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With one kerosene you can run the plow 24 times. If you till five rows each time that's already 120 rows, and you can till much more than 5 at a time if you build your farm around using plows.

This would be a straight up griefer buff.

People that die before you reach the age of 3 don't affect your score.

Also, if there are fewer than 15 players on the server where they die, they don't affect anyone's score.

The problem is IMO iron. You can only get iron from the first homeland you make, which means two things:

1) If your family settles in a suboptimal place it's as good as dead which moves the spawning further west.

2) You can't build outposts of any kind to make the distance less jarring by building towns between primary homelands.

The iron revamp introduced so many issues to the game without really adding anything interesting. It was supposed to make iron valuable and precious but it kind of did the opposite - every new family creates more iron, and families die more often because surviving is more difficult, which means surviving families get to scavenge iron from dead families.

Mouse over your temperature bar to see your hunger pip los. If you're indoors you'll see the text 'indoor bonus' in the same place where the mouseover text usually is.

Bear caves don't respawn, hunting them to extinction is always a good idea if you have the time.

I played in that town at that time as well, I was born during the bear bloodbath and we managed to kill Maged and all the bears when we got older. He got about half a dozen curses that I saw (probably more from before I was born).

Updates usually come out on Thursdays.

Next Thursday is June 11th.

June 11th is the birthday of late actor Gene Wilder. He's well known for his portrayal of Willy Wonka in the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Willy Wonka was also played by Johnny Depp in the 2005 remake of the same movie.

Johnny Depp is known for his portrayal of Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Pirates of the Caribbean is based on Disney's theme park attraction of the same name, which can be found in the Magic Kingdom theme park in Florida (and other locations).

Florida is known for its large alligator population, and alligators would make sense as another hostile animal in the Swamp biome.

Since the update is most likely coming out on June 11th, I think Jason will make it a thematic content update related to Gene Wilder's birthday, which means we will get alligators.

That well was actually claimed - it was claimed with a family that didn't have a last name, i.e. an unnamed family. Unnamed families are quite rare but homelands end up being confusing when they happen.

If the well said 'abandoned' then you could have claimed it just by interacting with it. Since the well was already owned by a family, nothing you did would have claimed it.

Sure, they're dead, but there's nothing stopping them from respawning and coming back to that exact same town. You kill them, get 15 minutes of peace, and then they're back at it again, no consequences. This would be a griefer dream come true.

When it comes to too many babies, I think there are two separate issues.

• Getting too many babies that you can't possibly take care of them (this has been mostly taken care of with recent updates)

• Having too many children means you can't dedicate enough time to all of them, which in turns means you don't care about them (this happens ALL THE TIME)

In most situations, having only one kid makes for more meaningful experiences with that one kid. You live for 60 minutes, 46 of those after entering fertility. With one kid you can dedicate a maximum of 46 minutes to one child. With two each gets 23 minutes on average. With five kids each one gets nine minutes of your time on average - and that is assuming you spend the ENTIRE life just interacting with your kids, doing nothing else, which is very unlikely.

Some thoughts:

BB cooldown
I think the baby cooldown right now is fine. It makes for funny situations and memorable moments. If you know you're fertile, you KNOW you might get two sudden babies at any time, and you should prepare accordingly.

Max BB limit
What if the BB limit was not a static number, but instead adjusted dynamically on the fly? What if, when choosing a mother, the game calculated the total age of your currently living kids, and if it's above, say, 40, it doesn't consider you as a potential mother. This would make it so if your kids die, you get more babies to replace them. But if you take care of your first two or three kids well you'll reach a point where you won't get any more and you'll be able to dedicate all your time to your existing ones.

Homeland gene score exploit
The homeland mechanic is primarily there to stop one family from permanently moving into a town into another family. What if mothers outside of their homeland could still have babies, but only boys?
What if mothers were super-fertile until the age of 25 and could have babies anywhere, but their babies born outside of the homeland could only have babies inside their homeland?
What if mothers that gave birth to no kids, but the game tried to give them at least one kid and it failed due to them being outside their homeland, got a -1 gene score penalty after they died? [Failed to spread genes, -1.0 gene score]

I agree 100% with testo, iron is much more rare than it used to be. Not only is it more rare in its raw form, but many iron items that used to be common are rarely seen these days. Only some doors have springs whereas springs used to be the standard for every door, knives are not as common, blowpipes and bottle making stations are rare, and any rails you might see are much shorter than before.

Jason wanted iron to be a limited resource that runs out.