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Stacklands
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Submitted by: David K.
Beginners Tips and Tricks:
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Here you can find some useful tips to survive in the Stacklands game.
-=In shorts=-
* Choose peaceful mode of game (since version 1.0.7).
* Get more villagers.
* Better weapons for villagers (spears, swords).
Spearmen have 6 health, swordsmen 7 health.
-=In details=-
If you want to better manage enemy invasions without having to manage more
villagers, stack your villagers into one stack of cards and wait for the
monsters to spread out. Once they do, drop all of your fighters onto one
monster and they will kill it quickly with minimal injuries.
Repeat this process until the enemies are dead.
Your first portal can be handled well by two villagers. Your second portal
will need at least one Militia or Soldier. I’d recommend having a spear or
sword laying on the side. Then upgrade the villager when the Portal comes.
By your third portal, you should have three or four villagers. Same thing,
have weapons on the side and gear them up when the portal comes. Two Soldiers
and Villager or One Solider, Two Militia to safely take this one out.
After that it’s free ball, RNG will do everything they can to kill you.
Easy mode, Animal Pen + Three~Four Chickens and two Stoves.
Difficult, make that stew. Four Farms, three dedicated each to onions carrots
and ptoatos.
Reap and Sew has a good chance of providing the meat or a soldier in the Forest.
You can also delay the fight If your fighters need healing (when they eat) or
if you need to wait while you make/equip more fighters. Just keep all your
villagers away from the monsters & Bingo! You can delay as long as you wish.
Also stacks of cards in their path can slow them significantly.
What could help is increasing the amount of soil/gardens/farms you have
(food becomes a struggle later) and building one or two houses while keeping
two villagers alive. Make one spear per house in preparation and when you see
a portal move your villagers to the houses and play for time while your
babies become villagers and then add the spears to them. The enemies all
typically target one villager so if you constantly keep them out of reach
while keeping food in your farms you’ll be fine and eventually beat them.
This is long and complicated but pretty easy to do as a side project if you
keep at it. Also, the more sheds you can make the better because they
increase your map which puts more space between you and enemies.
Note: this is just my preference but spear dudes take up the same amount of
food as villagers so always upgrade them. When you get iron only make a couple
of sword dudes because they take up three food instead of two
which adds up quickly.
Just rush into swordman early on, after 1 or 2 playthroughs you should
have all the idea’s and packs. Making you able to speed to swordman on
playthrough 3. Also rush into farms, so your main goal in the beginning
is to race for that mine and smelter. Also buy reap and soil packs early
on, so you can find lots of soil. Delicious packs for carrots. Once you
have your carrot farm going, food is a non issue. Race to at least 5
swordman and you can handle everything the game throws at you from then.
Good luck!
Recipes & Ideas:
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These are all the Basic Recipes & Ideas:
* Stick: 1x Wood and 1x Adult
* Coin Pouch: 2x Wood and 1X Coin
* Cooked Meat: 1x Campfire or Stove and 1x Raw Meat
* Growth: 1x Berry (or other plant) and 1x Soil (or garden or farm)
* House: 2x Wood, 1x Stone and 1x Adult
* Offspring: 1x House and 2x Adults
* Dog: Combine a bone and wolf (check the Get a Dog guide)
These are all the Building Recipes & Ideas:
* Animal Pen: 2x Plank, 2x Wood, 1x Iron Bar, and 1x Villager
* House: 2x wood, 1x stone, and 1x adult
* Brickyard: 1x Brick, 1x Iron Bar, 1x Wood and 1x Adult
* Farm: 1x Soil, 2x Brick, 2x Plank and 1x Adult
* Garden: 1x Soil, 2x Stone, 2x Wood and 1x Adult
