Couple tips: - Open order selection when a trader is in base with you. This lets you examine new timed orders while paused and see if the trader can help you provide any of the requirements. - Any time you can do it without causing a race to drop negative see if you can favor someone and push them into blue resolve. Since resolve gain is based on population, choose the highest population race that can go blue, even pushing a lower population race out of blue to blue up a better one. - You can use consumption control to turn off complex food eating on races that don't benefit (no + value for that type) from them to keep the complex foods from being wasted on the wrong people. Be careful about doing this if you don't have alternatives for them to eat. - If you ever need to use sacrifice to maintain positive resolve, don't just turn it on and ignore it. Toggle it on for just long enough to push resolve up, then turn it off so it drops. Repeating this process can cut your necessary sacrifice by about half. Also remember that you've got the time it takes for someone to leave which you can use as a storm buffer as well, but realize that this buffer won't reset until the next storm once used (flicking resolve +/- repeatedly doesn't restart the leave buffer).
I feel like the safest early choices for initial drafts are: A) Any kind of farm; you're basically always going to want to make use of one. B)Logging Mill, Carpenter, Kiln; you're going to have access to logs every map and use planks more than bricks or fabric and coal is way better to burn than wood. C)rain mill or provisioner; you're going to probably want flower every run and you can make better use of the traders by making either the building materials crates or the provisioners packs for trade routes. You may as well wait to go for a bakery/cookery until you have secured a way to make flower or buy a bunch.
Agree with all except with (C) I'd add it does depend somewhat on the racial composition. For example if you have the 3 that eat pickled goods then it's much better to focus on that over the rain mill in the early game. Also some biomes don't have much fertile soil, in those biomes farming might be hard to pull off
@@KevinK-s3g I agree, actually, once you get to level 10 and unlock foxes, flour is much more situationally good, but for beginners I would definitely recommend going for flour since every race except foxes likes at least one type of complex food that uses it.
Thats AWESOME about this game! The ability to insane snowball on something and bruteforce to win. Its not the same every game what makes it UNIQUE! I won a game with selling 200 stones or else because i got insane Bonus on that stuff ... but jeah that was fun.
I play to complete orders, as in i sorta plan my entire settlement around the orders I take. Why is that wrong? Because i am struggling a bit but i just don't see how i can't be hyper focused on them. Early game they can give me much needed workers, extremely valuable resources for glade events, and all types of production bonuses. It just doesn't seem like something i could ever just side eye every so often until my settlement is "ready" to do them.
I usually end my runs with 2-3 orders unfulfilled and get the rest of my points via other sources. I found my build not flexible enough if I only focused around orders. That's all. I mean if it works, you obviously have a point there. It just means mainly I suck at playing this way ^^
God the building RNG kills me some times. I currently get four options and still get rolls where it is almost nothing but end game buildings. My last few games had me still using the crude work station to make at least one of the basic materials until the end. Then there is having lots of fertile fields and not being able to roll any of the farms. When I do it seems to be that one that makes resin and rain bricks. If nothing else I wish the roll window would show you what resources the map had and/or at least what you are currently producing. Maybe a filter to highlight the buildings that use certain resources. For instance, in my last game I was producing tons of fiber. It would be nice if I could select fiber and the buildings in the roll that use fiber would highlight.
@@HerrHoppenstedtIn Brotato, the drafts look at what you drafted last (esp. weapons) and give you a flavor of that direction. It's better. You can actually execute a plan.
there is a lot more you can do about rng now, like picking a farm when you start. still you can be owned but even with terrible starts i always managed to beat it between year 5-7.
Have been playing since 1.0 release, honestly the crude workstations aren't too bad even late game. You just need to stack more of them at the same time. There are also perks that make crude workstation worth it (like +1/+3/+5 planks) so it's not like you're missing out tooo much. I'm only on P18 but not sure if that will change that much between that and P20 (other than needing to be more careful with sacrifices / villagers).
