a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
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Do I want to know how one "plays a pig" or is this like that whole "bang" thing I had to find out about last week?
Dude was double hoeing a potato patch with a stone hoe on the wrong side of town near nothing at all. We needed buckets so badly.
This is so cool. I quibble about the stone hoe, though. It's possible to send people foraging for steaks and use those to save the string for... well for everything.
I generally will do a job if ask nicely, I find that people don't ask for help much and don't like to be asked what to do. Part of this makes sense since pausing to type is cumbersome and most people asking what to do have no idea how to do anything. LOL. That isn't totally the case with me, but it's nice when I know that whatever I'm doing is connecting to someone else's work in a positive way.
i hate small scale buildings
I love large sheep pens, but hate large bakeries. People always use it as a nursery/clothing drop/role playing center etc.
The best kind of bakery is near the wheat, has a water bucket, is 4 tiles wide, there are no cooked pies in the building. No reason to come in there looking for food, cooked pies go outside right away.
I found the perfect bakery once and wrote about it here I'll find it...
heat doesn't matter anymore so clothing good always
It's a death sentence if you get bit, though.
Here are my top lives:
-The one where I removed a row of berry bushes on my own and put down boards making picking berries easy
-The one where I made the pump and tires in a small town since no one else knew how
-The one where I went for iron from an old established town with no iron, found an abandon camp, brought back tons of steel and tools
-The one where I was a child and my mom died, foraged, found a horse, got iron and found a town to settle in
What were yours?
-probably don't make a wooden hoe, use skewers (not weak ones) to till in early game. Then steel.
-stand in the snow if you get bit by skeeters. Consider not having on full clothes if you must work in the jungle and there are a lot of wild food.
-leave food near your rabbit traps, you might need it later
-use flint to make lines of stone to point to iron and other resources
-hop on and off the horse cart every moment so it wont run. You can get just as much done doing that.
yours?
Assume there is no huge urgent need for pies (so not carrot pies of suffering in an Eve camp) if it's possible do you like to keep things orderly, like lay out the plates in a row of 4, the meats below then crusts then put all the pies together? or do you just zig-zag about putting pies together one at a time.
This isn't about "efficiency" having a happy baker who stays on the job longer matters more than saving a few seconds here, but if you are making rabbit pie I do think being organized saves time on tool switching.
Thing is, people just don't seem to get what I'm doing when I try this. Baking is a case of too many cooks far too often.
If a person is in my way I ask "will you be the main baker? I fetch supplies. What do you need?"
Are you o r g a n i z e d when you do this job? I can admit some of it is just wanting to enforce a little order and symmetry in the chaos, its one of the fun things about the game when it works.
I was in a big town I've been in before, one of the towns on the main road with a bell. There were not many people there or much going on but my word there was such lag. I could hardly move. I discovered that if I left town went in to the near by wild just nearby the lag dropped. I repeated this a few times and it was consistent. Something about the old town was causing unplayable lag.
I'd hate to think old towns die of for this reason.
There was nothing different about the town from the last time I was there that I could see, the main difference was fewer people, less activity but more lag.
As a stew maker, if you eat a raw corn or make popcorn please plant a corn plant and water it. Just keep it moving.
Why oh why do people bring: squash, eggs, ducks, cabbage etc. to the bakery? Why? And why don't more people know that tires and palm kernals *do* belong just before a big bake?
hmm I guess you are wright it doesn't make sense to make roads out of wood... I was just thinking out loud. but wouldn't be a bad Idea would be out posts next to the main road. since this road is at the point that it needs them, just a small place with food, fuel (if car), and maybe all fire tools. seeing how big this road will be I know what I'm going to do with my next life!
I saw a lovely berry outpost on my last life. Sadly, the south town is dying out all the iron is hoarded in the north. I ran the pumps and planted some trees in the south then tried to bake pies up north but it was too crazy.
On my way there I saw a berry outpost, really lovely work.
Those images are so refreshing, it's neat to be able to see the world at last and link up different spots. It looks like someone cut down the tree I planted for Juniper, my daughter, though.
I have one to add:
Teaching Noobs ANYTHING. It takes patience and skill to teach in game and when you see someone teaching support them, bring food, don't jump in and do the job quickly give new players a little space to learn.
Can one of you zoom mod cheaters post a map of the town of the many Eves?
I'm saying "cheater" tongue and cheek may try the zoom mod someday-- I'd live to see a map of the region though, the Eve's towns, the long road and other towns connected to it...
Agree! no stone roads near doors or farms. They are great between towns though. I love this project.
Can one of you zoom mod cheaters post a map of the town of the many Eves?
I'm saying "cheater" tongue and cheek may try the zoom mod someday-- I'd live to see a map of the region though, the Eve's towns, the long road and other towns connected to it...
Now, Juniper's brother was another story. I sort of... bought some drugs and took them while nursing. He died young to murder and it turned out he was racist. (yes, racist! look: http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … d=3855253) Not a coincidence. I think the drugs messed up his fragile young mind. 
To be fair he did see me committing suicide by starvation on the edge of town, just standing in an empty spot in a field of bones, so maybe that's what did it.
I just happened to be planting some juniper trees in a large village that had cut all of it's juniper when my daughter was born. I got all dramatic
"you are Juniper. The juniper isn't as big as other trees but without it there is no fire and if there is no fire, no civilization. Water this tree when you are old. Grow strong together, bend but do not break. Keep the fire alive, keep civilization alive, little Juniper"
I think I'll keep doing this tree thing it's fun.
What are the top 3 most underrated village jobs in your view. Mine are:
-Fetching and making kindle. It's a mess when the baker and smith and everyone else are doing this peicemeal
-The person who waters the berries on the corners of the sheep pen, same person waters trees their grand parents planted
-Food, soil, water distribution and return near berry patch. The people prevent newbies from saying "nothing to do" while the berries die because there are easy tasks laid out and ready, compost piles are separated, water buckets full, enough bowls and baskets are present and there are foods to eat other than berries that are easy to find. When these things are in place new players can be productive. ?
What are your current top 3?
Compost used to be on this list, but I think more people have been learning and doing this task, while kindle is always an issue.
I'm so impressed with the great long road that connects the Eve town at the center of the spiral (with the red white and blue wall, where the 8 sister Eve's once spawned) to towns to the north. It isn't done, but I will work on it every chance I get!
It is long even on a horse.
I rode south and and shocked that I knew the town at the end of the road. This place has been going since the spiral started, so even though I used to dislike the place and /die from there I decided to stay. I had two daughters. One just wanted to die, the other had twin baby girls just as I was getting old and saying goodbye.
I told them they should take over and have many children. Wishing them luck.
I think it was the shadow I didn't really see that there even was one.
Am I the only one who has trouble setting items down on the tile that I'm standing on. I often have to try a few times. I don't do anything different it just takes a few tries to get the item to "stick" I see some other avatars seeming to struggle in the same way. Am I making a noob mistake (I am still kind of a new player only found this game a month ago) or is this a known issue?
Just to add a question to this post, since it was mostly about sharing some interesting moments from my games, I'd love to see your most ... shocking screen shot from the game. I have this one which seems tame until you realize that is what I was born in to, my family being eaten by a bear AND a murder.


I was shocked. /shocked I say.