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What if fires lasted longer inside? And I do think Spoonwood and others are right about buildings not really giving the kind of temp bonus that makes them essential. A house with a fire in it should be perfect temp on every tile... not too hot near the fire and too cold away from it.

Fires outside work in a really logical way, you get too hot if you stand on it too cold if you move away ... it makes sense, but this keeps happening inside as well so buildings end up existing mostly for organization. Which is more important than I think you and some others are recognizing. The more I think about how *clean* I was able to make fenced towns-- the more I like the idea of using fences in that way. I just wish I wasn't putting people at risk of being trapped...

OK I just had and idea.. what if you tie who the sword works on to fences? The people who own an area can use a sword on people in that area. (determining what's inside vs. out might be hard)

I'd only like this change if you could batch add people, and then you could add strangers if you liked them. And if you didn't want to get stabbed just stay out of fenced zones.

In fact you could make it so the sword is the enforcement mechanic not the gate, so gates don't lock people out, but if you are inside a place you don't own you are vulnerable to deadly attacks. That seems more realistic to me. A kind of home turf advantage.

Not totally true. Meeting new people is fun and I have chosen to trust every outsider, because it's more fun and because playing with the languages interesting and that captures some of the things I like best about the game. If I get killed I shrug it off and roll again. Which isn't really a normal or immersed way to act. But I just have a hard time getting excited about playing "hate the outsider" or being the hated outsider in a game.

Same. Or at least I don't like it at it's current power-level or the restrictions on who it can and can't kill, that just feels artificial somehow...

As long as the swords are basically magic because they can't be used on everyone I see no reason not to do this. If someone starts a conflict with a bow or knife you can escalate to sword. But once you have done that the door to that kind of violence is open in both directions.

This is my dream! I love the basket libraries that people make some have even suffered and made a sign that says "Library" -- but even with the baskets and boxes if the town is very old the papers end up scattered and out of order... Maybe... if that kind of decay is part of the feel Jason wants you *need* to put books on a shelf or they fall apart after like 8 hours?

Though, I think they should just last. It would condense paper clutter, and make it OK for paper that isn't in a book to decay which is much needed. Just having paper decay would be sad... but we all can agree it becomes clutter.

I don't mind us trying this scarcity experiment... but, it ain't gonna end with trade and civilization... though there may be some interesting consolidation before it burns out. And I'm enjoying developing new ways to prospect. When it gets to the point that you need to spend more than 20 min riding out and 20 min riding back to get iron then maybe we should do an apocalypse and get more resources.

Heck. Maybe getting iron by car will become *required* to keep towns going. Let's ride this pony a bit further.

But there is still a ton of iron out there. I got 3 mines just today...

That isn't always what happens tho. In fact, in every case I've had an Eve come to a town that I was in no one got killed except for when one of my uncles pulled a sword on the visitor and I killed *him*

I think that people will still work together and be welcoming *in spite* of the swords. The question is do we really need the swords to give those interactions weight. They clearly aren't useful as tools to further civilization building ... at least not now they aren't.

I've cursed one of my own family and killed them for attacking a visitor from another town. And I'm so ready to do that again.

they get out of order. And baskets decay... And books would just look so cool--

From JK on discord. Paper clutter really is a problem!

Paper should decay after 2 hours in to "old paper" which can be burned. After 6 hours "old paper" will vanish. At the same, time this change is made we should get the ability to bind an unlimited number of papers (and photos if they ever become in-game objects!) in to a book. Books should last forever. I even know how the recipe would work:

Making a Book:

• put a rabbit skin in a bowl of water and get a "wet rabbit skin"

• scrape with a flint chip and get "rawhide"

• sew with a needle and thread and get a "book binding"

• put a paper(old or normal) with writing in the book and it becomes page 1, add as many as you like in the order you want them or take them out of the "binding with pages"

• whatever is on page 1 will be the title of the book

• when the book is done sew again with a needle and thread and no more pages can be added. Now you have a "book"

• Books can be stacked in groups of 4

• Books can be dyed like clothing in any color

• Books last forever, possibly even after an apocalypse

• A Bookshelf made of a rope used on a stack of two boards can hold 8 books in two rows of 4

Reading a Book:
Pick up the book the title will be your speech bubble For example ":Town history and lore by Futurebird" Right click on any tile while holding the book, page turn sound plays and you "read" the next page. To put down left click where you want to place the book.

I've thought about this a lot! It seems like a novelty item, but it could create continuity and history for towns. And we need a way to bind dictionaries and books of laws!