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small tip for starving out babies: feed and name em n place em on a shit tile n ask em to stay. stay away from baby long enough that itll starve n itll stay there till its too late to unleash the bears
if it moves to a good tile n survives then uve got a smart baby worth raising
we have had a lot of efforts to place guards around important areas. the problem with that is that having someone patrol around takes up resources. not just food or time, but a good player. and if u have a shitty player thats just a weapon thats about to get into someone elses hands. that and the fact that most guards turn out to be assholes are the reasons why you never see any useful guards.
but ppl with knives should always be prepared to revenge kill and i agree on distributing knives. i hate when ppl hoard all the knives since theyre tools with a purpose. only arrows should be kept in one place in case of bear
This thread has devolved into a shitfest. Get it back on topic or it will be locked.
please lock it. i beg you
startafight wrote:I am Pharo wrote:What do you want to be when you grow up?
i wanna be a dentist
What a noble occupation. Helping others, and saving lives.
I wonder what hihibanana wants to be one day.
evidently a second rate therapist. or even a high school counselor
What do you want to be when you grow up?
i wanna be a dentist
ive never used reddit before but i imagine it looks a lot like this thread. anybody here smoke weed?
ty all. i set up round here

the image doesnt show but there were 2 ponds on the desert biome pretty close to each other n around 5 more to the left within a reasonable adult walking distance. n there were a lot of foraging n food down south.
i guess they didnt kno that deserts consumed less food but it just frustrated me cos i had to tell her twice to set up on desert. the first time i moved all the dirt by the pond (seen in pic) n then the second time she tried to set up further from the pond on green (even though i explained the first time that desert consumes less food)

