Books to read.

futurebird · 2019-02-24 05:16:48

If you have ever been an old man or a woman who can't have kids old and alone in a village, just trying to set things right in case anyone else finds the place... you might like the science fiction story "Quietus" it's about the black plague and a monk who must tend to his dwindling group of brothers.

Really good moving book.

What books do you think of when playing the game?

fragilityh14 · 2019-02-24 05:24:57

"Farmers of Forty Centuries: Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan"

back when Jason was figuring out the composting formula I wrote a ton about it and still want people to actually read it lol, though it relates to a quite old version of the game now

https://groundandfury.com/one-hour-one- … riculture/

futurebird · 2019-02-24 05:29:45

Speaking of compost I'm kind of sad worms don't seem to do anything? (or am I confused)

I have a box of worms under the sink and they eat veggie scraps and give me free potting soil, which is a big deal in NYC where soil is like $8 for a bag, and I have kind of a large roof garden.

Anyway I'll check out the post.

Grim_Arbiter · 2019-02-24 08:04:14

futurebird wrote:

Speaking of compost I'm kind of sad worms don't seem to do anything? (or am I confused)
I have a box of worms under the sink and they eat veggie scraps and give me free potting soil, which is a big deal in NYC where soil is like $8 for a bag, and I have kind of a large roof garden.
Anyway I'll check out the post.

Worms are for acquiring old boots when you want fish, and fish when you want old boots haha.

As for reading, I don't really read literature, just a alot of informative material. The only author I have read multiple books from was Steinbeck back in school, but I can actually imagine some of those stories portrayed by OHOL characters pretty well.

wondaland · 2019-02-24 14:26:04

I'd say the social structure of this game relying so heavily on female influence makes me think of 'the mists of avalon'. The priestess of Avalon having babies with little heed given to the father, sending boys to the main land and keeping girls to be raised to carry on the tradition. All quite similar to how many towns on Ohol operate.

happynova · 2019-02-24 15:07:35

Sometimes when I'm the last survivor in a town, knowing the place and my family are doomed, and I just carry on doing whatever the town needs anyway until I die, I think of Neville Shute's On the Beach, in which people in Australia are just waiting for the fallout from a global nuclear war to reach them and inevitably kill everybody, but a lot of them just carry on anyway, sometimes planting things they know they'll never live to see grow.

Man, that was a depressing book.

Léonard · 2019-02-24 15:44:18

I've seen some people here mention Children of men.
Though I didn't read the book, I only watched the movie.
Anyone who knows what Children of men is knows what I'm talking about lol.

fragilityh14 · 2019-02-24 15:55:18

i guess i've never thought of Crusoe [or Island of the Blue Dolphins" for that matter, but both are relevant. i had been considering finally reading Clan of the Cave Bear as i really read popular fiction, which presumably would also remind me of this, you know, running around as a young confused chick in furs and what have you.

As far as the worms, they were briefly required for compost. Basically, soil had been a primary limiting factor, but a limited number of agricultural things consumed soil (primarily carrot seeds and growing wheat), whereas otherwise soil was there forever and didn't require tilling.

So initially, under that system, the worms were required for compost, and you only got three composts per soil hole.

This is a much better system, where tilling is the bigger limiting factor and more things require soil. However, I still really want multiple compost recipes, because mutton pie as a byproduct of compost keeps the rest of the food out of balance. [I also want multiple stew recipes]

At risk of getting too off topic (Jason is an avid gardener though lol) how much do you feed your worms?

My mom got me a worm box and i've been kind of terrible about remembering to feed them, and it's also been like a year to fill up two trays. I finally fed them quite a bit more recently, and it does seem time for tray three. I live in the country and work as a gardener and haul shit home so i have a huge conventional compost pile, but i'm going to use the worm soil for my potted plants. btw if you're saying $8 for 2cf of potting soil that is just what it costs.

Though speaking of this, we should totally be able to plant things in clay crocks. Maybe Jason will do that if tomatoes are ever implemented.

futurebird · 2019-02-24 16:04:55

fragilityh14 wrote:

At risk of getting too off topic (Jason is an avid gardener though lol) how much do you feed your worms?
My mom got me a worm box and i've been kind of terrible about remembering to feed them, and it's also been like a year to fill up two trays.

Yeah, I get about 3 trays per year. But you can mix it with existing soil and it will revive it. Growing in worm castings is too rich for most plants. So blend it 4/1 into spent soil, coconut fiber even a little hay.

So every year I can expand the roof garden by a few containers and refresh the others, just by buying some fiber, hay and low grade soil.

It's more like fertilizer than soil, really.

Some people do big outdoor worm piles, there is one at the community garden, and everyone brings veggie scraps, we also chop up the corn stalks and garden debris.

One key is to add some finely ground egg shells from time to time, worm population boom!

fragilityh14 · 2019-02-24 16:54:28

ahhh, i've only been using eggs to reduce acidity due to the little mites. I just compost my spent potting soil. the other thing is there's a spout on the bottom for the worm tea and i've never had excess moisture.

I don't know if it would be way too much to add rot for food to this game as opposed to just despawning, it would be cool if we had worm bins. I really think we can be getting other uses out of these clay crocks.

Edit: I was also just reminded of the movie Fantastic Planet, which is quite a bit like this game in some ways, I imagine Jason may have been influenced by it lol Though I can't easily find pictures that are mostly of the humans, as opposed to the huge aliens.

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