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It was nice knowing you.

Get the basic tools going.

As an Eve, keeping all of my kids, alive, I can still manage to get up to basic iron tools.

Know that when you place a child on a balanced temp tile, IF, they stay there then you get about 20 seconds per their pips to go out, gather and come back. I generally only go out for one minute at a time, as I have a, sort of, innate feeling as to what one minute is, but with kids you've given a quick tour already, you can probably make that a minute thirty, or even two minutes.
4 pips = 80 seconds, 00:01:20
5 pips = 100 seconds, 00:01:40
6 pips = 120 seconds, 00:02:00
7 pips = 140 seconds, 00:02:20

Babies are born at age 0 with 4 pips,
The fifth pip comes about a minute into their life.
The sixth comes about 30 seconds after that.
The seventh, and every pip there after comes after about a minute.

The pips do not directly coincide with age, they are staggered by about 30 seconds, from one another, but I use them as general indicator of age.

(from a post I made somewhere else)

Age(~) / HP(pips) / Time(of HP change)
0 4 0:00
1 5 1:02
2 6 1:26
3 7 2:34
4 8 3:25
5 9 4:25
6 10 5:29
7 11 6:26
8 12 7:27
9 13 8:27
10 14 9:25
11 15 10:24
12 16 11:25
13 17 12:27
14 18 13:26
15 19 14:25
16 20 15:27
17 20 16:30 ~
18 20 17:30 ~
19 20 18:30 ~
20 20 19:30 ~
21 20 20:30 ~
22 20 21:30 ~
23 20 22:30 ~
24 20 23:30 ~
25 20 24:30 ~
26 20 25:30 ~
27 20 26:30 ~
28 20 27:30 ~
29 20 28:30 ~
30 20 29:30 ~
31 20 30:30 ~
32 20 31:30 ~
33 20 32:30 ~
34 20 33:30 ~
35 20 34:30 ~
36 20 35:30 ~
37 20 36:30 ~
38 20 37:30 ~
39 20 38:30 ~
40 20 39:30 ~
41 20 40:30 ~
42 20 41:30 ~
43 20 42:30 ~
44 20 43:30 ~
45 19 44:35
46 18 45:28
47 17 46:28
48 16 47:33
49 15 48:32
50 14 49:26
51 13 50:26
52 12 51:28
53 11 52:31
54 10 53:30
55 9 54:34
56 8 55:25
57 7 56:25
58 6 57:30 ~
59 5 58:30 ~
60 4 59:30 ~

I show you all this because it's important that every player know this information, but especially Eve's and mothers that want to be productive. A good, hard working mother, is a sign of a good life for a child; they are inspirational. When I see my mother working, while also keeping me alive by picking me up once every 15 seconds if we are on a grassland, or every minute or two if my temp is balanced and she knows it, it gives *me* the motivation to work hard and stay alive, as well.

If you're working on a farm 2-3 tiles in a desert, you have about 10 seconds per pip.

If you are working on a grassland or swamp without any desert tiles around, you have about 5 seconds per pip.

If you find yourself stopping on a tundra, for any reason, immediately stop when you get 2-3 tiles out of the tundra to give your temp a chance to reset to a warmer temp. Deep tundra, naked, you only have about 2 seconds per pip. Never stop on tundra if you don't have to, and never set off on a long journey from a deep tundra tile.

Build the basic tools near your child, whenever possible. Let them see you make that  fire bow drill, stone hatchet, snare and stone hoe. It will instill them with knowledge of it's construction, or at least, some indication of how it was made, but more importantly, perhaps, it will set the tempo for your settlement. Try not to get caught up in words. If a child asks you for a job, as an Eve, try to use as few words as you can, at that stage. "Get rabbits" "Gather carrot seeds" "Get fire going" "Expand the farm". You can then flower things up by saying things like "I want the largest''farm this server''has ever seen." "Bring all the branches''from miles around." "I want a mountain''of fur here,''and a field of skinned''rabbits over here!" You know, things like that can give people that little extra incentive to stick to their work, especially coming from an Eve. And especially from an Eve those childen have seen busting her ass for the last 3 minutes.

