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 One hour one life is a civilization survival game by indie game developer Jason Rohrer (Sleep is Death, Diamond Trust of London, The Castle Doctrine). Like all of Rohrer’s games, OHOL if released into the public domain for others to learn from and modify. OHOL is a bizarre game- it’s like a roguelike A Tale In The Desert, or maybe just a more cooperative hardcore survival game. In One Hour One Life, you are born as a baby to another player who must name and nurse you, age at a rate of one year per minute of real time, try not to starve, and As you age, your food gauge gets larger and you become more independent and can even type longer and longer messages (babies can only type one-character messages). Then, when you hit 40, you become less and less independent as your food gauge shrinks again. If you last the full sixty minutes, you die of old age. It’s common for even successful characters to die in their 50’s as the writing is on the wall and feeding yourself becomes more difficult. Once you’ve died, you can look your character up by name on http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/server.php?action=front_page to see how the rest of your clan fared after your death. Successful clans tend to last between 10 and 40 generations, but the longest-lived line went 288 generations, or about 3-4 days. How can I get this? One Hour One Life is available on steam for $19.99. If you want to give the developer a bigger cut, though, you can buy it here: https://sites.fastspring.com/jasonrohrer/instant/onehouronelife - it also seems to be the only way to play on Mac or Linux. Can I play with friends? Yes, you can play with your steam friends at least, by spawning together as twins/triplets/quadruplets. Be aware that for a lot of people at various stages of the game, feeding their kids is already a hardship, so if you spawn in as triplets or quadruplets, and sometimes even as twins, you will very frequently be abandoned by your mother. However: Wait, how do new family lines get started? Depending on how many people are playing on a given server, how many kids they already have, etc. etc. you will sometimes spawn as an “Eve”. A fully grown woman at the minimum child-bearing age, spawned out in the middle of the wilderness. You’ll be given a single life to try and make things work. If you’re spawning as twins, triplets, or quadruplets, you’ll all spawn as Eves near each other and can work together. This sounds neat! How do I get started? Just buy the game, and the first time you choose to be born, it will spawn you into a basic tutorial. This won’t teach you enough to be really useful, it just teaches you some concepts. To be helpful, you’ll want to be clear with your mother that you’re new. If it’s a wilderness camp, she will likely toss you to the wolves to go fishing for a kid who can help out in her difficult scenario. If you spawn to a small town though, you can expect your mother to help you with the basics of farming or fire building, and sometimes even cooking, smithing, and hunting. If you spawn as a girl, try and do your best to follow through on your obligations- Death By Sausage Party, where a functioning civilization collapses due to a small number of women being born to a generation who then either took off or died, is a real thing. If you spawn as a man, though, feel free to take a couple nonessential supplies and dry run some basic survival skills in the woods. If you want to help out, though, there’s always opportunities. Castle Doctrine sucked Dude fuckin tell me about it Resources OneTech - crafting quick reference - https://onetech.info/ Wiki - “It Sucks” - https://onehouronelife.gamepedia.com/One_Hour_One_Life_Wiki Discord - Official, has a channel that just posts every commit the developer makes to the game which is neat - https://discord.gg/k4eU9CG Forums - Inane whining - https://onehouronelife.com/forums Suggestions Reddit - The developer fields suggestions from the top-rated ones on this subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/OneLifeSuggestions/
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Things To Watch For The most important thing is to watch your temperature. It’s located at the bottom right and controls how much food you need to eat. The ambient temperature in the middle of a desert naked consumes HALF the food of the ambient temperature in the middle of a grassland naked. And the ambient temperature in the middle of a jungle consumes half of desert. Tundra is even worse than grassland, everything else is the same as grassland. Wearing clothes warms you up. There is a fairly sophisticated heat simulation and insulation system, so being next to a fire, or in a small building with a fire will keep you warm. The tutorial introduces you to these concepts, but it can’t be overstated how important they are. If you’re an Eve trying to start a camp, you need to put your camp in a desert near another biome with more useful resources. If you are a baby and see a warm spot, walk there yourself without being told. If you are a mother, try to keep your babies somewhere warm to reduce the load on your hunger. Prioritize rabbit trapping if possible as an early form of food, and produce clothes from what you catch. Avoid tundras unless you have a plan. Second, make an effort to change up your eating habits, and don’t stuff your face. Every time you eat, you get 2 bonus food pips on top of the hunger that gets filled. On top of that, you get one additional bonus pip for every unique food you’ve had since the last time you broke your chain of unique foods. So, if you eat 3 gooseberries in a row, you wasted 4 food pips from overwriting your bonus pips. If you broke your chain by eating a second gooseberry in a row, you gave up a lot more bonus pips than that. This doesn’t matter as much when your civilization has a giant wagon full of mutton pies, which can each fill 2/3rds of your food bar 5 times, but it’s vital at the beginning. If you’re in an advanced civilization, gooseberries are food for children, elders, and sheep. You should be eating pies, or stews, or