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That was the naros, two families with similar names right now. My family line still appears to be fine, though we're down to only one of them still surviving, hopefully a lot of new shit about to show up in 5 minutes or so.

Edit: Made gen 20!

This is easily the longest family line i've had any meaningful credit for, though it made it down to only one of my 6 daughters carrying the line some time ago. It appears the family is really solid though.

edit again: appears update killed them twin girls died with no kids, most recent elder deaths are 10 years ago, all adult deaths are Eves. And i'm doing other things now so missed a rare chance to play as Eve or in an Eve camp

sad, i finally get a family line that could go on a long time.

yeah I couldn't find the stdout.txt file, just the readme file that mentions it.

Is there a place I can upload my wild bug game? The wild bug game was 70MB.

But next time I'll watch that and then actually quitto getyou the small file.

wow, it being a 7 day cull makes it especially incredible how little people travel out of civs. If I run off as a girl I'm usually seeing newly spawning areas and no sign of human life well before i'm old enough to give birth.

my memory from when it was added (for a while it was the center of human made objects, and there was little decay, so basically you spawned in huge cities where nothing needed to be done all the time) is that it starts at 0,0 and just does always get larger. I don't think a normal server reset should restart the spiral though, cause then wouldn't ancient walls and empty clay pits been everywhere etc?

Or did it change now so anything human eyes don't see for hours resets? [well, displayed on a humans screen, obviously]

even so, you'd think that would mean a new spiral would run into all sorts of land people have been to. Though, how lose to civs ones finds spawning rabbits is always surprising.

I had a Chinese mom yesterday. She was kind. I probably should have stayed around to teach her, since she said she was pretty new. But I decided to run off and try to start a new camp. I did at least make pies to run off with, so my mom saw that.

I ended up only having one daughter who stayed, and she had no kids stay, but my daughter was a noob and i kindly taught her important things, like making fire.

She was noob enough she cut my long straight shaft for firewood at least once, i think twice lol. I saw it the second time, then explained when holding the next one. She also saw me make some pottery, and do some basic agriculture. Live to be 32, which isn't bad because we were in a really treacherous spot for mosquitoes and wolves. She ultimately starved right next to berry bushes.

I've spent quite a few lives trapping rabbits. Honestly, I'm never going to be someone who does a lot of high tech stuff, it's not who i am in real life, i can operate machines but my interests are in agriculture animal husbandry, etc.

I'm always trying to figure out what's best to do to help a family survive, and giving the women backpacks is a good option. i mean. people still inexplicably starve all the time, which shouldn't happen with a backpack and pies, but there's not more I can do about that, than giving a player a backpack with a pie in it.

As a man recently i've been more often taking a horse cart to gather iron and look for lost civs.

But if I'm in the city, I usually spend much of my life just making sure things don't collapse, and i end up taking care of the berry bushes past childhood a lot, which is just annoying.

I end up doing a lot of composting, or delivering a lot of grain to the kitchen, etc. Basically kids tasks no one else is doing.

I have played as a baker quite a bit as well.

Recently I've been playing as a stewmaker, including growing the crops. It's surprisingly hard to get people to eat stew, but i'm going to try harder. It's a lot less stressful having one task, and as long as there are stewpots, none of the good players will starve in a food crisis...

...but still, unless i leave camp, I just can't stop myself from spending a bunch of time keeping up the gooseberry bushes. I'm gonna try harder to get my kids to do that, because kids who are living among the berry bushes should be at no risk of starvation, and i have terrible survival rates.

It makes me sad the game is flat, because in China there's this area, or at least used to be, "The Gravelands", where they farm on grave mounds, where they've put thousands of years worth of ancestors. I keep wanting to be able to do that, but there's no obvious way i can think of to add height to this game.

Still, a buried grave could turn into a tilled row after an epoch or something. Then the one use iron is worth it, as you'd otherwise have to til it.

i still want to be able to use them as a resource. Lots of fertility in a corpse. both could be an alternative method of making soil, but also grind them into powder.

Something to remember here is food isn't actually that scarce. People worry about overpopulation, but i an agricultural village that's only of bad players.

in my life i produced the 4 bowls of stew, did 3 sisters farming, as well as making  a fair amount of compost and spreading soil, taking care of quite a lot of berries, and doing all sorts of odds and ends as necessary. 

I'm not a particularly efficient eater, and i clearly produced massively more than a lifetime worth of food.

People who haven't yum chained don't actually understand how worthwhile it is. Maybe not if you're spending all game doing it. But a green bean bowl can be eaten from 6 times. if everyone only uses that as part of a yum chain of 6, it's ultimately produced 5 over the amount it's normally worth.

