Best species for each biom?

[Maniac]

Is there a tool or guide for that? i searched a bit but couldnt find much more than a few reddit discussions about it

[mostly willing]

no one has made a guide for that cause biomes don't change how good species are

harpies and foxes are by far the strongest species cause they generate the most resolve. then dinos ≈ frogs ≈ humans. beavers are by far the worst in most respects. their niche simply doesn't come into play in regular settlements

ig the minor exceptions would be
1. coral forest foxes - you get dew bars for their housing from trees
2. beavers are better in sealed forest once you unlock their starting ability - let's you up the standing earlier

[Overeagerdragon]

imho there's no point in making a tierlist per biome either... you don't get to pick most of the times after all...

However... I do disagree with the post of the poster above me... I like beavers a LOT for the fact they heavily specialise into industry which allows you to trade off resolve for a supercharged industry that makes the OTHER 2 species access their resolve faster. Foxes are likewise lower on my list because their perk of exploration not only ups hostility but eventually you're explored-out, so to speak whereas the beavers keep their bonus all throughout the playthrough

[Wintersend]

Foxes aren't good because of their perks, they are good because easy resolve bonus reputation, generally easy housing that doesn't compete with anything else, they don't suffer - resolve from hostility outside of storm, their firekeeper can drop you below key hostility thresholds, and they have harpy synergy because a lot of the same needs.

The +5 resolve/10% double chance is relevant extremely rarely outside of maybe the highest difficulties.

[Maniac]

But each biome has different resources it can have so shouldnt some species be better in a specific biome than others from their needs?

or is this really so much balanced that every biome has resources for every species?

[Syrris]

There's some variation, but it's fairly minor since you can get off-biome resources via production and trade, and species aren't just about resource use.

[mostly willing]

Publicado originalmente por Maniac:

But each biome has different resources it can have so shouldnt some species be better in a specific biome than others from their needs?

or is this really so much balanced that every biome has resources for every species?

you never know what nodes and event loot you'll roll in your next game. there's just way too much variation to make any tier lists for biomes

[Maniac]

Publicado originalmente por mostly willing:

Publicado originalmente por Maniac:

But each biome has different resources it can have so shouldnt some species be better in a specific biome than others from their needs?

or is this really so much balanced that every biome has resources for every species?

you never know what nodes and event loot you'll roll in your next game. there's just way too much variation to make any tier lists for biomes

but the biomes show before what resources can spawn so wouldnt this be enough to say which species would be better

[mostly willing]

Publicado originalmente por Maniac:

but the biomes show before what resources can spawn so wouldnt this be enough to say which species would be better

no

species' stat profile and needs distribution is infinitely more impactful than biomes' node distribution and effects

[arjensmit79]

Harpy is best species regardless of biome.

[Crank Stanis]

That depends on map modificator, not only biomes. If it has watch tower, I would pick "Foxes" and will explore a lot as possible early.

Biome does a matter, it offers most common ressources like trees and which complex food and luxury will be easy to produce in the early phase. So the species willn't left easy during the storm.

You can check for more about biomes:
https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Against_the_Storm/World_Map

[Perception312]

I'd argue that in marshlands, lizards are better than humans, because marshlands pushes you towards gathering while making fertile soil scarce. Someone already mentioned the synergy between coral forest and foxes. I can't think of any other major (anti)synergies between biomes and species.

[Spacesuit Spiff]

It's pretty minor tbh. Enough to make me pick my caravan based on the biome, but not the biome based on my caravans.

The synergies mentioned above are correct. I'd add that beavers in Coral are good because of their crit chance on woodcutting, good in Ashen Thicket because they like mining, and worse in Marshlands because they don't have a gathering camp. Sealed Forest favors humans and beavers because the rules are so different. Foxes like Scarlet Orchard on paper but doesn't always matter.

[Skallagrim]

Most of the time race don't matter when it comes to caravan choices. It's almost always right to simply take the one with the most people. Having Frogs will obviously change the math, so if all else being equal I take Frogs 100%.

Having said that, if I have the choice I want exactly 1 human for my entire settlement, because stinky human is good for exactly two things: (1) being racist against to help my harpies riding out the storm, and (2) just in case I need to guard against too much impatience If I'm playing on Land of Greed / Sparkdew Crystal/ Seal Forest.