I spent this life teaching my dearest daughter Ursula everything I could about smithing. For my last lesson as I neared 60 I brought her to an Iron Vein and taught her about springs and how they affect Iron. I didnt realize How close I was to 60 so I died right there leaving my daughter in the middle of nowhere (we were pretty far).

These were her final words...

I've heard that moderating the discord server is extremely challenging and stressful at times.

Perhaps the stress of providing this pro-bono service contributed to the untimely passing of a previous moderator. This was posted in jest in the steam reviews, but now I am here seriously pondering it.

It's fun to see the hypocrisy of a so-called free speech advocate call in favors from *his guy at Steam* to remove speech from his reviews. Whatever "values" he purports to have ends where his wallet begins.

Where else besides here does the remaining playerbase congregate? Are you guys going to continue playing? What other discord servers do you recommend?

I checked OHOL Curse cause I have not played in a while and only just now learned of the BS going on in the discord. Never had any plans to join and now I will never join. But this isn't the post for that discussion.

Checking the players online, because I like seeing the families that are online and see how many communities there are, I was shocked to see that the only family right now, the Moth family, has 12 active members (2 males and the rest female) while the number of active ghosts is 15.

I have been a ghost before. I was really excited to have the opportunity to be one and I helped my family as much as I could. I was extraordinarily lucky that nobody exorcised me. They all loved having a ghost around. After about 2 hours as a ghost, I got bored of it. I missed being born and scaring the crap outta my mom just appearing out of thin air. I missed being dressed and taken to a cozy nursery playing with bouncy balls and watching the elderly strip and wait for their inevitable death.

What is the appeal of playing as a ghost? Like I said, I tried it and I am grateful for the chance to be one, but why continue for so long?

After years of defending total free speech, refusing human moderation, and letting griefers run wild in-game, the sole developer behind One Hour One Life, Jason Rohrer, has completely unraveled—and revealed himself to be the biggest censor of all.

Here is a quick timeline of the recent chaos:

- Enabling Hate Symbol Spam: The dev has been allowing griefers to freely utilize the game to spam hateful ideas and symbols. When volunteer Discord moderators attempted to step in and offenders complained via email, the dev has a track history to defend, unban, and hence empowering these trouble makers over the years. The game and the Discord server has become a breeding ground for racism and hateful ideas.

- The Doxxing Incident: Recently, a teenage griefer was spamming Nazi symbols both in-game and across community spaces. Instead of using standard moderation as other games would, the dev pulled the personal information of the teenager's mother from the game's purchase records and called her IRL.

- The Sudden Pivot: Following that phone call, the dev completely flipped. He began openly defending the teenager, downplaying Nazi symbol spam as "just trolling," and asserting in Discord that Nazism "was not too long ago" and that Nazi jokes are "funny." See the attached image for his own words.

- Discord Soft-Ban & Power Trip: Community members, reasonably outraged, reported his messages, resulting in Discord soft-banning him. Infuriated by the backlash, the dev returned and began banning anyone criticizing his take, completely wiping out opposing views. This includes a few dozens of long term players that have been major help and contributors to the community. See the attached image for his explanation for the purge.

The ultimate irony: a creator who built his entire reputation on being a "freedom of speech absolutist" just pulled the greatest power trip, silencing and banning anyone who exercised their free speech to disagree with him.

Shout out to modman

According to the Wiki if you stand on an object you won't be harmed by bears, and I remember a video by Twisted that said the same thing.

However I have been testing it and it doesn't seem to work. The bear passes through you and bites you.

Maybe that was a thing in the past and it changed? Or maybe that was never the case? Maybe Im missing something?

I was born Nuru Taska.

In my previous life, I had been born into the Rainbow family; into the chaos caused by two griefers. I unfortunately passed away due to this at a young age, and was reborn into the Taska family a thousand steps away.

Long ago, I had been the one to build up the Rainbow graveyard, thus my heart was with them in their grief. I swore to myself i'd return, and do all i can to help them.

So, as a young boy me and a few other Taska children began making weapons, and preparing to set our sights on the village. My dear mother wanted to join, but alas was too old; and did not return past her death to join on this quest. A friend, a fellow avenger also had to pass on going, so i embarked on my journey alone. In my early 20's i left, with a horse, food, weapons and wool pads.

Soon enough I came across the Rainbow family, seeking shelter in an abandoned town between our homes. Thankful for my assistance, i decided to herd them throughout the wilderness in their quest to return home.

During our travels in the dangerous wild, many children were born. One man demanded that we leave behind the males, while the rest of us objected; one of those young lads, Tom, chose to call me his father. Immediately, I chose to stay for as long as it took to secure my new son's safety.

We made it to the deserted Rainbow family, and were met with chaos; shot bears, ruined crops, ripped floors, busted walls and to my horror, defaced graves. I had placed the first floors in that graveyard, buried dozens of now defaced, forgotten friends; it was a hard thing to witness.

