Tips

Crumpaloo · 2019-01-09 07:47:36

What are some combination recipes, or tips that arent very well known, yet useful for something?

Examples:

.You can take off the flint of a bow drill with a flint chip

.putting single logs on tiles next to eachother makes it easier to make boards

.backpacks can carry soil

.backpacks carry 4 not 3 items

etc.

hmrka · 2019-01-09 08:42:05

swap items you use, dont look for an empty spot to place them just to pick up the thing you need. swapping is quicker and makes you look more experienced. its useful when smithing.

Jk Howling · 2019-01-09 20:31:13

+ You can light straight shafts from firing kilns/forges/ovens. These things, along with making charcoal, last 30 seconds. A firebrand will stay lit for 60 seconds. If you time things right, you can actually get to your first iron tools from a single fire, rather than wasting a bunch of kindling on rebuilding it whenever it dies.

+ You can craft baskets on the same tile as the cut tule stumps.

+ A majority of the things done with a flint chip can also be done with a knife. This might be handy in mid-late game civs, as it could spare you the annoyance of scouring the camp in search of a flint chip. Examples include:
-Harvesting wheat and reeds
-Making gooseberry seeds
-Skinning animals
-Making needles
-Shucking corn
-Harvesting cabbage and squash
-Getting a cutting from saplings

+ You can now cut a lasso back into two ropes, using a flint chip or knife.

+ If you split a large rock in half, you can store the halves in carts and carry them back to your building area. Replacing the individual halves together on a tile will let you split it into the cut stones for your building. This is much faster then trying to haul the big rock or cut stones by hand.

+ Adobe, as well as baskets, can be made with the straw from wheat as well- not just tule reeds.

+ Rather than chopping up all the firewood for kindling, try shoveling up the stumps of the trees and using that instead, along with yew and curved branches.

+ Along similar lines- don't cut down cedar or yew trees in your area, unless they're inconveniently located in the middle of camp. These are valuable, renewable sources of kindling. Try to stick to cutting down the more useless trees, such as the dead desert trees and swamp trees.

+ Don't use logs for firewood. Since you only get one per tree, it's much preferable to leave those for future carts/chests/flooring rather than wasting them on keeping a fire lit.

+ Never, EVER use kindling to make a large, fast fire. This is a complete and utter waste of the kindling. A single kindling is much better used on rebuilding a fire from embers/scratch, as a regular fire made from such lasts twice the length as a large fast fire- 60 seconds vs 30 seconds.

+ Every time you cook an omelette on a hot flat rock, you're resetting its cooldown timer of 2 minutes. By timing out your cooking, you'll be able to keep the embers going for as long as you have eggs. This can be very useful in early camps, and saves on kindling usage.

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Morti · 2019-01-09 20:58:05

Lot of good little tips here, a few not mentioned come to mind.

* Instead of running single branches back home, if you can spot two maple and two cedar, whittle their branches down to straight and curved shafts with a sharp stone. Combine the two straight and two curved branches, then add the two curved branches to the two straight ones to make a pump kit, carry the pump kit home. If you have a cart, you can load it with 4 (or 6 if you have rubber tires) pump kits, for a grand total of 16 (or 24!) shafts in one trip.

If you don't see the variety of branches to make pump kit, two straight shafts, or two curved branches stacked and carried will still save you some time. But even if you are just hauling yew branches back for kindling you still look smarter than someone cutting up firewood.

* When you are ready to make adobe for kiln, forge, oven or an adobe sheep pen, run out and cut the reeds first, then make a basket with the last two reeds you cut and fill it with clay. On the way back, pull out a clay for each cut reed and make adobe on the return trip.

* If you have an abundance of flint around the camp, break them up early with sharp stone. Then use flint chips to cut reeds instead of sharp stones. Stones and sharp stones are overall more useful than flint chips and you want to leave them around your camp for other uses.

Erudaru · 2019-01-09 21:23:46

To open a fence gate or door, you do not need to put down the object you are holding.

(Neither do you need to get off your horse)

Gederian · 2019-01-09 22:53:38

- You can plant wheat using a bowl of wheat, you don't need seeds.

- You can combine two curved branches for transport, no need for sharp stone.

- Never stab a snake from below. You will not win.

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Tarr · 2019-01-09 23:15:03

How to not get stabbed in your big goofy face

-Never let someone with a knife stand right next to you. The screen is ten tiles wide and five tiles length wise. The only time someone armed should ever be within one tile of you is if you absolutely trust them.

-People with an armed bow are not the type of people to talk to. Should you have to talk to someone with a loaded bow always keep an impassible object between the two of you. This allows you to know if they attempt to take a shot as they'll bounce in place instead of getting a shot off.

