DISCLAIMER: I know this is not how the game is supposed to be played, however I play this game quite a fair bit and had gotten bored of the same old cycle happening in every life (helping grow a mid-sized village using steel tools tech, later town gets wiped out by a griefer or a bear). I wanted to learn more about tools higher up in the tech tree. So, inspired by a post on this forum about someone creating his own solo kingdom, I decided to give this a go as well. This was purely for my exploration and for personal learning purposes.
Before this run, I had 2 relatively good runs, developing large towns with animals, all tools, etc. However in the first run I died by getting stuck in my own sheep pen (never again!) and in the second run, I died by trying to raise a piglet and getting a hog cut. I’ve also had really amazing moments, some which led me to tears of happiness, but that’s a story for another time.
This current run was my best run yet. I had, after a long while, created a Newcomen Multipurpose Engine, which I was so proud of as it took me 2 whole lives to figure out.
It wasn’t a huge place, but it kept me satisfied. I wasn’t short on food either. I had three whole turkeys, turkey broth, countless pies and milk to keep me well fed. I experimented with new things like dyeing clothes, breeding a cow, growing roses and a mango tree and making the Newcomen mechanisms. I had even begun to enjoy the routine of mundane tasks like farming milkweed and collecting firewood!
I felt like I was building a home.
However, things started to feel a little lonely and I wanted to share my little kingdom with a child. I gave birth to a girl, dressed her in sheep’s wool and named her cotton. I hid my knife and bow just to be safe. She seemed like she knew what she was doing, but something was off - suddenly she disappeared on my horse for a long time. During that time, I died of old age.
When I spawned there as an eve again, she was back with a child of her own. However, when she saw me, she said nothing but ran to grab my knife hidden behind a tree. I had no idea how she knew it was there. I immediately grabbed my bow and called her daughter for help. Her daughter, my granddaughter, suspiciously followed me around begging for a response from me like “hey”, “where are your tools” etc. I finally stopped to tell her where my spare knife was, when her mother struck.
As I continued to spectate them, I realised they were probably in a voice call and were in cahoots the whole time. They probably saw the newcomen engine and thought to make a car, thus killing me off so I wouldn’t be in their way.
They kept dying and getting reborn to each other, ignoring other babies.
After a couple of hours, I went back to spectate them again and this time, only one was left. Watching her, I didn’t feel angry anymore. I was consoled by the fact that she barely knew how any of the mechanisms worked. In all this time, the only thing that had changed was that my food supply had completely been depleted, and the place was a mess.
In her final 10 years of life, I watched her fail at many things. She tried for years to pick up a crude piston on a flat rock, but didn’t know how to pick up two items at once. She attempted to cook a stew, and failed horribly (she tried to cut the squash with a sharp stone lol!). She died holding a crock of… squash…
(Sorry I don’t have more photos to illustrate my journey – I was too taken aback by my daughter appearing with a knife and chasing me around!)
The point is…
Apart from the final betrayal, I had learnt more about the crazy things we can craft and create in this game during this solo adventure than I had in plenty of regular games. I know this goes against the very essence of the game, but I hope one day a (separate) solo mode will be available for us to create our own “home”, like I did mine.
TLDR; had a long solo run, decided to have one baby and that baby called his buddy online to kill me together in the hopes of creating a car. Failed miserably. Solo mode plz?
