Tips for seal forest

[Unimportant]

Was going to reforge gold seal before the update. But now after the update I've failed over 10 times and it's making me not want to play seal forest anymore. I just can't find food and fuel in this biome. I know I'm a casual and I suck at this game(70% win rate at p20) so folks here probably don't know why I'm struggling(rightfully so). But I just can't figure out anything.

A somewhat related question: There's a plague that kill villagers if you don't open 3 glades in time. Is that suppose to trigger every year until you open enough glades? Because last game it kill 3 villagers at the beginning of every drizzle season and the queen get pretty mad at me because of it.

[Lil brekky]

Food and fuel does drop at a low rate from the trees there, so Beavers are pretty nice to have. There's a decent % of fertile soil and Coal there, too. But maybe you just have really bad rng. The most important thing on Sealed forest is holding Shift+click using the tree highlight tool, so that you only cut the white trees when you can. They have way more Loot in them without costing hostility.

Because a couple of the Seal quests are trade-related, it's generally a good idea to invest heavily into trade so you level up your standing with trade partners and can often buy your way through food or fuel after ~year 3.

I've never seen the same plague 2 years in a row so I can't comment on that.

[Spacesuit Spiff]

Greenhouse is absolutely amazing with that buff boosting it for 3/6 seasons.
You can 'unbuild' the pointers for some free resources every time you find one.
Oil carried me through my first run, see marrow is useful if you don't find it. This isn't a map to use 0-star planks or jerky or go too crazy with rainwater, due to the tree mechanics.

[Kyresti]

Seal's a weird one. Don't treat it like other biomes.

If you're in need of fuel and don't have like mining options, highlight the weird patches of big ugly trees for your woodcutters. They count as 10 for resources but only 1 for hostility gain.

You can get a trickle of meat and marrow like this too. Not enough to feed people (or your fire, at least consistently), but it helps.

Try to get to the seal as fast as you can, at least insomuch as glade/felled tree hostility won't mess you up. It might be awhile before you can fix it, but at least plagues are considerably easier to prepare for when you can see them coming. Besides, you'll have needed to go that direction regardless.

I don't remember what all exists there, but I do remember having enough fertile land to help.

Focus on making your settlement more powerful rather than pursuing goals for their own sake, at least early-midgame. The "low fruit" for fixing the seal is usually some mix of trade power, rainpunk and resolve. You can generally get all of those at once by thriving.

Most important if you don't do this: If it's just gold, don't be ashamed to play it below P20. Just do it on plain 'ole Viceroy if you have to. Sealed is mean.

[tt]

Originally posted by Unimportant:

I know I'm a casual and I suck at this game(70% win rate at p20)

People can say what they want but players that play prestige and manage to win at p20 are the vast minority so don't say you suck at the game just because you don't play it perfectly.

Edit: Yup, just checked. 1.7% of the players actually cleared P20 lol

[el Darkness]

Originally posted by srta mupy de uva:

Edit: Yup, just checked. 1.7% of the players actually cleared P20 lol

1,7% is not a good number, since many players have probably stopped playing after tutorial or shortly after, but yeah, P20 is impressive regardeless.

[Unimportant]

Damn I did it. After 1/3 of the villagers leave.

Plague that ask you to open dangerous/forbidden glades+lower resolve if you open glade during storm is a nasty combo.