whatever. I spawned in an early camp- what can I do? First, you need fire (https://onetech.info/82-Fire). Don’t light the fire until you’re ready to use it, though. You can scavenge food from the environment, particularly in grasslands, but you’ll need to move on to new types of food quickly. Here are some good early ones: * Rabbits are great. Make snares from long shafts and milkweed (https://onetech.info/160-Snare) - place them outside rabbit holes. You can butcher the rabbit with a flint chip (https://onetech.info/135-Flint-Chip). Start a fire, and when it goes down to embers, you can cook rabbits on skewers (https://onetech.info/138-Cut-Sapling-Skewer) * With the fur and bones from a rabbit, plus milkweed thread, you can sew https://onetech.info/209-Empty-Water-Pouch. With that you can do a very inefficient form of farming. Dump an entire pile of soil from a basket, use a skewer to hoe it into a deep tilled row, and water it with the pouch. This will use up your soil very rapidly which can place your colony in danger during the next few steps, but if you need food, you need it. * You can shoot animals with a bow and arrow (https://onetech.info/152-Bow-and-Arrow) made with milkweed, skewer, goose feathers, flint, and a yew branch. You can skin them with a flint chip for more meat and skins. The next stage is pottery (https://onetech.info/235-Clay-Bowl) and smithing (https://onetech.info/857-Steel-Hoe) which will make farming more sustainable. After that, you need to beeline for compost (https://onetech.info/624-Composted-Soil) to prevent your soil supplies from running out. Getting sheep for compost and pies is pretty much where most civilizations fall over. I spawned in an advanced civilization- what can I do? Verify the following before doing anything else. You will be shocked at how many vital jobs get undone because a man was doing them and he doesn’t communicate with anyone when he gets old, or he dies alone by accident and nobody notices. This kills civilizations. * Is there compost? If no, get to work. There should be at least 1 or 2 untouched compost piles ready to be used. * Are there crops other than gooseberries? Make sure you see at least carrots (both picked carrots and seeding carrots) and wheat, which are vital for compost and pies (https://onetech.info/802-Raw-Mutton-Pie). Beans, corn, and squash are nice to haves for stew (https://onetech.info/1249-Three-Sister-s-Stew), which is a worthwhile supplement. * Are there spare tools and iron ready to go? If not, you’re one broken hoe away from agricultural collapse. Iron bars can be found on the ground in badlands (gray ground). If you find a little red iron vein, you can make (https://onetech.info/944-Iron-Mine) * Is there at least one pump (https://onetech.info/2224-Firing-Newcomen-Pump) or a deep well with water in it? If not, turn a dry deep well into a pump. If there isn’t a dry deep well, build a deep well from a shallow well. If there isn’t a shallow well, first of all build one, second of all, this is not an advanced civilization. * Are there plenty of clothes (assuming you need clothes in your environment to be warm enough)? If not, you’re wasting food. Also a (https://onetech.info/198-Backpack) will change your life. If you’ve got sheep, you’ve got easy thread (https://onetech.info/1125-Ball-of-Thread) without needing milkweed to sew clothes, so trap some rabbits and start putting hats on babies. If all of these are taken care of, start building. Small houses of plaster, roads to distant resources, maybe even start a belltower, which is a monument you can build to show everyone on the map where your town is, which can allow it to survive well past when it would ordinarily collapse. Maybe build some chests and start organizing your town’s resources so things are easier to find. Stay fed and solve problems. If you’re a woman, have daughters. 30.5 Days fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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Is there a way to play together with friends, or are you randomly assigned to tribes and teams?
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Dec 2, 2018 13:35
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Wipfmetz posted:Is there a way to play together with friends, or are you randomly assigned to tribes and teams? quote:Can I play with friends?
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Dec 2, 2018 22:12
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Thanks. No idea how i've overlooked that one.
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Dec 4, 2018 18:02
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This seems cool, but I still lament the apparent death of Sleep is Death  Great concept, and goons ran with it for a while.
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Dec 4, 2018 18:37
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Awesome concept. It's next on my wishlist.
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Jason Rohrer has an incredible ability to overshare details of his life for no apparent reason while talking about his games.This week's patch notes posted:My father was an oil man. At least he tried to be, for a while. When I was young, he invested in a local oil exploration company in Ohio. Everyone in the family got free ball caps with the drilling outfit's logo. I remember climbing up the steps on the side of a huge oil tank, where he wrenched open the porthole cover and we peered inside as the oil poured in. Was a sight! And more importantly, what a smell! With tiny me perched up there by his side, my father reached his arm down inside with an empty peanut butter jar and filled her up directly from the gushing pump stream. (What the hell was he thinking?) That jar sat---and settled---on his office desk for many years. Sludge would be a naive appraisal of what was in that jar. Brown sludge. A reminder of an investment in oil that never turned a profit. EDIT: See also, his essay about why he made Castle Doctrine that was mainly centered around a horrifying trauma involving an unleashed aggressive dog.
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