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Famine is a self-perpetuating cycle. People eat bad food because there's no good food. There's no good food because it's produced from bad food. When there's some food security it's easy to maintain output because there are plenty of berries and carrots to feed sheep, you can make so much mutton the bakery overflows and people just cook the meat itself for a nice yum. There's plenty of dried corn to make so many yummy foods. Milk, butter, eggs, goose, carnitas, tacos. Guess what? It takes 4 minutes for that shucked ear of corn to dry, and in a famine people are hoovering them up 3 at a time. They're eating entire bushes worth of berries and a whole row of carrots for one meal. There's no way to deal with a shortage of food except letting everyone starve and starting over with the survivors.

It's a game where you're a new player and you die, or you're an old player and you grind for an hour doing five different jobs to just barely keep the new players alive. Trading so you can run the well so you can farm so you can shepard so you can bake so you can die anyway because the well ran dry and you were so busy feeding everyone you couldn't build an engine or work on getting fuel.

It's pretty sad how braindead this community is, that abusing curses is considered correct.

A broken mechanic abused and you're dumb enough to support it, that's REALLY pathetic.

Sure. A couple months ago a family actually marched the ~30k tiles to donkey town over many generations. Someone made a bell tower in donkey town and hey if you build it they will come. It was basically like you said, a nice preplanned town built by bored donkeys. The new family moved into their donkey town and promptly became hostile towards them. The donkeys were friendly but got cursed for being donkeys. So they wrecked the town to chase out the ingrates, who settled in a shitty little primitive camp nearby and later died out.

Very predictably, it failed. People have colonized the tutorial a few times too. If you're quick you can break out by smithing a few tools to remove a tree that blocks the only break in its walls. Then build a landing pad and fly in a mother to seed the family. This was before the homeland update, but it wouldn't be too hard to gather some stones and a shovel is required to escape from tutorial anyway. So she could very easily make a homeland well there.

Stove traps the heat and stays hot longer before going out. You could balance it by requiring charcoal instead of kindling as fuel.

It also adds infrastructure in the form of a static, dedicated cooking station which people can upgrade with tables and boxes, walls and flooring. Rather than running all over trying to collect a bunch of stuff while waiting for coals you can stage it in storage and then store it on tables, making the whole operation more efficient.

I love the tortilla tables btw, hopefully people start setting up stations for making them.

If three people decide you deserve to die, it's always justified.

I've actually seen a lot more players using property fences now. Not in a good way, just as people-traps. Snatch up a newborn, chuck them inside and close the gate. Or leave it open and close it behind anyone dumb enough to enter. It's easy for them to kill 5, 6, 7 people in a lifetime. Killing them is the only way to stop this, but nobody cares or knows how. You stand there making murder mouth to draw a crowd and explain, he's trapping people! Look at the bodies in there! Look at the gate, he owns it! Meanwhile he's just standing there listening to the sad piano at 55 while you try to explain this convoluted posse mechanic. The magic words you must say to permit violence, the sacred offering you must hold to please the gods of war, because empty handed combat is forbidden, even swing a gooseberry at your enemy is better.

All you do is confuse a bunch of idiots and get cursed by a murderer. Time for another month in donkey town. Makes perfect sense right? Everything is working as intended in this game.

The typical 3x3 four-square layout for berries is already 36 bushes. Add another two plots and it's 54 bushes. They really add up fast, 50 sounds like a lot but there are a lot of towns that have had that many. My last life the town had 54, and people panicked when I dug some up. Berries are bad food I told them, it wastes a lot of water. "It's still food," said the muncher to an empty bakery in a town where nobody's working. They're sort of right. It's like gooseberry life support for times when there aren't enough productive people around to keep everything going at once.

Hmph... do you really think the berrymunchers can be defeated with just this much?

Prepare yourself, for my final attack. Ouuuu! Despair as you drown in a sea of purple!! Ten Thousand Years of Gooseberry!!!

"Food surplus everywhere" reflects a changing meta more than anything. The game gets harder, people adapt, it seems too easy, so it gets harder again. There will always be a food surplus- until there isn't. People will make more efficient foods and ration water more carefully until it becomes impossible to keep the balance. That's what this process is about, it's jason tinkering until he finds out where exactly the game breaks. Then that becomes the standard.

So let's ask the question. When does this become unsustainable? How will the meta evolve as we reach that point?

Hypothetically, keep in mind that I'm just asking for a friend here, not as a serious question.

Couldn't a young woman take a diesel engine, some kerosene and a few tools on a horse cart to start a completely new town? There's a transition for dry shallow well -> diesel pump.

A ginger girl with a stolen engine could (as a strict hypothetical) upgrade a fake-eve camp to diesel power within a handful of generations right?

Little kid curses me for feeding her two carrots after I brought five tanks of kerosene to town.

Great job idiot.

And people still act like curse abuse isn't absolutely rampant.

This is a thread where people brag about abusing curses.