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Well, you still don't want people randomly eating the berries because then you can't use them for sheep or compost. And the thing with berries, seeding carrots, and milkweed is that, for all of them, if people who don't know what they're doing come along and pick them at the wrong time it could mess things up to one degree or another, so i think there is an argument for having all of these more removed from the main carrot farm. I think a good strategy would be to have the main carrot farm removed from the fire/town center, with food left in baskets near the fire so to discourage people from hanging out at the farm if they aren't a farmer, and then the more complicated plants on the opposite side of the main farm from the center, with some space between so if people do wander over to it they'll hopefully just stop at the feeding carrots and not go further to mess with the other stuff if it's not relevant to their job. Fences to separate them could be a deterrent too, once they're available.

In the last few camps I've tried to start I'll put the farm in the marshlands near ponds, and fires/tools a bit away in the grasslands near a juniper and a leaf tree, with the plan to have the seeding plots/berries/etc. further into the marsh so they're still near ponds, but I've never lived long enough to get to that step, so who knows how or even if they evolved after I was gone. It's hard to effectively organize things when you're there such a short time and then others can come in and do things differently and you never get a chance to try out the whole strategy and see what does or doesn't work.

oh, darn

There is no desert biome, the yellow areas are prairies.

Another, slightly simpler suggestion that I thought of:

When you fill out your food bar currently is says "Full". Keep this as is, and if you're missing food but eat more calories than necessary, it still says you are Full, no penalty, and whatever benefits it currently has if any. If you eat again while "Full" though, it says "Overstuffed" and the outline of your food meter squares become red. Maybe you walk slower while overstuffed too. If you eat again while Overstuffed, you will die.

Technically you could still keep just waiting to drop to one empty food bar and then eating, but that takes more patience and it slows people down so they can't just shove everything into their mouth as quickly as they can grab it, so you will have time to react and it will likely be enough of a deterrent for trolls who just want a quick laugh.

There are supposed to be more sprites eventually. I saw Jason say somewhere that there are supposed to be more skin tones eventually, currently there are only 2, and your children will be your skintone or slightly lighter or darker to one side. When that's the case it will be a bit easier to tell who's who and also who is likely part of your family hopefully. I wouldn't mind it saying "mother" "brother" "daughter" etc. when you hover over people though, where is usually says the names of items. Or even to be able to type a name/title for someone to go in the space, so if someone tells you their name you can make a note of it yourself, or tag an adopted mom as "Mother" if you wanted, but I'm guessing that's probably a bit too much to ask for.

Another thing, with the graves, usually if you walk out of a room, and then come back and suddenly there is a dead body there, if it was someone you knew you would recognize them. In game, unless they were wearing clothes no one else was, like a wolf hat, or if you're in a small settlement and can easily account for everyone who's still alive, you can have no idea who just died. It'd be nice to know that random skeleton was your mom and that she's not just out gathering milkweed or something. The ability to distinguished could only last a short while, like a minute/year, and then revert to just "grave", so you'd still have to stumble upon them before they've decomposed to recognize them, so the game wouldn't have to permanently store that extra data.

Ooooh, I just thought of something: wool dying! If you could make different colors of clothing that could help with differentiating people. Add water to bowl of berries, mash with sharp stone to make pink dye, add to wool, then that can make pink wool. Add another dye to pink wool to make red wool. Now depending on which you made, you can make either pink or red yarn and use that to knit. That's three colors right there: white, pink, red. Now one person might have a red hat, another a pink shirt, someone else one pink booty, one white. A ton more variation from that alone.

I was in a one-carrot settlement this morning, built a garden a bit away and tried to tell people to keep it for seeds. One person caught on and tried to help tell others, but there kept being too many new people and they kept getting eaten. Saw one person, told them not to eat them, and they we're all "but it was for the baby!" and i told them no one eats, ever, or we all die, and someone just told me to calm down. -_-

gathering wild milkweed can often be very helpful, as long as they know to only pick fruiting

If you are growing wheat, you can and may need to grow berries in order to make compost. If you're using berries for compost, it negates the fact that they use up a soil, as they can actually become soil producers if you make compost with reeds, which are renewable.

Edit: Also, domestic berries do regrow, but only after they have been emptied and then watered again.

I usually word it at "animal families" as i think it's slightly more clear (maybe?), but someone asked me what that meant once and I explained "animals with babies" and they seemed to get it.

It takes awhile to learn things, I've been playing since release and there are still things I don't know how to do. Today I learned how to make compost for the first time. I try to teach how to do the things I know when I get a chance, feel free to ask if you see someone doing something you want to learn. In one village a man taught me how to bake pies, and when I was old I taught another child how to make them, spreading the knowledge.

It's a journey, just try to learn or get more comfortable with something new each time, the most important things to remember at the beginning are the Laws as they prevent ecological collapse. Other than that, if you are born into a civilization listen if people tell you things not to do.

I was born to a small settlement on a sliver of grassland, with a robust farm in the marshlands. As a child I tended the fire for my mother, carrying branches and chopping tinder. She grew old and soon the only survivors were myself and two older brothers. One brother was a trapper and tailor who sewed us all full sets of clothes. The other was a farmer. I took it upon myself to be a potter and baker.

We had an unusual shortage of reeds, so I trekked to new marshlands to bring adobe home for a kiln and an oven. I sculpted bowls and plates that I then used to make pies with the farmer's produce, the trapper's meat, and wheat that my mother had left before she died.

My brothers began to die of old age until I was alone, and in my last few lonely years I put together a forge for whoever might stumble upon our little home to perhaps grow from what we started. I passed away of old age in front of my life's work, proud of what our little family had accomplished.

(I love reading everyone's stories here!)

I found myself alone in the wilderness, I had a child once, but they were quickly lost. I wandered looking for food and shelter and finally came upon the abandoned beginnings of a carrot farm in a small corner of grassland bordered by wetlands full of ponds. I began to build up the settlement and soon I had a son. I built him a fire and sewed him a loincloth and he soon grew to be a capable young man. He took over the running of the farm, which became prosperous. I spent my time raising children and building an oven and a kiln which I used to make pottery. I had several other sons who all died young, and no daughter to continue our work.

I was growing old and my son decided he wanted to set out to find a woman to bring home and grow our settlement. I told him I might not be there when he got back, but he made me promise to try. I spent my final years taking over my son's work on the farm, preparing some pies I never got a chance to bake, and finding and skinning a dead wolf I found hidden behind a tree. I wanted to make a hood from the pelt for my son when he returned, but I died of old age shortly after bringing the hide back to camp. I hope after I was gone he was able to return with a family and make use of it.

Maybe they are interactions that people attempted that failed? Like tried to put a carrot in a basket, but failed because the basket was already full. Or tried to craft with two items that don't combine together.