How to Thrive in the first week

How To Survive The First Week

Step 1: Meet the Essential Needs of your Seedling

Your Seedlings are counting on you to create a thriving home! Start by placing beds, sinks, and toilets in your Campus to cover their basic needs. A well-equipped space means happier, healthier Seedlings!

By default, societies run on ANARCHY, giving everyone full control over buildings and land. This requires trust but allows for fast changes.

DO NOT change the constitutional model early on—it can create bottlenecks, especially in food production, where stability is critical.

Critical First Actions

Your top priority is FOOD PRODUCTION—without it, YOUR SEEDLINGS WILL DIE. 

If your Seedlings are hungry, they can head out into the world to harvest berries and herbs from bushes to fill their bellies. But don’t forget—harvested food isn’t usable until it’s delivered back to the Campus!

Berries and herbs offer only a small nutritional boost, but they can keep your Seedlings going while you establish a more reliable food source. Be careful, though—once a bush is harvested, it won’t regrow! Plan wisely!

Although the Campus has some food available, it is scarce. To prevent starvation, it’s essential to create a building dedicated to food production. To do this, transfer the Growbox from the Campus to the newly created building. The Growbox allows you to grow food, but since the process takes time, it's best to craft multiple Growboxes and place them in your building to ensure a steady supply.

Step 2: Getting More Resources

When you feel safe about your food stock, you can start focusing on extracting resources, the amount of resources you need to extract can vary based on your society's objectives:

Resource Extraction

  • Clay Extractor 
  • Coal Extractor 
  • Copper Extractor 
  • Iron Extractor
  • Stone Extractor
  • Grow Box
  • You can harvest Wood from nearby trees and Stone from nearby rocks.

Be careful—not placing your structure correctly can block access to the deposit. Avoid building directly on top of a deposit, as this will remove your ability to harvest from it. Instead, position your structure next to the deposit and place outdoor blocks over it to ensure access from within the building

If you still have Bricks, you can use them as building material. If not, harvest Wood from nearby trees as an alternative. Once a Seedling returns to the Campus, the harvested Wood will be delivered automatically.

Step 3: Expanding Your Machines

Your initial supply of machines is limited, so you’ll need to craft more to expand production.

Use the Crafting Table to create Growboxes and boost food production. You can also craft an Assembly Station, which unlocks the ability to produce more Resource Extractors and eventually the Advanced Assembly Station. The Advanced Assembly Station will then allow you to craft all other machines.

To craft machines, you'll need Wood and Stone. If you haven’t set up dedicated extraction for these, you can manually gather them from the environment.

Step 4: Society Growth & Governance

Improving Governance

  • If needed, start a ballot to transition out of anarchy.
  • Consider an Electoral Autocracy for structured governance.
  • Assign roles and manage permissions.

Population Growth & Trade

  • Increase population limits by paying 100 pollen.
  • Expand trade by producing surplus goods and creating sell orders.

Ensure continuous food supply to prevent migration.

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