Hm, is there any harm to opening orders early though? I always do it because it lets me know what I need to build toward with future building picks, trade, etc.
No harm, I like to open them when i open my first dangerous glade though as you can synchronise all your orders and blueprints with what is inside it. Just try and secure a cloth, brick stone plank setup while you are working towards it. I like to rush that glade also you can setup your comlpex food forward plan from it. There's so many ways to play to be honest and as you get to higher difficulty and prestige it can challenge you much better mentally.
Timed orders and forcing direction based off orders and buildings is making the game more difficult for yourself, though depends on how you look at it. Getting direction for your first 3 buildings and orders based off your first few glades small or dangerous. Makes it nearly impossible to have picked a bad building or overlapping production. Then again i still force myself to open them before drizzle year 2
If you haven’t unlocked timed orders yet, there’s no harm. If you have, the downside is that you might be offered a timed order that you aren’t able to do at that time, but could have done if you waited to open it.
Prestige 17 here, most of these I figured out by trial and error. But I did learn something: your first tip or resetting maps. I'll add that you can also reset blueprint choices by Alt+F4 at the start of the game. It seems the game autosaves at intervals, so the game resets. Also on the topic of paths: if you're cutting through forests in multiple locations, don't add single pieces of road here and there, the order that you place them is the order they will be built. So your worker will run back and forth if you try to build multiple roads incrementally. Better to build entire segments at once, from your base outwards.
I made it up to P15 before deciding to wait out until the Full Version. And just like you said, these are all trial and error things. Thanks for your insights about building stuff, that's something I didn't know yet!
@@Ic0nGaming I just tested the first tip for resetting by abandoning. Seems they might have patched it. Abandoning right away still progresses the bar by 3 cycles.
I usually rearrange mine after things get stable. You get your resources back 100% when you deconstruct buildings. Then rebuild them how you like them.
@@armistice_front Is the resources you get back based on difficulty? I know there is a modifier that reduces the resources returned, if not removes the entirely.
Nothing, since the Warehouses in this game magically contain all materials all at once. There is no complicated logistics involved. As soon as it's in a Warehouse, it's basically banked.
This is interesting, I beat every map in a hour. I never trade, I haven't even checked consumption tool😅. I just build what I can. I haven't struggle yet at all. but about 10 maps played. But I want improve because I feel I don't play fully this game.
What difficulty have you reached? I mean the game is pretty easy up to prestige 3 or 4 once you get into it a bit. But past 10, its definitely not that easy.
@@edopronk1303 Yeah, Blightrot even was a voluntary thing when I made that video. Nowadays you need to work towards the Blight Station on Year 3, cause that's when you will get your guaranteed Blightrot hit. 10 Fuel are enough for the first blow. After that I try to maintain 20-30 fuel at all times and finished most of my runs with 1 Blight Station. This works nicely as long as you don't use Rainpunk. I don't have used Rainpunk too much (smh never liked the micro behind it / have to learn my way around it still) so I cannot give good hints here.
Couple tips:
- Open order selection when a trader is in base with you. This lets you examine new timed orders while paused and see if the trader can help you provide any of the requirements.
- Any time you can do it without causing a race to drop negative see if you can favor someone and push them into blue resolve. Since resolve gain is based on population, choose the highest population race that can go blue, even pushing a lower population race out of blue to blue up a better one.
- You can use consumption control to turn off complex food eating on races that don't benefit (no + value for that type) from them to keep the complex foods from being wasted on the wrong people. Be careful about doing this if you don't have alternatives for them to eat.
- If you ever need to use sacrifice to maintain positive resolve, don't just turn it on and ignore it. Toggle it on for just long enough to push resolve up, then turn it off so it drops. Repeating this process can cut your necessary sacrifice by about half. Also remember that you've got the time it takes for someone to leave which you can use as a storm buffer as well, but realize that this buffer won't reset until the next storm once used (flicking resolve +/- repeatedly doesn't restart the leave buffer).
