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PeaGirl

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From: Finland, Oulu

Registered: 2018-08-09

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Tips for learners.

Simple things you'll need while crafting. (Recommended to see these items through in tutorial to get to know with items.)
- Sharp stone, simply use round stone on huge rock to sharpen it.
- Flint chip, flint rocks (small white stones) often found in forests. Use sharp stone on it to obtain four flint chips.
- Milkweed (string, rope), all found in or near forests, suggested to pick at least one milkweed while fruiting, so you can scatter milkweed around it for future usage. Others you can pick for quick efficiency, as long as seeds are possible to find. (When you have sheep pen with sheeps, DO NOT use milkweed farm for strings only, because sheep's wool can be used to make ball of thread with spindle.)
- Shafts (curved, straight, yew), use these to make your first tools. You can also use cut shafts to make kindling later. [I suggest this for kindling maker to take on note, because you can bring 2-3 curved shafts, or short shafts (not recommended), and make 2-3 kindling with stone hatchet or steel ax (if ever possible, only stone hatchet)]. Kindlings can be stacked.
- Basket (Very crucial for your survival, do not underestimate this!), within few hours of your spawn as eve, or toddler in village, having basket for fetching tasks is important. If village cannot provide you one, or you are alone, use sharp stone or flint chip to cut 2 reed spots to make your own basket.
*If you have to, you can cut 2 wheats in savannah and hit the wheat with uncut straight or curved branch to obtain wheat stocks, which you can combine into basket.
- You can make adobe by combining reed bundle or (hit) wheat stock on clay. Adobe, you need 3 adobes to make your own kiln. You need one extra adobe for future forging. Use round stone on one of the adobes in spot, you wish to put it. It MUST be in open space, so it is easier to organize.
- Wooden thongs, simply use flint chip on cut long straight shaft. You need one for pottery, two for future forging.

Fire:
- You can use hot coals to cook various things, like [rabbit, duck, fish. For this use sharp stone on sapling and use skewer on any of the raw products said above.
- You can burn paper or milkweed seeds on fire (not recommended, unless paper has "Gush gush, goes the blood", then burn it.)
- Should you need fire for cooking, and there is already existing fire, make fire somewhere else nearby by using long shaft on fire and using shaft on kindling, then use the older fire that would become hot coals first.
- When you find out that trees are cut and there is firewood and logs around, only use firewood on small fire. This will make it slow big fire, that will sustain warmth for 4 full minutes before it becomes small fire again.
DO NOT put butt logs in small fire!!!
- When you are baby, and there is no desert to stabilize your temperature (Deserts are brown.), remain near fire and do not move away from it.
  *If mom or anyone else tries to put you away from fire, they are either noob, or just trying to kill you.

Farm:
- You can make tilled row used for farming by using either stone hoe or skewer on pile of soil.
- basket full of soil contains 3 soil piles.
- Before tilling, sort soil piles into 2 piles each to make tilling more faster. It is wasteful like, but it is more wasteful if you spend tools twice on single soil pile.
- Although simple, you need to find as open space as possible for berry or carrot farm, potentially between forest and swamp, better if near desert.
- It is not mandatory, but it is highly recommended to have more than 3 ponds in or nearby swamp area. Because in future water will become important factor for food production aside iron tools and compost.
- When growing gooseberry bush, you need flint chip to cut gooseberry on ground to make it seed. You cannot eat the seed, but you can plant it on tilled row. You must water the seeded soil with bowl- or waterskin of water, to begin the growing process.
  *Plants won't grow by themselves without water. This is also important to note while growing carrots.
- When growing carrots, they will grow into full sized carrots in 2 minutes, after it they will begin seeding in 5 minutes.
  *If carrots have grown and there are no carrot seedheads anywhere, let them seed. After they are seeding, you must pick up the needed seeds on ground, because seeding carrot row will remain for 10 minutes.
DO NOT water all the carrot seed rows and leave them behind if you are not intentionally gathering them later!!

   There are exotic food types you can gather, when your food source is somewhat stable with sheep pen and working compost.

*Teosinte, found in savannah. Pick seed head from it with hands and put on tilled soil row and water. It becomes corn.
     1. Corn is not ideal for eating as it is. (Although, you can use dried corn ear on bowl and put it on small or big fire to make popcorn, which gives better amount of food.) Starknight
     2. It is also ideal to let corn dry on ground and be used on "Three sister stew" cooking method.
     3. Use flint chip on freshly picked corn and let it dry. You can still eat it until it becomes shucked ear of corn.
*Squash, found in savannah. Pick seed from it and put on tilled soil row and water. It becomes domestic Squash
     1. Squash is not edible, and is first ingredient in "Three sister stew".
     2. You need to use flint chip or sharp stone on rip squash, and pick up squash on empty plate, and hatch it open with stone hatchet or steel ax.
     3. Make sure you have at least one bowl reserved for squash seeds, because seeds will disappear in 5 minutes!
     4. You can add more squash seeds in already existing bowl of squash seeds, so no need to put them in other bowls.
*Beans also found in savannah, pick bean from the plant and put it on tilled soil row and water.
     1. Beans are not edible, and it is second ingredient in "Three sister stew".
     2. Beans is slightly tricky to use when cooking, so try to adapt to the method from Onetech or from veteran player before attempting to handle them.
*Red Gabbage (Not red, but dark blue) you can find plant from black area we call badlands.
     1. Like carrots, red gabbages seed if left alone, so they need close attention.
     2. Gabbage is used for "Sauerkraut" cooking method, which is really advanced comparing "three sister stew", because of usage of "kraut board", which requires planks and three blade stack. Very useful for toddlers as source of food.

I will expand this if necessary. Also if you want to find out more, look in https://onetech.info/

Last edited by PeaGirl (2018-11-14 13:17:21)

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Starknight_One

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Registered: 2018-10-15

Posts: 347

Re: Tips for learners.

It should also be noted that dried ears of corn can be used to make popcorn, which is great to have around for toddlers and the elderly. It also provides more total food value than just eating an ear of corn.

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Tea

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Registered: 2018-04-23

Posts: 341

Re: Tips for learners.

Great tips, nicely written !

It's also important to leave space in between berries for example : 3x3 , 3x4, 4x4, etc. so that later you'll have some space to put down water buckets and soil.

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