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Arg I know what you mean by patchy internet lol- its so frustrating when you're doing really well  and you die from lost connection!

I'm not sure about the fence kits- I've never actually worked with them, but it would be nice if you could load them in a cart! I suspect the most annoying thing about this type of play through would be dealing with the horses running away (well its an annoying feature in general lol).

As for the babies, as far as I know you can't put them in a cart yet. One of the challenges of this type of play through would be how to manage the babies and people that don't have a horse yet. I can think of a couple of potential solutions, although neither is perfect: 1) Everyone runs in a straight line in the same direction. Horses ride on ahead and frequently come back to tell the others what's coming up (cities? wasteland? food?). This option would allow the maximum of ground to be covered by a tribe, but there would be a high chance of getting separated if people get thrown off course by wild animals, impassible terrain etc. Option 2) would be to set up a series of temporary home markers where the mothers could spend their time raising babies, collecting food supplies and making clothing/tools. That way the horses could roam in all directions looking for the tribes next destination (such as cities to loot or the next good campsite). Everyone is way less likely to get lost this way, but the tribe would cover less ground and the mums might get a little resentful being stuck at camp while everyone else gets to go and have fun on their horses.

Either way I figure the challenge of playing the game against the way it was designed would be a cool way to encourage everyone to talk to each other and cooperate more

A bittersweet life:

When I was born I was named Sunny. I had a good mum, but there world we lived in was full of wild animals and I was her only surviving child. I became the town rabbit hunter for a while- walking very far to find the rabbits we needed for our town. One day while out hunting I found a bear- I ran for my life and got away safely, but the bear was an omen of bad things to come.

My son was born when I was fleeing the bear- I nearly lost him in the trees. I named him Storm and took him home to Ma. He was a good boy, and started helping as soon as he could, carrying on his grandmas smithing work. Unfortunately while I was raising him his older sister Rain disappeared, never to be seen again. Luckily I had another girl, born out while I was collecting rabbits. I named her Snow and brought her home. When she was old enough I bid her to collect rabbits for me while I raised her younger brothers, Wind and Hail. She happily went away- I warned her of the bear but I'm not sure she heard me. I waited so long for her to come back, but she never did. I hit menopause and knew there would be no more children. When the farm was going well I went looking for her body- and found it near where the bear had been. To add to my grief I found a patch of rabbits closer to home and far away from the bear- if only I'd known, I would not have had to send my daughter into the jaws of death!

By the time I was old only two sons, Wind and Storm, still lived. Wind had finally finished the work I could never complete- collecting enough rabbits for me to make backpacks for my sons. Once they were complete I bid my sons to leave our dying camp and find themselves wives out in the wilderness. I died of old age, not knowing what would become of my last surviving children.

I just played after a couple of days off and its been fantastic- no child abandonment, and I've actually spawned into big towns for a change! Was nice being town pie maker for a bit instead of a subsistence farmer

To the Clayton family.

When I was born, my older sister wanted to abandon me as I was a boy. I said I could help and Mum kept me and named me Tiberias. When I grew up I swore to prove I was worthy of being kept. I became the town rabbit hunter, roaming across the wilderness; sometimes for many years at a time as I did not have to worry about babies (see older sis sometimes boys are useful!). My dream was to make backpacks and clothing for the whole town- I caught many rabbits, helped clothe my little sister Sapphire and gave backpacks to my nephews and nieces.

One day after a long journey collecting rabbits I came home to find Sapphire murdered! I ran up to see what had happened and discovered my bastard nephew Jake had killed our whole family. He tried to kill me so I ran back to a secret place where I was building a bow of my own (except mine was to hunt animals!). Unfortunately when got back Jake had already left- but to my joy I found little Julia my niece, lived on.

Unfortunately at this point I was very old. I made one final journey to find my snare, so future Claytons could continue my life's work- but alas I died of old age on the way home.

To Julia- I'm so happy I saw on our family tree you lived to a ripe old age! I hope someone found my snare and rabbit patch or made pies from all my rabbits.
To Jake- Why you gotta be such a dick man? I made you a sweet bag!
To everyone else- I hope I made you proud, I tried to keep my word and be a help to the family as well as I could!

-Uncle Tiberias

Ahh yes this tree is amazing! When I died of old age, someone had murdered my whole family except one small girl. I Just checked the tree and found she got to live to old age and had children of her own- hope some of them got to enjoy all the bags i made!

I've actually been thinking about this for a while and think the use of rare resources might work for people wanting to try a nomadic play style. The rare resources could be of use either as practical tools or just instruments for trade.

For example: Add the mineral "pyrite" to the game as a practical rare resource. This mineral would be a simpler more portable way of producing fire (eg: flint+pyrite+tinder, instead of fire bow+shaft+leaf+tinder) HOWEVER make this mineral extremely rare so people can't rely on finding it to shortcut settlement building. Sure it might affect the odd play through where some lucky Eve finds pyrite next to her starting area but generally speaking, since the fire bow is pretty easy to make it wouldn't be of huge extra benefit to established settlements. What it would encourage however, is people to consider using the pyrite to go on long distance trading/exploration missions to collect other rare resources (either for their home, or just general trading purposes).

The other rare resources might have a more aesthetic value rather than a practical, but could be great for encouraging trade. An example could be: A wondering nomad finds some pigment to make a super rare coloured dye (lets say hot pink lol). The nomad takes this pigment to a big town and swaps it for the towns spare cart. The town gets to show off how rich it is by having everyone run around in super rare hot pink clothes. The nomad gets a cart he could never build on his own, which will help greatly on his travels.