Overview
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A MAJOR WIP AND WILL BE UPDATED OVER TIME!!!!!!This is a WIP guide about how to survive in the earlier islands on the way to Adam’s home island and the whale island in the new beta, hope you enjoy!
The Whale Island
The whale island is the newest island added. It came in the 1.1.0 beta update. To me this was the hardest easy island. Near the tail is the savannah area, here are Acacia trees, cacti, dry berry bushes, berry bushes etc. This is where you spawn. If you created a new save you should have one thing in mind. Food. You should keep your tribe size below 30, your starting pair should have a few children once you find berry bushes and a permanant nest but get your female expectant as soon as possible. Rouges do spawn on this island and they often spawn fast. If somebody has cracker jaw you want to head for the nearest Oak tree (green leaves) that will be your main food source. Hunting is important too, if you have toxic berries and can’t collect them use them as training for your nichelings, you want to unlock ram horns, claw, and nimble fingers as soon as possible. Have every non-breeding or exploring nicheling at a berry bush if you can find one. Once you have atleast 50+ and 10+ nichelings start exploring towards the whale’s face. There’s more food and stumps for the mating call. The mating call is SUPER important because that bring in new creatures and this is one of the 2 places that can have winged nichelings spawn. If a nicheling has no reediming qualities (derp snout, deformed paw, double runner legs, etc.) keep them at a berry bush and bring everybody else. Once you have claw, nimble fingers, and ram horns mutate them, hunt and pick berries, repeat.
Recommended Genes: Big Nose, Cracker Jaw, Ram Horns, Antlers, Claw, Nimble Fingers, Diggers Paw,
Possible Next Island: Any island you choose! You get a menu that pops up and the whale takes you to that island!
Island Port: I’m pretty sure its jungle-like with flowers.
How to Get to Adam’s Island!
Always go to the north, if there is no north port go to the harder one (Ex. if theres a flowery one or a yellow grass one, go to the yellow grass one. Snow or flowers? Snow.) (I’m pretty sure after the island where you meet Eve you go right.) After a long time the north port will either be blocked by roots in the jungle, or blocked by ice in the mountains. Just break through it and it should be a really small island. Get ready because when you take the north port. Ehhh I think you can guess what happens next.
Grass Adventure
This is a multi biome large easy island where Rouge Males, Bluebirds, Leeches and so much more can spawn. The island can be a mix of every biome but the mountain. Bearyenas will spawn at a faster rate than on the last islands if any spawned there. I recommended going to the rivers as a goal as you will need swimming genes for the next island. Have non-breeding nichelings swim in the rivers and sometimes fishing. Claw and nimble fingers will always be wanted as well as ram horns and antlers. Have nests by berry bushes and a fighting line is also recomennded. Once you unlock swimming genes and go to the north, the port should be green and grassy.
(A few pictures of a grass adventure and me surviving on one!)
Archipelago
This is where you needed those swimming genes! Look around you! Tiny islands! Use the things I taught you to survive the islands themselves and I’ll talk to you about crossing. Sometimes if your lucky you get a shallow bridge, but sometimes you have to swim one space which dosen’t always do drowing damage (in my experience) but 2 gaps need thing like Swimming tail, Tailfin, webbed hind legs, webbed paw, waterbody, etc. fish is a good source of food and clams can be too (if they spawn which they barely do) so claws and fishing tail, along with cracker jaw and/or nimble fingers would be your best set-up. You can stay on the island as long as you like. But you won’t progress to Adam’s home Island! So don’t stay forever!
(Some Pictures of me on the Archipelago!)
Medium Swampland
Okay so, you made it past achipelago (Or you started here which in that case its even harder) you may have poison fangs from Adam showing up, those will be VERY useful. Sometimes you may see a jungle, YES apes can spawn there. This is not an easy island and it is the first medium island in story mode. But the first thing you should worry about is food like always berry bushes and fishing if you can, there may be something new to you Toxic Berry Bushes. Collecting from them will poison your nicheling overtime, UNLESS your nicheling has poison resistance, this trait is given by: Poison Fangs, Toxic Body, and Scorpion Tail. Wanderers are sometimes generated for the biome, so they are one of the best ways to get those genes. If you go to the jungle (if there is one) don’t step on the small patches of twigs, roll in the mud if you can, and beware of apes! Sometimes the smelly fruit tree will spawn and collect from that. Always have two nichelings if you do get a smelly fruit tree because the big nosed apes will attack you if you don’t lick off the stench (You need to lick it off twice). When it rains you are in trouble. Unless you have stinky tail insects will come out of puddles on the ground, they infect your nicheling with ‘Sleeping Sicknes’ and they only get one energy point. Bearyena’s spawn even more than they used too (I kiled one and another one spawned right beside it) Rouge Males may also be a problem. While clearing away the grass you may have seen some thorns, they do damage if you clear them away, so unless you want to kill an inncocent Nicheling, don’t clear them away
Pictures of the Swamp
The island’s blue tones are kinda pretty! If it weren’t for the impending doom that is!
(Told you they spawn a bunch)
Recommended Genes: Poison Fangs, Big nose, Toxic Body, Lean Body, Medium Body, Scorpion Tail, Stinky Tail
Island Port: Blueish Greenish Grey, with leaves and reeds/cattails
Burning Savannah
Welcome to the burning savannah! If you see the lovely yellow island port, be prepared! This place is HOT Bearyhenas spawn a bunch here too, so fighting skills, a long with the ability to collect berries are important! Berries and meat from predators are your only food option, so never come to this island without around 900 food! I died out on this island from lack of females so bring more than one breeding pair to this island! If they arent on a nest, they should be exploring or collecting berries! (If they can collect berries on a nest, even better!) Like I said before, this place is really really hot in fact, it’s so hot that fires can sprout from anywhere at any time. Always have a high movement speed, and don’t overbreed, it’s hard to get the youngest nichelings away from the flames when they can only move one tile! Always be ready to move around if there’s a fire! Rouge males are an issue too, if they spawn without heat resistant genes, avoid breeding with them at ALL COSTS! If your nichelings overheat, they loose 1 energy point, which could be used for collecting, breeding, exploring or running away from fires!
Yikes! Expect the worst from those flames!
The screen is tinted, which gives blue-eyed nichelings the most gorgeous grey eyes!
Recommended Genes: Big Ears, Big nose, Claw, Lean Body, Any Horns, Scorpion Tail, Runner’s Leg, Nimble Fingers,
Island Port: Yellow-Orange Grassy