That's a lot of things I usually do. Well written, thanks for sharing, these are good tips =)
Very good! I was failing miserably to stabilize my colony and your video helped me. Thanks a lot, great content!
Have loved this entire series. Has made me appreciate the game so much more! 50 hours in now, working on prestige 4.
I feel like the safest early choices for initial drafts are: A) Any kind of farm; you're basically always going to want to make use of one. B)Logging Mill, Carpenter, Kiln; you're going to have access to logs every map and use planks more than bricks or fabric and coal is way better to burn than wood. C)rain mill or provisioner; you're going to probably want flower every run and you can make better use of the traders by making either the building materials crates or the provisioners packs for trade routes.
You may as well wait to go for a bakery/cookery until you have secured a way to make flower or buy a bunch.
Agree with all except with (C) I'd add it does depend somewhat on the racial composition. For example if you have the 3 that eat pickled goods then it's much better to focus on that over the rain mill in the early game. Also some biomes don't have much fertile soil, in those biomes farming might be hard to pull off
@@KevinK-s3g I agree, actually, once you get to level 10 and unlock foxes, flour is much more situationally good, but for beginners I would definitely recommend going for flour since every race except foxes likes at least one type of complex food that uses it.
Hi, nice video ! My favourite way to win is to open the abandoned caches with tools. If you have the chance to pick the Forester's Hut, it's easy.
thank you very helpful, especially the warehouse thing
Indeed. I am a bit scared about destroying the warehouse and therefore building them (and spending bolts)
but it's good to see it's not a problem.
FYI There’s modifier’s that don’t allowed you to get any material back if you destroyed any buildings
Thats AWESOME about this game! The ability to insane snowball on something and bruteforce to win. Its not the same every game what makes it UNIQUE! I won a game with selling 200 stones or else because i got insane Bonus on that stuff ... but jeah that was fun.
I play to complete orders, as in i sorta plan my entire settlement around the orders I take. Why is that wrong? Because i am struggling a bit but i just don't see how i can't be hyper focused on them. Early game they can give me much needed workers, extremely valuable resources for glade events, and all types of production bonuses. It just doesn't seem like something i could ever just side eye every so often until my settlement is "ready" to do them.
I usually end my runs with 2-3 orders unfulfilled and get the rest of my points via other sources. I found my build not flexible enough if I only focused around orders. That's all. I mean if it works, you obviously have a point there. It just means mainly I suck at playing this way ^^
Nice guide man 💪
God the building RNG kills me some times. I currently get four options and still get rolls where it is almost nothing but end game buildings. My last few games had me still using the crude work station to make at least one of the basic materials until the end. Then there is having lots of fertile fields and not being able to roll any of the farms. When I do it seems to be that one that makes resin and rain bricks.
If nothing else I wish the roll window would show you what resources the map had and/or at least what you are currently producing. Maybe a filter to highlight the buildings that use certain resources. For instance, in my last game I was producing tons of fiber. It would be nice if I could select fiber and the buildings in the roll that use fiber would highlight.
I hope at some point the rework the rng factor on that, and some other parts. It's... not as entertaining as they thought it might be.
@@HerrHoppenstedtIn Brotato, the drafts look at what you drafted last (esp. weapons) and give you a flavor of that direction. It's better. You can actually execute a plan.
there is a lot more you can do about rng now, like picking a farm when you start. still you can be owned but even with terrible starts i always managed to beat it between year 5-7.
Have been playing since 1.0 release, honestly the crude workstations aren't too bad even late game. You just need to stack more of them at the same time. There are also perks that make crude workstation worth it (like +1/+3/+5 planks) so it's not like you're missing out tooo much. I'm only on P18 but not sure if that will change that much between that and P20 (other than needing to be more careful with sacrifices / villagers).
Please refrain from using God's name as a profanity.
Hm, is there any harm to opening orders early though? I always do it because it lets me know what I need to build toward with future building picks, trade, etc.