^ where i started setting up patches of farms


^ where she started tryna farm. though she did only plant milkweed on the massive plot even after moving it to the desert... idk why it was necessary in an eve camp tho we had a lot of milkweed. i guess its fine tho, for the future n all
lineage: http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … &id=909303
tfw u spend 10 minutes tryna find the perfect combo of desert/green/swamp n then ur kids wanna set up farms on green
i think someone did a post with math in it a while back but honestly all i remember from it is that its better to set up farm on desert n it consumes less food. so kids pls farm on desert. especially since were all so prone to being nude forever now so we dont need to worry abt overheating
if im using outdated info pls let me kno
ive only had good triplets once. that was when i adopted em as a male right after the play with friends feature was launched. they did good work n always said "ily dad" which was cute. that was until i died then they went on to kill a few ppl. otherwise ive only had shitty twins
tbh id prefer having ppl who sponge while rping than sponging in silence. while its frustrating watching ppl do nothing i think just killing everyone who does takes away from the fun of the game. i just played a game where i was the only girl in the camp n i popped out a lot of newbies n kept a whole lot more than i generally think is wise (i think i kept around 5 and 4 lived to adulthood).
i couldve slain all the grandkids who did nothing but eat berries but that wouldve been a boring end to my life. instead i spent the last 10 minutes screaming "water!!!!!! water the berries!!!!! water em!!!!!!" and it got a lot more kids to start doing shit instead of sitting back n munching.
ofc we still had munchers but i think communicating with ppl is part of the fun. whats the purpose of killing someone without telling them why they died? they wont learn from the experience n itll take longer for them to grasp the basics of balancing fun rp with actual contribution.
either way, everything comes at a price i suppose. i let the kids do whatever n now i can see the starvation deaths climbing in my family chain. but if i killed em a lot more wouldve run off n maybe the line wouldve died out anyways
however i did see a kid a few games back just standing in middle of a berry farm holding a bowl of berries. doing nothing but eating em. he didnt even dirt or water anything he just ate. i suicided out of that run right away
MultiLife wrote:I'd also like to know why exactly it is a thing. When I got told people can swap my stuff off of me as I get old, it just made me stress out when I am getting older: I have to be alert in my elder years so I have enough time to pass my stuff on...
Just like real life.
Better hurry up and decide who inherits your stuff, or get taken advantage of and picked clean by human vultures.
yep ive just started giving away my stuff when i start to get grey n lose hunger (unless im going out of town) n then ask ppl to murder me at 55. havent had shit stolen offa me yet
just give it a few days as soon as stone roads are removeable that will change...
cause stone roads are earlier available than wood floors... you dont need a shovel...
thats why people use roads to stop ppl from planting more berries...
but if that roads will be made removeable, ppl will change them into wood floor...
pretty sure jason said hes going on vacation for a few weeks. will take a while for change
It's been happening with me too... people claiming to be me while griefing and using my Eve surname. It would be nice if we could track them down...
tbh i dont trust ppl who declare their forum names at the start. like maybe at the end of a good life an exchange like "hey im [name] on the forum!" is cool but like..... randomly declaring to be someone i would never trust.
its such a strange way to troll tho... why try "tarnishing reputations" unless they wanna come on the forum n be like "this person was mean to me in the video gaem!! Dx im gonna start a hate chain!!" lmaooo
im sure this is frustrating n i hope this guy stops but....... thats kinda funny lmao like why impersonate u???
i saw some idiot toddler force feed 3 pots of stew to adults cos "stew is griefing" apparently
Awh you added my bread and milk guide <3
it was rly more of an info dump than anything but I appreciate it--
its all good stuff!
lots of new players again. boosting this so its seen.
cool! their lets play drove me crazy. it was like watching sports!
its funny how these posts pop up now and again with ppl coming to the same realization. there was someone a while back who also got dramatically sad abt the way they played the game:
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1107
if u wanted reasons for why those ppl may have been killed well
- someone else named their baby - abandoned babies sometimes grow up to grief n kill their moms (for rp), or the camp may have been in middle of a pop boom n so they didnt want to keep the baby and contribute to a famine
- someone wasn't watering berries fast enough - this one can either be that the killer is a dick or the waterer was rping too much (people hate rp! its so fun tho
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- someone added too many berry plots - this one is actually one of the bigger reasons for famines. when ppl put all resources (and space) into making massive berry farms that require 10 people to keep it takes away resources that can go to making carrots and wheat and corn (which are now also vital for animals and composting for more dirt - without dirt = famine! always!) and the person who brought dirt will now need to go out and get more dirt b/c instead of using the resources to upkeep the farm theyve spent it all. or maybe the person was gonna use the dirt for some other purpose. idk but its been pretty well agreed on that massive berry farms are living famines
- someone refused to give them a crown - this ones also just plain old rp
- someone asked too many questions - depends on the kind of questions. some ppl have bad experience with question askers who turned out to be griefers. in one of my other lives a girl kept asking questions and i found it cute so i gave her my stuff but she was murdered shortly after my death cos she didnt shut up ![]()
- the new baby was a boy, so it was easier to just kill him and hope they got a girl - this one depends on what the state of ur colony is. did u have only women in their mid-30s and no young girls? or one young girl who is new? then ur colony *needs* another girl to keep going. it seems mean but sometimes its necessary
- they had a butter knife that allowed mass murder - this ones just plain ol griefing
i think there was a tutorial a while back for how to create ur own server. if u wanna set one up and post it as a relaxed server that might work, or u might get trolls flooding the place just to make it inhospitable for kids ![]()
not sure if words can be censored or such in this game (i cant code for shit) but the behaviour of players really cant be controlled... maybe put them on 2hol? their community seems a lot more peaceful just b/c it has less ppl in it. or any of the servers with less ppl i suppose (servers 3+ generally have less ppl playing on em. there was some way to see how many ppl were on each server but i cant really remember rn...)
there were a couple of threads back abt how to select ur own server n idk if it still works but heres the two i found just from googling
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=572
https://www.onehouronelife.com/forums/v … hp?id=1468
and heres a list of private servers, not sure how many are still active
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=689
how to make own server, not sure if it still works
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=507
What is this? Toxic AF.
hes a troll and an idiot. let him have his fun saying dumb shit w/e
dying on field doesnt get rid of items anymore
Maybe experienced people are equally to blame for towns dying then. Too many people think they are "above farming".
yep just doing the same thing over and over is boring n that contributes to ppl not wanting to farm, which i totally understand. sometimes when i kno a town is farming too little/ being griefed by sponges/ being murdered and im born female i just run off to forage till im grown n then return to the decaying civ to repopulate it. cant save em all but sure can save the line
itd be a lot easier if farming wasnt such a boring chore. its just annoying to do cos ull get waves of babies that swarm into ur farm, eat up everything, n never help. maybe when plows are introduced itll be a lil more fun n more ppl will want to do it
male. i hate caring for kids n would rather spend time teaching 1 person a specific task
every single one that comes up to me after babyhood saying "f" but is too big and die a second later (please just keep food on hand!!)....... also myself when i get lost in complete gear cos i forgot to make home marker
edit: also the kids who ask how to do things but then die right after i explain it to them or just run off and never come back. i will help if you let me!!