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futurebird

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Registered: 2019-02-20

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Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

Second town today with a car! And the language thing has more people messing with the radios and paper... time for this IMO:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OneLifeSuggest … ore_books/

Anyway. I'm just happy to see more cars and more places to refuel cars. Made my first one today... I didn't do all of it, but I made an engine not knowing the town already had a pump... so what the heck! Had so much fun letting people try it out.

Last edited by futurebird (2019-05-16 21:21:37)

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ThatGuyWhoDoesThings

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Registered: 2019-05-04

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

how is it working?
ive been in three towns that died from lack of water
yeah, its working all right

RodneyC86

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Registered: 2019-05-11

Posts: 467

Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

how is it working?
ive been in three towns that died from lack of water
yeah, its working all right

Actually I also saw a town with an engine for the first time in a month play. I think necessity drove us to advance and learn engines. I'm encouraged to save an engine craft cheat sheet by this update too, hope to use it at one point. I'm just anxious someone seeing me fiddling with the engine parts clumsily as griefing

Booklat1

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Registered: 2018-07-21

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

how is it working?
ive been in three towns that died from lack of water
yeah, its working all right

Hmm yeah, thats what happens when people dont make engines

even without water people can migrate

Spoonwood

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Registered: 2019-02-06

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

I'm not seeing the connection between the water nerf and cars, or radios for that matter.

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futurebird

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Registered: 2019-02-20

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

Diesel engines used to be rare, so most of the tools needed to build them were kinda rare too. Now more people are building engines.

I think the radios are more related to the language update-- but mostly it's been paper not radios.

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futurebird

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

From JK on discord. Paper clutter really is a problem!

Paper should decay after 2 hours in to "old paper" which can be burned. After 6 hours "old paper" will vanish. At the same, time this change is made we should get the ability to bind an unlimited number of papers (and photos if they ever become in-game objects!) in to a book. Books should last forever. I even know how the recipe would work:

Making a Book:

• put a rabbit skin in a bowl of water and get a "wet rabbit skin"

• scrape with a flint chip and get "rawhide"

• sew with a needle and thread and get a "book binding"

• put a paper(old or normal) with writing in the book and it becomes page 1, add as many as you like in the order you want them or take them out of the "binding with pages"

• whatever is on page 1 will be the title of the book

• when the book is done sew again with a needle and thread and no more pages can be added. Now you have a "book"

• Books can be stacked in groups of 4

• Books can be dyed like clothing in any color

• Books last forever, possibly even after an apocalypse

• A Bookshelf made of a rope used on a stack of two boards can hold 8 books in two rows of 4

Reading a Book:
Pick up the book the title will be your speech bubble For example ":Town history and lore by Futurebird" Right click on any tile while holding the book, page turn sound plays and you "read" the next page. To put down left click where you want to place the book.

I've thought about this a lot! It seems like a novelty item, but it could create continuity and history for towns. And we need a way to bind dictionaries and books of laws!

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jasonrohrer

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

Basket for paper?  Box of paper baskets holds 12 paper.

BladeWoods

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

Idk about a book, I just wish there was a way to erase the words on paper and write something else on it and/or just some way to get rid of written paper. Paper clutter is a big problem.

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futurebird

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

Basket for paper?  Box of paper baskets holds 12 paper.

they get out of order. And baskets decay... And books would just look so cool--

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MistressZues

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

Basket for paper?  Box of paper baskets holds 12 paper.

they get out of order. And baskets decay... And books would just look so cool--

book! need a book for sure! maybe kill a cow for leather then if you sew stack of papers to leather wala a book!

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RodneyC86

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

We need shelves too

Then we build a great library with massive hallways with rows of shelves. Fun

Oblong

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

Jason. Baskets decay. It still causes clutter for paper.

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Tarr

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

I mean you also need to know which way to put papers in a basket to make a story make sense (which sounds silly.)

If you set a basket to the right and only right click you take items out in this order: Furthest most right, left, middle.

If you set a basket to the left the order is: Left, right, middle.

This means you take out the last item you put in the basket, followed by the first, and then the second item which honestly means unless you memorize this weird fact of basket storage you're going to be putting books in baskets in the wrong order.

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futurebird

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Re: Paper has a purpose at last! Time to revive an old suggestion....

We need shelves too

Then we build a great library with massive hallways with rows of shelves. Fun

This is my dream! I love the basket libraries that people make some have even suffered and made a sign that says "Library" -- but even with the baskets and boxes if the town is very old the papers end up scattered and out of order... Maybe... if that kind of decay is part of the feel Jason wants you *need* to put books on a shelf or they fall apart after like 8 hours?

Though, I think they should just last. It would condense paper clutter, and make it OK for paper that isn't in a book to decay which is much needed. Just having paper decay would be sad... but we all can agree it becomes clutter.

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