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This is a really good idea if any males find themselves not running around frantically trying to keep the village alive, which is probably close to none a lot of the time... But perhaps at old age even just going to the fire and telling babies to follow you if they want to learn and making sure there is food for them to eat while they learn some basic task. I haven't played either so not sure how manageable it would be. It sounds frantic.

I used to waste a lot of time running around looking for yum foods, but I've had a lot of practice yumming, and i got way more efficient with it over time. Now really the only aspect that takes more time than not yumming is when I have to touch all the pies in the kitchen, which can still be shuffled through pretty quickly just looking for the word "yum". Practice makes you better and more efficient just like anything else. I usually stock my backpack with a portable food item or two, depending on what I'm planning to do, and make sure to eat the stationary foods when I'm in town. Kind of develop a mental list/map of the what/where of the food options and start with the most efficient ones.

I actually get thrown off more if I can't yum due to lack of options, because I'm so used to yumming that I do it pretty automatically and keep having these "oh yeah" moments where I realize I'm not yumming and need to go get another pie, and being distracted every few seconds by my food bar dinging at me that it's already time to eat again.  I haven't tried to calculate exact math on all aspects of yumming vs other diets, partially because many food options contain unique ingredients that are hard to assign a value like clay, buckets, limestone, or time, so I'm unsure exactly where the threshold would be to make one type of diet superior to the other, but going off the assumption that you are eating at a water-equivalent rate for each diet, which I think is a reasonable assumption, a full yum chain results in a buffed character due to a much larger food bar, while a mono diet does not. So personally for me I find yum is the superior option once you are familiar enough with it that it becomes a streamlined routine to yum. Whatever food item you eat doesn't take more time than any other if you plan ahead and already know what you're planning to have next before you need it.

Anyway I would certainly enjoy a buff of course, but +2 would be way too powerful I think. I don't think it really needs a buff, that will happen on a small scale anyway over time with the gradual introduction of new food items making it easier and potentially more efficient, though I do wonder if once we have those "feast" foods that Jason has talked about if it will make yumming obsolete or not.

I'm always amused by the words spoonwood chooses to substitute for "update"

Typically I'll greet the baby, look for clothes, and give a tour of the town. If a new player I will emphasize the kitchen is a good place to get food, and ask if they want to learn anything. If I don't get the "new player" notification I will try to mention any jobs the town needs worked on to give them a head up on the state of the town. Once this is accomplished we can exchange pleasantries and emotes until they're old enough But then they're cut off.. lol jk

I tried before and it wouldn't work. Heard the same from others here and there. Haven't heard anyone say it worked for them.

A pumpkin pie recipe could include sugar.

i don't really count on milkweed being readily available, it often isn't.  Just make sure you have a few bowls with seeds available so it can be grown as needed.

Wow JohnathanDavid, That sounds a lot more fun and interesting than this "magic walls" update.

I'll say again, trade doesn't work currently because it's just not efficient. Trading takes a lot of time when conducted between different locations.  You can circumvent trading by moving into one large town with all families.  Players will automatically gravitate towards making the most effective decisions.

This update only accomplishes forcing multi-family towns and some role specialization, while introducing a hurdle in getting to the stage of having an established town. None of these are bad things. It might be a bit frustrating watching whatever problems surface being tweaked and balanced over the next few weeks/months though.

Looking back on the first post, I see Jason actually has no mention of trade there, which is interesting since at a glance it would seem that's what this update is attempting to force.

The problem with trade is it's just not efficient. Why spend 10 years travelling, 10 years negotiating a trade with people you can't understand, and then 10 years travelling again every life, when you can just travel to multicultural towns that have access to everything and stay there. Taking the latter approach produces a more stable and efficient town and will lead to multicultural towns being the norm, removing even the need to travel to one a lot of the time.

All this update will do is bring together multi family towns and create some role specialization.

Just be a reasonable person and think about others in general. Ask the Smith when they're not right in the middle of time-sensitive activity. The Smith will usually make the hoe if you ask, but if they're too busy making something important for the town, just accept it and use skewer/stone hoe.  They're perfectly usable alternatives even if they are less than ideal. Stabbing the one person making engine is completely idiotic, and will just result in you getting stabbed in retaliation and probably multiple curses too.

If I need a tool and someone is already smithing I'll just mention it to them, walk away and come back in a bit to see if it's there. If I don't see it and they're still smithing I'll wait until they finish with anything time-sensitive and then politely ask again and generally you're going to get a response if you do this without being rude. Sometimes they even already made it and either someone else is already using it or its on the ground and I didn't see it yet. Sometimes they might still be working on it, or there's not enough iron. You can't use a skewer in place of iron for an engine/oil. Don't be selfish. Think of others and what is most important for a town to prioritize. You could always just do something else until the smithy is available to use and then make it yourself too.

I thought oil had been restricted to only the arctic biome while we still had the rift? Did it change back?

To me ginger seems like the best skin: oil and seals.

Then we would be like a kilometer tall though.