Wow, that turned out a little longer than I planned - so much good stuff in this game! If you have any handy advice that I have missed, please do share it in the comments down below :) If you'd like to see more of my Dawn of Man videos then you can find my Review here th-cam.com/video/BvlK-f3OfwA/w-d-xo.html and my entire first playthrough (including terrible mistakes!) here th-cam.com/video/OjMn2mngUPM/w-d-xo.html
@@MarkGFL the tab to set the amount of animals u want is the same one as tab u set the amount of tools, clothing etc. There is another tab that tells what ur herds are made up of like how many males/females and at what ages they are at
1) Build houses close to each other to save space and not loose citizens' time for traveling around. For instance, you can build 4 houses with exit to the one side and 4 to the opposite side. 2) Try to catch around 5-10 animals of each type. They will birth faster. Do not increase you population unit you are sure that you have enough hay. 3) Put your piles outside the walls. You will save the space inside and will use less resources for the building. 4) The best way to feed your villagers is domestic animals. But first you should have fields with barley to provide enough hay. 5) Do not touch bears. They almost are not attacking you, but they are killing wolfs, lions and hyenas. Even if bear attack you, you can run from them and it will not go after your villagers. 6) Goats are useless after the cooper age. Sheeps are providing wool which is expensive. Sheeps are producing more wool than you need for yours villagers if you have them more than your villagers. Also, this is good source of skins and meat. You will not need milk from goats because you will have enough meat. 7) Build stables by groups of 2 close to each other with entrances to the opposite sides. 8) Build large monolithic structures outside the walls. They are large and use a lot of useful space inside. 9) Build bridges where your villagers cross the rivers. 10) Buy new technologies from traders using the wool after the cooper age. See point 6 11) Set animals limits and your villagers will automatically kill the rest. 12) Do not set continuous production of biface when you are able to make knives and flint sickles. This is much more effective tools and you have to save your flint - this is limited resource. Also, do not product wooden harpoons and spears if you can make them from bones. Wooden tools are too basic. 13) Remove continuous production of leather and skin outfits when you are able to do outfits from wool and flax
one item to produce long after it is outdated is the bone harpoon,.. the bone resource pool you will find as you progress in the tech tree isn't used for anything much BUT the trader will buy bone harpoons for a good price even as you move into flint and slightly beyond.
And it's a cheap source of fishing spears. So is wood. You don't really need the higher materials. Same with bifaces and bone knives. You can wait the few extra seconds. Save your flint and higher for combat weapons.
The stats are the same for flint or bone sickle…that’s what I went by. However the bone knife harvest twice as fast as biface, but if have the production time, they can be sold as extra.
Beware that placing small structures like Totem poles in small spaces between buildings can actually block a main route. It is very easily to end up with an extremely inefficient pathing system among your central buildings if you do this. It's actually better to leave a little bit of space here and there rather than be as compact as possible.
A tip I would give as only a week player that has failed several times. Don’t rush into new eras until you feel settled. Get your wood walls up before jumping into the copper era to help be a bit more prepared. Also, when you domesticated animals forget about goats and go right for sheep. Have only one stable and 8-10 sheep. Anything over is slaughtered and you shouldn’t bother with cows until you have a massive settlement with tons of straw stocked up. Cows EAT SO MUCH STRAW so if you plan on building new homes. Do that first, save up on straw, get only a few cows. They are insane in the winter.
its more efficient to survive just on meat (no grain bread at all) if you have low population and 150 animals,even works in neolithic era. this tactic maximizes welfare of citizens and attracts bigger migration due to low workload
I have two tips. When you are in earlier ages and workload is very low gather about 300-400 logs so when you upgrade and need logs for plaside, you don't need to go out to forest. 2nd with trader, if you are fast enough you can buy twice from one traider. Its like, when the trader arrives traid fast what you want, now exit, and again select the traider very fast. It works and the traider is refilled with same items as earlier.
Finally bought the game and it is so relaxing and surely will bring me long-time fun. What I experienced in my first try was that straw is the most critical ressource for me. You don't get as much as you think with the fields and the huts and your livestock consume it so rapidly. Starting a new game now with some of your tips (planing the village in advance, 3 guard towers and walls to divide attackers).
Yeah I have found myself running out of straw often. I think barley produces more straw than other grains, or it did the last time I played. May have been changed in a patch since then. The game has had some nice updates since I made this video.
Glad you found it useful! And thanks :) Although I should mention this channel and its main subject (Tank games) is somewhat retired now, and my future guides and reviews will be over at th-cam.com/users/MarksGameReviews which is a new project of mine.
At the start, set multiple stick collecting areas with a limit of 100. Build 3 crafters and set wooden harpoons to infinite. Switch to bone harpoons in Neolithic. Buy all the food, straw, leather, tannin, dry skins, flint (or ore/ingots) and outfits you can. If food is not regularly spoiling, you don't have enough food.
@@MarkGFL yes, sorry. I forgot to mention that. It's an easy way to keep up on the basics. There's also a useful exploit, you can re-trade with the trader before they walk away. I bought 700 straw at one point just for fun. (Btw, I don't recommend it. I think most of it rotted away before it could be stored)
I made the mistake you mentioned at the beginning where I had too many settlers when I reached the Neolithic period and just started farming and the hunting areas were empty of animals and found for the first time I was running short of food. Managed to salvage it by just hunting for the next 2 years and doing nothing else no building etc just hunt, hunt and hunt until I then slowly started to cut down more and more trees to have a large farming area to plant Barley but it took altogether a good 4 years before the food crisis ended and became self sufficient again.
@@MarkGFL Sadly there were some deaths (old ones) but that was due to the hunting expeditions where I was sending everyone out except the kids but you're tips in this video are very good and enjoyed your video.
Early warning is the best you can have and how you do it? you built watchtowers around the town up to the highest view points and you have plenty of time to prepare, since raiders attack alarm sounds early enough
I've Found that Keeping an Eye on my workload has helped tons! I had a population over 100 and lots of crops to plant and harvest and lots of animals to feed but within 2 years the entire population died and lots of animals needlessly starved because they were "Doing stupid tasks". Keep the workload around 75% and you'll find everything gets done faster and in order of importance
I just searched for a few tipps and tricks on this game after nearly all my animals died of dehydration because I had stables inside my walls and forgot to reopen the gates after an attack (felt rlly dumb after figuring it out xd) and found this awesome video. Learned way more than I would've thought :] Thanks a lot!