A bite of popcorn is what, 1/10th of a corn plant, so 1/10 a cup of soil, and 1/10 a cup of water, one use of hoe? and we have fire powered wells now and compost produces what, 21 bowls of soil out of what, 4 1/3rd cups of soil and, and 3 1/3rd cups of water and 2 1/3rd uses of iron implements? AND you get 4 mutton pies per compost batch. If anything, the main argument against other foods is that mutton pies are a byproduct anyway.

Point is though, soil is not actually scarce if someone takes the time to make compost.

And how could stew be a bad food? it takes one squash, one corn, and one bowl of beans. so 2 1/4 soil, 3 1/4 water, and one kindling. I'm not sure how many uses it gets, but it's, but quite a lot, and it's cheap to make.

Regarding numbers of plates and bowls: that is an issue. In that same game I did spend my last hours collecting some clay, there had been kind of a chronic shortage of plates and bowls, especially as my bowls of stew were getting left all over.

i would add, in another game i ran to the kitchen area to tell people berries were out, both so they would know for necessary things and so no one would expect them when low on food. Once i said it was scared of getting stabbed for being a berry eating noob. Fortunately the person just told me were stew was, and I was able to say I was informing them because i was making compost, not starving.

Seriously though, to anyone decrying chaining the yum bonus. by the time you get to 10 it is enormous. I was playing up my yum and went through like all my fertile years on one chain. Granted, i was wasting some time running for onions and whatnot.

But in a camp where people are doing jobs, there should be a lot of foods. These small foods like greenbeans, popcorn, mango slices, bread, or heaven forbid, eating a carrot, can create a great chain that leaves you way more productive.

I also don't get why people hate on bread so much. You almost always have extra piles of grain lying around. It's a convenient food for people to eat, helps with yum bonus etc. The math of it doesn't seem to be messed up to me, when you figure grain is usually a surplus item. Also when you figure the old and young and not wanting to wait til you're about to starve. I remain convinced people are dropping dead because they're scared of wasting a few pips, when food ISN'T SCARCE [well, of course it is in the economic sense, it isn't in the sense of there being a shortage]

I'm gonna play a few more games as a stewmaker and see if i can convince more people to eat stew. Even if dropping off bowls and saying "eat stew" doesn't seem to be enough.

I've realized this is also really worthwhile early game and everyone waits. these seeds are easy to collect, and for 6 soils and three tool usages you can get a bunch of food.

Also i'm going to start trying to force my kids to work in the berry fields, as opposed to letting them do whatever. Adults shouldn't have to do that job because it's a waste for people who can go farther from food, and my kids are always dropping dead of starvation, which there should be like no threat of in the berry field.

Anyway, we really, really need to be able to stack and carry mixed and matched bowls, and put them in carts. If it is the habit to be leaving stacks of food bowls near the berry fields etc Even three to a basket of full bowls would be better, though it would look goofy. It's also pretty ridiculous that we're running back to grab bowls of grain one by one, like wheat was never transported in woven baskets?

We really are wasting too much energy maintaining large berry fields, but they have to remain full for compost and sheep, and people eat way too much of them granted, i probably eat more of them than I should, but mostly only when i'm working on the field or it has a yum bonus. Still, if i've made a bunch of batches of compost and fetched water and moved bowls of soil and watered them etc i don't consider it a problem if I eat some of the berries.

A thing to remember here is Jason's intention was to create a system where we didn't just eat the same thing constantly, like in our carrot farming days etc. He did a pretty good job with the yum system and whatnot but there are two problems

1) Tons of people who play this game just are obsessed with numbers and efficiency. The idea was that eating a variety of food would make the game more realistic and less monotonous
2) More importantly, mutton pies need to stop being a necessary byproduct of survival. The obvious solution to this is that sheep produce dung when they go from sheered to wooly, instead of when lambs grow up. This also allows a vegetarian village that only keeps a couple of lambs for wool...we've all wanted cultures to vary more.

squash seeds and some others already do this. that's why you see bowls with seeds on them. That carrot and milkweed seeds can't is just ridiculous.

You can also plant wheat from a bowl of wheat seeds btw

Yeah the line made it to my great great granddaughters, there wasn't more i could have done.

I really think it suffered from the nightly logoff, because my daughter had 4 daughters live to childbearing age, for like 64 years of combined fertility or something, and had a total of 12 children or so.

Whereas my daughter and I both had 10 children, though only one of mine lived to adulthood, though the circumstances were harder than my daughters impressive 5. [I never have 5 children live to adulthood.]