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Items and buildings build up over time cluttering the server and take away from the fun of building things yourself BUT randomly
(yes apoc is random because it can happen TOTALLY outside of your control) destroying everything is not a good way to fix the problem.
Humans are WIRED to become attached to things that we create and build up, the problem needs to be solved regardless but
apocalypse is not a fun game mechanic when you are not involved in it. Most people do not enjoy being stripped of agency.

Why not just make everything we make in game decay over time, thus requiring upkeep of some sort? The timings do not have to
be realistic they only have to be fun, this also turns all new content into jobs for people to do. People like having jobs in the villages,
being a part of something and being useful is FUN and REWARDING. Spending a life making things better feels good, that is what
I would tell other people when I talked about this game to them.

An IRL day is 1440 Game Years... If I leave a steel axe in a field for that long all that would be left (if anything) would be a lump
of iron rich ore.

Adobe walls can decay step by step until they are just a pile of clay (straw isn't a forever thing).

Tools can decay in steps, (accelerated by use?) having to replace the hafts is cool and engaging, so is having to sharper or reforge
old tools (they can just turn into scrap or even plain ore). Making the one adze your people will need forever is retarded and makes
learning smithing feel like a HUGE letdown. It would be cooler if you have to keep providing a village with tools, perhaps we can
have plows to till soil?

The simple way (no new art) is to to just add timed reactions to degrade all items back through the steps. The game files are NOT
easy for someone unfamiliar with them to parse though as almost nothing is labeled (mostly just numbers). I HOPE you have some
sort of ledger on your end but timed reactions for decay are already

Example: Deep Well --> Well --> pile of stones or maybe even a pool?

If things like baskets only lasted an hour or maybe two, people could have basket maker as a job! That is a cool thing like being the
farmer or the compost maker or the tailor. It is fun to be useful and this is wired into our brains to be something that is enjoyable,
good content.

Example: Wheeled cart (wheel breaks) --> Wheel barrel --> Sledge --> Crate --> Boards --> Nothing. Imagine you are taking out
the water cart to fill up the pouches and it busts a wheel, but you manage to limp it back home.. Do you fix it or does it keep degrading
until your descendant is laboriously dragging a sledge, when it happens to him that crate would need to be fixed to be retrieved. This
is cool shit and you don't even have to draw new art, only a reaction.

If each step takes an hour or less/more for some you can make upkeep into a viable occupation instead of us just drowning in items.
This has the added bonus of all of your new content becoming jobs for people to have.. People would probably like this, they get to
feel useful.

Seeded plots can eventually grow on their own. Carrots can turn into wild carrots if in the right biome as can wheat and both can die
off eventually (maybe hour?) if not in the right biome. Soil laying out untouched for long enough can just disappear.

Some seeds do not seem to despawn, none should last longer than an hour. No food should last more than an hour.

Fences can rot (or just slowly walk backwards through the stages for art free, temp solution), those floor board roads should decay
over time too. Let us make roads but make us also upkeep them. Make road builder a job someone can do.

Animals should NOT live forever either. Horses and Sheep should die off just like people do.

These sorts of changes can fix the problems of clutter and people stagnating while also making the game a richer environment for
people to live and work inside of instead of robbing them of their agency and all sense of legacy.