You're welcome, glad I could help. I think we've all made mistakes like yours with the animals at some point, there is always something you forget in the heat of an emergency :D
You can leave storages and things outside the walls as well. Homes and stables need walls for the civilization to run into. the armies only seem to attack buildings with life in them.
Plant pulses close to your huts, so if you need to plant during a long nasty blizzard, your workers can quickly flee to a hut to warm up, so they don't die of hypothermia.
@@MarkGFL Setting Pulses to high-priority also helps to draw at least some of your people back closer to home as winter arrives. I've noticed that the first sign of winter is often a blizzard, so anything that pulls your people closer to home at winter is a positive development.
Use rivers to your advantage when hunting, perfect example at 5:50 of this video. Works really well when hunting high health animals (Mammoth, Rhino, etc.) for the first time to get that knowledge point. You'll probably want to wait until you have decent weapons, wooden spear NOT recommended, haha.
Dang! The game has changed a lot in three years from the small amount of experience I have had the last few days. I had it in Steam, played it years ago and was getting bored with other newer options, so I had to give it a go again. Most of the tips here seem dated, but I have yet to try others, so I need to check it out. Nice video.
I think quite a lot of new stuff has been added since I made this. Hopefully all good, though I should really take another look at the game now as I enjoyed it a lot when it came out.
This covers a lot the only thing as a new player I had run into and had to figure out on my own was how gate placement and managing works! It is a little confusing at first which way you're meant to face the doors and the arrow when placing them but I found that either way really does not matter in the end as you can manually mark where you want your villagers to gather in an emergency with the circle and sword marker. So whether the doors open inward or outward is really more of your own personal choice. Personally my main gates I that are the most defended I prefer having my warriors gather just outside the gate to defend it with all my archers inside the gate!
Great tips man, thanks for this video! The only thing I was wondering is if there was a key you can hit when you set up chop trees work area that will select the trees that ONLY have wood as a resource. As opposed to chopping down food sources and tanning supplies? I learned a lot from your video.
Thanks! I don't know of any way to not chop fruit trees in a work zone, but you could always email the devs about this - they are pretty keen to hear feedback and if they think its a good idea they may put it in.
I have found that - with no gates (or walls) my villagers will congregate near the house closest to the expected raider attack. So I put a few towers (I start with two and increase as my settlement grows) where I know the raiders come through, and a single house alongside them, so when the alarm sounds the towers are manned and all the other armed sims rush to the area they'll be needed.
Yes I'm finding that having fewer walls/gates, or leaving the gates open actually seems to work very well for co-ordinating the defenders. I do like the look of a walled settlement though :)
just got this game the other day, i got the realistic stone age mod with it. sitting around 120 population atm and in the copper age, you really gotta plan in this game lol. had a big population drop and now my workload is to high when it comes to crop season, making them all work to hard and forget to eat :S now i gotta remove a couple fields to relieve them n start growing again
I found it pretty useful to keep making outdated tools if you have the resources laying around for them, especially sickles because of how many your farmers go through.
I might be a little late, but you do NOT want to stop producibg iron once you unlock steel. Steel is just for tools/weapons. Iron is still used in defensive structures, banners, shields and maybe more. You will need both iron and steel in the endgame, not just steel.
I think putting stables outside the walls saves space and I've never seen raiders attack them. I also keep haystacks out closer to the stables near the farms with a well by the stables. And finally, I put transport posts just outside the walls as well. It makes it easier for people to grab on their way out and keeps the carts and sledges nicely organized.
On defenses, the wooden platforms are very important as they will allow your defenders to use their bows from inside the walls. Put your towers just behind those. The first level supports 2 troops per section and 3 upon upgrade. That can really mess up even large raider attacks.
Disease on crops is PR. FIELD, so just make many small lines of fields 1x5, the reason you want one type of crop is because hay is the most problematic resource to get enough of to feed large herds of animals, so you want all barley fields. One note though donkey/horse attached to a cart doesn't count as animals that require stable space. Animals doesn't use a pregnancy system, so you can all male flocks and still gain animals.
Dated tip, regarding the field diseases. They will affect multiple fields if you have more fields of the same crop. Making fields smaller is a terribly inefficient use of space, too. You lose a tile’s worth of farming space for each row you decide not to use. Best idea is to nake 5x5 or not at all, unless you’re desperate.
Dated tip, regarding the field diseases. They will affect multiple fields if you have more fields of the same crop. Making fields smaller is a terribly inefficient use of space, too. You lose a tile’s worth of farming space for each row you decide not to use. Best idea is to nake 5x5 or not at all, unless you’re desperate.
Dated tip, regarding the field diseases. They will affect multiple fields if you have more fields of the same crop. Making fields smaller is a terribly inefficient use of space, too. You lose a tile’s worth of farming space for each row you decide not to use. Best idea is to nake 5x5 or not at all, unless you’re desperate.
Dated tip, regarding the field diseases. They will affect multiple fields if you have more fields of the same crop. Making fields smaller is a terribly inefficient use of space, too. You lose a tile’s worth of farming space for each row you decide not to use. Best idea is to nake 5x5 or not at all, unless you’re desperate.
you can cheese the game by hitting pause (space bar) right after trading with a trader and they will be restocked, you will lose your traded items so be sure to have enough items to trade with
Wish I'd known about this earlier, it might have saved half my people during the long-winter known as "before-I-knew-how-to-farm-but-after-I'd-hunted-all-the-animals" :p
Completely agree with you about the manual hunts. They are so much better than the work area that marks animals to be hunted. Get a group. Pick your target(s) and go.
Thanks, I'm getting back into the rythm of more regular content now. The vides I've made over the last couple of weeks have been fun and interesting to make :)
I keep animal limits at 15 and only do goats and sheep and donkeys. At this point agriculture takes care of food, and I find goats donkeys and sheep at 15 gives me enough bones and skins even for a large population.
