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Sounds like you might need to set your screen resolution to something different in the game's settings menu.

Carpentry is easy, fun, and very valuable (and underappreciated).

Yes. You'll probably have to figure out some of the important details on your own.

The temperature update changed the way that snowmen affect the temperature around them. They work like fires that contribute negative heat, BUT they only contribute to convection heat, not to radiant heat. That means that they will cool down the airspace within an building, but they won't cool you down just for standing near them.

This may be a bug. I suspect they are supposed to work exactly like negative fires, both for convection and radiation.

nerfsnowballsnow reported the symptoms here https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … 486#p45486 and betame reported the cause here https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … 489#p45489

I'll report the bug on github and I imagine Jason will fix it soon, although it's possible he intended this.

Yes.

Good point, it's hard to tell. I was being sincere.

Esc + % to quit the game does not kill you, it disconnects you. While disconnected you'll eventually starve and die, unless someone is feeding you. But if you reconnect before dying, you'll simply rejoin your life still in progress.

If you disconnect, you can spawn a new life without waiting for your old one to die by manually choosing a different server to connect to. You'll still be alive on the original server, but you'll get a new life on the new server.

When the server receives a malformed message from the client, it kills you. Awbz' client exploited this to allow you to kill yourself at will; when you press shift-del, Awbz' client sends the server a malformed message, and the server kills you.

The malformed-message-kill behavior was reported here: https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/issues/181 , and Jason responded that this was deliberate. I later noted in that same bug report that it was being used by Awbz' client to circumvent Jason's previously planned behavior for /die.

Thundersen raised the Awbz client "exploit" in a separate bug report, here: https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/issues/194 , and in that bug report referred back to my comments in the initial bug report.

Jason finally got around to considering whether that should be considered a bug or a feature, and brought the question back to the forum, here: https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5381 , and in that post he referred back to Thundersen's bug report which referred to my comment in 0ArturkA's bug report which discussed the root cause of the whole thing.

After discussion in Jason's thread, Jason decided on a new set of semantics for insta-death, and in the process changed the server so that it would disconnect rather than kill when it gets a malformed message, which disabled the Awbz client's insta-kill feature.

Spoonwood, this news post is from July of last year.

Everyone.

lol

Somehow this discussion turned into "what do I do when I need to afk for a bit", and while that's a legitimate issue, I don't think it's really the most important consideration.

So, yeah, raising the top is basically irrelevant, because it affects almost no one. It's nice to know, I guess, that if you're afk standing on a small fire you can be gone for six minutes as long as someone else feeds the fire every thirty seconds, but there's no practical implication for the game. People don't stand on fires, they work.

And while they're working, they're going to have to refill their food bar every ninety seconds. "1:42" isn't practical because if you wait until you're almost empty you will die due to random circumstance. And this is for an adult in the prime of life, and assumes that there's enough food available that they can fill their bar every time they eat. But very often given the food available your choices are to eat once and leave your bar partially unfilled, or eat twice and waste a lot of food just to top off your bar.

Also, the timing of when you eat is not always under your control. If you're foraging, you eat when you come across food. If you're working, you eat when your task can be interrupted. If you're in a village, you eat when your task takes you past the food supply, or when you can afford to leave your station and go to the food supply.

Backpacks, portable food, stockpiles, and food distribution networks alleviate these issues, and are welcome sights to see, but the point is that they are ways to relieve the pressure of an individual's food demand - and right now that pressure is very, very high.

Probably too high.

It's not impossible to get anything done because you are stopping to obtain food every sixty seconds... but it's difficult, and not much fun. A small buff to the bottom end, as you put it, would probably have a large positive effect on player enjoyment without significantly changing the role of clothing or fundamentally making the game "easy" (because yes, it's a survival game, you should be worried about dying!).