* Lumber Camp: 3x Wood, 1x Stone and 1x Adult
* Market: 1x Brick, 1x Plank, 3x Coin and 1x Adult
* Mine: 2x Flint, 1x Wood, 1x Stone and 1x Adult
* Quarry: Stack 3x Stone, 1x Wood and 1x Adult
* Sawmill: 1x Plank, 1x Wood, 1x Stone, 1x Iron Bar and 1x Adult
* Shed: 1x Wood, 1x Stone, 1x Stick and 1x Adult
* Smelter: 2x Flint, 2x Brick, 1x Plank and 1x Adult
* Stove: 1x Brick, 1x Iron Bar, 1x Flint and 1x Adult
* Temple: 5x Plank, 5x Brick, 3x Iron Bar and 3x Adult
* Warehouse: 1x Stone, 1x Iron Bar and 1x Adult
* Stacklands Recipes & Ideas – Cooking
These are all the Cooking Recipes & Ideas:
* Campfire: 1x Stick and 1x Flint
* Frittata: 1x Campfire or Stove and 1x Egg and 1x Potato
* Fruit Salad: 1x Berry and 1x Apple
* Milkshake: 1x Milk and 1x Berry
* Omelette: 1x Campfire or Stove and 2x Egg
* Stew: 1x Campfire or Stove and 1x Potato, 1x Raw Meat, 1x Onion
and 1x Carrot
These are all the Military Recipes & Ideas:
* Spear: 1x Wood and 2x Stick
* Sword: 1x Iron Bar and 2x Stick
These are all the Resources Recipes & Ideas:
* Bricks: 3x Stone and 1x Adult
* Planks: 3x Wood and 1x Adult
* Chicken: 1x Chicken and 1x Egg
* Iron Bar: Smelt iron ore with one wood
10 useful tips and tricks for beginners:
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Written by Akita
After completing the game a couple of times and having a ton of fun with it,
I thought I’d share my most useful tips and tricks for beginners. The
different recipes are marked as spoilers. Have fun! ??
-=Early Game=-
1.PAUSE is your friend!
The game can get quite stressful and overwhelming when all the cards move around
the board and animals jump through your organized stacks. Just pause, take a breath
and make your decisions then. You can rearrange your cards, assign your villagers
on new tasks, buy or sell cards and fill your garden or soil with new vegetables –
all in pause mode. I spend a lot of time in pause mode myself, and the game is
definitely more relaxing this way. ??
To pause, press the spacebar on your keyboard or cycle through the time modes in
the upper right corner of the screen. (Standard speed -> faster speed -> pause)
2. Keep your villagers busy
As long as your villagers are always producing or crafting something, you will
progress further ahead. Even if you don’t need a certain resource, you may still
sell it in the top left corner and gain a gold. If you run out of things to do,
buy the very first pack (Humble Beginnings) for 3 gold. It is cheap, gives all
the basic materials you need and your villagers can continue to break down resources
or craft advanced recipes.
3. How to stay alive?
A. Build gardens to plant new vegetables. If you got a soil from one of the packs –
great! Instead of using it to plant a vegetable directly in it, craft a garden to
have a permanent card to plant on.
Recipe for a garden: 1 soil + 2 stone + 2 wood
B. If you get a rabbit, let it live and let it poop. ?? The bunnies will poop, which
you can use like a soil. You can plant a vegetable or fruit on the poop to multiply
the food.
4. How to earn money?
Buying packs is important. You need money for that. Try to process your resources
before you sell them, this will give you more money in general. Try processing wood
and stone with a villager, either one at a time or in batches of 3.
For the food recipes, it depends a bit on the resources and animals you have available:
(Reap and Sow pack recommended)
A.The easiest recipe for me unlocks as soon as you get a cow. Recipe for a milkshake:
1 berry + 1 milk, sells for 5 gold.
B.Another great recipe with a chicken is the omelet: 2 eggs placed on a campfire,
sells also for 5 gold.
C.The third good recipe is the fruit salad: 1 berry + 1 apple, also sells for 5 gold.
-=Mid Game=-
5. Expand your storage
You will gain new items fast now. The most frustrating thing to do at the end of a
day is to sell all your hard earned materials and foods. Build up a lot of sheds to
gain more freedom on your board.
Recipe for a shed: 1 wood + 1 stone + 1 stick. Very easy to craft and worth it.
6.Gear up!
