Video Game - Against the Storm

Against the Storm tips and guides

Hotkeys

• Use "B" to show resources
• Hold "alt" to display labor, use mouse wheel and click to assign labor with click
• "." pauses labor/construction on building
• "M" to move buildings
• "F" to select trees, "G" to unselect, hold cmd to select but not go into glades
• "1" etc. sets speed
• "Shift" and mouseover to copy buildings
• "R" roate buldings
• "V" to select and destroy pieces of land, he might have said D or B?

Tips

• You gain reputatino by making people happy, by doing orders, and exploring surroundings (glades/events)
  • Hover over people to see their desires
• Get into glades early
• Build shelters around hearth
• people can go through buildings
• deactivate buildings instead of pulling labor when in surplus
• specialized housing ups resolve a lot, keep an eye on what it takes to make them
• prioritize stuff in the workstation
  • can use multiple resources for stuff in workstation, or turn off some
  • workstations are separate, not global
• crops are harvested in clear, need farm too
• Specializations
  • Lizards - meat
  • Human - farm, brewery (comf)
  • Beaver - wood
• Use force delivery now if resources are needed asap from ie woodcutter
• complex building, select ingredients you want to use for recipes, ie wood and meat for jerky
• humans and beavers like ale
• upgrading hearth
  • homes, decorations, service buildings in range
  • different types of decorations up the level
• Build warehouse for far away buildings if necessary
• Consumption Control
  • turn on/off food people can eat
• Trade "Ancient Tablets" and think about getting the perks from traders
• turn off coal as fuel in beginning
• Turn off wood as fuel in year 4-6
  • Get sea marrow, oil, other fuels
• **FOOD
  • Porridge Rules, not everyone likes it but it gives nice quanitty
  • Ranches are great
  • Herbs and Flour (flour is boss grain)
    • flour in biscuits and pie, its labor intensive, go for porridge first and then if you can process flour go for it
    • herbs can be procesed into pies and privisions, also labor intense
  • SPECIALIZE
    • ie conersteons like GRAIN BAGS can turn production into huge numbers
      

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