Keep your crafter's close to supplies. For instance, when I start the metal ages, I have 5 metalsmiths(one for each type of tool) right next to a pile full of coal, and a pile full of copper. The result is fast efficient production of items.
On animals, just set animal limits to match what you need. The vills will auto cull the oldest first for any over the limits. When you support 60-80 animals this is the easiest way to control your herd.
I find flint spears cheap and quick and sell for 10 until the bronze age so I load up on flint. Plus it's quick if you run low on sickles or axes. When I have lots of linen, I then make lots of fishing baskets that sell for 20.
@@hebber1961 I can try :) Though I don't remember ever seeing fishing nets made from linen - fishing rods maybe? Thats why I wondered if they had been recently added :)
@@MarkGFL I had to look to be sure now and yes... they're made from linen and sticks. And technically called traps. Get the name right eventually. Didn't realize they were new. They're a nice cash item when you have lots of linen. Just having trouble getting the new update on steam with shields and wall platforms for defence. Maybe you haven't tried??
Oh thats tricky! Can you hunt around father afield on the map? It may be the only option. I'm playing the Northern Wintery scenario and I'm really short on Flint - hoping to discover metal working soon or I may be in trouble. But i like that challenge that the game throws at you.
If your going to move your settlement make sure you have a hearth at the new location before you start recycling the buildings at the old sight helps to have a storage or 2 also . Can be hectic at first I thought everyone was going to starve to death because the ai ignores hunting etc and belines to all the resources left behind at the old settlement I got lucky and there was some leftover food
One more thing; I was so happy to learn about this game. I had been waiting for Ancient Cities for forever and it seems to be in a four year limbo AND there was a great possibility I might have to get a new computer to play it. This game was a great compromise and a totally addicting game. Do you have any idea what happened to Ancient Cities??? I play a little Universim too. It took them a long time to get the ball rolling, but now they are pretty much doing everything they said they were going to do, maybe AC has a similar thing going on.
I've never heard of Ancient Cities, but like you I'm really glad I stumbled across Dawn of Man. I think they've just released a combat update for it that I really should go and check out.
I only had a couple people starve on my first playthrough. If your people aren't working on the right tasks, your number of assigned tasks might be too high.
Ruben Hayk ive noticed that they starve even with a ton of food because there is work done far from the food storages. If they leave hungry then they come back starving and usually too tired to run home.
Even when tasks are low and I have priorities set they mainly do what they want unless I manually tell them to do something. They're pretty worthless at taking care of themselves.
Yes and no - more animals will eventually appear, but not necessarily of the same type you killed. The next group could spawn way across the map too. Its certainly possible to run out of things to hunt in the short term, but more animals will eventually reappear. In my first game I let my population grow too large before I'd managed to develop farming, and I had one really bad winter where I'd hunted and eaten everything in sight! I think I lost about half the village to starvation :p
I’ve learned to try and keep everything close by to keep people from dying of starvation or dehydration when I have tons of water, milk, and food stored. Put wells all over the place where your people might work like around big resource areas, farmland, etc. I don’t usually put a food storage on the farmland but if starvation with tons of food stored is a problem think about moving them around. Whatever the stupid problem is, try resolving it with why they died. (Old age and hypothermia is hard to fix other than overstock on clothes because I’ve found when people die nobody comes to get their items.
when i expend to a new area, even if i put down a stockpile near the new area, the people still send all the newly cut logs all the way back to the main stockpile
A fun experiment is to go "Vegan", it's painful at the front end, no hunting, no fishing, later no domestication, the only meat & skins you will get is from animal attacks watch your people die of starvation & the elements. things will improve when you get Grain & Pulses gathering and Thatching then again at crop farming and Masonry, late game if you trade for wool you can be ahead of the curve since you are not wasting resources on animals and can have skipped entire lines of Tech and since you are not hunting or fishing folks are freed up for other jobs. an other thing is to go Carnivore, no food gathering just hunting, fishing & industrial gathering, you will have so much Meat & Skins you won't know what to do with them, skip Plant techs till you need them to back fill to unlock other techs, gather Grain for straw for building trade away the food component and later grain farming for Straw and to feed you food animals. you will have a strong early and mid game but will be doing lots of micromanagement of Hunting & Herds in the late game and one mismanages season can cost you scores of people that will take you years to recover from. Building tip upgrade asap, pick houses and stores in need of repair first since fewer people will be using them and you wont disrupt the housing market. on crops don't monoculture a field plant varying rows of grains and pulses, when you get pulses domestication plant some new fields strait away then that first winter rip up your grain fields and alternate Grains & Pulses, don't grow the same crop within two rows of each other, you will blight proof your crop based food supply chain.
The map is pretty big, but you won't get to use all of it as some will be too far away to make a settlement or send workers to. I think I've had over 200 villagers in some games, but I can't remember the exact number. One of the achievements in normal mode is for getting above a certain number of villagers - I can't recall what it is right now but I remember doing it.
You need to research the tech if you haven't already, and then you can build a Tannery. Once built, it takes raw skin (so make sure your skin dryers arent drying 100% of your raw skins) and Tanin (which you need to set a work area for, its collected from trees so set a big area in a forest).
You forgot the most important tip! If you play for 16h per day and club enough seals, you will receive a free tier 8 premium cash cow that secretes APCR tipped spears that can penetrate and 1 shot a mammoth. You can also buy these cows in the premium shop for $100.... oh no wait, I think I'm confusing with a traumatic game we used to play long time ago, what was it called again... Russian bias or something...
I don't know about perfect, but building lots and lots of spiritual structures (all kinds) helps, plus lots of beer to keep morale up. Other than that just make sure you have enough housing, food and proper clothes. Oh and don't overwork - ie set more workload than your people can manage.
Oops! I haven't played the PS4 version but I do stuff like that in other games and it drives me crazy! My own fault I know, which annoys me even more :D
I don't know unfortunately, I assume you can't hold down one of the buttons then move L or R sticks to drag a selection box around? If you find out, can you let us know?
Never work-task wood cutting. Just double click cut and your vills, should you be below 150% workload after the order, will make short work of the entire section, restocking your logs and sticks near instantly. Best done above 30 vills.