Take the time in your first few minutes, and with your first child, to wake up the rabbits, so, ten minutes later they have families. Get those cacti cycling so when the workers are going about their business later in life, they have a reliable place to stop and get food. But, most importantly, make sure your surroundings can support your family x years down the road. Don't go for that nice desert swamp patch if there isn't sufficient food near it, take an extra five minutes with your first child to scout around the grassland, desert, or swamp to find a place with more food within a screen or two's viewing distance. If you can, pull the seeds off carrots and dig them up. Run around for a few seconds with a sharp stone and dig up the burdock, and pull a few seeds from every other milkweed as you pick them.

You are setting a stage for your family to play out their life on and every little sign matters.

It's so easy to stand around on a nice warm tile juggling children like it's meaningful, but we all know it's not as useful as a mother who knows; what temp the tile is that her child has been standing on, the rate that their food meter is dropping, and when to pick them up, all while making tools, building a forge, starting a fire, laying out soil for the carrot farm and just working nonstop while also keeping all children alive.

Set the stage.

Be the kind of player you want your children to be.

Hi Rhea,
Thank you for trying to take care of all your children. I know it's not easy but it gives the new players a chance to learn and it gives the seasoned players a chance to provide for you and the rest of your family. I have never had any doubt that it's always been worth it to do what we can to see every child to adulthood, to give them a chance to provide for their family and to learn, by watching others and through experience, just how rewarding a full life can be.

It's reassuring to hear you repeat that message. You've warmed my heart at the close of this day.

Thank you.

Jason, I'm okay with whatever you want to test out.
Feel happy to experiment with us and try new things.

As long as you're learning, I'm okay if you make good mistakes.

Just you know it's going to frustrate people who, say, joined after watching someone play in a three month old video. Only to learn a mechanic they figured they had a grasp on no longer exists. Some people like consistency, getting a grasp on things; you know, like the Ikea nesting instinct, while some people are okay with the paper Street Soap Company, FC and Project Mayhem.

You're at the wheel. Hands tight or not, I'm enjoying the ride.

Thought I'd have some fun today looking at the code.

Made this spreadsheet for myself

and decided to try and make it look like a decent forum post for players that wanted to get a grasp of things.

I would have simply converted the spreadsheet to a BBCode table, but I guess tables aren't supported in the version of the BBCode this forum uses, so, I had some fun with some of the other aspects of it.

Yeah sure, I could have just posted a link to https://kazetsukai.github.io/onetech/filter/food and been done with it, but playing around with it myself gave me a closer relationship with the numbers.

No, I did a trial of this and made a post about it.

Middle of the desert is twice as good (10 seconds per food meter pip) as middle of grassland, prairie, badland or swamp, all 5 seconds per food meter pip.

See here: https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1544

Try going naked in a real desert, vs naked in Iowa or on your front lawn.

I think you'll find the cold far less bearable in the plain states or out on your front lawn, than you will the mild heat of the desert.

We're not plants. We're warm blooded creatures with metabolisms and we consume food mostly to maintain homeostasis. A big part of that is our body temperature, and where your average desert is maybe 20 degrees C above room temperature, your average grassland or plains drops far below 20 degrees C below room temp, especially in the winter months.

Average all things out; dates, and temperatures, in the real life biomes, and I think you'll find the average temp of the desert preferable to animals. It's the plants that struggle to survive in those conditions that animals have to consume that lure us to forests and grasslands and away from the savannas, beaches, badlands and deserts our ancestors were born in hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Ultimately, you want just the right condition. You don't want to live your life in the middle of the Sahara and you don't want to live in the taiga of Siberia. We find the middle ground. But that middle ground now includes apartments, farms, clothing, natural gas furnaces, electric heaters, and air conditioning. All things that will be simulated tech wise, in time, but for now, as naked mammals, the desert is much closer to the heated car, home, restaurant or office, where we live and work clothed, and eating hot meals.

I'd like to vouch for Justice and Honor on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jaloveast1k/videos

Whether he starts out as an Eve or a child, he's always been a pretty productive player.

After comparing him to HoneyBunnyGames, ParagonHex, Draegast, Blitz, and so many others, I decided I could not only do as good as he was doing two months ago, but better, and decided to buy the game.

