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There are a couple things going on.

My family trees are updated from daily (as in once every 24 hours) data dumps. The names seem to lag behind the birth/death information a bit, leading to numbers, but should be available the next day.

There is bug with the official lineage site where some lives are not recorded, creating breaks in the lineage. We suspect that the lineage server wasn't updated to handle the longer last words.

Main lineage site only records people on death, so there may also be temporary missing links with people still living.

The minimum expected is to keep your kids alive. We all realize we can't play unless somebody feeds us. Beyond that it varies wildly depending on what both mother and child want - some people want a relationship, many have done this a few hundred times and want to move on.

I generally ask my kids if there is anything they want to learn, and perhaps if they know the power of yum, especially if new. The ones who want to learn are fairly rare, and there are often new children and other emergencies to deal with, so it can be hard to teach. I could probably do with some improvements both in questions and offering information on the town and situation.

I look for free clothing, sometimes a bit outside town where people die and don't get noticed. Occasionally I make clothes when I see materials available. If we are short, I sometimes give a kid piece of clothing or two, because the first one makes a noticeable difference. But I may have more kids, so have to kind of ration in that situation. I'm more likely to give away my clothes to a new player. As one yourself, depends on your comfort level with survival. People who beg/demand tend to make me less generous.

Incidentally, baby gameplay is one of the areas the game designer feels is lacking. He doesn't take many suggestions, but does occasionaly pick something up and run with it (e.g. leadership system) if you've got some ideas to make things more engaging for mother and child.

One of my thought experiments was separating players by experience. server1 takes everyone for their first few hours and so on up. They would be surrounded by people just as lost, but also much more able to relate and pass on recent discoveries. Then you go up a server and encounter players a just a little bit more experienced, but still pretty close to your skill.  Vets could custom server down if they wanted to teach. Player populations would never support it unfortunately.

Some of us remember the early days where pretty much nobody new how to survive. You'd hang out by some berry bushes and maybe try to get some farming started. If you were the last male, maybe you had some time to try and figure out a few steps of smithing or how to start a fire.

I also remember seeing some streamers say they were frustrated getting dropped into an advanced town, and wanted to try and start from scratch some time so they could figure out all the basics. I think they had played earlier versions and were a bit used to that style though.

Cocoa. Chocolate bars. Chocolate ice cream. And chocolate milk as he takes away milk container yumming

My main baby overloads were early camps on server cycling. Those numbers have been adjusted, and I don't think I've played that situation since.

Haven't been too overloaded lately; had one childless life. Extra babies can be troublesome when trying to teach a new player. Often I'll try to work with child, but get overwhelmed with more and go back to the fire.

I agree you can't have absolute fertility control when players need get into the game. But some players are overwhelmed, and others pine for children that never come. Perhaps we could express a preference, without having to hamper our own survival. Right now the options are:

Homeland (absolute block) - constrains your movement and activities.
Clothes - if you want to reduce your fertility, you have to increase your food use.
Heat - maybe standing around a fire (or out in the cold) isn't what you want to do.
Yum - kind of essential for survival now, somewhat limited by how fast you get hungry, and currently not possible to reduce.

No. This is why people get mad at runners - they could have died and spared you score.

Often this is deciding factor for me:

Accidentally clicked login? /die.

You abandoned me? Darn right I'm sticking around to ding your score too.

The flat stone is a nice signal, but you don't actually need it for domestic bait. Just bowl + pouch. Perhaps pouch + snare storage would suffice as signal. Not good space for skinning though, so you'd kind of need two rabbit stations.

I have this in my mod, but I haven't worked out to limit to "known" names. Maybe people you've ever moused over? Mentioned names would be a problem because one of the motivations was Ugochukcachowhatever - somebody would have to type it correctly.

Jason hates searching gameplay. Maybe with iron guidance stones.

Stupid idea: iron deposits on grid, not linked to wells. Everybody can get a little iron; only whites can mine deeper; scatter mining expert stones throughout badlands.

More seriously, Jason wants problems, not solutions. If you want to pursue this, focus on the "Iron is too abundant" part.

My experience is that towns have some iron, sometimes little. Mostly there is enough, rarely hard out, and I wouldn't know what to do if we were out and needed some, short of go look for dead towns to loot.

The alpha players are certainly disenchanted. I've several times seen new and returning players show up the discord and get told to leave and not play the game. Sometimes this is their own conclusion after the new mechanics are described (not in the best light)

Voice Of God is the little bit of admin features Jason put in that lets him jump to different players, make speech appear anywhere, and set any cell to any item. As far as we know, none except Jason has access to this mode on his servers. So, VOG is Jason.