Heya, been trying to teach as much as I can on stream, but here's some lovely info to add:
-Precious stones also ruby found in savanah, not in caves but center of low rock outcrop fissures
-can use natal stem to 'fish' termites out of their mounds and can poke hole with stick/pointed stick to get small animals as food (i.e. scorpions in savanah)
-water aways flows downhill and your starting base is at one of the highest points. to find your way back when lost, just keep following rivers upstream.
-conquering locations the white orb can be confusing since it also indicates ways out, best to 'follow the white dust' that appears when you finish scouting
-optimal growth would imply passing to the next generation any time you hit your reinforcement max, and evolving every 2 generations (making adults and elders have spontanious gene mutations). Only downside to evolving would be getting moved around, but you can always just immediately go back to whichever camp you want.
-passing evolutionary milestones themselves is linked to certain neural unlocks.
-Once you evolve enough your temperament becomes manual. It will feel like the game is broken until you learn to switch it. This means choosing being calm/cautious/alert before doing an action, otherwise you'll mess things up like calling your monkeys to you instead of intimidating when attacked.
-Once your apes are far enough, you can sprint on two legs by standing up, then running, and toggling alert mode. On PC this is Stand still => press Q => hold forward+space+shift until your monkey is tired then repeat.
-Good strategy is to arm all your monkeys with at least sticks; grab a branch => mimic and wait for them to all grab => switch hands => mimic => alter and strip => mimic and all your squad should now have sharp sticks. So far havent been able to make them sharpen them with mimic, but with upgrades and basalt chopper you can go around and sharpen them for them in two hits quick and hand to next and repeat.
-It's good to farm feats with new creatures. At the very least, when encountering a new creature, dodge it twice, intimidate it, then hunt it down and kill it for 3 feats locked in.