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Right. So AFTER he was cursed to DT, he retaliated... and so he deserved to be cursed in the first place? Way to blame the victim, snowflake.

Heh. Earlier theorycrafting on a small outpost. It could easily be expanded to a larger area. Of course, it's going to take several lives to get the trees grown.

It's definitely a good thing to know about. Thanks to both of you for sharing!

Bob, bob bob bobbob bob. Bobbob bob bob Bob bob. Bob?

Did you light the torch before dying? That's how you finish the tutorial.

Rings have been the fashion since jewelers got involved... and since it used to be necessary to pay people to take your surplus daughters off your hands. It's called a dowry. The 'circular shape signifying endless love' is just marketing copy from the diamond merchants.

In general, I'm not against the idea of rings. Having them display on your character might be an issue, though.

Inbreeding is bad in the real world because of the possibility of reinforcing negative genetics, like porphyria or hemophilia. There's no genetic component here. Any complaints about 'incest' or 'inbreeding' are just role-play.

Personally, my head-canon is that the Apocolypse that originally removed all traces of man's works from the world also modified humans; males now emit spores, and the females breathe them in and become pregnant. In such a situation, incest becomes irrelevant; it can't be controlled, because you're not responsible for those free-floating sporm. (Spore sperm...)

Also, there's no reason your children should lose ties to their family. The tracking in the system has nothing to do with your name, or else nameless kids couldn't be displayed on the family tree, nor could kids who get 'adopted' by being named by someone unrelated.

By 'forename', do you mean your last name (surname)? Or your personal name? Forename would seem to imply changing your personal name, since 'fore' means 'front' (or alternately, 'leader' in the case of foreman).

I don't think a change of surname is needed, although having the option might be nice. Actually, in general I'd like to see a few more naming mechanics, like being able to name yourself if you're nameless when you become a young adult.

So... I don't really see this adding to gameplay. We already have RP marriages, and people declaring 'so-and-so is my father'. Do we need mechanics to promote this, or can we just carry on the way we are?

There's serious holes in the early game (for me). I don't think, even with the knowledge people possess today, that we'd be making steel again within a generation. It's possible, in some parts of the world, but for the most part I think we'd still be scratching out a Stone Age existence 100 years hence. It's not a matter of knowledge - it's being able to make the tools to make the tools we need to make the things we want. I'd prefer that Jason take a look at that and perhaps provide alternative tools that we can use without having to rush a forge. (Not for hoes - we have alternatives for that - but for shovels, most notably. Not being able to transport dung any other way is ridiculous.)

Steel smelting isn't exactly rocket science, true, but being able to get the smelter hot enough to actually melt iron so you can alloy it into steel takes a bit more effort than just slapping an adobe kiln together and adding a bellows.

The game itself has no copyright. It says so in the install folder. Do what you want with it.

Correct. Lineage ban is lineage ban, regardless of source:
- living past 30 in a lineage
- being murdered
- committing murder
- using the /die command
... I think that's the lot?

If there is no lineage ban due to player count, you can /die to each other all you want. Might be a way to get bones for a grave pen.

*snap* *snap* *snap* *snap*

(Seriously. I got a very beat poet vibe from that; I can almost hear Mike Meyers reciting it now...)

Nice and amusing, thanks for posting!

Exactly like that. It's more time-efficient, which means less food wasted while laying out arrows. As an Eve, I use them to point the direction I'm travelling until I make camp, then I make them pointing to camp while I'm out foraging and/or scouting. Not for me so much (unless I forget my home marker again XD), but for others.

That is the problem with it, but it's not a hard conceptual leap. Especially when it's something like two milkweed seeds and a carrot seed. They can't just have fallen like that... it's a sign! And you only have two choices of which way to follow it, so... flip a coin.

This is more a rough-and-ready way to indicate "I was here, headed *this* way" than a permanent signpost, since I'm generally removing tree limbs (pulling them to reset the timer on the trees) and picking milkweed... so there's plenty of material.

I saw it... I just didn't feel like chiming in.

I was curious; I knew that method didn't originate with me, but I didn't remember where I picked it up, so I went digging. I found it here: Nomadic life. You also contributed to that thread; I'm surprised you didn't pick up on the trick then.

Radio telegraphy was used quite extensively during the early days of radio, mostly for ships at sea; it's easier to get beeps through than clear voice communications sometimes, especially with early radios. And of course ships can't easily drag cables behind themselves to keep a telegraph line open.

A spading fork would be ideal for digging up potatoes, I'd think... and then looking it up, it's a very similar tool called (naturally) a potato fork. In the interests of having a general solution over a specific where possible, let's just call it a spading fork. It could be also be used for other digging tasks involving turning over soil, such as refreshing a fertile soil pit or digging up adobe stumps and/or clay, but not for digging out rocks or digging pits or fence holes.

Knife and Stomper, tools we already have. (Fewer recipes to add means more likelihood of seeing something like this...)

Mashed spuds... hmm. Place 3 peeled potatoes in a bowl, add water, set on coals to boil. When finished, smash with rock to make Mashed Potatoes (12 servings of 2 pips {+2 bonus for 4}). Add butter... hmm. Currently only butter recipe is using knife... maybe use 2-4 uses from the bowl to improve MPs to a base value of, say, 4?

Potato patties could be as simple as frying potato pancakes on a hot flat rock... two peeled potatoes in a bowl, add an egg, mash or chop (as with other baking) and pour onto hot rock. 4 uses, each makes a Potato Frittata (9 pips +2 bonus for 11).

And a good old-fashioned chowder sure would hit the spot! Take 4 potatoes, place in a bowl, chop with stone or knife. Dump into crock. Add a bowl of corn kernels and a bowl of water, then put on coals. This becomes your Cooking Chowder Base. Then mix a bowl of flour into a bowl of milk to make a Bowl of Cream Mix, and pour it into the Cooking Chowder Base to make Cooking Chowder. Allow it to finish for a lovely Potato Corn Chowder (8 bowls/crock, at 8 pips each +2 bonus to make 10.)