Be careful now. Soon, there will be enemies spawning that will attack your villagers.
Make at least two militia and have them ready to defend if an attack happens. Recipie
for a spear: 1 wood + 2 sticks. Place the spear on a villager to equip it.
As soon as you have a couple of iron bricks, convert your militia to swordsmen.
Recipe for a sword: 1 iron brick + 2 sticks
7.Where to get iron ore/ iron bars from?
Part 1: Getting the iron ore
Iron is a precious resource that you cannot get your hands on easily. If you get an
iron bar or ore early on, keep it! You may get an iron bar from a traveling merchant,
for example.
If you didn’t get lucky, there are still multiple ways to get an ore:
A.Buy the Order and Structure pack. Yes, it is expensive, but the chances of getting
an iron ore deposit (~3 iron ore when processed) are super high and definitely worth it.
B.Mine it yourself: You can craft a mine, which you can use to decently farm iron ore from.
Recipe for a mine: 2 flint + 1 wood + 1 stone
C.Less good, but still viable: Logic and Reason pack. It has a decent chance of dropping
a single iron ore
D.My least favorite way to farm iron deposits (dangerous): Buy some Explorer packs until
you find a mountain. Send a militia or swordsman to explore it. There is a decent chance
of finding iron deposits. But be careful: In the explorers pack itself and in the
mountains may be enemies. Have your trained warriors at the ready. ??
Part 2: Smelting the iron ore into an iron bar
You need a smelter to process the iron ores into iron bars.
Recipe for a smelter: 2 flint + 2 brick + 1 plank. Place a wood and an ore in it and it
automatically starts processing it into a bar.
-=End Game=-
8.Massively expand your storage
You need space to stack up food. Build warehouses, many, and then build even more.
Recipes for warehouses: 1 stone + 1 iron bar. Easy, right? Do it
9.Specialize units
The enemies will become powerful and your normal villagers vulnerable if caught off guard.
Use the iron bars to gear up your villagers to swordsman. Also convert your militia. Yes,
you will loose the resources spent on the spear, but a dead villager will hurt you way more.
You have to keep in mind that a swordsman will eat 3 food instead of 2 per day, so be ready
for that.
Use villagers (or dogs) only on the lumber camp and the quarry to get a steady supply of
wood and stone. I personally prefer having two of each production building, but then use the
dogs to run it and convert all my villagers to swordsman ??
How to get a dog: Give a wild wolf a bone. Wolfs ocasionally come out of plains (Explorer Pack)
10. Minimize your actions
Yes, it is nice to have carrots and berries and onions and apples and all kinds of processed
food, but you have to manage all the different food sources independently and it will require
a lot of your attention and space on the board.
My recommendation would be to concentrate on 2 sources of food and only generate food this
way. As shown in the screenshot, I used carrots (no villager interaction needed) and chickens/
omelets only to sustain a large amount of people and dogs. To get an apple or a berry, you need
to first place the fruit on the soil and later process the tree/bush with a villager. This
locks your people into the food production and you need to interact twice to create the food.
If you then make a fruit salad, you had to click a third time. There’s the big advantage of
carrots in my opinion: just place them on a garden/ farm and watch them multiply by itself.
They also provide 2 food, which makes them better than onions. Chickens are nice too, as they
give you eggs for free and you have to only drag them on the campfires/ stoves. Great way to
make money or feed your people. (5 gold, 3 food)
-=Bonus tip=-
If you place a coin chest directly below the sell card, the money will automatically enter
the chest as long as there’s space for it. Makes your life a bit easier.
Recipe for a coin chest: 2 wood + 1 coin
-=Bonus tip 2=-
Tell the game where you want your cards to go, instead of them just randomly plopping out in
different directions and messing up your board. The game always tries to stack up the cards
for you. If you leave a single card close to the building that produces it, the following
cards will stack up there. As shown in the image above, you can have a couple of farms around
a vegetable, or a couple of stoves around a meal. As soon as the process is finished, the
product will stack on top of the single card you positioned there. Of course, this also works
for lumber camps with wood, or quarries with stone, and so on.
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