No harm, I like to open them when i open my first dangerous glade though as you can synchronise all your orders and blueprints with what is inside it. Just try and secure a cloth, brick stone plank setup while you are working towards it. I like to rush that glade also you can setup your comlpex food forward plan from it. There's so many ways to play to be honest and as you get to higher difficulty and prestige it can challenge you much better mentally.
the only harm would be getting a timed order with great rewards that you won't be able to do yet
Timed orders and forcing direction based off orders and buildings is making the game more difficult for yourself, though depends on how you look at it. Getting direction for your first 3 buildings and orders based off your first few glades small or dangerous. Makes it nearly impossible to have picked a bad building or overlapping production. Then again i still force myself to open them before drizzle year 2
If you haven’t unlocked timed orders yet, there’s no harm. If you have, the downside is that you might be offered a timed order that you aren’t able to do at that time, but could have done if you waited to open it.
You may also get stuck on an order, which you cannot fulfill, because you get unlucky with blueprint rolls.
Hmmm, does a path count as a road?
Prestige 17 here, most of these I figured out by trial and error. But I did learn something: your first tip or resetting maps. I'll add that you can also reset blueprint choices by Alt+F4 at the start of the game. It seems the game autosaves at intervals, so the game resets. Also on the topic of paths: if you're cutting through forests in multiple locations, don't add single pieces of road here and there, the order that you place them is the order they will be built. So your worker will run back and forth if you try to build multiple roads incrementally. Better to build entire segments at once, from your base outwards.
I made it up to P15 before deciding to wait out until the Full Version. And just like you said, these are all trial and error things. Thanks for your insights about building stuff, that's something I didn't know yet!
@@Ic0nGaming I just tested the first tip for resetting by abandoning. Seems they might have patched it. Abandoning right away still progresses the bar by 3 cycles.
@@nikzell
good tutorial!
The real question how to make beautiful cities like you are showing us, and not just cramp every house in the starting location
I don't build in this game for aesthetic reasons. I'm constantly working against the clock, so it's about efficiency if anything ^^
@@Ic0nGaming still looks much better than my
I usually rearrange mine after things get stable. You get your resources back 100% when you deconstruct buildings. Then rebuild them how you like them.
@@armistice_front sounds reasonable, I just don't like loosing time, I think they should just make moving living houses fir free
@@armistice_front Is the resources you get back based on difficulty? I know there is a modifier that reduces the resources returned, if not removes the entirely.
what happens to the stuff in a warehouse when you delete it?
Nothing, since the Warehouses in this game magically contain all materials all at once. There is no complicated logistics involved. As soon as it's in a Warehouse, it's basically banked.
@Ic0nGaming that's weird but rad
This is interesting, I beat every map in a hour. I never trade, I haven't even checked consumption tool😅. I just build what I can. I haven't struggle yet at all. but about 10 maps played. But I want improve because I feel I don't play fully this game.
What difficulty have you reached? I mean the game is pretty easy up to prestige 3 or 4 once you get into it a bit. But past 10, its definitely not that easy.
Are you playing on Settler with the game speed at 3X? I'm fine on Veteran and am trying to beat Viceroy. Those games take 2 to 3 hours, I think.
10 maps is still in beginner town? Basically playing still on easy mode so...
These are not tips. You are just explaining the basics.
What's basics for you, is news for someone else. It just seems your game understanding is already pretty solid!
Do you have tips around blightrot and corruption? Those are high rank problems
@@edopronk1303 Yeah, Blightrot even was a voluntary thing when I made that video. Nowadays you need to work towards the Blight Station on Year 3, cause that's when you will get your guaranteed Blightrot hit. 10 Fuel are enough for the first blow. After that I try to maintain 20-30 fuel at all times and finished most of my runs with 1 Blight Station. This works nicely as long as you don't use Rainpunk. I don't have used Rainpunk too much (smh never liked the micro behind it / have to learn my way around it still) so I cannot give good hints here.