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It seems the well resets if someone else also plays on the server, in another spot, so the time goes by. I also play on low pop and sometimes my well doesn't reset, it is just that nobody else played.

I would advice you to never upgrade it. Just empty the shallow well into cisterns and let it be reset. It will cost you one stone plus a shovel dig. If you upgrade it into deep well, it may be reset too and you'll lose a bucket. I haven't tested out the other wells, I don't know if they reset, I don't want to risk losing a full pump. And the basic well seems to be way sufficient, even if it's kinda time consumming to empty it.

I plussone on what Cogito said. Vertical palings are too fat, however it seems difficult to draw it well.
I would also add your wood need to look the same everywhere, gate and fences.

I made that quickly :

How about spacing horizontal palings ? It looks lighter and kinda helps solving the junction of textures. On your current one you have a space (which could also be filled in streching the texture of 2-3 pixels).
Good luck on vertical ones... On the pic you can see my failed attempts.

To me, the well should be the center of the town and not the center of the farms, because everybody needs it. Also, leave room around it, to build boxes (for tanks), to have room to drop stuff (oil, buckets...).
I personally always build north-south and east-west roads leading to it, because you'll need to run to the well more than you imagine, then I build the town around.

Here are some examples (those have been built on low-pop servers but that's nothing you can't do on BS2) :


(sorry for the blank parts, the well is in the middle under the blank spot)
I didn't plant any berry bush in this town, I had a lot of wild ones north (in the blank spot) ans some more a bit everywhere. I removed the less I could of wild ressources and built around (for the aesthetic and because I'm lazy). My farms are also 3x3 but in diagonal, so the boxes won't stop you from walking.
Don't leave food in the kitchen, put it outside. Build some yummy spots a bit everywhere around the town.

I like this kitchen configuration :

because you can stand behind the oven and cook pies from the three boxes without moving. I never put anything that blocks walking in front of it (because I hate blocking things and the automatic path that can be dumb), I keep room for things that can't go into boxes (bread, pumpink pies...).

For the forges

I like Pein's configuration : one tile between both kilns (faster to light them, to make charcoal). Some like two tiles between forges and newcomen, I prefer one tile (faster). Although, I should have left two tiles instead of one between kilns and back wall, I sometimes got stuck to drop something in a hurry.

For the sheep pen (sorry for the line in the screenshot)

I like it when you can enter from any side (again, I hate block-walking things). Hard to see but there's also an entrance behind the loom. On BS2, you shouldn't leave a tree because someone may cut it, or people don't see what's behind (I play with transparent trees so it didn't bother me).

And now, some building ideas (because you're not obliged to make square rooms !)







Due to the sucky auto-oriented walls, it's a bit more tedious to get corner shapes. Just use propriety fences (no need to hit them, just need to place them near your wall). Plaster your walls before removing them or they'll turn back to straight walls.

And don't forget to make sucky puns !

Especially for DestinyCall (and all other milkweed farmers) : How to mass farm milkweed
Don't waste town ressources and live a peacefull life.

Dogs could sniff trails, to find other families.

I plus-one. No more pretty buildings with a mix of straight and corner walls, waste of time thinking how to set your stakes.

I hope you mean propriety fences ! Because it's trash for wood fences too.
Before the update, my horse was tied where the red arrow points to, it was an EW fence :

When I took back the horse back, it turned to NS and the one above turned to corner. That's not as pretty but above all it's not as convenient.

Also lately in some town with a guy, we fixed the sheep pen, adding a row above the one already existing. Both rows turned into corners, and when we removed the lower row, the top row remained a line of corners. Fortunately he figured out hitting fences with mallet would turn them back into EW fences. But that is annoying because it demands more time and a tool slot to use the mallet.

If you're making rods, you have time to smith some hoes with the remaining of your firing forges, assuming you have enough ingots.

But people asking for tools, please, bring KINDLINGS to the smithy. Or at least branches.

I often teach compost and burritos. I quite always do the tasks with my pupil, at the same time, telling him/her the steps and showing him/her the actions. Then he/she has to do the same. This way, you get twice the amount of what you're doing. It's also helpful if I forget a word, I just have to say "use this" (taking and putting back the item) "on this" (taking and putting back the other item). And as I use zoom mod, I can get them the tools they need easily.
I remind them to not forget to eat, but I also feed them by precaution.

Lately, as the arc doesn't last long, it didn't bother me to teach a class instead of working on something more important/urgent. This almost-done-engine will disappear in a few hours anyway but this player is gonna play again, and next life he/she'll know a bit more what to do/how to be useful.

Switching (right click) two full baskets still stacks them and spreads what the lower one contains.

That's what happens when I'm bored.

Yes, I made that on a low pop server. The corn plants are the youngest plants of this garden, as I first made an E with them, but it was unreadable so I used them to draw the C. The whole thing took me about four Eve lives, so three hours in total. I had a bunch of wild soil very close and most of seeds I used were already available. I only had to make new seeds for potatoes and squash. And onions, as the E made out of single onions wasn't pretty enough. The garden itself wasn't that long, I think the longest part was the cleaning part, removing trees and other blocking stuff. I have also been unlucky with two hoes that broke after about ten uses (brand new hoes, freshly smithed).

Now to reply to Booklat1, indeed buildings are useless, moreover in the rift on BS2 where they'll last only a few hours. Pity because you can build really nice things, build some castles, mix stone walls with adobe walls... I build them for the beauty of it. Cars are also useless, where would you go with only two minutes of gasoline, what would you bring back with only three spots in your car (the fourth one being taken by your tank of kerosene). We once built two cars, still on low pop server, with a race circuit. Well, we raced once, it was funny and dizzy but then... ? There's nothing really interesting to do with cars. Even worse with planes.
I agree there's a lot of stuff to fix beforehand. The way we make compost for example. When everybody yums, feeds sheeps for wool and compost, you end up with a bunch of mutton. Irl, my compost is made of all the vegetable and fruit peels, tree leaves... then worms work for me. I never add sheep poop. I may bring some horse poop once a year, not even every years, directly on the ground. Irl, I would certainly not feed a sheep with human edible food : sheeps eat grass and poop by themselves.
Jason is taking his time on the rift... that's maybe the problem : he releases an update that isn't working well and then we have to wait for fixes. To get what ? Diggable cacti. Why ? Who has ever been annoyed that much by a cactus ? What family settle in the desert so they have to dig cacti to expand their town ? Why make bones in a basket uncontainable ? What was the urge for that ? I would prefer he fixes the ten-uses-and-I-break hoe (I also noticed it for some other tools) than he fixes useless issues.

I've been a weed queen in this life. I started planting milkweed at young age, with no real purpose, but milkweed is always good for buckets, carts and doors (oh yes, at first i wanted to make a door because I had found a steel spring), and a field of milkweed is always pretty when all the plants are grown and in different states.

I made some buckets and planted more milkweed.

Then I saw two bowls of wax, so I decided to make the candle tree. A kid found my hidden cart full of all the thread I needed, and as it's easier to steal than harvest what's on ground he helped himself in the cart. Fortunately I still had enough to make the candles and garlands.
We almost forget one candle, luckily you're not as blind as me, and the candle set was done.

I'm glad you could finish it ! Pity it got destroyed so fast, but at least you could enjoy the best part : when it's all illuminated !
This tree shouldn't be as easy to chop down, I guess it's not even an hungry work ?

Anyways, even if the end is sad, that was a nice life and work. Thank you for your help. And don't be sorry !