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I agree with others in that I don't think it's very helpful to give blanket prohibitions on things like eating corn or putting a flat rock on the last fire. There will *always* be times when it makes sense to break those rules. I was just in a town that had a ton of fresh corn and not a single squash seed for miles. There's no chance that corn was going to turn into stew anytime soon, so you bet I ate some of it to up my food bonus (and, in one case, to survive). In the past, direct prohibitions made sense. If you drained a pond, that pond would never come back. I don't mean to pick on this example, but saying things like "never eat corn" just isn't at the same level. You can plant more corn. If you need to find more teosinte, you can find some.

Maybe a better way to ask the question of "commandments" is "What are the basic principles one should live by to ensure the survival of the bloodline?" I realize that not all of my suggestions rise to this level, either.

Potjeh wrote:

Searching for loose iron is kinda tedious. IMO it'd be best if loose ore was removed and there were only veins, but you could mine 3-5 ore from a vein before it turned to hole and you needed a stanchion kit to continue mining. Stone pick to get started, which should obviously be a lot less durable than the steel pick.

He'd have to make iron veins way more common than they are now in that case, alongside making it MINIMUM 5 iron pre-iron. Given the fact that you need 7 iron minimum in order to get the supplies to mine an iron vein, you'd still need at least two veins to gain the tech to mine them fully. Factor in early iron needs and...

Well.. Think about it like this:

- Your first 3 go towards the obvious: Hammer, Axe, Shovel. Three most important iron tools. You need the axe for firewood so you no longer have to range for miles to get branches for kindling to keep a fire going to forge. The shovel is your key to the compost era, which is where your civ finally steadies. Hammer is obvious.

- Your next 2 will likely go towards a hoe, so you can progress the farm, and a second shovel. Because whoops! the first one broke. Thanks Jason!

- Your next 6 now go towards tools for the iron vein. This isn't factoring in replacement tools, of course, which will probably come up- especially for shovels, and likely a hoe and/or axe. The tools you need aside from replacements are: Adze, Froe, Pickaxe, File, Chisel, Bowsaw. Without these, no stanchion kit, no iron vein.

- By that point.. what exactly do you need the iron vein for? A pair of shears? A couple knives? That takes about 4 iron, out of an average of 20. And the rest? Smelted down and stacked, until someone has a tool that needs to be replaced. Probably a lot of shovels, the occasional hoe or axe, the very rare froe or adze..