Generally Friendly People

[venatorvenator]

G'day.

Many seem to agree that outside our villages' walls there is only death. Stories about griefing abound. And the grass beneath our feet grows on the bones of the noobs who forgot to claim their palisades, to afk away from their walls, or who trusted the dhelmer with the b12 he met in a riverbank.

But there are also those who say goodness (or at least a non-murderous relationship between heartlings) exist, albeit is rarely seen. This thread is for them.

But, desperate and disheartened players, this thread is also for you. Read this when you're feeling down after a raid or a heartbreaking backstabbing.

G'day again.

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Post you stories here. Remember not to name people unless they explicitly allow you to do so.

[venatorvenator]

One of mine:

Right after a I started playing my village got badly griefed. All the tools and items we'd made so much effort to craft were destroyed, and it would take us forever to get them again and to reach even that noob level we were on before. The griefer posted the video of deed on the forum, which drew the wrong people in and which led us to get killed repeatedly.

Things only changed when a stranger invited us to move into his village, which we did mostly because we had no other choice. He guided us patiently through a 20 minute boat ride and convinced the LS to let us in. There we got an already built plot and house, good q stuff to work on, and plenty of support to our many noob difficulties.

So, yeah, things like this happen sometimes.

(That village got raided later through yet another backstabbing, but that's another story)

[GrapefruitV]

Oh, well, I guess I have a few stories too. I met a lot nice people in this game since the day I started.

In W3 we happened to spawn and start building close to big faction village. I have to admit, that back then we felt paranoid, didn't understand the limits of hospitality (settled too close, were digging lots of clay, etc.), thought they would destroy our village unless we will become their slaves. But when we finally crossed the line and build an ugly placed idol, which covered piece of their territory, instead of killing us all, they gave us 3 mineholes (which was a huge deal with old mechanics) close to each other to move to and kept helping us with answers and protection till the end of the world.

In W6 someone made a paving near my village, it was a huge amount of work, he did it all by himself and we never asked him to.
Another someone made simplier paving at the other side, but it was great one, saying we are gays. <3 the author.

In W6 one guy gave me a bronze plate on the 3d day of the world, even though we just met and his village was clearly smaller and less developed, than mine. In fact I have numerous stories about people giving me things, but I mentioned this one, because it was really touching. Not that I don't remember or not grateful to others, but they mostly were same lvl as me or higher.

Recently I bought some stuff for a project not related to gameplay itself, and the seller made almost 50% discount for me, just because he knew I have pretty much nothing to pay with.

There are a lot of people, which were ready to come and help in one way or another when we were under attack. Some people lost their characters because of that, but never were making a big deal out of it, I'd say that's a kind of kindness aswell. In W5 I had a neighbour, who died to ainran, because they were tracking me and he happened to be on, I still feel a bit guilty for that.
Upd: Oh, and speaking of Ainran tracking me, I won't say who exactly was that, but once he tracked me, when I was afk inside my village, I didn't notice, but there was a small spot outside, I was visible from, but instead of shooting me standing still for hours, he opened the chat to pm me and left. When I got back and answered to his pm, we had a nice talk, he told me what happened and said he can come back if I'm ready to go out and fight. I guess that can be considered as a good deed too.

I could tell 10000 stories about kindness inside the village, but I guess that doesn't really count.

[Darmik]

My first villeage i made with my gf got raided by russians, back in those days we had 2 more villeages that were friendly and even became our allies, one day we had exams on college so my gilfriend and I cannot connect for 2 weeks, when we came back our 2 villeage friends were murdered and destroyed... also our villeage got raided, furtonately we cannot be killed due to the fact we was not online, i felt pretty bad about that thinking on quiting the game (ragequit OFC) so i drawn and did not played again for like 6 or 7 months, when i decided to start playing again a good man invite me into their villeage so i accepted but... i cannot made myself confitible in villeage life (idk is just hard to be with people u dont know anything about) so i decied to leave, after a couple of days i had made my own fort again even working on mining when i meet another pretty good person that offered me support and even a bwall of my own again i accepted and joined another "villeage" was more like hermits protecting each other but then i got raided again... got killed twice and the raider even told me "now die" after raping me... anyway i really like the game so i decided to start again, inherited and move a looong way until i found a pretty isolated area and again i found a cool ranger that is helping me out so its true, there are good people in game, they like to have neighbors to just chat a while or to feel the companion so in my personal experience H&H is the most hardcore game i ever played due to perma death, its full of grieffers and radiers but it also has pretty good people in it that makes world rich and beauty as well