-Naked people carrying armed bows are generally bad news. Naked people who carry armed bows for extended periods of time are always bad news. Snowball these people and take their bows or stab. Kill these sorts of people preemptively before they get the chance to grief the town.

-Knife vs bow fight: In the classic knife vs bow fight the proper distance to stand from a bow is four tiles. If someone attempts to shoot you without stopping to correct their position they will instead walk right next to you before actually taking the shot. This means instead of normal the bow will be attacking from exactly one tile away in a cardinal direction. This makes for a quick and easy stabbing without any actual worry of being injured.

-Bow vs knife fight: Sometimes its just correct to not move and to allow the knife user to run at you. Since the knife can only attack from a cardinal direction depending on what side they come from the attack can only occur in one of three squares. Unlike the knife the bow can hit any of the tiles within three tiles of itself. This means you can hit NW/NE/SE/SW when they come towards you or just aim where they're running in general.

-If snow is far away you can always carry medium snowballs in a basket or backpack. The only difference is that a medium will require a minute to shrink down to the throwable size but lasts for a long trip back and forth. Snowballs make for great practice when trying to learn how to do bow combat.

-If snow is near town you can always remove the murderers weapon by nailing them with a snowball. Whether forcing them drop it so they can feed themselves or stopping the griefer from running away with a knife snowballs are your friend.

Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting but that seems like some good stuff to know/remember.

CrazyEddie · 2019-01-10 00:41:43

Most things can be picked up either with right-click or left-click, but some things give you different results between the two. For example: left-click on a rabbit skeleton picks it up, right-click picks it up but leaves behind a bone.

pein · 2019-01-10 07:22:20

make multiple bone needles, if you make 10, people can leave it in the savanna, if you got one, kids wont find it
also you can form an arrow to nearest savanna

bring back the snares instead of a rabbit, it might seem smart that you just snare one more and alter return but generally you wont and no one wil hunt rabbits

use flint chips to cut reeds in the swamp and you can leave it there, sharp stones need to be brought back or people create more and more and you waste a well or cistern worth of stones

first thing to do with shovel is digging out soil pits (take worms out if you want to use on fishing) then the blockign objects around buildings (stumps, stones, clay pits) and reed stumps, or they decay and you just lose the adobe, its valuable resource long term
2 makes oven, 4 for kiln and 9 makes a cow pen

rather than making adobe base pens, use stakes and make half walls, cost the same, removed same but looks a bit better, people can finish it later and plaster it, make it at least 5x5 or 7x7 before doubling up

don't put berry bushes on all 4 corners of a pen, also don't even use berries, you can use cabbage or potato as well, not like that few berries gonna get fixed ever. you need 2 entrances: one toward city and one toward an empty space to dump the bones, dead sheep doesn't block movement now, only fleece, if you don't shear in corner you wont get blocked, so if you don't build a big pen, have only 2 entrances, this allow faster extending

use rabbit bones to fill a jungle, than block the mosquitos with a few walls, like adobe or snowman bases, the bones will decay in short time, firewood or milkweed seed is harder to clean up

domestic sheep and domestic mouflon, even cows will follow you, they can skip trough 4 items, so put 4 items on a line and lure toward it, its very fast to lure sheep back from high distances this way, yesterday just got back the sheep in pen from 100 tiles, as we had no soil or ropes and it would have been extra 10 minutes to get some
sheep with lamb and wild mouflon will run away from you so you need to 'push it', this is handy when you are far from camp and want to capture a lamb, or the same as above, luring back to pen
open up a wall let it in and close it back

if a pen is open, place 5 items in all directions from the open tile, it will stop sheep temporarily until you can fix it

feed bears mutton, by dropping it on a tile and luring it onto it, it will not aggro people anymore and as long as you don't run into it, wont kill you
if you don't have 3 arrows, this works better to delay the threat
if you got 3 arrows, put them on a T shape, aggro the bear, standing on the middle, right click when it moves and stops, then pick up other arrows and you can kill it by standing on 2 tiles with no risk, diagonal moving and shooting can lead you onto it

if you run trough biome with many animals, stop on an item and wait until they move, if they start their move they will move straight, you have less chance running into them, also try running diagonally up and down to see more of the screen

a very cheap clothing is straw hat, after you got sheep, plant a lot of wheat and use a needle and yarn on a straw, the extra threshed wheat can be used for pies or bread/tortilla

if you are in a populated town, and you see a god temperature spot with water (jungle/desert edge) especially with closeby soil, take a basket with a bowl a flint chip and a skewer, and plant 1-4 berry bushes, later go back and use the same bushes to plant more, like two 3x3 spots, during a famine or overpopulation you will have backup food, also you can take excess girls there (when you got 3 fertile and 3 kids the rest just creates problems anyway), they might make a decent camp, and you can sustain higher population in two places

