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Talk of "theft" is absurd in a game where crafting an item from scratch is rarely done by only one player.

Say for example you fed six sheep to make yourself an apron.
You did take a bunch of berries and carrots that maybe someone else planted and kept going. If it was you who planted those carrots and berry-bushes, then well done.
Although you most probably ate food that wasn't made by you. Even if you only ate from wild food sources, painstakingly gathered on your own it's worth considering that the wild resources belong to everyone. But we're all responsible players here. We all usually leave more food behind than we consume.
Now getting that apron still require someone to make shears and sheep-pen and I have yet to met the player who is able to singlehandedly;
1 - Leave more than, or equal, the amount of food that they ate
2. - get the basic tools to plant berries and carrots (clay bowls doesn't get used up, but I still consider myself indebted to it's maker if credit is to be given where credit is due).
3. - Plant said carrots and carrots (or just gather enough wild ones)
4. - Do all the steps required for sheep
    - pen, bow & arrow, etc
5. - All the steps required for shears.
    -  forge, goose, file, etc

No one here has played truly alone and gone through all the steps by themselves single-player, like just ran away naked as a kid and started with nothing and still managed to make an apron before the clock ticks out.

What I'm trying to say is that this game is meant to be played in a manner where we all build upon the achievements of our predecessors and peers.
Therefore the concept of ownership is absurd.

But communism is never gonna work out blah blah blah blah

I can't believe I spend so much time writing on a thread that everybody is totally fed up with. Who the hell is gonna read all this???

More advanced water physics are really crucial in a civilization building game.
Water and how it is managed is everything when it comes to creating civilization as it is virtually the foundation for all life.

What if the Q can be used to signalize the possibility for initiating forum speech?
Like if someone just types you "Q" you can potentially just reply; "sure" or something, to show that you are open for abbreviated dialogues.

Getting the perfect temperature just right can be tricky if clothes are involved and finding the perfect can be a hassle under the time constraint of certain situations.
Sometimes there are also other factors the parenting player knows about and the freshly spawned baby player is ignorant about that makes bad tiles preferable over perfect temperate tiles.
Lets say for an example that a bear has been spotted and you want your baby to stand on an item-occupied tile rather than the perfect temperate one or maybe lets say that the parent player is focused on something which makes the perfect temperate tile less favorable over an other chosen one for the circumstances?

I can hardly remember these myself to be honest.
What redeems them, though, is that their meaning is easy to figure out, when there is some system behind it.
Example; all abbreviations that are starting with the letter "W", are then always to be used in order to know the location of something.
This makes sense because of all query-words (what, when, why, who, which..) "where" is the only one of these which should be useful to a player who has just recently spawned.

Now that the first letter has been decoded, the second can be attempted at, which in these examples are;
"i" in "WiW" and "WiSP"
and "r" in "WrrH".
The second letter is naturally a verb and in this context, but what if, for ease of understanding, we made it so that the second letter in every single abbreviations is a verb?

Thus;
WTiB - "We Talk in berryfield?"
YHM - "you have moment?" or maybe YHT - "you have time?" for simplicity

from;

The last letters of the abbreviations should be made so they are easily guessed at and not confused with others. It's still not perfect, but perfection is an abstract idea which doesn't even exist in this life.  ... Or any of them.

Yes, I too definitely smell some murdergraves in this closet...

Would be great if one of the dogs could herd sheep...

Now, a tech-update with craftable technology to improve the surivability of the ingame community, should always be evened out with a counter obstacle or challenge.
The ability to kill wild animals has come at the cost of being safe from harm from other humans, the horse and carriage has come with the cost of having to travel further to progress.

I think now is nearing the time to add general food decay and food conservation tech.
Carrots, cactus fruit, meat, eggs, stew, etc, should each have their respective storage optimization or else they should decay like berries do. To counter this challenge such an update poses, tech to increase food accessibility could be implemented. Tables to allow a tile to visibly store several cooked dishes on plates or in bowls on said table tile, barrels to safely, but less visibly, store fresh produce (yes the labeling idea suggested above would be very useful here), some kind of packaging technique for bringing cooked meals with you in your bp, glass jars to hold juice and jam, shelves to visibly display conserved food (or whatever), meat smokery and salting to conserve uncooked meat.
In addition some primitive storage techniques are also needed, such as simply storing meat and eggs on cold tiles and drying fruit and appropriate produce on desert tiles or maybe even stashing some in dark, cool, bear caves (that are empty). This would daunt our newest players, but berry bushes would then again always be there to keep them safe and sound.
BTW does sheep eat food or crops when they are loose? I read it once ingame, but I've actually never seen it.

The world of OHOL is a simplified one without most of the challenges of our own. Thus each tech update could be added with the introduction of a realistic, previously ignored, real world factor, which is an obstacle to be overcome.
An other possible challenge could be terrain obstacles such as rivers and ravines, thus creating the need for bridge construction and other such tech.

I'd also like to see more advanced buildings some time in the future. Is it just me that find it odd that people build houses without roofs?

Ok! I admit; some of these are actually so derpy-looking that it's actually kind of cute.
Please ignore the examples you'd find to be 'kind of cute'.

Good idea Pein! You guys definitely need some identifiable attire to broadcast your condescending identity to the world! Wouldn't that be super?? Some pre-appointed swag for the leader and some humble, but uniform garb for all his followers.

The horn is a great idea for keeping a group together when trekking for a new home. Haven't you ever wished that you could just emit a small sound to alert your family of your presence?   ... A more eve friendly implementation however, would be if just typing "aaa" could cause some sound to originate from your character.

Wait..
Wait.
Just hold on.

Aurora Aurora but M?

No. I mean the letter M. Just the alphabetical letter. Was it invented? Did it occur by chance?? TELL ME!