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But - if we did manage to create a fence around the town, and perhaps label it as the town's outer perimeter, it would be cool if we could excommunicate people. A way to force them out of the area, and revoke their access. As an alternative to killing, and also cursing perhaps.

To be honest, it seems too much of an effort to keep that many fences from decaying, and adding family members to the gates one by one.

I think the curse system for the most part works well as it is. Maybe there could be a difference between cursing killers and cursing non-killers. If Twisted didn't murder anyone, but still got a bunch of curses within one hour, perhaps those could count for less? Or maybe curses given in a different location, say 1k tiles away, could count for less?

One hour is a very short time to develop relationships. And if it's hard to survive, less time is spent on getting to know your family and more time is spent on doing the chores that brings food on the table.

Relationships need time to build. They come from time to talk. Time to give gifts. Time to teach. Time to do things together.

I truly believe that if survival was easier - if ropes were more accessible, if the bushes didn't need all that watering, if sheep ate less berries, if a sweater didn't need that much wool, if there were other and simpler ways to make backpacks even if the simpler version had smaller carrying capacity, if there were baby carrying devices so we could do things with the baby - then lineages would be longer and people would have time to care more about their families.

First I would like to point out that there IS war in this game. Lots of it. It is between griefers and decent people. And apart from there being more decent people than griefers, it still feels like the griefers have the upper hand. They decide when there's a war, and how, and why, and when they're around what they do affects everyone. 'In the game of griefers you win or you die...' Also, it's a war within family lines - you never know when one of your own kids turns out to be a griefer, born with the intention to destroy your town and your lineage for no apparent reason. And if your kids are griefers, they'll wreak havoc your town, not the neighbor town. It does break down the family structure quite a bit, because in the end, you'll feel more familiarity with strangers who are decent people than your own kids if they're there to destroy everything.

As for passing on items to new generations:

Children get lost.

I've noticed that in large towns, I'm usually able to find my mother, because she looks the same as when I was a baby. But my kids, if I've had many - I have to place the cursor on them to see their names.

If I'm old and want to pass on a key, how do I find my kids before I die when they're out and about...?

These suggestions might help:

- Let us be able to put kids in backpacks. This means it's easier to carry the kids with us, instead of placing them by a central fire. All women can't be nannies at the same time, that would be a waste. So the central nursery encourages people to be less connected to their kids.
Kids in backpacks would also make it easier to move a family. Sometimes I've wanted to move, but decided not to because I knew I'd start getting kids soon. Also, kids in backpacks makes it easier to teach new players how to do things.

- One of the joys in life is to give clothes to your kids. Make it easier to make clothes, and make the clothes more distinguishable. If I could give my kid a sweater with a woven star pattern, when I see an adult with that sweater, I would instantly know the kid was mine.

- And as someone else suggested, let us zoom out a little, so that it's easier to find our family and see what they're doing.

GreatShawn, people are different. Some, when presented with a problem, immediately try to come up with a solution. It may seem like they're trying to parent you, but actually (often) it's just a personality trait.

I think your idea is a good one. Another change that could help us save iron would be to have tools break like now, but without destroying the iron part. A shovel should be fixable just by adding a new shaft in my opinion... And it is a little sad when people are encouraged to not use tools to make graveyards or other 'non-essential' tasks because we need to save iron.

If "copyfraud" is a thing - and it seems it is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud), then I disagree. Jason has not given people the right to claim ownership of his work.

I really don't see why people have a problem with Jason't request. He's not saying that people can't make a new version of his game. He's saying (it seems to me) that people using his work should honor the fact that it is open source, and not claim ownership of it.

I wouldn't have a problem with playing an "unofficial adaption" of an open source game either. I fail to see why that label should hurt the mobile developers at all.

You can use a flint chip to get the squash out of the ground, so the sharp stone is not strictly needed.

You're on your way through  an open door from across the room. Suddenly someone closes the door. The game automatically tries to find a path through a different open doorway, instead of letting you continue to the door and stop in front of it. Very annoying.

What about sheep, do they eat carrots on graves?

For a prison to be a prison, there must be a way to apprehend someone, and currently that's not possible in the game. Even kids can jump out of your arms.

What we have with the doors, walls, and locks are traps, and I've only seen them used by griefers who lock up unsuspecting innocent people. Like a whole room of mothers and babies.

Fragility, I have a lot of baby suicides in the nursery as well as if I'm out and about.

When it comes to lacking last names, I've noticed from the family trees that many originate from Eves who do have last names. It would be nice if we could somehow choose to reclaim the original Eve last name if it got lost on the way through the generations.

Sausages.