when you got a desert (jungle not always) biome and you got trees on the further side, and you cut them for wood, can be good to have an extra fire there and a corn plantation, this is a good distraction for kids, to gather wood and make popcorn in there, also boards and milkweed farm

make a grave and plant 8 tiles of carrot around it, put the carrot on a grave and lift the grave, it will fly away, you can repeat this until you pick up all except 5 in a tile, use the seeds to replant it, also fits a 3x3

put food on 1-2 tiles near the kiln, this prevent people putting down useless items, also when you got no free flat rock, swap it with tongs, eat, pick up the wrough iron or tool head and you can still put the hot steal on it, it lasts 10 sec, so its enough time

you can drop swap on a single food on a tile, and eat it, and even swap back to previous item, its nifty to block tiles around forge, smith as young kid and heat up one more iron without free tile on flat rocks

if you got an apron or pack, you can place butt logs on separate tiles, put on the froh, hit with mallet, put in pack, put froh on the next, hit again, repeat, drop swap mallet and stack 2 boards or replace butt logs from a cart with boards

you can use a toddler to harvest crops like corn or carrot, pick him/her up and make it teleport to closest free tile, you got like 90 sec to use a kid like this after it grew hair

replace 2 tiles on the pen wall with boxes, than you can use the 2 adobe/stone block to extend the pen with a full line, square pens got the best wall/free tile ratio (more center tiles) so always extend the shorter side, this is also a good way to store lambs, bones and meat in walls and resort the job of cleaning it to toddlers ( fill oven side with meat, fill other side with bone baskets, take meat to oven, take out bones, put lambs to boxes)
also a convenient way to store tools for pen (the fricking 5 shears and the 46 knitting needles may not fit in one box)

Aurora Aurora · 2019-01-10 09:20:37

Uhhh
Be a cool mom so your kids want to work to make you proud

Yes

hmrka · 2019-01-10 11:15:35

Aurora Aurora wrote:

Uhhh
Be a cool mom so your kids want to work to make you proud
Yes

and remember to not marry your kid then stab them for saying xd. its important

BlueDiamondAvatar · 2019-01-10 18:08:57

You can use a skewer from a sapling as a hoe. This is a great early eve camp shortcut that not enough people are aware of. It can also save your butt when rebuilding an old town, but in that case, you may also want to bring back cuttings from the sapling to plant.

Also, you can make sapling cuttings to plant with just a piece of flint. Much easier and lower tech than other trees.

Cut stones make for attractive flooring, and excellent corners or intersections in roads.

CrazyEddie · 2019-01-10 19:07:08

BlueDiamondAvatar wrote:

You can use a skewer from a sapling as a hoe. This is a great early eve camp shortcut that not enough people are aware of.

Take a basket and gather three skewers at once. You'll need them. They're a great value but they get used up quickly.

betame · 2019-01-10 22:28:59

BlueDiamondAvatar wrote:

You can use a skewer from a sapling as a hoe. This is a great early eve camp shortcut that not enough people are aware of. It can also save your butt when rebuilding an old town, but in that case, you may also want to bring back cuttings from the sapling to plant.
Also, you can make sapling cuttings to plant with just a piece of flint. Much easier and lower tech than other trees.

Wild saplings are rarely used up before wild milkweed, so they're definitely the best early tiller if available.

However, domestic grown saplings produce weak skewers which break after one till, so there's no net tilling gain. Weak skewers are still fine for roasting, mixing, and letter stock, though.

sigmen4020 · 2019-01-11 21:53:07

If you have threshed wheat clutter where you want to build something, you can transport it with a bowl without having to make dough. You pick it up with the bowl, move to the desired location and use a branch to empty it out on the ground.

apereason · 2019-01-11 22:14:00

If someone is trying to stab you, hide behind a tree. Easiest way to do this is by clicking inside the tree from above.

pein · 2019-01-11 22:28:48

if someone hides behind a tree, aim on its backpack or hold mouse over the tree until you see the silhouette, and stab the person or the tile, same for peopel who hide behind others, aim their hair or pack or their head if they are taller

alphabetter · 2019-01-11 23:40:26

beans can be harvested early for another yum/baby food as green beans, but only before they dry.

domestic and wild carrots, each half of a baked potato, turkey slice and drumsticks, and gooseberry and bowl of gooseberry have different yums. this can help build a nice yum bonus rather easily.

gooseberries in a bowl can now be removed, so loading up a bowl of them makes transporting large amounts easier for Eve camps.

if you're going for cabbage seeds, it's best to being a bowl with you to load up, as opposed to carrying seeds back individually in a basket. you can also item swap for the plant itself, and just bring it back.

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