How do I live in the swamp?

[Spyrokiamars]

I try and try, but I can never get food in the swamp. Anyone got any tips on how to live in the swamp?

[Eikthyrnir]

You will need poison fangs or toxic body to eat the poison berries, aside from that food is pretty hard to get

[Fortuna]

Swamp is pretty much having Poison Fangs/Toxic Body for the poison berries or Water Body/Gills and hope the fishing is good. It can be a hard biome to live in, I've run into swamps that just did not want to generate ANY berry bushes and had to leave ASAP because of it.

[shrimpshramp]

Living in the swamp can be fairly easy once you obtain and breed in the right genes for it. As everybody else has previously stated, get toxic body or poison fangs to collect from toxic berries. Get stinky tail, too, since is repels the sleeping sickness insects. In my experience, the islands always spawn with a butt ton of bushes. Jump islands if no food spawns, though.

[Ivlet]

you need shrek

[taffyswirl]

Yes when dealing with the swamp my main source of food is the toxic bushes or try to go to the nearest patch of grass.Fishing also works well in the biome but the ways you can get toxic body is to collect from the toxic bushes. I know that your nichlings will die quick but eventally you should get the gene, and it will get a bit smoother.About poison fangs you have to find loners/Roge males that have that has poison fangs and hope that the child will have ressesive or poison fangs (sorry im bad at spelling)Yes, also try to get water body/gills/anything that involves fishing and hope the fishing is well,I know this is extreamly long and i hope that this advice has helped you live in the swamp.I havent seen people tell how to get them so im just throwing that out there in case.Have a nice day

[taffyswirl]

if you need any info on other biomes or this one still just ask me

[Rho]

Originally posted by Joys890:

I try and try, but I can never get food in the swamp. Anyone got any tips on how to live in the swamp?

Food sources/Requirement:

-toxic berries/ poison fangs or toxic body (can get in Story Mode from Adam or from wanderer in Sandbox, but Story Mode is easier)

- roots / digging paw (mutate by doing the action many times, 50 or 30? Cannot recall)

- normal berry bushes (very rare)

- prey (rabbils, crabbits, seashells)/claw, or bigbody and nimble fingers or crackerjaw, respectively.

Also see 4 of the above comments.

[Firebee]

To survive in swamp island you need:
- Poison fang or poison body to gather berries from toxic bushes. Toxic bushes dominate the swamp island so you won't find many berry bushes on this island.
- Stinky tail to repel mosquito and bugs they will spawn after rain.
- Cracked Jaw, Claws for shells, crabs, fish and other prey, water body if you want to use catch more fish. Nimble finger for gather berries and apples if swamp island have mixed jungle biomes.
- Digging paws, Digging trunk or Platypus for digging food.

[[H0N0R] HPz]

Originally posted by VNFirebee:

To survive in swamp island you need:
- Poison fang or poison body to gather berries from toxic bushes. Toxic bushes dominate the swamp island so you won't find many berry bushes on this island.
- Stinky tail to repel mosquito and bugs they will spawn after rain.
- Cracked Jaw, Claws for shells, crabs, fish and other prey, water body if you want to use catch more fish. Nimble finger for gather berries and apples if swamp island have mixed jungle biomes.
- Digging paws, Digging trunk or Platypus for digging food.

It's called Cracker Jaw ** Sorry had 2 correct you.

[Spyrokiamars]

I know everything about the basics, but I still die somehow in some way. I am a fairly old player xD.
any like barly known tips?

[Fortuna]

Are you starting on the Swamp, or going into it from another island? If you're heading in from another island, try and stock up on food so you have more time to set up and find food sources.

Also worst comes to worst, head straight for the next port to skip over the island if you need to.

[hannah]

I once traveled throught the Archipelago island and then traveled, it led me to a swamp island, eventually, I ended up with three toxic bodied females and had to run the savanna port. Lesson learned, take creatures with immunity to poison. My advice is to saty near the port and start breeding in genes like toxic body. I'm currently back on the Archipelago island again and I'm trying to breed the right genes in. I'm splitting my creatures into two groups I think it may work:

Food collectors-
Genes-
1 nimble finger (to crack nuts, clams, and also pick berries), toxic body/poison fangs (to eat off of the poison berry bushes), 1 bearyna claw/runner leg, normal hindlegs (speed), ram/antlers (1 strength each), and either platypus beak or big nose.
Fighters-
2 bearyna claws or 1 bearyna claw and 1 runner leg, medium body or big body (I don't have big body unlocked yet), normal hind legs (speed), ram/antlers (1 strength each), and Big nose, bearyna snout, or poison fangs.

These are my plans, I hope they work for any one who tries this strategy, let me know if it works or if you died.

[Spyrokiamars]

Ekk! I'll try that thank you thank you!