starting over, or how i managed to live without a mine

[bluebooksky]

you know whats funny as soon as i gave up looking for metal, for people to trade with, metal founld me.
I had just moved far away where i was spawned, tired of being robed and attacked for no reason. i move to a place where there was no sign of people and many caves close by. I thought i would be a true hermit and never meet other person and probley never have metal and i was ok with that because i would rather not have metal and live than try to find someone to trade with and be murdered for laughs and giggles. a few weeks later i started to see animal bones around my claim that i did not kill. day after day i would find bones. i was a little nervous was this someone wanting to kill me? should i move again? no i was not moveing i liked it there and i was not runing because of a what if. yes i was paranoid but wouldn't you feel the same way if almost everyone you met tried to a kill you or b rob and steal from you? when i finely met the person hunting arould my claim all he wanted was to trade and he showed me how to tame because i could not figure it out. a few weeks later i was out hunting and i met someone and i showed him how to tame. about a week later he gave me 3 bars of metal for free as a gift. yesterday a friend of the guy who gave me the free bars told me if i wanted he would give me some high q seeds for free. I'm happy.
im still a hermit but not the way i thought i would be. i am vary grateful to all the people how showed me that not everyone who plays this game is an ass.

[konjad]

Playing this game as a hermit is not as much fun as playing as a lawspeaker, trying to get economic growth with trading and leading your people into a war with another village killing it's inhabitants and plunder their homes.

[bluebooksky]

Playing this game as a hermit is not as much fun as playing as a lawspeaker, trying to get economic growth with trading and leading your people into a war with another village killing it's inhabitants and plunder their homes.

i don't know about that im not and never have been been a lawspeaker or even been in a village. truthfully i don't know much about how a village works or if i will like being in one.
i'm still having fun as a hermit, knowing the only person i have to answer to is myself. when i get tired of being a hermit then i will start looking for a village join. i have been thinking about it theres not much more to learn by myself i can hunt bears, find blood sturns, tame, make silk, right now i'm working on my farming it's only at 72, and make cheese. i don't think it should be too hard to find a good village.......maybe i hope not. still the bottem line is that im have fun as i am now and when i get bored of that i will join a village and when i get bored of being a peon i may very well become a lawspeaker but what will happen when even that becomes boring? you see why i don't want to rush?





yesterday is the dim memery honored but not all that importent, today is the slave of the "better tomorrow" that does not exist and all tomorrow is is an end and is a beginning

[bitza]

bluebook has it exactly right,a new player imo is better off playing as a hermit for awhile, or playing with their irl friends or whoever they joined up with. they can get those first awkward moments out of the way, figure out the basics so when/if they do join a village, they have a good foundation of knowing what to do and not "help theres a boar" or "what is any string?" there's a sort of tranquility to hermiting and as they said "not having to answer for anyone else". no one's gonna bug you when you login with "jesus we need more charcoal" or "ZOMG feed the cows guys". village life is imo much more fun because of the friendships made and sometimes the drama that comes with living with other folks (just like in real life). also in a good village, people will be working together towards common goals, say, improving lumber and metal quality or building a wall so ideally you'll see gains come faster

also by not joining a village immediately, i would imagine players would tend to not take as many things for granted, ie farming without a metal plow and scythe, hunting with a q10 sling, and so forth

[DatOneGuy]

Hehe, starting up on your own is indeed the best. I loved it so much and even got to the point of having a village of 10 people, still didn't know too much when I died before joining Sodom, but it sure as hell was fun and I knew a lot more than I did the day before that.

Then again I'm always finding new exploits now.