Lost Tribe Guide

In the Lost Tribe guide, you start off with 5 people, but less material resources, and research slower.

In-game this is classified as a difficult scenario.

Choosing tribals

Since you have 5 people, each tribesperson doesn't have as much of an impact as colonists from other scenarios. You can spread skills across the whole party.

You will need these skills to survive:

• Dumb labor: Hauling, cleaning and cutting plants.
• Growing: Growing food crops. Starting a stable food supply is high priority as you start off with very little food.
  • Aim to have 2 growers which can grow food crops.
• Violence: Hunting for food and self-defense. For supplementing your food supply between starting and successful crop harvest.
• Medicine: Treating the sick and injured.
  • Since herbal medicine has a low medical potency, the doctor needs to be skilled.
• Construction: Building a shelter for your tribe.
• Cooking: Cooking food.

Some skills are useful to have:

• Research: Researching new projects. Since your tribe is slow to research many projects, you may want to start soon.
• Crafting: Crafting better weapons to replace the poor starting weapon choice.

Starting off

Your surviving tribe should start off standing, with their supplies scattered around. Since they start off hungry and malnourished, they will devour the pemmican they brought with them. You don't start with a good amount of pemmican (220 is only enough to sustain 5 people for around 2-3 days) and before everything starts off a lot of it would've been eaten.

Starter weapons

Your tribe starts off with a low-tech selection of weapons.

Short bow	Great bow	Pila	Wooden spear	Jade knife

The great bow should be equipped on your best shooter to make the most out of its long range.

Pila can be given to moderately skilled shooters, as they can deal heavy damage if they hit but don't have much range.

Short bows should be equipped on less skilled shooters.

The only decent weapon left is the jade knife, which is obviously best on your best brawler. Still, it isn't an excellent melee weapon so don't rely on it.

Do not care about the wooden spear as it is an underwhelming weapon, dealing less damage than unarmed.

Growing food

Growing food should be one of your priority tasks so your tribe won't starve.

First, plant rice as it grows fast and can be harvested soon. Choose a more fertile patch of land to grow it on.

Then, if you have sufficiently skilled growers, grow strawberries. These can be eaten raw without any negative mood debuffs and grow quite fast.

Potatoes can efficiently provide food but take a while to grow.

Corn can be used to increase food production after your food production stabilizes, providing large harvests with each cycle, but taking ectremely long to grow.