One Hour One Life

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Tips all One Hour One Life players should learn.
By Don Laundry
This is just a basic guide with tips i think all players should learn to improve everyones quality of life in the game.

I have been playing the game since March 2018 and have accumulated about 600 hours (mostly pre-steam release) and have learned a vast majority of the games content in that time.

I hope these tips helped you and if you have anything you would like to add to the guide please leave a comment below!
   
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Basic Tips
Basic Tips:

1. If you don't know how to make a fire i highly suggest looking up a guide to this on youtube first and practicing this in the tutorial until you get it down. When you become more advanced, you can do the same for smithing. These are two things i think all players should learn how to do and will drastically make life easier for you if you know how to do them.

2. As a baby or mother try to stay in a warm spot (desert, jungle, or fire in another biome) this will make your food meter go down drastically slower.

3. Removing someone elses home marker to place your own does NOT remove the other persons home marker.

4. Try to learn how much food each type of food offers you, this will help you in knowing when it is appropriate to eat what so you don't waste valuable foods. For example a berry only gives 4 food bars but an omelette will fill an entire full grown adults food bar so it is a waste for a child to eat this when they are missing only 5 or 6 food bars.

5. Take time to learn wild foods what they look like and what biome to find them in as wild foods not only can help with your food bonus but can drastically improve your chance of living to 60 more often. Also this info is very useful during famines, when they do happen i highly suggest roaming far away from home and eating wild foods for about 5-10 minutes then come back when the "carrot sponges" have died out.

6. As you grow up you should try to chain food bonuses. Eating different foods will add to your food
meter, although this bonus is invisible it is very strong. A good start to a food bonus is to eat 1 gooseberry then put 1 gooseberry in a bowl and eat that then you can chain off of that through other wild or cooked foods you can find. Eating something you have already eaten will reset the bonus. In the bottom left corner if it shows "yum" then the food will apply to the bonus if it shows "meh" then you have already eaten that food.

7. If you are brand new and want to be useful just bring things back from the wilderness such as random items people died with away from home, branches and firewood. This is not only useful but can help you in learning where to find things in the environment
Newer Civilizations (Eves, No Tools, No Domesticated Animals)
Newer Civilizatization tips: (eves, no or stone tools, no domestication)

1. When finding a settle location make sure that you at least have 4+ duck ponds, a warm biome (jungle or desert) and a grassland with a good amount of soil, trees and milkweed nearby.

2. Always make sure to make and fire a clay nozzle when you make your first batch of bowls and plates, this is done by using a skewer on a piece of clay.

3. Make sure when starting a farm you do it as close as possible to the water supply, you should also make sure there is plunty of space between the farm and forge because someone doing blacksmithing will need a decent amount of space (about 4x4 tiles) in front of the forge. Also consider this farm will need room to expand over time.

4. When smithing you should always make an axe first this will keep your fire going and make furture smithing much easier.

5. Always leave at least 3 flat stones, plates and bowls near the forge.

6. Start a seperate fire while making omelettes, try to keep the first fire alive as much as possible this is useful for smithing.

7. NEVER use string on clothes in the early game with the exception of backpacks. Ropes are much much more valuable and string will become easy to obtain for later generations through sheep.

8. You can use a long straight shaft on a seal (found in snow biomes) then skin it with a flint chip for easy early game clothing.

9. When you leave home always bring at least something back.

10. As a female do not keep every kid you have select your kids based off the amount of food around and how many females there are.
Advanced Civilization Tips (Domesticated Animals, Steel Tools, Advanced Meals)
1. Make sure you always have at least berries, wheat and carrots growing at all times. These are required to keep a late civilization from running out of soil and starving.

2. Always leave one sheep unsheared so it will produce babies, shearing the last sheep will waste 6 berries, 1 carrot, 1 ball of thread, 1 sheep poop and 4 mutton. (All highly useful end game materials)

3. Try to avoid eating berries and carrots as much as possible, these are used for sheep food and keeps other crops growing allowing more advanced foods to be made easier.

4. Always leave at least one wheat uncut as it will produce seeds for more (THESE SEEDS CANNOT BE LEFT ON THE GROUND THEY WILL DISAPPEAR QUICKLY)

5. When a steel tool breaks always bring it back to the smith. Two broken tools can be combined to produce scrap steel which can be turned back into a steel ignot.

6. Make sure there is a fire always going with a decent supply of firewood nearby.

10 Comments
sillylilguy 12 Jul @ 4:25am 
i need a guide on how to make people stop thinking youre ian because i get cursed to HELL by people saying im ian:torielsad:
dills0n 1 Sep, 2021 @ 6:55pm 
all the rules changed this guide is wrong.
Don Laundry  [author] 7 Jan, 2020 @ 12:19am 
been a minute since i played ewpayne but if i remember right you can just chuck lambs off to the side of the pen and they will disappear eventually. If the pen is completely full of them it just means someone hasn't been tending to it in which case you could try to take that over as a job or tell a kid who knows what they are doing to do it.
ewpayne 6 Jan, 2020 @ 7:12am 
What about baby lambs? I see entire pens full of dead ones.
stormbreker 24 Jan, 2019 @ 1:48pm 
Good guide for newbie! Thanks a lot
Don Laundry  [author] 4 Jan, 2019 @ 12:02pm 
It all depends on how advanced the civilzation is in food and the supply honestly but you are right watereaters. Having all the kids eating berries as children depends on the supply of soil and how maintained the berry farm is but a majority of a towns berries should be going to sheep.
Watereaters 4 Jan, 2019 @ 12:50am 
I think it’s fine for children to eat gooseberries, when there isn’t a viable production of popcorn, and they should switch off berries when their food bars are exceed 7 pips
Don Laundry  [author] 7 Dec, 2018 @ 12:03am 
No problem although most of this list is just player etiquette than anything. The more people that follow these tips, the easier everyone elses lives will be.
Rembo_HUGO™ 6 Dec, 2018 @ 7:02pm 
Clubbing seals is new. TY
mook 5 Dec, 2018 @ 3:30pm 
pretty good guide