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In game though, there's no difference between "no milk produced" and "lethally insufficient amount of milk produced". A 39-year-old OHOL mother that accidentally starves her baby by not being able to sufficiently feed it after 40 behaves the same as one with insufficient milk. They THINK they can still successfully breastfeed their child, but cannot and the child ends up dying.

In real life, women can be producing no or practically no milk during attempted breastfeeding, without knowing that breastfeeding isn't working until their baby shows symptoms of dehydration or low weight. OHOL over-age breastfeeding is the same. Without a precise in-game age marker, you may not know your breastfeeding isn't working until the kid starts spamming "F" or just dies.

There's HUGE differences between urine that's voluntarily pissed out where you can see and feel the quantity being released, and a baby (hopefully) suckling enough milk from a teat! Breasts don't always leak when lactating, unless you use a pump or manually express you can't see the amount (if any!) of milk you're producing, and mothers producing insufficient milk without being aware is certainly a thing.

Usually lactation is plenty to meet the needs of the child, but for some women it isn't. And the only obvious signs over time is a fussy baby that's failing to grow and thrive as it should. And if left like that without supplementing the child with formula or another source of milk the baby could very well starve. Edit: Or if milk supply was drastically lacking, death would be much quicker by dehydration instead of starvation.

If it was simple to tell, you wouldn't have lists like this all over for how to tell if your baby is getting enough milk or not:

https://americanpregnancy.org/breastfee … lk-supply/

https://www.thewomens.org.au/health-inf … ilk-supply

I enjoy the towns more than the individual families. I enjoy helping my family try and thrive wherever we are, but do so by trying to build up the town and resources. I don't care if I'm currently black, brown, ginger, or about the particular last name I happened to spawn with. I don't even care if there are any others with my last name around - I want to make the town good for whoever lives there, even if completely unrelated to me. And I hope to revisit that town in a future life, to try and improve it further.

Newly-built shaky property fences can be cut down with knife, sharp stone, or ax. Maybe hatchet as well. But IIRC once they're established they can only be removed by naturally decaying or an elder removal paper which takes like 10 minutes to break them down.

Property fences are a pretty shitty mechanic right now, useful only for easy starter sheep pens but then you get people setting up newb-killing pens and baby jails. It's ridiculous.

Oh man, bulk storage would be amazing. Honestly, at the bare minimum we should be able to use sacks or crocks to store wheat, flour, cleaned dry beans, corn kernels, and potatoes.

More stackable items would be amazing as well. We can stack round stones and flint chips, but not sharp stones or bone needles for example.

Pumpkin custard as the pie filling...but that doesn't need a (goose) egg? Weird custard then.

/nitpicking

Enjoy your thanksgiving! And loving the feast table, even though we got another week to wait before getting to try it out

Used a flint chip, learned lasso. Sucked since it was my last tool slot, and prevented me from learning bow saw to make the slot box I'd planned.

Honestly, I'd love for all the biomes to be more fleshed-out. Like the community crucible server, where each biome can support a basic village but in different ways. (https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6794)

Villages in different biomes could have different 'flavors' - grassland villages based around thatch or sod huts, jungle areas with bamboo housing, tundra with igloos (as Jason has already done) or animal-skin lodges. Different species of basic furbearers, not just plains rabbits. Variations in livestock and in the starchy/main crops available to support a town. Like having the option of raising sheep, goats, or llamas for wool...or cattle, goats, water buffalo, camels, etc for their milk. Other sources of essentials like starter water locations, tinder, etc.

All that works in the CCS though because each biome is much, MUCH larger. So people have to be able to make a viable go of things in any particular biome, without absolutely needing resources from outside to live. Current OHOL is very compressed, you can often see three biomes in a screen's width. So nearly every town is the same grasslands-next-to-swamp with stone and plastered adobe buildings, rabbits, sheep, wheat, and three sisters crops. Because that's all that's available.

IDK. I just like variety. It'd be nice to have a llama-wool-farming town, even if they're just reskinned sheep.

That sounds tedious as hell. Especially since it sounds like the bait is consumed when you snare a rabbit??? Early game burdock spawns in many areas wouldn't even support making one backpack.

Berry+carrot bowl used up to breed/rewool sheep, ok I guess.
Berry+carrot bowl used to start compost, why? Feels quite wasteful and not realistic at all, but alright.
Berry+carrot bowl used for baiting EVERY SINGLE rabbit into a snare...not only is this about as far from realism as possible, but it seems purposefully set up to be obnoxious and screw with the players.

This honestly sounds AMAZING!

I've always thought the jump from stone tools to iron/steel was too abrupt, and progressing from just learning agriculture to making complex engines and cars/planes goes too quickly.

As a counterpoint, I quite like the naming update. There's far more variety in available names now, clarity for what you're ACTUALLY going to end up naming your kid (SO NICE!), and likely fewer SID kids for some.

I have had kids that were obviously quite discontented or suicided after mistakenly naming them a name that is pervasively used for the other sex. Naming your boy child Susan or your girl Richard...it obviously matters A LOT to some players. Sometimes enough for them to /die out of that life.

There's nothing stopping you from choosing off-the-wall names for kids in real life...but this is a game that's meant to be enjoyable for the players, and more than just a few players seem to greatly dislike being stuck for an hour with what is to today's cultures often an extremely aberrant name for their in-game sex. Especially since your hour-long character's name is entirely in the control of another player...it's a big deal for the kid to get a terrible name that they're stuck with their entire in-game life, but a very minor inconvenience for the mother to simply pick a different, likely much less controversial or annoying name instead for the other player.

Ouch. Gotta say, the best thing I've ever bought was LASIK to fix my eyes. (Well, PRK instead since my corneas were a bit thin for proper LASIK.) It's been six years so far, haven't degraded any further than 20/20 (was 20/15 early on), and it's just so nice not needing glasses anymore.