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Milkweed god is the only true god. Death to infidels.

The Cactus God is false as well, its fruit may be powerful, but it comes from the land of danger noodles, you see, the cactus god is a trick, a lure, it drags us into the grasps of the many slither boys. Do not fall for this trick my friends, the Holy Berry Bush is all powerful, and purely good.

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by Seth
24.5 hours on record
Posted 2 hours ago
Last Played 7 minutes ago

Tale of the spider god.

I was born into this world and my mom taught me of the spider god, who will bite you and eat your bones.. unless you pray "Spider away! Spider no!" I grew up, and began teaching the spider god's prayer to the children of the town. My mom was reborn and together we continued teaching the ways of our god. Then someone came to town, proclaimed themselves king. When I explained that Spider God was our only ruler, they pulled out a knife. "Spider God protect us!"
I died by knife.

I killed him in that live i was the king. its funny to see this

I made an account just to say that I am indeed the creator of the spider religion and I am so very proud that my children know the wisdom of the spiders (They eat our bones ya know)

Love,
Anti spider mom

Hi,

I caused Apocalypse #3 and #4. I'd like to share my thoughts.

First of all, my motivation was not to grief or ruin anybody's game. I'm sorry if I interrupted something fun that you were doing.

All of the servers had already just been wiped, so I figured that now was the best time to explore the new apocalypse mechanic without being too disruptive. It was also the middle of the night in the USA so it's not a peak time for players.

I wanted to test the limits of just how easy it was to cause this absurd event that erases everything done by everyone.

Once I had the basic idea of what was needed and a monolith located, I joined an empty server and started from scratch. It took me about two and a half Eve lives to build all the tech and trigger apocalypse. (I am very familiar with the entire crafting tree.)

I made plenty of mistakes, so I decided to try again and run it as quickly as I could. The second time still wasn't perfect but went much more smoothly. I managed to trigger apocalypse in my second Eve life. I'd estimate it took about 1:15 total.

Every server has the same map. If you look at coordinates it becomes very predictable where everything is and it is easy to get back to where you were after you die. It's much easier for an experienced player to make progress alone on an empty server than with random players spawning in and messing with your setup, stealing tools, etc.

Triggering apocalypse only has two "hard" parts. The first is crafting the three necessary tools: Adze, Shovel, and Pickaxe. (Adze and shovel are needed for the fence to hitch the horse where you give him his crown.) The second is locating, mining, and fetching the four total gold flake bowls (three for the monolith, one for the crown). Apocalypse should require many more "hard" parts than this.

It's absurd that a lone player working from scratch can destroy the work of every other player in about an hour. I understand that Jason wants this to be a sort of "final boss" mechanic for the player base to work toward when they've exhausted everything else to do. But it currently does not function like that AT ALL. It can be done on a whim by a lone experienced player. It has nothing to do with the community. There is no cooperation involved with the mechanic at all. It's easier to delete everything from all servers than it is to remove an adobe wall, for crying out loud.

Even ignoring the "lone wolf" aspect, the current recipe ignores vast sections of the tech tree. You certainly don't need to craft the entire tree to trigger apocalypse. Here is a list of things that you can completely ignore in the tech tree while triggering apocalypse:
-All clothes (except crown)
-All buildings (walls, floors, doors)
-Sustainable carrot farms (domestic gooseberry, compost)
-Wheat and Pies
-Bow and arrow and all related hunting
-Axe, Chisel, File, Knife, Saw, Froe
-Boxes and Carts
-Mouflon, Sheep, Wool, Shears, Spindle, Dye
-Ridable horses (saddle)
-Wells and Cisterns

For the "end-game" apocalypse crafting concept to be meaningful at all, it ought to require components from ALL of these sections of the tech tree, demonstrating exhaustive knowledge of the game. It should also require coordinated group effort, just like the mechanic for taking down adobe walls. This would likely slow down the apocalypse rate to every few days instead of every few hours.

Although, even that optimistic rate of every few days is ridiculous. Many players are new and learning the game. They must be carefully taught about sustainability and feel the slow and steady progress of gaining mastery of different pieces of the game, being randomly born into a variety of situations. But now they will just be spawning to naked Eves most of the time. Where is the appeal of that? This seems like a mechanic for those who have mastered the game like myself to toy with and feel like gods over all of the noobs. Personally I am not interested in that. I want to be part of a massive effort larger than myself.

And why are all servers wiped by the activities of one server? This seems insane to me. Just wipe the server that managed to tech up, not all of the other servers that are still struggling to establish basic camps.

I don't know what to do now. Should I just keep triggering apocalypse to demonstrate to Jason and the community how easy it is? Should I not bother playing because nothing I make will last? Should I just play as Eve for some quick and meaningless games and and try to teach some noobs the basics of survival in the half of a lifetime they are likely to have before the next apocalypse?

I was bored...

what the fuck?

What?
How can i imagine the apocalypse?