Im not a fan of the knowledge system. Building or hunting something for the first time is fine but having to waste resources to get knowledge points is an annoyance
Don't upgrade all of your building at the same time, I did this not thinking about winter and most of my villagers died that winter because all of my huts where torn down. Lol fail
Setting something to high priority DOES not reset current tasks, they will finish what they are doing before choosing a new task where high priority matters.
This game is fun but this stone age game has no stone i was at 150 population and no stone around my area already if i sent them to gather stone from far they just die from traveling
I'm not sure of a better way, but if you double-click on an animal it will select all of that type visible on the screen. From there you can see which are the old ones in the group. Its not idea, but I found it a little helpful.
Only issue I’m having so far, is w fishing. Hell, I’d be thrilled to be the one that just has to fish all day long but these guys are either lazy or suck at it cuz I never have nuff fish. I am heartily stocked w fishing gear so that isn’t it. I even tried to micro manage but 🤷🏻♀️ Cannot wait for the netting 🤦🏻♀️
DOUBLE UP ON WALLS! Takes longer to break and Sometimes theirs a bugged wall that people can walk through. Games great, but has a few annoying bugs like people not using platforms.
its useless,takes resources and time ,just place house(gathering point) and change defense options to 0% melee, you will kill raiders easily even in iron age ,just have at minimum 100 population and same ammount of bows(op weapon)
@@mast3r346 in some of my larger cities the people go to the wrong entrance sometimes and they get through. The double walls get them distracted alittle longer while people slowly get killed and replaced by other parts of the city. Double stone walls are a good investment for larger cities to have a fighting chance especially on ancient warriors when you're more worried about feeding a growing population without stretching the city out too far and the attacks are more a nuisance that could turn into a lack of workers to grow food turning into a mass starvation event haha
I think they did that a few times although I mostly use sheep for the wool and micro my hunting during low workloads but if you place the storage right near the gates/walls where there's towers they should pull aggro away from the raiders and they likely won't go for the animals then.
Statistically, foraging and fishing keeps me alive, and the animals starve. Or eat grain, and get factory farmed. I want my herder option, and a more specialized tech tree. Human culture was NOT cookie cutter. I hope this game is called death of cookie cutter. Instead of Dawn of Man. Because I should have just played Warcraft III.
Wow, that turned out a little longer than I planned - so much good stuff in this game! If you have any handy advice that I have missed, please do share it in the comments down below :) If you'd like to see more of my Dawn of Man videos then you can find my Review here th-cam.com/video/BvlK-f3OfwA/w-d-xo.html and my entire first playthrough (including terrible mistakes!) here th-cam.com/video/OjMn2mngUPM/w-d-xo.html
Good vid!
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Give it a try.
Really enjoyed this. I knew alot from my own playing, but you had some really good tips I never thought about. /two thumbs up
@@joelorenz6878 Thanks! Glad you found something useful here :)
Me - Sees a pack of adult 8 cave hyenas standing next to berry bushes.
*Sends in the kid to collect berries*
Thats the spirit! :D I'm sure they'll be friendly doggos.
you can also set a max population for animals and the villgers will auto cull the excess live stock
This is a great tip, and I only just discovered it today :p Its on the F7 or F8 keys isn't it?
@@MarkGFL the tab to set the amount of animals u want is the same one as tab u set the amount of tools, clothing etc. There is another tab that tells what ur herds are made up of like how many males/females and at what ages they are at
1) Build houses close to each other to save space and not loose citizens' time for traveling around. For instance, you can build 4 houses with exit to the one side and 4 to the opposite side.
2) Try to catch around 5-10 animals of each type. They will birth faster. Do not increase you population unit you are sure that you have enough hay.
3) Put your piles outside the walls. You will save the space inside and will use less resources for the building.
4) The best way to feed your villagers is domestic animals. But first you should have fields with barley to provide enough hay.
5) Do not touch bears. They almost are not attacking you, but they are killing wolfs, lions and hyenas. Even if bear attack you, you can run from them and it will not go after your villagers.
6) Goats are useless after the cooper age. Sheeps are providing wool which is expensive. Sheeps are producing more wool than you need for yours villagers if you have them more than your villagers. Also, this is good source of skins and meat. You will not need milk from goats because you will have enough meat.
7) Build stables by groups of 2 close to each other with entrances to the opposite sides.
8) Build large monolithic structures outside the walls. They are large and use a lot of useful space inside.
9) Build bridges where your villagers cross the rivers.
10) Buy new technologies from traders using the wool after the cooper age. See point 6
11) Set animals limits and your villagers will automatically kill the rest.
12) Do not set continuous production of biface when you are able to make knives and flint sickles. This is much more effective tools and you have to save your flint - this is limited resource. Also, do not product wooden harpoons and spears if you can make them from bones. Wooden tools are too basic.
13) Remove continuous production of leather and skin outfits when you are able to do outfits from wool and flax
Some good tips there, thanks for sharing them.
one item to produce long after it is outdated is the bone harpoon,.. the bone resource pool you will find as you progress in the tech tree isn't used for anything much BUT the trader will buy bone harpoons for a good price even as you move into flint and slightly beyond.
Thats a good tip. You almost always have plenty of bones around.
And it's a cheap source of fishing spears. So is wood. You don't really need the higher materials. Same with bifaces and bone knives. You can wait the few extra seconds. Save your flint and higher for combat weapons.
The stats are the same for flint or bone sickle…that’s what I went by. However the bone knife harvest twice as fast as biface, but if have the production time, they can be sold as extra.
My guys always need Sickles so I usually keep crafters around to supplement any tools I'm lacking with bone tools
Beware that placing small structures like Totem poles in small spaces between buildings can actually block a main route. It is very easily to end up with an extremely inefficient pathing system among your central buildings if you do this. It's actually better to leave a little bit of space here and there rather than be as compact as possible.
A tip I would give as only a week player that has failed several times. Don’t rush into new eras until you feel settled. Get your wood walls up before jumping into the copper era to help be a bit more prepared.
Also, when you domesticated animals forget about goats and go right for sheep. Have only one stable and 8-10 sheep. Anything over is slaughtered and you shouldn’t bother with cows until you have a massive settlement with tons of straw stocked up.
