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Chapter 1-11 walkthrough: Perspective from ng+
By Cypes
If you are here on your first play-through, I sincerely advise exploring the game on your own (without spoilers).
That said, despite the guide's name, it's entirely usable for your first play-through (as long as you read the low-dna sidenotes).



I fully recommend reading my guide from my google sheets, rather than the (outdated) snapshots in this steam version.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pkTsGCbiYbRb0Q0CxDbsk88mRr6AKNeHM68O1eAWaLg/edit#gid=1451340856
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Chapter 1: 
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Chapter 3: 
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Chapter 5: 
Chapter 6: 
Chapter 7: 
Chapter 8: 
Chapter 9: 
Chapter 10: 
Chapter 11: 
Chapter 0: 
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Cypes  [author] Jan 30 @ 3:12am 
But either way, TL;DR: Aside from conditional generation lineup upon first getting access to the choice (for agility focus), treehouse-skills (and time-cost) are more efficient for the next generations due to instinct balance and having to focus stone house construction.
Cypes  [author] Jan 30 @ 3:10am 
Looking at the xp values to make sure im not spewing bs, I think I actually underestimated the xp value of explore forest. I will add swapping to this for and after the first c3 agility generation (the generation after food stable, before wood), as a minmax sidenote.




There's not really any skills more important to have higher level than others, aside from needing them to not die: So combat would be most important to avoid dying early on mandatory combat. Followed perhaps by being able to get huts and what not a generation earlier - but rarely worth if you sacrifice time-efficiency in skill focus to do so. Hourglass skill on the other side, is always going to be worth less investment however; the discovery multiplier effectively means any work you put in only sees that fraction of return in instinct gain - So never do hourglass stuff for the sake of instinct xp.
Cypes  [author] Jan 30 @ 3:10am 
Oh, I must've missed the previous comment. Sorry about that.

Yeah, the choice comes down to trying to focus your work in fewer skills.
Treehouse specifically, aside from the first generation on mid+ dna (where you can explore + return to town, for agility focus), will generally be better. Not because the skilltype is better, but because it takes less time (relative xp to instinct levels) overall, so you have more time to do whichever skills you'd be focusing in a given generation.
After you've done an agility generation in chapter 3, you'd technically be better off going with explore forest instead (explore IS less flat xp work). If you're minmaxing, that step would even come semi-automatically as youd also swap to doing explore forest for more agility that generation itself. But due to the generation(s) after that you're also going to be doing wood+construction again, it comes out to a negligible difference.
Hentaika Jan 29 @ 10:09pm 
Treehouse is a building/wood gathering. It's the more 'important' stats than agility alternative.

The entire strategy of the game can honestly be summarized in a few sentences:
Minimize spreading different stat learning. Focusing same stat = more efficient level up of that stat per unit of time.
When given choice - prioritize the 'more important' stats(usually stuff like combat/building/wood/mining/cooking)
kayseren Jan 14 @ 12:27pm 
say, why do you reccomend using the treehouse in chaper 2?
Cypes  [author] May 5, 2024 @ 7:38am 
I have updated this steam version to be an "album" of pictures from the sheets, rather than text tried to be formatted for steam. It is also more up to date than the old steam version, which was an entirely different sheets format version as well.

Downside is that its less readable at a glance. But I can't do much with steam's functions.
Cypes  [author] May 3, 2024 @ 12:15pm 
I appreciate your share. I just :prayge: you use(d) the google sheets version, and not the outdated text.

When I've polished it, I plan to update this guide as well, swapping out the text with pictures of the sheet content. But the steam version will always suffer from the issue of being outdated.

Hope to see you (and others reading) in the discord for increlution (linked in the game escape menu), sharing achievements and thoughts ^^
pirro May 1, 2024 @ 3:01pm 
Results: https://app.screencast.com/CzMYHAqyL8dAI

I started using your guide when I was starting chapter 6 and as you can see it helped a lot to improve my time, went from 2 days and 18 hours in 120 generations down to 2 days and 14 hours in 112 generations.

As this was the first time using your guide I made many mistakes so hopefully I can improve my times further.

Thanks for the guide, it was really helpful.
Cypes  [author] Nov 5, 2023 @ 2:35am 
any action that gives you time to heal when facing an exploration that does damage.
Ronnecker Oct 31, 2023 @ 4:25pm 
what is stalling