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Have you ever been the last of a once thriving village, or been birthed to an eve who had no idea what she was doing?

Well rather than talking to your brother and uncle about the town being dead, or trying to pathetically tell your mom she started in the worst spot, or intentionally stepping on a snake, Ol' Grim's got an option for ya. Go out and find something or someone!

Thanks to thundersen (and others) I have finally begun to develop a system for searching that will net you the best results and increase the chance of you finding other established towns, both living and dead. Ill try to break this down into two basic parts, When and how to find others, and what can be done to help the search effort.

PART ONE:
SEARCHING

So whatever circumstances placed you in this scenario where finding others is now your goal, the first step should to always choose a starting point in which to search. The very first thing that should be done is place a home marker for reference. The closer to where you are born the better. Now that you have a start, The next step is knowing HOW to travel.

Using birth coordinate data mixed with eve spiral info, the best route is heading diagonal directions. Spawn points are often only 250 to 500 tiles away diagonally (albeit they can be at different times..Ill touch on this in a moment) What I do is choose a diagonal direction and head at least 700 to 800 tiles that way. Only 500 if looking for other live people. If nothing is found then I head back to my home marker or starting point and travel the opposite diagonal direction another 800 (or 500) tiles. All that distance traveled you SHOULD be looking for signs of player activity ( Cactus bearing flowers or fruits, family rabbit holes, ect.) If you find something worth stopping the searching at this point by all means check it out. If nothing is found, head back to start and travel the other diagonal directions you haven't gone yet.

OK, lets say that you traveled all four diagonal directions and found old eve starts or signs of activity (sharp stones, old graves, ect) but not too much else. In the hypothetical pic (above) lets say every green point is a sign of activity you have found. You must now find which diagonal direction has given you the most results (that is why its important to travel the full 800 if looking for older ruins, even if you found something before that.)

The diagonal direction which gives the most signs of activity will usually keep yielding results when gone in that that direction and sometimes seems to lead you into older ruins of previous days.

*THINGS TO KNOW*

You have a better chance at finding non related LIVE people the younger the generation you are. A generation 2 or 3 person has a waaaaay better shot of finding others non related than someone generation 30.

It takes roughly 4 to 5 minutes to travel 800 tiles, so if looking for different no relation people travel 500 tiles in each direction FIRST not 800 to maximize the chance of finding. 

Avoid jungle! It might not be the fastest, but if you can go around a jungle or go through it at a very shallow point it is highly recommended.

If no backpack, at least make a basket for you traveling. 

PART TWO:
HELPING

So there are a couple things I have come across in my travels that have helped me and I wish more people would do them. If people wont experiment with this method they can at least do these things to help us out.

Stone arrows or any other arrows are always helpful to us, and even to a lost rabbit/iron hunters from your village who forgot to throw a home marker down. I've wandered across a few in my time and used them.

Snow arrows by Erudaru

Being a lumberjack and making cut tree roads is always fun and useful (Thanks Gederian)

Two quick stories from lives from yesterday at around this time.

First Life
Born: Rayia Mickus
Generation: 8

Born into a town with sheep and plenty of iron. Tend berry patch for a bit when first growing and finally start exploring a little. Find desert patch close by with over 20 dug stones with at least 10 dead rattle snakes. Well guess what i know what I am doing in this life.. Built the start to a building and clothed half the village in fruit boots.

Second Life
Born: Arin (Eve Allen)
Generation:6

Born into a HUGE town with a north and south road bigger than any i have ever seen. My mom is a queen standing in a rabbit field bakery next to the town and cranking out kids. Tend berry patch till a tad bit older, make a bunch of backpacks for mom, and set out to explore and bring back anything not decayed. Found this odd lil cactus formation in town (pic below). End up bringing back a lot over my lifetime and start staying near town. My mom had passed the crown to my sister, who had waited until mom died, and then gave it to her son Jack. She realized how horrible of a mistake she had made by choosing him and immediately named her next child queen and told her she must take down the power hungry king. Go on the family tree a couple hours after i die.

Jack
Nephew
45 years old
2 hours ago
Killed by Queen
Final words: "I was a great king"

I love this game haha