Cows EAT SO MUCH STRAW so if you plan on building new homes. Do that first, save up on straw, get only a few cows. They are insane in the winter.
its more efficient to survive just on meat (no grain bread at all) if you have low population and 150 animals,even works in neolithic era. this tactic maximizes welfare of citizens and attracts bigger migration due to low workload
I have two tips.
When you are in earlier ages and workload is very low gather about 300-400 logs so when you upgrade and need logs for plaside, you don't need to go out to forest.
2nd with trader, if you are fast enough you can buy twice from one traider. Its like, when the trader arrives traid fast what you want, now exit, and again select the traider very fast. It works and the traider is refilled with same items as earlier.
Thats a handy tip about the logs. And I didn't know you could do that with the trader, I'll have to try it - thanks!
Finally bought the game and it is so relaxing and surely will bring me long-time fun. What I experienced in my first try was that straw is the most critical ressource for me. You don't get as much as you think with the fields and the huts and your livestock consume it so rapidly.
Starting a new game now with some of your tips (planing the village in advance, 3 guard towers and walls to divide attackers).
Yeah I have found myself running out of straw often. I think barley produces more straw than other grains, or it did the last time I played. May have been changed in a patch since then. The game has had some nice updates since I made this video.
"Stupid task work" its 4 people pulling a megalith until dead or hypothermia
Yeah I know, I'm a harsh employer ;)
Or the 3 idiots that get stuck between some buildings and starve to death.
this is by far the best video regarding this game. absolutely perfect. thanks for sharing. liked and subbed
Glad you found it useful! And thanks :) Although I should mention this channel and its main subject (Tank games) is somewhat retired now, and my future guides and reviews will be over at th-cam.com/users/MarksGameReviews which is a new project of mine.
@@MarkGFL I've just subbed to that one too 🙂
@@felixreali7101 Thanks :D
At the start, set multiple stick collecting areas with a limit of 100. Build 3 crafters and set wooden harpoons to infinite. Switch to bone harpoons in Neolithic. Buy all the food, straw, leather, tannin, dry skins, flint (or ore/ingots) and outfits you can. If food is not regularly spoiling, you don't have enough food.
Thats a lot of harpoons :p They're good for trade though, is that how you use them?
@@MarkGFL yes, sorry. I forgot to mention that. It's an easy way to keep up on the basics. There's also a useful exploit, you can re-trade with the trader before they walk away. I bought 700 straw at one point just for fun. (Btw, I don't recommend it. I think most of it rotted away before it could be stored)
I made the mistake you mentioned at the beginning where I had too many settlers when I reached the Neolithic period and just started farming and the hunting areas were empty of animals and found for the first time I was running short of food. Managed to salvage it by just hunting for the next 2 years and doing nothing else no building etc just hunt, hunt and hunt until I then slowly started to cut down more and more trees to have a large farming area to plant Barley but it took altogether a good 4 years before the food crisis ended and became self sufficient again.
Good recovery! Sounds like it went better than my mass starvation event!
@@MarkGFL Sadly there were some deaths (old ones) but that was due to the hunting expeditions where I was sending everyone out except the kids but you're tips in this video are very good and enjoyed your video.
Very nicely done video! Best tips & tricks I've seen for this game!
Thanks very much! :)
Early warning is the best you can have and how you do it? you built watchtowers around the town up to the highest view points and you have plenty of time to prepare, since raiders attack alarm sounds early enough
One raider disliked the video =)
I've Found that Keeping an Eye on my workload has helped tons! I had a population over 100 and lots of crops to plant and harvest and lots of animals to feed but within 2 years the entire population died and lots of animals needlessly starved because they were "Doing stupid tasks".
Keep the workload around 75% and you'll find everything gets done faster and in order of importance
I just searched for a few tipps and tricks on this game after nearly all my animals died of dehydration because I had stables inside my walls and forgot to reopen the gates after an attack (felt rlly dumb after figuring it out xd) and found this awesome video. Learned way more than I would've thought :]
Thanks a lot!
You're welcome, glad I could help. I think we've all made mistakes like yours with the animals at some point, there is always something you forget in the heat of an emergency :D
You can leave storages and things outside the walls as well. Homes and stables need walls for the civilization to run into. the armies only seem to attack buildings with life in them.
That's good to know. Thanks.
Thanks for the h-key tip for hurting parties. Good video my man, subbed
Plant pulses close to your huts, so if you need to plant during a long nasty blizzard, your workers can quickly flee to a hut to warm up, so they don't die of hypothermia.
Thats a good idea!
@@MarkGFL Setting Pulses to high-priority also helps to draw at least some of your people back closer to home as winter arrives. I've noticed that the first sign of winter is often a blizzard, so anything that pulls your people closer to home at winter is a positive development.
why are they planting crops during a blizzard?
Use rivers to your advantage when hunting, perfect example at 5:50 of this video. Works really well when hunting high health animals (Mammoth, Rhino, etc.) for the first time to get that knowledge point. You'll probably want to wait until you have decent weapons, wooden spear NOT recommended, haha.
If social media existed back then I'm certain the "Sharpened stick Rhino Takedown Challenge" would be a thing :D
@@MarkGFL Hahaha, no doubt bro!
Not only did you answer so many questions and give great tips... your voice
Thanks Sarah :) Glad you enjoyed it!
Dang! The game has changed a lot in three years from the small amount of experience I have had the last few days. I had it in Steam, played it years ago and was getting bored with other newer options, so I had to give it a go again. Most of the tips here seem dated, but I have yet to try others, so I need to check it out. Nice video.
I think quite a lot of new stuff has been added since I made this. Hopefully all good, though I should really take another look at the game now as I enjoyed it a lot when it came out.
@@MarkGFL I am sure I would enjoy watching an updated video about the changes and new hints. 😁
This covers a lot the only thing as a new player I had run into and had to figure out on my own was how gate placement and managing works! It is a little confusing at first which way you're meant to face the doors and the arrow when placing them but I found that either way really does not matter in the end as you can manually mark where you want your villagers to gather in an emergency with the circle and sword marker. So whether the doors open inward or outward is really more of your own personal choice. Personally my main gates I that are the most defended I prefer having my warriors gather just outside the gate to defend it with all my archers inside the gate!
