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I like the idea of the ephemereal wine maker.

I will endeavour to making as much glass as possible to aid in your task. Each life I will focus on collecting materials for glass (paper, glasswort, and limestone), or crafting glass bottles (and a funnel if needed).

Fatherhood may become something in the future, but only when Jason begins working on general gameplay mechanics again (as opposed to bugfixing and adding items). There are other balance and 'fleshing out' aspects of the game that I think will take priority, but I'm sure he will have the idea of fatherhood in his mind when working on related things. So I doubt we will get a standalone 'Fatherhood' update out of the blue, but instead it'll be something we get when he is looking at homelands, or family specialisation, or language, etc.

This is exactly my point.

Unless we have lots of spare food and sprinklers, better to just farm berries normally.

I actually don't mind the idea of having a 'normal' set up and a 'berries only' set up, where you literally pick the pipes up and move them if you want to do intensive berry farming.

Let's say I want to make a lot of wool clothing, and I have 12 sprinklers.

I can first farm ~12x2 plots of carrots for 100 carrots and 28 seeds (4 extra, but all good) at a cost of 2 bowls of water, 4 charges of kerosene (1/6 of a 'use', 1/36 of a tank), and 24 seeds.

I then move the pipes to the berry farm, at a cost of 12 hammer charges (6% of a hammer).

I then farm 12x2 berry bushes 4 times for 112 bowls of berries (12 berry bushes give 14 bowls of berries) for a cost of 8 bowls of water, 8 charges of kerosene (1/3 of a use), and 96 soil (32 soil piles, a bit more than 4.5 composts).

I then move the pipes back to the main farm, at a cost of 12 hammer charges (6% of a hammer).

This will give me 100 bowls of feed mash, almost 17 feed mash buckets. 12 bowls of mash give 1 bolt of wool, so this gives enough for 8 shirts and shorts (with a bit left over).

This is almost certainly worthwhile, as you save 88 water at the cost of 2x6% of a hammer and 1/3 of a kerosene use. A single kero use gives 4x8 = 32 bowls of water, so the water saving is about 77 bowls (minus whatever the water cost of 12/100 of a bar of steel is).

It's a decent chunk of work, but probably achievable in one life if everything was set up ready to go.

Incredible amounts of damage = put things in it and drive away? Does that mean a horse cart with rubber tires is capable of doing ~1/3 incredible amounts of damage?

The most immediately obvious use of the Delivery Truck for me is building fast flat rock roads. Constructing those roads is dominated by collecting the flat rocks, the truck will make that job much faster.

I also think it will be useful for collecting and delivering produce from a sprinkler farm. Load all the vegies into baskets (made from threshed what sheaves) and load those into the truck. One trip to clear 63 veggies back to the kitchen is very attractive, compared to 3 trips with a hand cart with tires, or 7 with a normal hand cart.

Getting branches to make pens, adobe  and cut stones for buildings, trading resources between towns. There are lots of constructive uses.

Thankfully for now they can't be destroyed, and they aren't trivial to make, so I don't think they're going to be as abused as some might imagine. The worst that will happen is the truck gets stolen, filled with important resources.

I hope we see lots of trucks running around, and more tech like it.

It's not too hard to do, main thing is leaving enough space, and ideally having the start of the farm near the bakery (but otherwise on unused land).

I *hate* berries as part of the sprinkler system, as they restrict usage of the plough. Potentially you could have one side as berries and the other as crops - this would certainly reduce water used for berries. The downside is that sprinkler farming other crops becomes twice as slow.

When I've done this farming before I would have an entire row planted and watered, growing, while I prepare the other row - harvest, plough, and plant. It was relatively easy to alternate between the two.

Perhaps there is an end game where you have a lot of sprinklers built, and can devote a section to berries. They certainly use a lot of water if you are trying to make a lot of mash. They just seem so slow.

I enjoy all the ins and outs of plough and sprinkler farming.

Once set up an individual can farm an inordinate amount of food for pretty much no marginal cost.

In terms of spacing, the sprinkler head should be placed close to the kitchen. There is a minimum required vertical space of 7 tiles - more is better. This is made up of 1 tile for the sprinklers, 1 row either side for crops, and 2 rows either side of that for harvesting. If there is extra space on only one side that is still useful, as that side will be used for crops like wheat. Allocate and occupy more space than you think you will need, but at least 7 vertical tiles.

The sprinkler system will run to the west, and should be one long line. There is no value it turning the rows around, as it makes ground preparation and harvesting much more difficult.

Starting with 3-6 sprinklers is fine, and worth doing. Aim for space for at least 15, but even more is better.

Make sure a lot more space is allocated and occupied early on, by laying flooring in long horizontal rows. My preference is for fast stone roads directly above and below the crops, however this does make interacting with the farm difficult for some people. An option I have not tried yet, but would like to, is to fast stone road down the centre where the sprinklers are, with cut stone paths above and below the 2 lines of crops.

Use the plough! The plough turns a hardened row into a deep tilled row!!!! With the plough the only crop that needs soil is milkweed.

Plant and harvest a lot of wheat initially. Turn all the straw into baskets - let people take some for compost if needed, but you don't need soil to farm when you have a plough.

Harvest all produce into baskets. Fill baskets with tomatoes, corn, pickles, peppers, onions, carrots - anything and everything that will fit. Harvested wheat goes into buckets.

Until we have better harvesting and storage options, get those baskets into carts and take them to the kitchen and feast halls.

Make more baskets.

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Individually I was able to do 4+ harvests on a 12 long sprinkler system in one life. This is a lot of food. I did not make enough baskets, so was harvesting onto piles on the ground. This slowed me down a bit, but was faster than moving all the produce away. I would have had to move the produce if I continued, so what I've written above is more about long term sustainability.

There were a lot of seeds around from the 'traditional' farms (ie people letting carrots go to seed) and corn and wheat are very easy to mass farm. I did need to start managing seeds a bit better, especially for peppers and the like. This was one of the more annoying aspects of farming, but still fairly quick.

Set up the infrastructure, and there will be food!

If we could build trains that held multiple people, we would build grand tours of the world. Stopping at each town, the curious and bored would climb aboard and be flung forward to the excitement of the unknown.

Some would be ill-prepared, hungry and starving, a pile of bones left by the side of the way or forgotton in some carriage. Babies would be born, already abandoned as the train flies past their mother's homeland. Death would abound.

But it would be grand.

Is this using cached credentials, stored on a 'relay server', to allow people to share accounts? Won't only one person be able to play per account at any time, and they will have the gene score of that account?

This sounds like a slightly safer? way to share an account without sharing login details, is that right?

I've seen both in nearly every large town over the last week or two.

I love the craving mechanic for that reason, they become worth it so someone goes and does the work in order to satisfy the craving.

In this case, it means that someone needs to go and do the work to improve the town, so that the craving can be satisfied, and that is a good use of the mechanic.

Feasts to date have been fairly easy to do, especially now that cows are so much more common. I've seen feasts in most developed towns I've been in recently.

There is currently no way to turn the plough, though I can imagine an update might use directional markers (stakes and sapling) from the road paver to implement it.

The biggest benefit I've seen from the sprinkler is that there is *always* food available if you have it set up. Sure people don't harvest quickly enough, or manage it efficiently, but it allows one dedicated person to produce a *lot* of food, quickly.

All the talk of efficiency discounts the most important resource of all - player time.