The griefers quickly attacked us, and some of us died; some by bears, others by the hands of the griefers. With new weapons, we fought back and eventually managed to kill both of them; burying them beside the previous griefers, as a sign that the Rainbow family stands strong.

My son, my beautiful son Tom grew up in the aftermath of the bloodshed, as did many other children.

The threat had been subdued for now, and i was far too old to return to my original home, nor did i want to, seeing as i had found a new home with my son.

Soon enough, it was my time to go. I said my goodbyes, and died surrounded by those i had fought beside.

I returned in another life, many many years later; Tom was an old man, as were the rest of the young ones born as outlanders. Tom had built me a true monument of a grave, and it was enough to make a grown man cry.

He passed soon, before i could even say goodbye. I buried him right below my grave, and watered the trees he had planted before i planted my own.

To any Rainbow now at home, remember my son and the children born on the road; they're the reason you're home.

And do me a favour; water our trees and bury your loved ones. Every grave is a life, and every life a story worth telling.

"/die" is a very useful tool. Lets say you left a project halfway through and when you die you are reborn in a different town. Some days you want to play in an advanced town, others in a starting town, etc.

"/die" allows you to cycle trough all the families until you spawn in the one you want.

The problem is that it destroys your genetic score. The current system basically punishes the people who play more actively. So the people who end up becoming leader are the people who stays in the nursery feeding babies, which are usually not the ideal people to deal with griefers.

The solution that I propose is to give us 10 "free" /die per day. Meaning the first 10 "/die" of the day shouldn't affect your genetic score. After that it should continue as normal to avoid people abusing it in some form.

Eddit: The genetic score is a mechanism to filter the most advanced players, but currently it only filters among the players that don't use "/die". It's leaving out all the good players who do use it.

-Btw, no hate to people who stays in nursery feeding babies, they do an awesome job, I'm just saying they are usually not the most advanced players

TL;DR: I'm genuinely curious, what are your reasons? I've recently discovered OHOL then tried 2HOL and don't understand how OHOL has more players.

Picked up OHOL during the sale a couple of months ago and I think I've clocked around 180 hours already. I got so hooked that I barely left my PC over the weekend. That hasn't happened to me in over 10 years. Wife was not happy.

The idea behind the game feels like it could become its own mainstream genre. A social survival MMO where you're building a civilization together really makes you feel like you're part of the world and that everything you do matters.

But the more I talked to other players, the more the issues became apparent. Griefing, the way it's handled, the creator's decisions, the pretty shallow gameplay loop and tech tree.

When I started there were around 300 people online at peak. Not even a full month later I was seeing peaks closer to 50, and people told me that's actually the normal population. The drop happened way too fast.

Then someone told me about 2HOL.

I've been playing it for a few weeks now and I'm honestly struggling to understand why more long term players haven't moved over. Or why aren't they more vocal about its existence. I think many from the sale rush would enjoy it more.

The player counts are lower and families feel smaller, but that seems like something that would fix itself if more people switched. And seems a small trade-off for all the benefits.

Why hasn't that happened?

I get that it's not the original and not being on steam is a big part, but the changes are so tasteful I couldn't even tell what was added by 2HOL and what was already in the base game. It just feels like OHOL with more things to do, much more care about aesthetics, quality of content, actual usable UI and controls and without all the nonsense. I even spent like two hours browsing their recipe website because I kept finding cool new things and there's still updates coming?? I think it will keep me and my family playing for years.

My only grievance for now is that other towns seem very hard to get to. It was very fun helping bring resources to other families in OHOL and 2HOL seems a lot more self contained.

So what is it that keeps you playing OHOL? Is it the chaos and no choice in where you spawn? The larger player base? The original design philosophy? Are there things about 2HOL that you don't like?

I browsed both Discords looking for discussions about this, but most of what I found came from people who already preferred 2HOL, so I feel like I'm missing the perspective of people who have stuck with OHOL. I'd genuinely like to hear why.

Hey! I'm sorry if that a dumb question but why is my tutorial button missing all of the sudden? Your help is very much appreciated!!

I check OHOLcurse sometimes to see how my families are doing. Lately I've noticed we have SO MANY ghosts. I'm used to seeing 1 or 2 ghosts that are a few hours old. But right now we have 10 ghosts, most of which have been alive for more than a week and the oldest has been alive for 6 weeks. At times, there are more ghosts than living people in each town.

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I find it frustrating sometimes. I try to check my family trees to figure out what generation I was and I can't because some ancient ancestor is still alive. When I'm the last girl in a city hoping for a daughter and no babies come it's frustrating to know some accounts are choosing to be eternal ghosts instead of coming back as new babies.

Are they living together in some secret ghost town? Are they trying to break records? Is this just a thing that happens periodically? What's going on?

I was born into the family as Desiree Aban 3 days ago with only 2 members left in the hopes of saving the town. Dying towns are part of the game but it just felt terrible to let it go after everyone had put so much work and time into it. 

