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I liked sauerkraut until he nerfed it.. sad face

So just played a bit, sauerkraut is best, not early game tho.

potatoes are a good shout, shovels are easy to make.

if no shovel in sight, carrots and beans.

tech teir food woop.

Looks guys, forcing players to grow different crops is not the solution, you might as well just have one crop.

(I kinda go off topic here about soil sorry)
The current system nearly works. you are have few problems:
1. Soil takes wayyyyy to long to get back from worms, anything over that crops growth time is just silly. this is one of the main reasons we don't carrot farm, its ugly leaving harden rows, and you cant live on a 5x5 carrot farm for a whole hour..
2. bushes don't die, they should have a similar growth as the other crops where they die, after that you have to replant. They have no value, thus people eat them even if there is a cart full of mutton pies next to them.
The fact that bushes never die and use soil, makes them a god to other foods.
3. Fuck all recipes for food-related products, have more tech related food, that is slightly easier and better, it works with pies, we eat rabbit pies until we get mutton then we eat mutton, and if we don't have rabbits (rarely) we eat berry pies.

More recipes higher the tech tree would change the mono-crop IF the crops had similar growth attributes. EG, Oh we can make carrot stews now stop planting berries, Oh we can make corn and lamb chops grow corn instead. While this just moves the mono crops depending on tech level you have infinite recipes that can be added that reinsert a crop, You just have to make it easier, and better once that tech level is increased. bare in mind, there are No real tech levels just item progression, thus if it took longer to get to certain items like bowls and popcorn was better then berries and grew the same then we make popcorn.

To conclude,
I think all crops should cost the same and have similar growth time and yield, the tech level should determine what food is currently the meta as food recipes will be better then what was mono before and tech should be slower to get, having a clear "upgrade" point, "YAY we have clay bowls and plates now, we can cook popcorn!"

This kinda goes off Jasons "you must evolve or you die", atm you don't need to evolve because berries live forever and there is no need to get compost fast or tools or anything.

I loved being a basket maker, then i saw Jason's post about specializing I totally understood, being efficient with compost and mass producing wheat is fun and can pretty much set up baskets and flour for ages. (Mentioned before but really need a flour storage because holy shit, the number of carts and bowls of flours there were was stupid).

I did fence the area off a little and went a little out of town to do it, but everyone knew where to get baskets from and it was proper neat. it's hard to pass down the profession when there as alot of new players tho. (just FYI basically I was doing three jobs at once, flour compost and baskets, another good player did sheepy and got me dung.)

commonly you don't see people doing one job their whole life, normally if people need a tool they ask someone who knows how to make it, could be anyone.

Agreed

No, everyone can use some marker, you used to be able to hit a home marker with a stone to make it yours but now you have to remake it, you cannot grief people by destroying their home markers. they only get destroyed if that person makes a new one or they destroy the old one.

Men further the village
Female further the line.

females should never leave home unless its super important and there are no men about. Also, order men to go "collect iron","hunt" or "get a sheepy" etc, even building. Females should really just focus on childbearing and teaching, even job allocations, males should never do a job a female can do, which is pretty much most things that can be done without being in a situation where you have to sacrifice that tool or a cart for a baby.

I get your point, its annoying having to hop back on the horse to stop it from running.

I have got into the habit of making hitching posts before I gather, EG I know a spot where there is a bunch of branches, I take a fence and shovel there before handset up a post and then start collecting, it can be done in most cases but not all, such as firewood collecting, this being said, you can just keep moving the hitching post.
I like the way it works at the moment having to plan ahead, then again I am one of these guys who doesn't chop trees down until I need to instead of deforesting a whole area and slowly dragging clearing it with logs, I hate mess and do everything to avoid it. Thus i find making a hitching post next to some trees beforehand, then chopping the trees and transporting then moving the hitching post to the next few trees (bare in mind it only take one and 1/3 of a tree to fill a cart). i know there is other cases where you just want to pop off the horse to eat or pick up something off the ground and it's annoying when the horse runs.

being about to use your bkpk while on the horse would help. or at least allow us to hitch tamed horses to trees.

All I can see this doing is increasing the number of plots for the meta food. if berries are still easier to grow then carrots, people will just grow another berry bush instead of carrots. Thus, huge meta food farms will just be made. unless you make it easier to grow other other crops or have all crops be the same difficulty to grow, then it would be worth growing that carrot plot to get the bonus, (and using the word bonus implies that this won't happen all the time and its a luxury).

Don't even think about using the haven food design, its unique but even for haven it doesn't really work or encourage different foods being eaten as people will still eat whatever they can to get that stat level up and even with so many pieces of food there are still meta foods people feast on, plus with drinks sats are not a problem. plus you have to play haven for like a month at least to get to know how to play and what the fuck is going on and how to avoid raiders.

I believe in you Jason to create your own solution to this problem. and we can throw ideas at you but at the end of the day, you will only know what works if you implement it, its one thing saying "Have a food bonus for eating various of food could work" and actually seeing how the players find loopholes around it. it's annoying but it's not like you haven't implemented ideas before that were good ideas at the time and players just ignored them or find ways around it.

if worse comes to worse and you cant think of a solution to it, keep adding to the tech tree and maybe that will give you some ideas. players will happily play whatever the food situation is as long as new stuff is added, I mean look how long the carrot meta was about for.

also, feel like now is a good time to mention it, if mutton pies literally fill up your food bar and we are only in the early ages of the game, will we ever unlock better food? or just easier/cheaper ways to make it? Maybe another problem for another day

So much hate, so little love.

Graveyards are a problem, I think burying the Eve of the settlement is probs the only meaningful grave I would bother making, maybe if someone really helped out the settlement I would bury them, but other then that, all those dead babies can go in a bone pile somewhere far away.

Graves should be for memorable members of the town. EG The person who made the first tools or captured the first sheep. or even someone who did more than a lifetimes worth of work.

My thoughts on grave sheep pens.. my same thoughts about pit pens, ruins my immersion, hate it. is it that difficult to spend a generation to get a nice looking pen up and running, rather than slamming an ugly arse pen down just to get some dung, Towns should aim to look good over the efficiency, I would argue that if the town is not at the right place to make a fenced pen, then you are not ready for sheep and rushing them helps no one if you haven't got the steel tools or the iron to keep the sheep pen working. whats the point in having sheep if you only have the iron to make one shovel, no knife, and no shears. The amount of times I have seen this is stupid, sheep but no tools. mainly because they break and there is no iron or the person who was looking after them before was selfish and died with the tool in bkpk and got lost.