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I can't reproduce this on my test server....

Looking at the code for this, it's super simple.  If you're not standing in your homeland, you are skipped as a potential mother.

Sounds like a bug.  I'll fix it this week.

It's a tough one.

I am a little worried that yum becomes OP.  Like if you can manage to eat 20 unique foods in your life, each new unique food you find is automatically +20.

Would definitely encourage exploring more of the foods in the tech tree.

However, I worry that if it's too OP, it will have the opposite effect.  If players are so over-YUMED that they don't need to eat much toward the end of their life, they aren't "exploring" any foods at all.

Furthermore, I don't have a good lever to pull to adjust the power of YUM, right?  How do I tweak it down if it's too strong.

I mean, I guess I could apply a hidden scaling factor, but that makes it confusing.

Being almost out of food is way more interesting than having way too much food.

Milk is currently totally broken, and could feed the whole village easily, but no one is drinking it.  Instead, I see 50+ berry bushes in every village still used for direct eating (instead of being used to feed animals and thus make more water-efficient foods).

Anyway, I've lived a few lives myself where we were ALMOST out of water in an advanced village.  It was tense and exciting, and a few of us banded together to save the day at the last minute by fetching a cart of buckets from a distant pond, to buy us more time for making the next rubber gasket.

That pretty much never happened before...

The point is this:  what I did in that life, and the choices that I made, actually mattered to the fate of my village.

I was not bored.

Look to the left/right along the ley line shared by your well.  There are iron veins where that line crosses grey biomes.

That is all.

Also, if your village founders weren't careful, you may (in rare circumstances) have no iron veins to the left or right of your well.

I'm fixing it this week so that you can dig a second well later, to unlock your family's iron, if this happens (only the "first well" unlocks iron, currently, but this week, it will be "the first well that actually unlocks iron", so any wells that don't unlock any iron don't count).

It is true that the current radius for curse blocking assumes a huge, spread-out world.

I'm trying to bring it all closer together.

I'll cut the curse-effect radius in half as a start, on Monday.

Can someone make a github issue about this in OneLife?

Constraints are the game.

Constraints are what differentiate a game from everything else that is not that particular game.

Would monopoly be way cool if you could move as far as you want each turn or what?

OHOL was originally pretty doughy and formless.  Eventually, it will be carved out of wood.

And the argument here is what?  That oil is so valuable that gingers will never trade it?

Evidenced by what?  By only ginger villages having water pumps?

VOG survey says brown and black villages also have water pumps currently.

Please email me for a refund.

For certain things, you already get a "bonus" for co-op, because you can smith more stuff on the same batch of charcoal, or bake more pies before the over burns out.  That's a natural, emergent thing, of course.  But you do see people co-oping that way in-game.

The problem with making the large-scale (between village) co-op optional is that the cost of that kind of co-op is SO high.  You have to find the person, talk to them, etc.  In order to balance it, the trade-off would have to be huge.  So huge, in fact, that why not make it impossible without co-op?

I'm not sure about this!

It was also put in place before the "YOUR BABY IS A BRAND NEW PLAYER" info message.

Walk along ley lines.  There are muddy iron spots wherever the ley lines cross the grey biome.

To unlock a muddy iron spot (as Eve), make a well site (place 10 stones on a spring) nearby on that same ley line.