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Was it video games that did that or they just became the venue where people channel their energy after it was blocked in other places ?

Morti wrote:

Roolstar wrote:

And sometimes, consider suicide at around 55 or 56, especially when in a relatively poor colony, you're consuming much more than you're contributing after that.

This is wrong. There is no reason to suicide, if you find a warm place to stand around. One berry gives you five pips, at balanced temp that's over 100 seconds; one minute and 40 seconds. At 55 you have the 4 base bars plus 5 others. You eat one berry, carrot or piece of pie at that age and those 9 pips will last you 3 mins (9x20=180, 180/60=3) then you eat one more berry at 59 or 58 when you are down to one pip and you have 5 or 6 left, which is more than enough to get you through the next 120 or 60 seconds.

If you think your family is so desperate for food that you have to prematurely die on them than you are probably not paying attention to your temp meter often enough and are probably the reason for that. You're probably standing in deserts in fur, or standing on a cold tile after you've given all your clothes away.

It's no wonder so many of your towns struggle with food, when you and the people your bad habits spread to, are in them.

You uderstand. Being old is like being a baby.  Find perfect temp and wait it out.

forestglade wrote:

YAHG wrote:

I hope this update doesn't turn my computer into a Mac too!

Actually, I remember how you said you raise all your children because it's hard. Would you do the same if a quad appears?

Sure why not, you gonna be dead in an hour anyways. Faster with 4 babies lol..

LOL. Now all you need to do to grief is spawn as 4-man.

Morti wrote:

If it were any harder, I'd love the challenge that much more; were it easier, I might just say a few more words each life to my family, and maybe get to know some of you for the real people you are, but there is plenty of time for that in lives yet to come. In this hour, this life, we have to make every action matter most, for all those who've yet to come.

you are the light of my life morti

Stankysteve wrote:

The desert is only an extreme if you're wearing any clothes. The snowy biome is extreme only if you aren't. I like it that way.

Ummm actually the desert is really hot even naked. you also have to be black ??? Not a good place to life.

Michigan

jasonrohrer wrote:

...but how do potatoes fill a niche? What's the niche?

You have water, you have soil, you have time. Maybe it's not what the player gets from the food that you should be looking at, but what the food needs that you should be looking to expand on. People have already mentioned PNP, now, more often referred to as NPK; nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. But that is probably beyond what you want to add. I get that. So make adding ash from fires a thing, make adding legumes or clover a way to fix nitrogen (without specifically saying that), make adding bones required for phosphorous. Later you can make them mineable or found out in the open the way you're doing with iron, alum or limestone, or just add them findable off the bat.

But that's not what I really wanted to hit on. There must be some other factors you can add to growing, add to the game, that can bring with it's own niches. Sunlight is the first thing that comes to mind, but , with the way biomes are scattered about, it wouldn't make much sense of some biomes had certain amounts of sunlight while others had less, with the way they are scattered about the map. Biomes have temperatures though, what about making the plants growth possible based on temperature ranges? Humidity is another thing that comes to mind. The landscape is flat, so you can't really add altitude, but you could simulate it somehow. Maybe the tundras could be some equivalent to high altitude and the deserts just the opposite?

None of those things in particular are what I want you to consider, but things like that, that can vary from place to place randomly, over large swaths of land the same way biomes do, or randomly throughout a biome , the way ponds or soil placement do. Maybe the greatest food in the game can only be generated based on some rare factor that is only as common as a gold vein or a monolith. Maybe it's based on some biological even that only occurs rarely; the equivalent of whale fall to seafloor, or a monsoon.

The environment determines what grows there, and what grows there determines what food chains exist, and what niches foods serve peoples diets around the world.

Maybe we got a swamp with more frogs, maybe they got a prairie with more chicken. Some things can be farmed, other things depend on the regeneration rate of the biome and the organisms in it. You already kinda do that with rabbits for pie. Have more factors come from the environment, either via living resources, or via inorganic ones (like the NPK) or some kind of natural events. You know, the way you made the apocalypse happen? Have something like that occur. Screen changes colors, goes dark, black out, then, the players are back in their world only to find a hurricane has passed through, the fields are flooded with water and certain crops have been devastated. Could do something similar for a server wide drought, like the dust bowl of the 1930's, or a snow storm...

I just have too many ideas on this stuff and I don't want to distract you from what you plan for the game, or take away from any one thing, by suggesting a thousand others along with it.

Natural disasters really sound fun though, but they're not really that related to food.

DestinyCall wrote:

How do you make a second well?    I haven't kept up with the current mechanics, so I just don't do water/iron/oil anymore.

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