NotEvilAtAll

Read books. Play other games. Watch movies and shows. If LOTC is your only media engagement you will soon run dry of inspiration. For people who really tryhard LOTC in order to get more activity or grow a community, it can feel like using your free time on non-LOTC stuff is a waste. That is not true. Don’t be that person who plays for 50 hours a week without developing your character or any narratives in that time due to chronic burnout.

I’m weird in that I like “non-event events” in which players gather to Roleplay the daily lives of their characters instead of any specific festival/CRP fight/wedding/whatever. I call these SoL hours and run them in Bywater every so often. They are a lot like non-event roleplays but more structured and with a focus on actually doing the tasks your character would do in a typical day instead of just lazing around in a tavern. I find this sort of event to be useful in encouraging players to think of their characters’ mundane lives and expand their characters’ personalities beyond just how they react to dangerous situations and how they prefer their alcohol.

OOC: Hello there! This is an event designed to simulate a single day of halfling life as best as possible. Everybody starts at the beginning of the hour, having just woken up. Their characters then go about their day as they would IRP, eventually falling back to sleep at the end of the hour, which ends the event. Working, eating, talking, and other things your character typically does in a day can and should be roleplayed. There will be a single roleplay prompt happening during the hour to promote interaction, but attending it isn’t mandatory. Feel free to do as you wish. The intention isn’t to attract a large quantity of halflings into one location at a time, but rather to create as much immersion as possible. SoL Event Checklist (Optional): -Wake up ( ) -Eat something ( ) -Do some task ( ) -Interact with someone ( ) -Eat another thing ( ) -Go to sleep ( ) RP: [!] A notice is pinned to the Honeyhill Noticeboard, sketched with charcoal on thick, poorly pressed paper "T'is time to weed the fields again! They have grown over anew and must be cut down if we are to have a successful harvest! -Mimosa Applefoot, Mayor of Bywater" ((6 PM EST tomorrow, Sunday March 19th of 2023, in Bywater, the home of the halflings))

PRO TIP: You don't have to build literally every possible home, public amenity, and event site for your city in the pre-build. People can still build stuff after the map has gone live. There will be nodes centralized in one location for easier building material access as well as (potentially) paid LC. You don't need to do massive terraforming projects. You don't need to make an insane 11/10 quality front page of PlanetMinecraft capitol building. It is totally viable to start the map with just some starter homes, a tavern, a barracks, and some shops surrounded by walls and expand from there. It's better to be too small at the beginning and quickly expand to meet your housing needs than it is to be too large at map launch such that it's hard to find RP. I get that we as LOTCers are very proud of our capital settlements and wish for them to be as perfect as possible as quickly as possible, but if doing so stresses you out then you're trying too hard and should scale back your plans a little.

every time I see rivers that flow through multiple Y levels I cri knowing that boats will just sink when traveling through them at least it looks very, very nice aesthetically

been waiting on this dang, hope 9.0 launch goes smoothly! It'll certainly be better than the Almaris launch at the very least due to not having us stuck in a copper age at the beginning of it!

"T'is is nuffin' bu' slandah ahn lies. Nay ah single thin' 'ere beh true! Such ah 'orrible press! T'ae Hay Herald t'is far superior 'n evereh way!" says Mimosa Applefoot-Nimblefoot as she reads this newspaper.

"Ah respec'able folk, as always" says Mimosa Applefoot, reflecting upon her experiences with Doder Dengalberry.

Sweat falls off of Mimosa Applefoot-Nimblefoot's brow as she hopes nobody notices that SHE actually owns the Unification Shovel. "Erm, t'is beh SLANDAH agains' t'a Thain! Lileh Peregrin t'is jus' mad tha' Cyris t'is doin' ah be''er job t'an she did back when she was t'a Thain!!" she'd say if pressed on the matter.

"Seems loike everehbodeh's ge''in' married now. Grea' news!" says Mimosa Applefoot-Nimblefoot, Mayor of Bywater.

What’s your favorite color?

OOC: Hello there! This is an event designed to simulate a single day of halfling life as best as possible. Everybody starts at the beginning of the hour, having just woken up. Their characters then go about their day as they would IRP, eventually falling back to sleep at the end of the hour, which ends the event. Working, eating, talking, and other things your character typically does in a day can and should be roleplayed. There will be a single roleplay prompt happening during the hour to promote interaction, but attending it isn’t mandatory. Feel free to do as you wish. The intention isn’t to attract a large quantity of halflings into one location at a time, but rather to create as much immersion as possible. SoL Event Checklist (Optional): -Wake up ( ) -Eat something ( ) -Do some task ( ) -Interact with someone ( ) -Eat another thing ( ) -Go to sleep ( ) RP: [!] A notice is pinned to the Honeyhill Noticeboard, flapping in the wind. "Anyone else care to bake some bread? Ain't much work to do this summer besides feeding the animals and weeding the fields, so we ought to have plenty of time! -Mimosa Applefoot, Mayor of Bywater" ((7 PM EST tomorrow, Wednesday March 15th of 2023, in Bywater, the home of the halflings))