And even though I've played almost 500 hours now, I still don't feel as productive in my best lives as Justice and Honor is in most of his videos.

Organize the town as best you can.

Gather up all the plates and take them to the oven and forge,

Create a graveyard with milkweed or roses (soon) in front of the grave and different stones (flat ones work great but you can use any kind you or your loved one may have liked) and blocks behind where you can arrange your families resting place and bring kids to tell them stories about your siblings and elders.

Spread food out around the town far away from the carrot farm or kitchen where people who are working can have a nice meal so they don't have to run back home.

Make a milkweed farm near the prairie and leave an extra bone needle or two there so people can easily make their own backpacks or clothes.

Line roads with bushes, flowers (milkweed or (roses)) and wells. Make your home, not just efficient, but beautiful.

Compliment people on their clothing.

Thank them for working on the carrot farm while you were out getting rabbits.

Thank them for getting rabbits while you were working on the carrot farm.

That guy making the tools? Thank him too!

Fresh forest cut down? Make clear paths to the ponds and leave the area on the farm side clear so people can put down a basket there. You can use the butt logs as a main path and someone may turn it into a road if they come through with a froe, mallet, stake and stone.

If you see a path of butt logs going through a freshly chopped down forest, bring a froe, mallet, stake and round stone out to them and turn them into a path. IF it's a path near ponds, add some berry bushes near the ponds and leave a bowl nearby for water, if the path isn't near water, space some wells or milkweed out along it, so it looks nice.

Gather up extra clay and make bowls from it and put them near ponds outside of town, in case someone wants to start a little farm there.

Young woman bored of big city life? Make up a story and run away, then when your kids are born, tell them your story and ask for them to help you in your new life.

Young male bored of big city life? Lose iron around? Make an extra shovel, ax, froe, wedge and mallet and take them out to an area with lots of big stones and make a little castle just outside of town to make people wonder who you were.

Found a small castle outside of town, half finished? Complete it and decorate it with a sign with a lewd slogan.

Found an odd castle outside of town with a lewd slogan on a sign? Decorate around it with flowers like milkweed and roses. Clear a backyard behind it and decorate with a shrine.

Make a tiny sheep pen and instead of a sheep, lure a bear into it and close it off.

Start a town zoo.

Become a barker at the town zoo, and shout "Come one, come all. See the amazing animals at The Town Zoo!" and give free pies to adults and berries to the children that come to see the attractions.

See someone roleplaying as a hooker? Roleplay as her pimp and let her know you took care of the last John that tried to stiff her out of a tip.

Ask people if they'd like a Candied Yam, Fireball, a Leek, or a candle flame and if they say sure, proceed to give them a carrot, berry, wild onion or cactus fruit. If they say you lied, tell them your client says otherwise and explain to them how you procured such an item. Be creative.

Give someone a rock.

No really, just run up to them and say, "Here you go." and drop a rock at their feet. Then run away saying "Thanks again." Just out of the blue.

Run up to someone working alone and give them a compliment.

If you only have time to do it once per child, take your kid out to one person working and tell them how good of a job that person is doing, then continue touring around with them, while within screen of other people working, and let the child know how well each person is working at whatever it is you see them doing at the time.

Tell people about things you saw in the sky.

Take your kid to an abandoned bear cave and tell them it's your home.

Open and close chests and doors to slowed down renditions of your favorite tunes.

Compose a piece of music using the item sound effects in the game and set up your row of instruments near, but out of the way, of the largest group of people. Combine sounds that don't often go together, like pulling steel from crucibles and sheering sheep.

If you see someone running to food and die of starvation, place a carrot near their grave when you pour their remains from the basket, outside of town. Apologize to them, and yourself, silently, that you didn't leave more food out around town.

Give someone a basket of dead lambs and tell them there are no more unicorns in the forest.

Ride through town on a horse saying "The British are coming!" Then circle around outside of town, change your clothes, ride in, and ask if anyone saw a man on a horse.

Thank each elderly person you see, personally, for the work they did for the town, before you arrived.

Says the woman who has asked more than five men to marry her after each one has accepted.

I think you know what you are.

I don't have to say, anymore.