best way to level?

[Ladius]

anyone know any cheeky ways to get a ton of exp fast?

[Styles]

play the game and enjoy the journey

[BIT Bear]

Better tools / weapons = more exp

[Trollnado]

Downing trees is the best I can come up with right now at my level.

[GhrominIronfist]

Originally posted by Ladius:

anyone know any cheeky ways to get a ton of exp fast?

Play on casual and crank the exp gain in the settings.

[Chays]

Just play the game, everything gives experience. do what you enjoy most. Of course you have to like grinding and crafting but that's what the game is about.... the nice thing is, in this game you don't get everything so quickly and you have fun with it for longer ;)

[Rogue]

If you are on normal difficulty or official, just craft highest tier items that you can/unlocked or kill higher level mobs. For generic repeatable tasks, mining higher tier minerals also give a good chunk, e.g +60xp per hit on a copper ore, about 5 hits per ore and there's many ores in the mine.

[moveit124]

The only thing I found that you can do... is build a big bed indoors... with furniture and what not... and you get an exp boost for 30 minutes whenever you sleep in your house.

Honestly though, the exp needs to be boosted on official servers by about 20-25% ... the 5 level gap of not unlocking ANYTHING from 15-20 is kind of frustrating... because at around 17-18 you have done everything and have nothing new to do... so now you are forced to grind experience... which entails chopping trees that you dont need or mining rocks you dont need or cant use.

[Toana]

levels 20-25 is biggest snooz feast i got in any survival game, do evything and then force yourself to do things u dont need.
you cant advance because u need 25 but u dont need anything form content u can do, terrible

[starkmaddness]

Part of the problem is actually the automation. Normally you would farm resources and level as you did. But once you automate it then what do you do? Kill the same 3-4 creatures in a ruin to loot the chest, over and over again? The idea of automation is cool but it removes a major game play loop in a survival crafting game and needs to be replaced with .... something.

[Tempus Thales]

mine copper and iron, craft tons of ir0on tools or weapons

[K1_CriticalGamer]

mine ores and thow it away, and repeat

[Limdood]

early early game: Mining clay beats pretty much any other action, though there is travel time between water sources, so logging might roughly match it long term.

Awareness ~20: Mining Tin and copper (tin gives more xp, but you need more than twice as much copper as tin so if you're mixing actual gathering with grinding, copper should be mined too)

Beyond that....I'm not really sure. It seems clear that mining seems the fastest per-minute awareness xp gain, but areas with ore higher tier than tin are a fairly large jump in difficulty to get to.

BTW, if you're just looking to level body xp (that's the actual stats level of each individual tribesman....something you'll probably want to grind up a bit when you get new recruits), you will want to get a comfort rested bonus (+20% body xp per comfort level) and use quinoa food (you can get quinoa easily from almost every single chest in the flint tribe barracks in the Mangrove area....where the river west of the western rainforest meets the southern coast), which gives +100% or +200% (maybe more for higher tiers I haven't reached yet) depending on the tier of the food.


For those people complaining about the 15-20 gap, and the 20-25 gap....you have a point, but I feel like you're intended to use those levels to hop onto some of your promising recruits and grab them some xp with gathering or fighting. Even with quinoa+resting boosts for body xp, you'll still gain awareness xp at a fairly respectable rate while pushing the levels of your recruits (and as an added perk, you'll ditch some negative traits and might glean a few useful positive traits)