'll inevitably go dry and fertile soil is a non-renewable resource, so carrot farms can be revived down the line, but berry orchards just leave a lot of tinder.
WHERE are the seeds?
Leave carrots to grow for long enough and they'll flower and you can then pick them for seeds instead. Keeping a carrot farm going means everyone in the settlement needs to know which plots are being left to go to flower and not picking those.
Giving birth now costs a huge chunk of your hunger bar, and considering that you've got no control over it at all, it makes a new start as an Eve really, really difficult.
Was this added to try and encourage mothers not to abandon children quite so much? As it is it means that most of the time when I give birth, I'm suddenly hungry/starving and have to panic and run to get food, leaving the poor kid to die even if I could support them otherwise. It feels overly harsh and I've been finding it really frustrating.
It'd be more manageable if there was some warning you were going to give birth soon, or if it wasn't like half of a full hunger bar. Especially for a newly spawned Eve you've got very little time to find somewhere to settle now if you have a baby straight away.
It doesn't look like clay or soil regenerates, so that's going to be a civilisation limit. We will need to either split off new colonies to go live either in new areas where there is more fertile soil or send travellers to get more soil and return it to the civilisation.
Yeah, I've found a few areas now where all the soil has been used up for berry bushes that have inevitably gone dry, how about adding "don't plant berry bushes" to the laws?
Once you're holding something, click on something else to use the thing you're holding on it.
Use food on yourself to eat it.
Right click is mostly for taking things in and out of containers, swapping what you're holding with something on the ground and a few other alternative actions.
The keyboard is only really used for talking.
Maybe you can? I've never survived near a pond I refilled long enough to tell.
Yeah, you definitely can, done it a few times and seen them start replenishing again.
I don't think I've witnessed a murder yet. Is it possible currently?
My mum shot me with a bow and arrow once immediately after I was born. I think it might have been a mistake though and so technically manslaughter.