Skills
Overview
Skills are abilities that can be learnt by a sapien. Skills are required to perform their related actions, and they can be learnt from other sapiens or by investigating a specific object. Some skills cannot be performed by sapiens which are unable to perform heavy tasks (e.g. elderly sapiens).
General Labour
General Labour includes hauling items, clearing grass and harvesting common resources like fruits from trees.
Basic Building
Basic Building includes the construction of beds, crafting/storage areas and placing other objects.
Wood Building
Wood Building includes the construction from wood, like door frames, window walls and walls.
UNLOCK: Investigate a Split Log.
Requires heavy lifting
Thatch Building
Thatch Building includes the ability to make structures out of hay, reeds or branches.
UNLOCK: Investigate hay.
Requires heavy lifting
Mud Brick Building
Mud Brick Building includes the ability to make structures out of mud bricks.
UNLOCK: Investigate a dry mud brick.
Requires heavy lifting
Investigation
Investigation includes the process of investigating a new thing to make breakthroughs to advance the tribe's knowledge.
Some investigation tasks require heavy lifting
Diplomacy
Diplomacy includes the persuasion of wandering Sapiens to join your tribe.
Fire Lighting
Fire Lighting includes the lighting of fires, which provide warmth and cook food.
UNLOCK: Investigate a branch.
Rock Knapping
Rock Knapping includes the ability to create primitive rock tools and split larger rocks into smaller ones.
UNLOCK: Investigate a rock.
Flint Knapping
Flint Knapping includes the ability to create less primitive flint tools, which are longer lasting and better than their rock counterparts.
UNLOCK: Requires #Rock Knapping, investigate flint.
Bone Carving
Bone Carving includes the ability to create musical instrumentals and sharp blades from bones.
UNLOCK: Requires #Rock Knapping, investigate a bone.
Music
Music includes the playing of music to lift the tribes' spirit, increasing loyalty and happiness.
UNLOCK: Investigate any musical instrument (a flute, drum or a balafon)
Pottery
Pottery includes the ability to create urns and pots.
UNLOCK: Requires #Digging, investigate clay.
Spinning
Spinning includes the ability to create Flax Twine and ropes from plant fibers.
UNLOCK: Investigate a dry piece of Flax to unlock.
Basic Hunting
Basic Hunting includes the ability to hunt and kill small animals by throwing simple projectiles.
UNLOCK: Order a sapien to hunt a Chicken.
Spear Hunting
Spear Hunting includes the ability to hunt and kill larger and faster animals than #Basic Hunting, with the use of spears.
UNLOCK: Requires #Tool Assembly and a spear, then order a sapien to hunt a Mammoth or Alpaca
Butchery
Butchery includes the ability to harvest meat from the carcass of a dead animal.
UNLOCK: Requires #Rock Knapping, then order for a sapien to butcher a dead animal.
Basic Cooking
Basic Cooking includes the ability to cook meat to provide more nutritional value.
UNLOCK: Requires #Fire Lighting, then investigate any meat, pumpkin or beetroot.
Baking
Baking includes the process of needing flour into dough and creating a nutritious meal.
UNLOCK: Requires #Pottery & #Grinding, then investigate Bread Dough or Flour
Tree Felling
Tree Felling includes the process of chopping down trees.
UNLOCK: Requires #Rock Knapping and an axe, then just order for a tree to be cut down.
Wood Working
Wood Working includes the crafting of things made out of branches and logs.
UNLOCK: Requires #Rock Knapping, then investigate a log.
Requires heavy lifting
Tool Assembly
Tool Assembly includes the crafting of more complex tools by combining multiple components.
UNLOCK: Requires #Spinning, then investigate one of the following:
- Stone Spear Head
- Flint Spear Head
- Bone Spear Head
- Stone Pickaxe Head
- Flint Pickaxe Head
- Stone Axe Head
- Flint Axe Head
- Branch
- Flax Twine
Digging
Digging includes the clearing of soil, sands and clay.
UNLOCK: Requires #Rock Knapping and a shovel.
Requires heavy lifting
Mining
Mining includes the process of digging up valuable resources like rock.
UNLOCK: Requires #Tool Assembly, then order a sapien to go mining.
Requires heavy lifting
Planting
Planting includes the process of planting a seed or crow to harvest more.
UNLOCK: Requires #Digging, investigate a seed.
Threshing
Threshing includes the process of making grains ready to mill or cook.
UNLOCK: Requires #Pottery, investigate wheat.
Requires heavy lifting
Grinding
Griding includes the process of crushing grains to make food out of them.
UNLOCK: Investigate Hulled Wheat
Requires heavy lifting
Medicine
Craft and administer poultices and medicines to help the injured or sick.
UNLOCK: Requires #Pottery, investigate a medicinal plant.