[Spoilers] Squirrels in act 1 .

[Lord Knightmarez]

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I've been replaying the game from the beginning to see if there was anything that needed improvement.

In act 1 i unlocked the cabin's chest and got the squirrel totem head.

This helps power up the play-through from act 1 and onward.
If i saw a woman carving wood on the map, i'd go straight for it.

just seeing her once could result in massive boosts to the economy.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2638210324

1 : the rat-pack sigil, making all squirrels give 1 item.
Use item -> Place squirrel -> get new item.

Very, very strong.

2 : The return from death sigil

Place squirrel : sacrifice , place again, sacrifice again, As long as there is pace on the board i could do 2 or 3 blood cost creatures with ease.

3 : Extra bones on death.

With is i would get 4 bones per squirrel.
Combined with 1 extra bone from the bone lord
Or , if sacrificing a goat, a massive pile of bones from the bone lord
Resulted in : 8 bones first turn being an easy thing to achieve.

4 : +3 blood per squirrel

With this getting down 4 cost creatures was trivial.

5 : spike, flying defence, etc

A good bonus but requires sacrificing the squrrels. Buys time and is ok with bone lord boon.

HOWEVER - here's the problem.

All if this was nullified when i unlocked the 'advantage' of turning the squirrels into bees.

As a new player i would not know what the 'bee wood statue' did.
Perhaps it gave my creatures the bee-hive sigil, right?
Nope. it replacing Squirrels with Bees.

Now, normally this would be better, however, when i already have the squirrel head totem, it is actually a DEbuff .

SOLUTION - let me remove bee sculpture.!

I would like the ability to pick up the bee sculpture from the table when standing next to it and looking down.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2638210066

I would then place the sculpture on the barrel under the bone-lord's skull.

TLDR :
Squirrel head totem is better than bee-sculpture and it sucks that i can't go back to squirrels.

[RequiemsRose]

you should also now have a bee head totem to use like you did with the squirrels, but the additional bonus there is that the bee head isn't just bees either. It's insects in general. Whatever is on that totem will affect all insect cards, which would include a few that have sigils people tend to enjoy, like stink bugs stench, mantis double strike, mantis gods triple strike, cockroaches unkillable, or corpse maggots auto-play when something dies.

[Lord Knightmarez]

Nope, in the screenshot i got the bee-head totem by random luck at the old woman i visited before taking the shot.

[Arsonium]

You should get two heads from the start in the future runs (at least it was that way for me): squirrel (probably useless now) and insect. Also for the totems: Beehive totem is basically the same as unkillable, so pretty good. Stinky is also great as it can allow you to block enemy lines with squirrels/bees while you draw the rest of your deck

[Lord Knightmarez]

oh yeah, but look at that screenshot of me getting 'rat-pack' for the squirrel, whilst i already have an item from my back-pack that gives me a squirrel.
It's so, so very over powered.
Also it can be the first move on the map. The very first move can be the wood-carver option, and it doesn't have to be back-pack sigil. about 5 of them resulted in pure power.

Another solution could be that when one gets the Bee wood carving, one gets an insect totem head as well? that does sound even more busted to be honest tho.

When i have the *down grade* of picking up the bee sculpture, i have to get a good sigil AND the insect head. something quite likely to fail, and costing a minimum of two visits to the wood carver.

[honeymustard]

You can also get a scry totem so you can just play a squirrel/bee and pull out your best card immediately and one tap every basic fight :)

[RequiemsRose]

Admittedly when I got the bee I kind of speed-rushed the dying part because I was exclusively trying to solve the painting, so I wasn't that concerned with actually winning. Just getting far enough to get and play what I needed. It is possible the insect totem head doesn't start showing up until the run after you obtain the bee. I just know I always have it when I visit the woodcarver since I got it, which has meant I haven't even touched the squirrel head in...well, dozens of plays at this point (don't question it, I may or may not be obsessively trying to figure out another puzzle that may or may not actually be a puzzle. Apparently lots have theories, none have the solution yet lol)

[Lord Knightmarez]

you have the insect head at all times? i don't. weird.

[Cocaine!]

The insect head is available just like the squirrel head when you get to the wood carver. It has always been there for me from the point I unlocked the bees. I think you're just overlooking it.

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by Lord Knightmarez:

you have the insect head at all times? i don't. weird.

Yeah, it's sitting right next to squirrel when I first visit her. I'm actually just starting another new run so it would take a bit to get a picture of JUST the initial view when I visit woodcarver, but in this run I also just visited her for the first time at like my third point on the path and here we are:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2638541142

Didn't get the greatest selection for the sigil unfortunately but that is the bee head on top of it and it was only my first visit, you can even still see her spot on the map behind me

[Lord Knightmarez]

perhaps i haven't played and died after getting the be sculpture, and it'll be there next time?

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by Lord Knightmarez:

perhaps i haven't played and died after getting the be sculpture, and it'll be there next time?

I'd assume so. I pretty much committed suicide after solving that painting puzzle so I could see if there was another puzzle to get from the painting as well and it was there for me when I did do that next run.

[Alex_x86]

Originally posted by Lord Knightmarez:

perhaps i haven't played and died after getting the be sculpture, and it'll be there next time?

Yes, it should be on the next run. It is quite powerful since with insect head your totem is going to affect all insects and you have bees that do 1 damage.

[TopazDragon]

Originally posted by honeymustard:

You can also get a scry totem so you can just play a squirrel/bee and pull out your best card immediately and one tap every basic fight :)

I did this also. i got the totem that lets you search for a card and put it into your hand whenever you play one of the specified animal. Put that on Squirrels and every turn you get a squirrel and whatever card you want.

It makes for some explosive first turns when you also have things like Goats or 0 cost Death cards in your deck.

[Lord Knightmarez]

I can confirm that the insect head is available when you die.
AND i got the 'ant' sigil, thus letting me win with ant-army-loops and 4 xa 4/2 ants.

HOWEVER

if one get's the 'back-pack' sigil, one would rather have squirrels instead of bees, because with squirrels its very likely to get another squirrel and cause a loop, allowing spamming of scissors and other good tings.

[R.R.]

i was pretty much on a winning run / build / already very far in & built my deck, when I unlocked beez.
I quit out in dismay that i couldn't remove it to ask that being able to pick it back up be put in