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I'm curious about this change, Jason. I thought the main intent of the lineage lockout was to reduce baby abandonment/suicide. This change brings that back to the table.

To be honest, it should just link straight to OneTech on the versions page whenever it updates.

I once had a bit of a brain dump about what I thought were the problems with the game. It's probably somewhat out of date, but if you're curious/desperate/inundated with spare time: click

Some reasonably fundamental/large scale changes that I think would improve the game:

Trade
At the moment it doesn't exist because it isn't necessary. Every village has the same opportunites. I think there should be a few major industries that can't exist in the same place, most probably because they rely on resources spawned in biomes that do not exist within proximity of each other. At the moment it's pretty easy to find a nice intersection between all the biomes. If there were some biomes that could not exist close enough to each other, then there would be need for trade. I have a couple of ideas for how I think this could work. I'll detail them elsewhere. Click

Industries
This is really just a corollary of trade. At the moment, all tech is the same everywhere. It would add a lot of variety if there was a distinct industry associated with the village that you're born into. "Oh, I'm in a coal mining town this time. Cool, I haven't gone coal mining for a while." Someone tells you the farming village is northwest, the iron mining village is east, etc.

Nations
This would probably be the biggest change, but it's one I want to experiment with as a mod at some point. It's probably completely against the overall vision of your game, but I'm throwing it in here for discussion and to generate ideas. People always bring up the topic of war and it's always noted that there is no such concept without a sense of loyalty/belonging to/owning a small portion of the world. My idea is to choose a nation before being born and you are only born to people within that nation. The Eve distributions are started at some distance from each other, but as the spirals grow, they will eventually overlap, leading to conflict.

Fatherhood
This is a recurring one. I've already done it, so I know it can be done fairly easily.

Low tech anti griefing measures
This is my crusade. Again, I've already done this and I know it can be very easily implemented. Low tech, easily accessible measures for incapacitating individuals, requiring multple people to utilise. Griefing is one of the most fundamental problems driving people away from this game.

Lower food consumption when standing still
This one's not really a huge change, but it would definitely help with communication. If you didn't have to worry so much about starving to death while talking to someone, players would be a lot more capable of teaching others, which would help immensely with fostering co-operation and easing the learning curve.

I made the mod as an answer to the problem of males being unnecessary. It's not uncommon for players to kill their male babies because of this. I wanted to make an incentive for keeping at least some males around.

The current birth mechanic is nice in that it avoids all issues to do with sex, consent, rape, incest, etc. It's very simple and pure. I wanted to introduce a need for males while disrupting this purity as little as possible. That's why I didn't include any kind of consent or action involved, I just used proximity, up to a minimum distance. Within that distance it makes no difference how close you are.

I then added an Adam spawn since if an Eve spawns in the wilderness and the nearest adult male is nowhere nearby, she won't have any babies, and the server would end up being populated entirely by solo Eves. Then after that I updated the lineage system to track mother and father and calculate relationships from that. In the case of being related to someone through both mother and father, it takes the closest relationship. So yes, incest is a thing, but it isn't portrayed anywhere and doesn't affect anything. If your father is also your uncle, you will just see him as your father, so you would need to ask people how they are related to other people to be able to work out where the incestuous relationship took place.

I have made a mod that adds fatherhood to the game, but it isn't hosted anywhere yet. It can be though.

Awesome, thanks!

Some more context: I've made a water mod that introduces a water biome, streams and a new object property of being able to be placed on water or not. Objects can be rideable and go on water, i.e. boats. I made a quick recipe for a raft made out of straight shafts, but the problem I have is a visual one. When a player is riding something, the legs are not rendered. The idea is that the player is meant to be inside something. It's kind of a shortcut since legs change length etc. as the player ages, so it's just easier to not draw the legs.

So my raft, which was supposed to be stood on, looks totally wrong now. So a coracle would make more sense as it's something you sit inside of.

A coracle is basically a round boat made of wicker or short branches as a frame and then covered with something water tight on the outside. Animal hide is the most common. Then it is propelled with an oar.

So ill leave it up to you guys to draw what you think looks best and then I'll use it to showcase my mod.

Thanks in advance!

I don't even know what they are.

I keep saying it and I'll keep saying it. The only advantage that good players have is teamwork. We need ways to stop griefers that require teamwork.

#57 there is a new forum thread complaining about griefing

It can be lethal, but doesn't have to be. One person smacks someone else with a stone and nothing happens. But if two people do it, then that person is incapacitated for a short time and drops what they're holding. Voila, griefer subdued. THEN, they can either kill them with a weapon (probbaly the one they dropped, if they had one) or let them recover, or keep bashing them with a stone to keep them down until they starve, or give them time to talk and argue their innocence or whatever.

Oh, I was just running some modded stuff for testing.

I'm not running my modded server any more since the useChance update. I might recycle the content into a new mod at some stage but for now it's not running.