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Az, I've read through all your posts here, on this forum.

The clutter is frustrating you. The lack of organization.

It frustrates us all a little, but we live with it.

Why is the froe by the farm when it should be in the carpentry station?

Why are all these seeds so near the blacksmith?

Doesn't the baker know I need those plates to make this tool? Our whole civilization hinges on this tool, right now, and I don't have the time to get more clay!

March 20th you registered for this forum. You've been here awhile. Many of us have. But I don't get as frustrated as you. I don't find satisfaction, in ruining what people are still allowed to build.

In some games, the player has a ridiculous amount of inventory space, in this, at least for now, a carrot seed takes up a square meter of space.

https://i.imgur.com/BH2hWwU.png

That 1 seed can lead to 5 carrots or 7 seeds. In this I see the problem, and the solution, but, for now, the game is as it is. Jason has left a kind of volumetric importance to his representation of a seed. Or just decided that every object was going to take up a square meter, except the pile of rocks...

Things are getting better on that front.

What else is it that frustrates you?

The way the layout of towns emerges organically?

Everyone has a plan, for some it's just that they want to plant a few milkweed on a little patch of land in the middle of town, for others, they run around and take in the whole landscape for hundreds of square meters. Maybe they envision a town in the most complete sense of the current state of the game, complete with roads extending out to any other ideal location, but what good is all that planning if it remains in your imagination? What good would you do if you spend half your life planning and the other half telling everyone what to do so that they build what you imagine? What you have determined is best for them.

I make roads.

I farm too. I'll make tools if I can't find one. I might even help someone build the wall of a structure, if it's large enough that I don't feel the person working inside is going to feel cramped.

Let's focus on the roads though.

I don't make roads to confine things. Once I did, in a way. The 3x3 grid of wooden roads, that made sense to me at the time. It was square, it looked sharp, and it made sense with what I had considered. Now I may opt for 3x4 (four baskets of soil per cart) or, 3x5 if the person who is hauling soil is also using their backpack, as a good soil hauler should, if they plan their routes with the availability of food in mind.

Roads are nice for getting around and divisions can be as aesthetically pleasing to the eye as they are functionally effective.

Now I make roads to help people spread out. Roads that bring people in and out of city centers, roads the gatherers or lost players can follow to get back home, and roads that people with wanderlust, or the desire to begin anew, can use to aid them in the start of their journey.

My roads are as straight as practically possible. I generally don't put steps in them to connect places unless i run into a cactus, berry bush, rabbit hole  or snow bank. I try to keep them as clean as possible, for good reasons.

That road that you took to go south, when you took me down there to the bear cave. I brought dozens of those flat stones using a horse and cart in a previous life. I laid them out along that path. I didn't have time that life to also stake them all in lace, but I will often stake make flat stones I lay down if there is enough time.

I also am making horse corrals and wrangling horses for towns so that when ambitious children are born, they only need to farm 8 milkweed for a lasso, lasso a horse in the corral, feed it a carrot and put a saddle on it's back.

If all goes well, they can take a road out of town to gather more resources. Stations can be farther apart and they can each have their own clutter. Women can, if they like, stand around the town center, and gossip while juggling curious babies, or they can plan ahead in their youth and make packages to carry with them in a horse and cart to a new home.

If you are born a boy, the horse and cart is a part of you. You can take it with you every where you go, to and from every job. It's the pickup truck for the working man.

You see, there is always something to give to others. While I'm working, I'll also try to keep things organized. It's nice for all the clothes to be in one place. When the skinned rabbits are near the baker, when the eggs are all gathered into one place and omlettes are ready.

There is a lot of organizing to do for the sake of your family.
Every step in the right direction makes things easier for your mother. Easier for your brothers to do the job that they set out to do, for your family.

We're all a family, Az.
In this game, on this forum, IRL across this planet, and all life across time.
We're all a family.

You are my brother, my mother, my father and my son and I want the best for you as much as I want it for us all.
For all life, for the rest of time.

We don't need problems to imagine greater things, or to become greater.
Life grows by it's very nature.
While your roots may stem from the dirt, I implore you; always reach for the stars.

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I imagine you made a mistake allowing yourself to eaten by that bear.
I apologize for laughing at you for failing to stay alive.
I don't want you to be frustrated.
I want you to remain in this community.
You have your reasons for what you do.
I'd like you to tell me personally, but openly, what those reasons are.

I want to know where you are coming from,
and where you want this to go.