Walkthrough/Gameplay by C359

Disclaimer: This is an ideal or theoretical walkthrough that needs criticism and revision.

For C359, there are three (3) factors for his ideal playthrough of the game:

1.     Preservation of tribespeople (no deaths);

2.     fastest way to complete challenges; and

3.     no cheats, hacks, glitches, and/or other manipulation that goes against on how the game is supposed to be played.

Without further ado, let us begin.

First Island
Before picking an island, take into consideration what mysteries it has first. There are three (3) mysteries on every island and there are eight (8) mysteries total; so we need to at least travel to three islands to solve all mysteries. There are two (2) mysteries combination that I can think of for beginning an ideal run:

The two (2) mysteries combinations:
1.     Molten Rock, Fossil Rock, and the Fountain of Youth; or

2.     Fountain of Youth, Moon Stone, and Fossil Rock

Please choose carefully since these options have different outcomes, yes.

I think that the first island is the island you will be marooned the longest so I envision tribespeople dying from old age. Since I want no deaths on this playthrough, I must prioritize solving the Fountain of Youth mystery; so that out of three (3) possible deaths the tribespeople can have, I can eliminate one (dying of old age).

The first combination of mysteries, I think, is centered on manual resource gathering while the second combination is reliant on Moondusts.

I have played Virtual Villagers before and I have noticed that on every gameplay I have done, the Science/Research skill always gets maxed out first. So, with this in mind, I thought that it would be easy solving these mysteries combination I have made.. What you should do is assign “gathering” tasks (fishing, wood gathering, and rock gathering) to tribespeople who have high physical strength. When you build, place buildings as near as possible to the wood and rock pile so that it would be quicker to go to and from the supplies when the tribespeople are constructing; and that is what you should assign tribespeople who have low physical strength (tasks such as Construction, Science, Art, and Agriculture).

When you’ve finished assigning your tribesmen tasks, you should get busy scouring the map for collectibles such as mushrooms, guano, Golden Relics, Stardusts, Moondusts, and Crates/BarrelsTips and Tricks 7.1. Do not use Stardusts and Moondusts sparingly; what are they made for but to be used, right? I advise using Stardusts on your tribespeople because it makes them increase their skills and strengths and the Moondusts on construction and the Science Laboratory; but keep some back-up for potion use and just in case something happens. I also advise from holding back from Calling the Stork until you have both a male and female tribesperson with maxed out physical and mental strength to act as the only parents in this run; so as to make the next generation with better stats.

OK, so, the progression should be:

Progression:
1.     maxing out tribe population (50),

2.     maxing out construction research (3), and finally

3.     finish building the Great Ark.

With a maximum population of fifty tribespeople, there would be more workforce, more hands to help with tasks like resource gathering and building; however, it may be stressful to manage that many people but all you really need to do is fulfil the tribespeople’s needs for them to not die (3):

To not die:
1.     exhaustion (by building enough houses for them to rest),

2.     old age (solving the Fountain of Youth mystery), and

3.     starvation (keeping track of the food resources, using Stardusts/Moondusts on the food pile/storehouse if necessary)

Now, this is the fun part. When you’ve unlocked all the building structures, there is a trick (wait, I am just now realizing that this may be a glitch that I am exploiting which goes against my third factor in playing LOL bah humbug!) on how to obtain lots of Stardusts and MoondustsTips and Tricks 1. With lots of Stardusts and Moondusts, you can easily max out the skills of your tribespeople and speed up construction (amongst other things).

When you’ve finished constructing the Great Ark, the hard part is now over. Assuming you’ve solved all mysteries on your first island, let’s now hop out of there!

Second Island
So what you should be looking out for on your second island are these mysteries combination that corresponds to one of two mysteries combinations you’ve chosen from the first island:

1.     Flowering Tree, Dead Bush, and Star Stone; or

2.     Flowering Tree, Dead Bush, and Molten Rock

I think you don’t have to build a lot on the second island, just the huts and straight to the Great Ark for the third island.

Third Island
Now, based from one of the two options of mysteries combination you’ve picked, and if you’ve decided that this would be your last island (because you’ll be completing all the mysteries after this), the only difference is that the first option you’ll need to pick the Moon Stone to solve all the mysteries and with the second option, the Star Stone. So, if you want the Moon Stone or the Star Stone, then pick the corresponding options for either; but to be honest, you can repick one mystery that you’ve already solved to have for your last island since there are eight (8) mysteries and there are three (3) mysteries per island and we’re on our third island (a total of nine [9] mysteries in total to be encountered). Go figure. Notice that I have kept the Glowing Stump as the last mystery to be solved. I intentionally picked the Stump mystery as last since after you’ve solved it, once you repick it when you decide to go to another island, unlike the other mysteries, it will not show up again (I think, at least I’d like to think so). Yeah, it’s sad and such a shame since this mystery is so cool.

The only prediction I think I am sure of is that the last trophy you'll accomplish is the Methuselah one since it was in my case. And with that typed, this ends the playthrough of completing trophies in My Tribe. I am hoping it would be a success and of course that you had fun!

I just stumbled upon though a trophy where you need to travel to five (5) islands to achieve it... So I guess if you really want to acquire every trophy then you won't be settling for this third island... Good luck!

Tips and Tricks
1.     I’ve read somewhere that just by placing certain buildings and demolishing them immediately, it triggers progression like the Celestial and Lunar Towers which when finished building or demolished, a star shower or moon shower would occur “in celebration” or the Shipyard which will be replaced with the Great Ark.

2.     If you didn’t know, using a Stardust on a tribesperson would increase that tribesperson’s physical strength, mental strength, or skills; and using a Moondust on the other hand would change that tribesperson’s physical appearance (hair color and/or skin color).

3.     It would be faster to max out your tribe population by using the potion combination Mushrooms, Seawater, and Stardust which can be used only to female tribespeople and would make them have twins when you’d have them “Calling the Stork.” I do not know if there is a duration but just in case, use this potion just or right after dropping a male tribesperson on a female tribesperson or vice versa or when they are “Calling the Stork”.

4.     I advise pausing the game (simulation speed, on the Settings) when you continue playing after you’ve gone too long or else you may be greeted with the lady suggesting you to start over because all your tribespeople have died. Yes, it has happened to me and it was devastating.

5.     You can back-up your save file/progress by creating a back-up folder of “My Tribe Data” which can be found on Local Disk (C:)/Users/username/AppData/Local/Grubby Games (for Windows 7) and I don’t know where on other systems (sorry, I suggest searching for it on the search bar or what, Google?, hope it works!).

6.     Lodestones are hard to come by in-game and two tips I can give y’all is to:


 * One, use only one tribesperson to open crates because sooner or later (or if you’re lucky never at all) you might open a crate that can have the effect of turning your tribesperson who’ve opened that crate’s hair and clothes to gray. Yes, you read me right; and, and the effects are irreversible (for the hair only) so you’ll have a tribesperson with gray hair forever; and yes, it has happened to me, and it happened on my favorite tribesperson too [:(].


 * Two, when you finally acquired some Lodestones (which can only be acquired from crates/barrels), save first (then follow Tips and Tricks #5). Then, there is a potion to summon a crate/barrel which is a combination of: Lodestones, Rain, and Stardust; so, keep on summoning crates/barrels until you acquire more Lodestones and if you ran out of Lodestones, just reset (do not "Save & Exit", just close the gameTips and Tricks 5, delete the folder on the Grubby Games folder and replace it with your back-up) and keep on repeating summoning crates/barrels until you’ve accumulated enough Lodestone to your liking.