[!] A letter is nailed high upon the Notice Tree of Bywater In Bywater, Halflings go FIRST! In these times of great population increase, we no longer have room to spare for unhelpful big-folks to live in our village while halflings are left without! I hereby announce we shall be following a policy of Halflings First when it comes to land allocation. New halflings shall get first pick on any new areas opened up for development, and big-folks who wish to continue living in Bywater will have to prove their usefulness and good moral character if they are to take up valuable space for their own dwellings! The following shall take effect: 1:All special exemptions from village rules & customs granted to big-folk residents is hereby REVOKED, except by permission of the Thain. 2: The Sheriff of Bywater shall enforce the morality of the village's big-folk residents more than before. We shall NOT have another darkspawn cultist incident! 3: The lands known as the "Biggun Hills", where big-folks have previously been allowed to settle, will be held to a higher standard of scrutiny. The homes there have been ransacked by bandits, seemingly left vacant, and are prime targets for re-allocation into halfling hands if they are not tidied up! 4: Any big-folk who wishes to reside in Bywater may ask for an apartment in the old Bogwartz school. Burrows or other homes in the main village area will not be granted to big-folks except by permission of the Thain. Visitors are still welcome, as always. Especially Adventurers who have registered with the Quest Office. We must first take care of our own people! A shire for halflings, by halflings, and of halflings! ~Mimosa Applefoot, Mayor of Bywater

it's forge

Look at the dependencies. Also why is right click harvest in the pack even though it’s a normal LoTC feature, no mods needed?

“Oh dear. Looks loike Phaedra t’is nay more. T’is ah shame sheh nay tried t’ae clear ‘er name ‘n ah fair trial or renounce ‘er darkspawn brainwashin’ t’ae return to ‘er mother. Weh warned ‘er tha’ t’ae others would nae be as merciful, bu’ sheh did nae lis’en.” remarks the Mayor of Bywater, Mimosa Applefoot-Nimblefoot, upon reading this missive. “May Knox ‘elp t’ae other cultis’s overcome their brainwashin’ ahh se’ t’em on t’a path ter TRUE redemp’ion.”

lots of goods are selling at 0.1 minas per. either let us price things in shops at 0.01 minas intervals or purposefully inflate minas more so things can actually be priced better. Iron used to be 1-2 minas per, yet in Almaris iron can be bought for 0.3 or even 0.2 minas a piece!

[!] A note is pinned to the Bywater Quest Board TO VANQUISH EVIL! ~Brave adventurers gather in the tavern!~ EVIL still lurks in Bywater, hidden from sight, yet still working its ill-doings on the good hard-working halfmen and halfwomen of the village! It is time to put an end to this! We shall strike forth and destroy evil once and for all! This is an A+ rank quest, significant pipeweed rewards will be given out to the surviving adventurers! Leave no stone unturned! ~Mimosa Applefoot, Quest Office Officer, Mayor of Bywater. ((Event at 6 PM EST, Saturday the 11th of March, 2023, located within Bywater, the home of the halflings on Almaris. Directions to Bywater: ))

"Hrm, oi believe tha' frogs are far superior t'ae lizards 'n evereh way" says a far away frog enthusiast and halfling, Mimosa Applefoot. She pets a frog as she says this.

[!] A note is pinned to the Bywater Notice Tree!! Village Schedule: Spring has sprung upon Bywater! Let us enjoy this season to its fullest! Snow's Maiden ~To those who came before us~ On this day, we will plough over the ol' wheat fields to make way for future planting! ((6 PM EST, Wednesday the 8th of March, 2023)) Malin's Welcome After commissioning some crafted goods from the Forest Dwarves of Heffrum many years back, 'tis finally time to head on over and trade for them! These new tools ought to serve us well! ((3 PM EST, Thursday the 9th of March, 2023, in Heffrum)) The First Seed ~The tools of the trade~ On this day, we plant seeds into the field and harrow them over with our new tools to make for the best harvest yet! ((6 PM EST, Friday the 10th of March, 2023)) The Grand Harvest ~A gathering of Adventurers~ The Grand Anti-Evil Adventurer Expedition sets forth at this time, ready to vanquish all evil gremlins, owl-people, and other baddies from Bywater! ((Also 6 PM EST, Saturday the 11th of March, 2023)) Sun's Smile ~Folks both strange and simple in the tavern~ Cloth-making, to end the Pumpkin Week with the village's most relaxing profession. ((6 PM EST (sensing a theme yet?), Sunday the 12th of March, 2023)) ~Mimosa Applefoot, lawfully elected Mayor of Bywater, notable halfling.

Yeah bro if some dead nation still has massive fields you can just harvest them all in one sitting with a /edit roleplay hoe. Fair and balanced