Tips and tricks

[Overread]

A few things from my playing that might help

1) Remember that seasons are now fixed for the world not the map and winter is not forever. So if you're on a map and thinking on leaving to a new island its best to do it right AFTER Winter not before. Otherwise you can find youreslf on a new land with limited gold and fast entering winter without any money to even build up to the banker level.

2) as it gets closer to winter invest in the banker, when he pays out pay right back in. The idea is to have a nice surplus in there for when winter hits and pretty much all other sources of gold dry up.

3) In my experience thus far farms are rarer than they once were. So when expanding clear areas ahed of your wall, but don't push into them yet. Instead leave them fallow to allow your archers to kill rabbits for a nice steady stream of gold.

4) Spearmen are important! Not only are they great at helping defence, but they also patrol and spear fish to generate income. As soon as you can get a good few for both sides; note the spears break after a while so do keep adding the odd spear every time you pass to keep socks topped up.

5) Don't be in a hurry to leave a land. Getting the ship is good, but don't rush once you've got it. IDeally you want to clear some land, build some towers and build the new lighthouse structure.

6) Note remember if you keep a tree either side of an encampment you can settle past it but keep the encampment. A very good tip for any map so that you can keep at least one active for recruitement. Because if you run out of new people to hire it will challenge you on any of the maps.

[TyrannicalTeabag]

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[Shruggy]

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7) If your builders haven't finished a wall and the greed are approaching you can use the Gryphon mount to push the greed back, giving your builders more time to (hopefully) finish the wall.

8) You can pay squires/knights coins to allow them to take more hits. Fill their coin purses to allow them to fight with full potential, essential when using them to assault portals. Be aware though if you haven't paid them yet they will snatch up any coins on the ground nearby until full.

9) If you are unable to clear trees on one side due to a vagrant or merchant camp being in the way (and you don't want to destroy it), you can try clearing from the other side. Try find the nearest opening where you can clear backwards. Be cautious though this means your builders might be too far away from camp to make it back in time before nightfall. This can be countered by simply paying the greed off, as long as it's not too late in the game and there are too many to pay. For example, I can usually backwards-clear on the other side of a camp in a few nights by continuously clearing trees / paying off greed in the early days of the game. The profit you make from deforesting more than makes up for the coins lost paying the greed before day 10.

10) You can select how your character looks on the loading screen when starting a new campaign. When you see them galloping on their horse, press the down key to change appearance. Once you stop changing it, the game will start in a few seconds.

[Overread]

Nice tips!! Some further ones.

When you return to a land or are defeated all your units on towers remain. A good justificaiton in the latter part of clearing an island to taking some time to build up some towers for your return; or in case you get defeated!

If you want to know which way the jetty is stand still and watch the river water. It always flows out to sea, thus you can follow that direction to know which way it is to the jerry (and thus the opposite way leads to the cave and the spawning point for many of the enemy that you can't shut down until later

Esp early on the Greed attacks in a single primary wave, once beaten you can freely go beyond your walls to start setting the ground work for the morning - such as marking trees to be taken down. Of course be careful, if you stray near a portal doing that it will release more Greed.