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Blue Diamond’s guide to Life in OHOL

There are many excellent guides to crafting tools in OHOL, but the community has many unique social interactions as well.  This is the first installment in a beginners guide to understanding the Do’s and Don’ts of life in an OHOL town.

How to be a good baby

Stay where your mama puts you. For the first three minutes you can’t grab anything, leaving you unable to feed yourself.  At some point you will want your mother or nursemaid to pick you up, so you can get fed.  The baby that is running around is harder to pick up that the still baby by the fire.  Which one do you think will get fed first?

Say F when at two pips. The more often your mother feeds you, the more her own hunger bar is drained of pips.  If you are put down on the ground, let your babysitter know when you have two pips left on your hunger bar.  This gives them time to feed you before you starve, while not wasting the town’s resources. Because a baby’s hunger bar is so small, the game will make sounds as if you are starving almost as soon as you are put on the ground.

Manage your own temperature.  Mothers in developed camps will typically raise children within a few tiles of a fire.  But sometimes mama will need to keep working and take you with her. In either case, your primary job as a baby is to keep an eye on the temperature meter and keep it as close to the center as possible without roaming more than a tile or two from where your mama put you down. Standing in the cold or heat will make you hungry faster – a good way to die quickly at any age.

Keep listening. Ok, being a rugrat is not the most exciting part of the game – but your mother may give you commands to “Come” Or “Follow” for one of any number of reasons.  She might also tell you what projects are going on, what resources the town needs, or who the latest griefer is.  Going AFK during the early years is a good way to get yourself killed by that bear just south of the berry patch your mama tried to warn you about.

Emote.  In OHOL, just as in real life, babies and moms can bond by mirroring each other’s faces.  Give your mom a smile by typing /happy, or using F1 in the AWBZ mod.  Did your mom make a heart at you? Respond with your own /love. Did she make a /shock, or /ill face about something going on in town around you?  Copy her. It's adorable. But please, don’t whistle /yoohoo more than once.

Jump away from strangers. If a man or an old woman picks you up and starts carrying you out of town, they are kidnapping you.  Jump out of their arms and head back to mom or the nearest fertile woman.  Same if its a fertile woman carrying you past the edge of town into a dangerous biome.

Future topics: (I’m open to suggestions about which to do next)
How to be a good kid;
How to avoid getting stabbed for annoying behavior;
How to be a good mom;
How to be a good uncle;
How to be a good farmer;
How to be a good carter;
How to help the baker;
How to help the smith; and
How to be a good grandmother.

Babies /die the least if you are standing within a tile or two of a fire, have clothes in a nearby box ready to pile on, and have obvious signs of steel tools within the screen - boards on the floor, an axe, a knife, whatever.

It also helps if there are absolutely no skeletons within view, and the place seems more organized than cluttered.  But people's tolerance for that is vastly variable. 

Having a healthy berry patch with some water tech that is that mossy deep green nearby helps, too.

Having finished high tech or high prestige items you can show them within ten tiles is also a plus.  Things like an oil distillery, a diesel pump, a car and/or airplane, or a finished bell tower. 

You will still have some /die babies in this scenario, as the folks who prefer early stage tech opt out, but most babies are casual players and most casual players just want to live a laid back life in a place where they can use or watch someone use novel tech.

Yeah, which was one of Eve Dupont's comments... she's far from the only one who does this. 

Good luck with that, pein!   

I haven't managed to play with Mirelli, soooo... tag, you're it.

Ok, sounds like you are on a path to a solution.  Glad to hear it!

Hope it works out quickly, and you have an awesome vacation with your family.

I'm not a programmer, but....

It's a bit suspicious that you tried to change the way family names are passed down and 1) it isn't working 2) it is causing problems with cursing people after a last name is lost and 3) something terrible is going on with the database system.

Is there any possibility that there's a connection between the way you changed the last name records and this mysql error???

Or can we assume it is some error that was introduced by the most recent update?

Played in this old town again this morning, and changed the sign back to my preferred, "Al"

Town is covered in hats and horsecarts - from lasting so long as a bell town.  The current Dupont lineage (which started with a nameless Eve) is in Al town, and a Dyke girl came in and had a number of babies.  Lots of folks have been out making contact with the old towns that surround Al, also.

FYI, the naming update is not working as intended.  Families are still losing their last names.  I opened a github report.

http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=4022027

a use case for property fences-  Explorer tracks.

I like to explore and find distant resources, and then bring them back to town.  Lately I've been figuring out the closest tarry spot, and then making a road and/or chopping a path to show Tarr or the next "Daddy Diesel" the way to oil. 

If the property fence/gate system is added as currently described, I'll be laying down tracks of fence, with gaps ever two or three tiles, to help me and others get back to distant resources and/or nearby towns. 

So if I lay down a bunch of property fences in the wilderness, and leave them in the non-blocking "approved property fence" state when I die, what happens next?  Can someone else claim them?  Can someone else claim them before I die, if I didn't come back and reset them before x minutes?

If I build a bunch of two to three tile property fences, and get them to the permanent "Property Fence" state, but never build any gates nearby, can someone else come along and add gates wherever they want?

Another way of asking this is.. if I come across property fences that someone else built, am I still able to build a gate in them? Is there anything personally identified about the property fence that keeps me from building a gate next to it?

Another Use Case - dangerous zone

There is a part of me that is looking forward to fencing off the tiles of tundra and desert biome that pop up in any town, so that people stop accidentally killing themselves by stopping to feed their babies on the desert tile.  I can also imagine using it to permanently protect people from walking into bug infested jungle zones. 

Does a fence have to be connected to a gate to become permanent?  Will there be anything that keeps me from making a three by three circle with no gate in it?  (other than other players...)

I really like ryanb's suggestion here.  Having the fence communicate seems like a great idea.  Here are some example messages "Bakery - no babies, geese, or pork allowed."  "Nursery - clothing, firewood and food welcome. No Knives."  "Property of Celeste Cane and her heirs - no entrance without permission."  It even has a built in preference for Elders - since they'd be able to leave longer messages, just like they can write longer notes.

What message the fence says could be controlled by the heir to the fence. 

In my mind this solves one of the big issues of the gate and fence system - even the property owner can only go through the gate!  That would be a huge drawback to me.  Anything that blocks paths is bad.

It would also leave property enforcement up to the players, rather than having it enforced by a "magic" game mechanic.  How towns enforce property ownership would become another way that we can add variation.

Maybe the voice controlled force field gates can show up later on in the tech tree?

Yeah, USPTO is not exactly a source of sanity and clarity in the Federal beuracracy.  LOL

Tarr can very easily duplicate keys without much effort, normal plebes like me have never made a key, much less a duplicate.

But I'm pretty sure I've found at least one of your keys, taken it out, said, "Oh, this is probably Tarr's.  I'm too busy with my own life to go play with his car right now." And put it back.  Your Welcome.