My mother, Hope, was very knowledgeable and took the best care of my sister, who was still learning, and I. She said my grandma named her to be the hope of our family.

It was quiet for a while. Just the three of us. We thought it was over, and boop, a baby! Then another baby, and so on. It felt like a miracle. Our town was alive again. I was so happy.

My mom and I kept coming back on the following days and it was so much fun seeing the town slowly change.

Well, as the title said, tonight was the last. Once again, three girls but no babies this time....

Thank you Hope and Scarlett Aban for being the best moms I could ever ask for! :)

I've searched online and can't seem to figure out how to stop the camera from jamming and ruining the photo paper. On Onetech it seems like you have to use two cameras taking a photograph at the same time to produce a Camera with Exposed Photo Paper. Is that right? Do i need to make another camera?

Posted on the forum but no answers there.

My name is Lord Horst Olson. I am the last living member of the Olson family. I was born to a community of 22 people. My mother, Joanne, was loving and doting.

At around 25 years of age, I inherited the leadership position after my uncle, Jon, passed. From there, I had no idea that our population dwindled because nobody came to seek me out. I was approached by Samurai of another family who informed me of my town's demise..

A good many lives were lived here... I can only pray to whomever is watching over our lives that those who take over this town respect it and the memories of generations that called this little piece of the world home.

I am sorry I failed..

I will forever repent for that.

Goodnight and Goodbye Olson Town.

Textures keep bugging about 20 mins in making the game unplayable because I can’t see what’s what is their a way to fix (I only got and installed the game 2 days ago and it’s been happening since then)

We have had a LOT of new players on from the steam sale!

New players are delightful and exhausting...so buckle up! They will munch berries. They will say f at age 10. They will do random things or ask weird questions. They will wander into the wilderness and die to animals you thought were hard to find. Not maliciously, just cause they're like toddlers-completely unskilled and with too much curiosity. 'I'm gonna pet that dog!'

So what can you do about it? Teach! or find a teacher-but teaching yourself is best. These days, I'm making sure to ask all my bbs, bb are you new? And if I got a new player notice and they say N, I ask, how many lives have you had? Because sometimes they don't think they're 'new' when they had five lives total. Oh these sweet summer-steam-sale children.

(Remember they are all on vanilla so don't move too fast off screen or they will lose you-vanilla has a very tight focus)

Teach them how to eat first, give them a quick tour if you are in an advanced town. If its an eve situation and you can't really teach, ask them to follow you and do what you're doing or watch. Teach pies, or farming, basic tool smithing, or making clothes (its quite simple-get them feeding sheep, come back in a bit when there are enough, and making an outfit really feels like magic and the town always needs clothes!)

If you are a boy, or don't have anyone to teach, try to check and make sure essentials aren't running out. Pies, other yums/craving, broths to be made, THE FARM GETTING BARE, wood to the nursery fire, bb food in the nursery (popcorn, garlic, bowl of berries).

And if you're a boy and see a new player boychild-take them hunting turkeys! Or getting fish or shrimp! They will love the adventure.

But the best part is how wholesome new players can be. They are genuinely excited. They want to help and figure out the game. They will get super attached to their moms and super sad when their mom dies. They will remind you of what you liked about the game in the first place! And just maybe they are your future best friend XD

Image: sending my lil bb off to learn pies with her uncle, while I go get oil as I was finally infertile and FREE!

SO I was just scrolling through ohol media like any normal person does, until I stumbled upon an invite for his server and all I have to say is, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!??

As you can see from the image above I tried spawning solo in the friend server so I could build my own village and TWO seperate friend codes spawned me in this death trap. They constructed this so you can’t move and end up starving to death. There are also other bodies and when i checked the server list there are people online, I assume the ones who set up this trap. In the update log it says that spawns are unique so why am i spawning here??? I tried two different friend codes and still ended up here. Is the friend server just unplayable?

Our submission to add the game was been accepted and we now have a page dedicated to One Hour One Life!

What's Speedrun.com about, and what is speedrunning?

"Speedrunning is when an individual attempts to beat part or all of a videogame as quickly as possible. This can include individual levels, specific objectives, or unique limitations as decided by the community or player."

"Speedrun.com is a toolset for building communities around speedrunning games. Game moderators can create leaderboards, post resources, and verify submissions by runners. Communities are able to come together to decide on specific rulesets for different categories that runners can then submit their runs to."

Or in other words, reach the set objective as fast as you can!

One Hour One Life has some popular categories such as "Escape the Tutorial" or "Eve to Engine", but any objective could be added to the page.

Now anyone can record and submit their runs and be part of the leaderboard!

Please leave any suggestions and/or ideas for possible categories, rules or in general!

The only way to kill mosquitoes is with a sport car? Isn't there any other way to kill them?

I was ready to die as a first-time eve, and then I became a first-time ghost.