Thats a good point! I remember messing my gate placement up too when I first played.
Great tips man, thanks for this video! The only thing I was wondering is if there was a key you can hit when you set up chop trees work area that will select the trees that ONLY have wood as a resource. As opposed to chopping down food sources and tanning supplies? I learned a lot from your video.
Thanks! I don't know of any way to not chop fruit trees in a work zone, but you could always email the devs about this - they are pretty keen to hear feedback and if they think its a good idea they may put it in.
I have found that - with no gates (or walls) my villagers will congregate near the house closest to the expected raider attack. So I put a few towers (I start with two and increase as my settlement grows) where I know the raiders come through, and a single house alongside them, so when the alarm sounds the towers are manned and all the other armed sims rush to the area they'll be needed.
Yes I'm finding that having fewer walls/gates, or leaving the gates open actually seems to work very well for co-ordinating the defenders. I do like the look of a walled settlement though :)
just got this game the other day, i got the realistic stone age mod with it. sitting around 120 population atm and in the copper age, you really gotta plan in this game lol. had a big population drop and now my workload is to high when it comes to crop season, making them all work to hard and forget to eat :S now i gotta remove a couple fields to relieve them n start growing again
Haha! Yeah that happened to me too :D A harsh reminder to pay attention to the environment :p
I found it pretty useful to keep making outdated tools if you have the resources laying around for them, especially sickles because of how many your farmers go through.
Indeed, and on some maps certain resources are in short supply so I guess you have to make do with the older tools. Better than nothing.
Also, one nice one I found out was that bronze tools retain their trade value even after you can make steel tools.
I might be a little late, but you do NOT want to stop producibg iron once you unlock steel. Steel is just for tools/weapons. Iron is still used in defensive structures, banners, shields and maybe more. You will need both iron and steel in the endgame, not just steel.
I think putting stables outside the walls saves space and I've never seen raiders attack them. I also keep haystacks out closer to the stables near the farms with a well by the stables. And finally, I put transport posts just outside the walls as well. It makes it easier for people to grab on their way out and keeps the carts and sledges nicely organized.
On defenses, the wooden platforms are very important as they will allow your defenders to use their bows from inside the walls. Put your towers just behind those. The first level supports 2 troops per section and 3 upon upgrade. That can really mess up even large raider attacks.
THANK YOU, I just bought the game a couple days ago and the tutorial barely covered anything
You're welcome! Hope you enjoy the game :)
i start this game in the new year and oh boy it is so addictive.please be carefull guys
Hope you have fun with it :)
Just pulled an all nighter playing. Worth it.
knowledge: Press 8. It brings up the knowledge checklist. So you know how many of something to make/build/gather.
Disease on crops is PR. FIELD, so just make many small lines of fields 1x5, the reason you want one type of crop is because hay is the most problematic resource to get enough of to feed large herds of animals, so you want all barley fields.
One note though donkey/horse attached to a cart doesn't count as animals that require stable space.
Animals doesn't use a pregnancy system, so you can all male flocks and still gain animals.
Dated tip, regarding the field diseases. They will affect multiple fields if you have more fields of the same crop. Making fields smaller is a terribly inefficient use of space, too. You lose a tile’s worth of farming space for each row you decide not to use. Best idea is to nake 5x5 or not at all, unless you’re desperate.
Dated tip, regarding the field diseases. They will affect multiple fields if you have more fields of the same crop. Making fields smaller is a terribly inefficient use of space, too. You lose a tile’s worth of farming space for each row you decide not to use. Best idea is to nake 5x5 or not at all, unless you’re desperate.
Dated tip, regarding the field diseases. They will affect multiple fields if you have more fields of the same crop. Making fields smaller is a terribly inefficient use of space, too. You lose a tile’s worth of farming space for each row you decide not to use. Best idea is to nake 5x5 or not at all, unless you’re desperate.
Dated tip, regarding the field diseases. They will affect multiple fields if you have more fields of the same crop. Making fields smaller is a terribly inefficient use of space, too. You lose a tile’s worth of farming space for each row you decide not to use. Best idea is to nake 5x5 or not at all, unless you’re desperate.
you can cheese the game by hitting pause (space bar) right after trading with a trader and they will be restocked, you will lose your traded items so be sure to have enough items to trade with
Wish I'd known about this earlier, it might have saved half my people during the long-winter known as "before-I-knew-how-to-farm-but-after-I'd-hunted-all-the-animals" :p
Completely agree with you about the manual hunts. They are so much better than the work area that marks animals to be hunted. Get a group. Pick your target(s) and go.
have you tried making fake sanctuary garden for mammoths? seems game programed for wild animals to avoid man made structures
Good to see a post from you...been awhile
Thanks, I'm getting back into the rythm of more regular content now. The vides I've made over the last couple of weeks have been fun and interesting to make :)
Very helpful
Glad I could help :)
I keep animal limits at 15 and only do goats and sheep and donkeys. At this point agriculture takes care of food, and I find goats donkeys and sheep at 15 gives me enough bones and skins even for a large population.
Keep your crafter's close to supplies. For instance, when I start the metal ages, I have 5 metalsmiths(one for each type of tool) right next to a pile full of coal, and a pile full of copper. The result is fast efficient production of items.
On animals, just set animal limits to match what you need. The vills will auto cull the oldest first for any over the limits. When you support 60-80 animals this is the easiest way to control your herd.
I find flint spears cheap and quick and sell for 10 until the bronze age so I load up on flint. Plus it's quick if you run low on sickles or axes. When I have lots of linen, I then make lots of fishing baskets that sell for 20.
Fishing baskets - is that something new added to the game?
@@MarkGFL lol... nets. They look like baskets from memory. Say... can you help with something?
@@hebber1961 I can try :) Though I don't remember ever seeing fishing nets made from linen - fishing rods maybe? Thats why I wondered if they had been recently added :)
@@MarkGFL I had to look to be sure now and yes... they're made from linen and sticks. And technically called traps. Get the name right eventually. Didn't realize they were new. They're a nice cash item when you have lots of linen.
Just having trouble getting the new update on steam with shields and wall platforms for defence. Maybe you haven't tried??
