I have seen the perfect town

futurebird · 2019-03-10 21:55:36

Everyone was chill, working, but not angry or frantic. I didn't feel the need to put out any pies because there was so much soup and other foods. I planted a milkweed garden as a show of good will. It all got picked but then it was replanted! Without asking. Everyone had clothing and the only flaw was the berry field was a bit dense. What was nice is it wasn't too huge. Just about right, still needed pumps and they were being made when I was there.

Someone had planted a lovely mango tree garden in a pyramid shape, with roses as well, it was watered but not fully grown, so I watered some of it again. The smith was in a large stone building north with no floor, the nursery had no walls, but the fire never went out. There were chests filled with a variety of pies.

I thought the town might die out, but just before I died two kids were born I gave them both wolf hats.

I don't know why the population was falling, everyone lived, the women were warmly clothed. But, it was still nice to see just about everything working nicely.

What is the nicest town you have seen recently?

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antking:]# · 2019-03-10 22:07:12

well their was one town which had a nice and open community they had a field of compost and trust me it didn't look nice but this town was efficient!
I choose to be a nanny this life... sigh this was a town of dedicated parents.. just imagine this your talking to the next gen when out of no were five moms rush in (all at once mind you) and feed all the babies! even though they already had a care taker, all the moms were like "love you" or "kiss hug" but the worst was an old woman! so their was a milk maker who would make like three buckets of milk then disappear again bless her soul this would have been enough for me but this woman heard "feed on this" and force fed every baby the perfectly good milk! I wouldn't mind if I wasn't their to take care of the kids but I was their and we waisted so much milk! I think we went through 12 bucks because "miss milk" couldn't stop herself from feed a baby when milk when they lost one hunger point.... sight the waste of resources killed me on the inside I wish this town would just leave kids alone for once! ahh so as a logical person I left my post and committed subside! Pease

happynova · 2019-03-10 22:13:35

Towns where absolutely everything is getting done and working smoothly and without drama are a rare delight.

I was in that one a few generations before you, and it was a good place then, too. Well, except for the guy at the end who was utterly convinced that the best way to seed carrots was to leave a single one per row, and refused to listen to reason about it. Where do people get these ideas? He's not the first person I've seen with that weird notion, and he kept yelling at me to "read the guide," so I'm wondering now if someone's actually written this misinformation down somewhere. I didn't have too much time to spend arguing with him about it, though, since I was busy dying of old age. But I'm glad one guy trying his hardest to waste an over-large farm's worth of soil didn't manage to ruin things for the future.

pein · 2019-03-11 06:37:23

a town is stable after having pen and tools
i think the fun starts there

sometimes people turn into overdrive see me working
i just run aroudn and drop the hints what we need
its fu nto plan out a new farm, make it, and watch people extend it, getting boards, getting ropes, running compost, etc.

breezeknight · 2019-03-11 08:39:15

i've never been to a town which would have been well running, sorry

i've been once to a town with one huge crossroads going through it, north-south & east-west, that was the best i've seen, they had kerosine in far south, wood in west

i've seen some patches in towns which were a good foresight, like planted tree area, once even someone was intelligent enough to plant all sorts of trees but didn't manage to plant juniper, so i wanted to make that, but never came back to do it because the town was lacking in the other, more pressing areas

every town has the same difficulties now - backpacks, clothing, compost, plates, bowls, tools, carts - lacking town layout
very few manage to get behind one of those problems, like managing well the compost cycle or the clothing
but since the temp update i was to no town that would have been comfortable to live in, i am constantly pressed to either compost, get rabbits or get clay for plates & those lives are already the better ones, cause at least productive

also with the rooms now built often i've been to some towns where those are just either badly planned or badly built, because either too small or too big or with those problematic doors or have no nursery which makes then the bakery or the forge to a semi nursery hindering the production of necessities

been once to a town with both : a bakery & a nursery !!!, where i could direct the mothers away from the bakery fire to the nursery & tell them they should make fire there, cause they didn't have it

& it still is a huge problem, that a pottery has to share space with a forge, if there is a forge, then plates & bowls get rarely done because players prefer to smith & not do claywork

i am trying to find out how a perfect layout of a town would be, so far didn't succeed at it
the basic chores just stand in the way

i am also trying to do as much useful things as possible but as IRL, everybody there has to participate in that endevour, it doesn't work as a singleplayer
i am realising life after that i am only one person & if the others are useless, then the town will falter, i alone can't save it
a well running town is a result of a multipersonal effort, that lesson is loud & clear, i hope more players will realise that & instead to grief or just stand asking what to do they start learning by watching, many things i know i have learned by looking how others have done it
the power of observation in this game is still highly underrated

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fragilityh14 · 2019-03-11 14:45:50

regarding the clay and smith being separate: there is a near infinite demand for charcoal, it's pretty damn easy to fire a few plates and bowls before throwing adobe on the kiln.

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