First glade opened has unproducible requirements.

[Urza]

https://imgur.com/a/5usYHgE

Guess its time to abandon this village.

[Olleus]

That's why I pack oil ;)

But yes, dangerous glades are meant to be dangerous. If there was a guarantee to solve them from day 0, where would the challenge be?

In this case, you can just take the hit. Let the timer run out and suffer the threats. You'll lose all your amber and wine and gain one impatience points, but those are pretty much inconsequential at the start of the game.

[AlexGK]

Had the same yesterday, lost nothing, the impatience was even useful to reduce hostility. Got the oil from the beaver trader next year and that was it.
But the glade had farmland that I put to use right away, lol.
So by no means gamebreaking.

[RolldUpTrips]

Can you get a trading post up? You have 10 minutes

[Urza]

Trading post doesnt have whats required.

[Kalisa]

its the risk of opening dangerous glades, this is also why i always take oil though as its one of the core resources used in allot of events, the downside of not completing this event i dont think is that devastating though so u should have time for maybe 2-3 traders or hopefully time to try and get one of their production lines going. Tools, Scrolls and oil should be pretty common between allot of traders and you can always emergency call 1-2 traders if you really dont want to take the negative.

[Isaiah53six]

i generally won't open those glades unless I have the tools...unless i'm feeling daring

[Incendiary Snail]

I had this in a game last night. Opened a dangerous glade straight off the bat and turned out not to have any of the requirements for the event. But this one's outcome would have been a 10-tile explosion which would have taken out my warehouse.

The solution was to build a trading post, summon the trader and buy the necessary 13 oil. It cost me a big stack of wood, some copper ore and a single part, but left me with a big glade containing three different advanced buildings and a good bunch of resources.

I'll probably still manage to lose the map in the end!

[Digital Merc]

its a good rule of thumb to have a firm grip on your tools before entering a dark hole.

[Spacesuit Spiff]

I've let this one run for years and still won. A couple others are nasty enough that I hedge against them though (oil embark, rainwater from a collector asap, and a trade post, is often sufficient).

[Droopy The Dog]

Yeah, it's just losing wine and amber and 1 impatience a ~year. Just spend your coin before it pops and you can let it run for a long time early game, one of the next 3-4 traders will have what you need surely. That's no reason to run away.

[Skye]

Originally posted by Urza:

Trading post doesnt have whats required.

You should have time for two traders if one is urgent. I doubt neither will have anything.

[willgamer47]

For me, this is no different than when I mess up and pick a mission from the queen where I've misunderstood/misread/blundered the requirements.

Time to put on your big boy pants...

[ecchiRhino]

in lower levels you can't even produce oil or take it with you

[el Darkness]

Yeah, in the beginning you do not have easy way to cheat Glade Event, Oil does that well. In fact I am not sure what are best items to have early on against Events? Planks? Fabrics? Can someone tell? I know Simple Tools work, but well, they are not exactly easy to get :)

[Olleus]

Originally posted by el Darkness:

Yeah, in the beginning you do not have easy way to cheat Glade Event, Oil does that well. In fact I am not sure what are best items to have early on against Events? Planks? Fabrics? Can someone tell? I know Simple Tools work, but well, they are not exactly easy to get :)

That's a good question. AFAIK, there is no table of every glade event and every resource that solves each one. I wish the xml or sql or csv files that contain this information in the game were accessible, but they're packed in a way that I couldn't easily unpacked.

Still, I can share my experience. Tools (and infused tools) will work every time. After that, oil works more often than not. Coal and incense are probably in 3rd place for the most common? Scrolls and resin are also up there. Most events seem to take one of the building materials too, planks and fabrics more often than bricks.


If you can't embark oil yet, my advice is to not open a dangerous glade in the first year. Instead, get your infrastructure and a trader up, and cut trees right to the edge of a dangerous glade and open it ASAP on Drizzle of year 2. That will give you the maximum time to solve it, and you'll be better prepared to rush production (or buy, calling multiple traders early if need be) for what you need before the event either times out or you have to work it during Storm. Tools I would only use as a last resort, better to save them for caches if possible. Above Prestige 8 or 9 this might not work, but below that it should the vast majority of the time. And if you're playing on the mid-to-high prestige levels that early in the citadel unlocks, I'm impressed!