@@hebber1961 No I haven't loaded the game up for a couple of weeks. I did see a news article about the shields and combat update - it should be nice.
Can i do the manual hunt on ps4? The point and click?
I honestly don't know as I haven't played the PS4 version, but I'd be surprised and upset if it wasn't possible.
@@MarkGFL its possible. You focus on one villager and hold x. To direct them to hunt or another job hold R1 and select the target with square.
@@erik8727 Good to know, thanks! :)
good tips i never get dogs first always amused you hadto feed them
Dogs - the emergency food supply during a winter famine :D
nice guide thx! but i have run out of iron mines what should i do? buying it at the trader???
Oh thats tricky! Can you hunt around father afield on the map? It may be the only option. I'm playing the Northern Wintery scenario and I'm really short on Flint - hoping to discover metal working soon or I may be in trouble. But i like that challenge that the game throws at you.
buy iron ores by selling horse males
Have been failing the northlands scenario for weeks now… missing 1 milestone… such a headache
Hope you manage it - good luck!
@@MarkGFL your tips are great, but it'a about keeping on top of everything and trying to keep the workload down.
1:30
What is the Ps4 equivalent to that tip?
I honestly don't know I'm afraid, I haven't played this on console. If anyone reading this comment knows, please do leave a reply.
If your going to move your settlement make sure you have a hearth at the new location before you start recycling the buildings at the old sight helps to have a storage or 2 also . Can be hectic at first I thought everyone was going to starve to death because the ai ignores hunting etc and belines to all the resources left behind at the old settlement I got lucky and there was some leftover food
The AI could definitely use a bit of work still on things like that.
I strongly recommend not going above 35 pop in the first two eras and no more than 45 in the third age. Also early mammoth kills are your friend!
It must take a lot of bravery/hunger/desperation to take down mammoths with sharpened sticks :D
Always set your fields 5 tiles long. With plow your animals will do all of it at once.
One more thing; I was so happy to learn about this game. I had been waiting for Ancient Cities for forever and it seems to be in a four year limbo AND there was a great possibility I might have to get a new computer to play it. This game was a great compromise and a totally addicting game. Do you have any idea what happened to Ancient Cities??? I play a little Universim too. It took them a long time to get the ball rolling, but now they are pretty much doing everything they said they were going to do, maybe AC has a similar thing going on.
I've never heard of Ancient Cities, but like you I'm really glad I stumbled across Dawn of Man. I think they've just released a combat update for it that I really should go and check out.
please play various scenarios and upload full gameplay in seasons and episodes
I've got a playthrough here if you'd like to check it out, on my Let's Play channel :) th-cam.com/video/OjMn2mngUPM/w-d-xo.html
few useful tips thanks
You're welcome :)
;;thanks Mark
You're very welcome :)
game is intriguing ,but everyone walks randomly, works whenever they feel like and then blames me when starving.
Sounds just like being a parent :D
I only had a couple people starve on my first playthrough. If your people aren't working on the right tasks, your number of assigned tasks might be too high.
Ruben Hayk ive noticed that they starve even with a ton of food because there is work done far from the food storages. If they leave hungry then they come back starving and usually too tired to run home.
Even when tasks are low and I have priorities set they mainly do what they want unless I manually tell them to do something. They're pretty worthless at taking care of themselves.
I have a question. Do the animals you kill regenerate?
Yes and no - more animals will eventually appear, but not necessarily of the same type you killed. The next group could spawn way across the map too. Its certainly possible to run out of things to hunt in the short term, but more animals will eventually reappear. In my first game I let my population grow too large before I'd managed to develop farming, and I had one really bad winter where I'd hunted and eaten everything in sight! I think I lost about half the village to starvation :p
Thanks, I was scared because there were less and less animals. Fortunately I just researched grain domestication.
I quit because this game is too complicated. My population dies after winter. Thank you for the tips.
Great vid.
Thanks!
I’ve learned to try and keep everything close by to keep people from dying of starvation or dehydration when I have tons of water, milk, and food stored.
Put wells all over the place where your people might work like around big resource areas, farmland, etc. I don’t usually put a food storage on the farmland but if starvation with tons of food stored is a problem think about moving them around. Whatever the stupid problem is, try resolving it with why they died. (Old age and hypothermia is hard to fix other than overstock on clothes because I’ve found when people die nobody comes to get their items.
Did they ever finish it so there's a conclusion?
when i expend to a new area, even if i put down a stockpile near the new area, the people still send all the newly cut logs all the way back to the main stockpile
Yeah I found that too. I don't think the developers ever managed to sort the ai for that.
@@MarkGFL sigh ....
@@MarkGFL maybe a banished job system that assign someone with a specific job will help. Defi hide it behind some tech, division of labor
Morning mark!
Good morning! How are you this fine day?
@@MarkGFL Good to hear and I'm doing well!
*from you
When the Halo Mcc comes to pc are you gonna play that
Possibly. Original Halo in co-op was one of the best gaming experiences ever!
Disable UI - CTRL+SHIFT+U
Disable icons - CTRL+SHIFT+K
That will be handy for screenshots and video.
@@MarkGFL Disabling the icons is a bit finicky though. But it works...
Keep producing iron when you unlock steel. You need it for advanced defences.
A fun experiment is to go "Vegan", it's painful at the front end, no hunting, no fishing, later no domestication, the only meat & skins you will get is from animal attacks watch your people die of starvation & the elements. things will improve when you get Grain & Pulses gathering and Thatching then again at crop farming and Masonry, late game if you trade for wool you can be ahead of the curve since you are not wasting resources on animals and can have skipped entire lines of Tech and since you are not hunting or fishing folks are freed up for other jobs.
an other thing is to go Carnivore, no food gathering just hunting, fishing & industrial gathering, you will have so much Meat & Skins you won't know what to do with them, skip Plant techs till you need them to back fill to unlock other techs, gather Grain for straw for building trade away the food component and later grain farming for Straw and to feed you food animals. you will have a strong early and mid game but will be doing lots of micromanagement of Hunting & Herds in the late game and one mismanages season can cost you scores of people that will take you years to recover from.
Building tip upgrade asap, pick houses and stores in need of repair first since fewer people will be using them and you wont disrupt the housing market.
on crops don't monoculture a field plant varying rows of grains and pulses, when you get pulses domestication plant some new fields strait away then that first winter rip up your grain fields and alternate Grains & Pulses, don't grow the same crop within two rows of each other, you will blight proof your crop based food supply chain.
You can't build a lot of structures or transports without leathers though, sounds unfeasible
my tip NEVER assign a hunting area because if a mammoth goes into said area the area will send 1 guy to hunt it and then well you know the outcome...
Good tip! Have had similar happen with a pack of lions.
Hunting areas around your camp is a great way to get meat early on.
@@CrazySubaruFanatic although that is true it is very risky I personally think it is better to do it manually.
What's the biggest amount of villagers people etc you can have ? And how big is the map?
The map is pretty big, but you won't get to use all of it as some will be too far away to make a settlement or send workers to. I think I've had over 200 villagers in some games, but I can't remember the exact number. One of the achievements in normal mode is for getting above a certain number of villagers - I can't recall what it is right now but I remember doing it.
around 300-320 ,bigger amount is stopped by map terrain ,hills making travel to long to bring resources
guys how to get lether?? i just have raw skin and dry skin?? can you tell me guys
You need to research the tech if you haven't already, and then you can build a Tannery. Once built, it takes raw skin (so make sure your skin dryers arent drying 100% of your raw skins) and Tanin (which you need to set a work area for, its collected from trees so set a big area in a forest).
You forgot the most important tip! If you play for 16h per day and club enough seals, you will receive a free tier 8 premium cash cow that secretes APCR tipped spears that can penetrate and 1 shot a mammoth. You can also buy these cows in the premium shop for $100.... oh no wait, I think I'm confusing with a traumatic game we used to play long time ago, what was it called again... Russian bias or something...
this game i know =)
best post I've seen in a while ^^
You didn't mention managing welfare. Is there any way to hit perfect welfare?
I don't know about perfect, but building lots and lots of spiritual structures (all kinds) helps, plus lots of beer to keep morale up. Other than that just make sure you have enough housing, food and proper clothes. Oh and don't overwork - ie set more workload than your people can manage.
@canadian hobit regarding maxing welfare you have to minimize work load below 50%-30%
On PS4 don't press x when trading before you mean to like I keep doing
Oops! I haven't played the PS4 version but I do stuff like that in other games and it drives me crazy! My own fault I know, which annoys me even more :D
Does anyone know how to select multiple villagers at once on ps4? I’m assuming it’s not possible?
I don't know unfortunately, I assume you can't hold down one of the buttons then move L or R sticks to drag a selection box around? If you find out, can you let us know?
Mammoth n rhino went extinct in pale had 105 dropped real quick after
Never work-task wood cutting. Just double click cut and your vills, should you be below 150% workload after the order, will make short work of the entire section, restocking your logs and sticks near instantly. Best done above 30 vills.
Im not a fan of the knowledge system. Building or hunting something for the first time is fine but having to waste resources to get knowledge points is an annoyance
Don't upgrade all of your building at the same time, I did this not thinking about winter and most of my villagers died that winter because all of my huts where torn down. Lol fail
Lol yes good point! I have also done that and learned the hard way :D
Setting something to high priority DOES not reset current tasks, they will finish what they are doing before choosing a new task where high priority matters.
But it makes sure repetitive tasks get done first in future.
This game is fun but this stone age game has no stone i was at 150 population and no stone around my area already if i sent them to gather stone from far they just die from traveling
Is there an efficient way to select and/or slaughter all of my old animals without trying to fuckin hunt them down one at a time?
I'm not sure of a better way, but if you double-click on an animal it will select all of that type visible on the screen. From there you can see which are the old ones in the group. Its not idea, but I found it a little helpful.
I just started to play I think it's hard
It gets a little easier as you get used to everything. Hope you are enjoying it though :)
So when someone gets a desease i send them of to fight a bear , so they will be killed and not spread the disease.
Wow that sounds like a grizzly end for them. I guess they just have to grin and bear it ;)
Only issue I’m having so far, is w fishing. Hell, I’d be thrilled to be the one that just has to fish all day long but these guys are either lazy or suck at it cuz I never have nuff fish. I am heartily stocked w fishing gear so that isn’t it. I even tried to micro manage but 🤷🏻♀️
Cannot wait for the netting 🤦🏻♀️
DOUBLE UP ON WALLS! Takes longer to break and Sometimes theirs a bugged wall that people can walk through. Games great, but has a few annoying bugs like people not using platforms.
its useless,takes resources and time ,just place house(gathering point) and change defense options to 0% melee, you will kill raiders easily even in iron age ,just have at minimum 100 population and same ammount of bows(op weapon)
@@mast3r346 in some of my larger cities the people go to the wrong entrance sometimes and they get through. The double walls get them distracted alittle longer while people slowly get killed and replaced by other parts of the city. Double stone walls are a good investment for larger cities to have a fighting chance especially on ancient warriors when you're more worried about feeding a growing population without stretching the city out too far and the attacks are more a nuisance that could turn into a lack of workers to grow food turning into a mass starvation event haha
You NEVER WANT storage outside the walls, because carts goes back to storage, so when the raiders come they kill all your donkey/horses.
Can't say I ever saw that happen.
I think they did that a few times although I mostly use sheep for the wool and micro my hunting during low workloads but if you place the storage right near the gates/walls where there's towers they should pull aggro away from the raiders and they likely won't go for the animals then.
I dont give a fuck about this game but hey, it's Mark! :)
Statistically, foraging and fishing keeps me alive, and the animals starve. Or eat grain, and get factory farmed.
I want my herder option, and a more specialized tech tree. Human culture was NOT cookie cutter.
I hope this game is called death of cookie cutter. Instead of Dawn of Man.
Because I should have just played Warcraft III.
Yeah it'd be great to see the game expand more. I'd like to see different climates such as a place with wet-dry seasons or somewhere arid or tropical
Socialism!
this game pretty sucks.. I been playing for hours and is just not hard, but boring..
Why waste so much time on it then? Time is too precious to spend on things we don't enjoy :)