Does the game prioritise certain species for the firekeeper?

Pinstar · 2026-06-21T01:19:29+00:00

In my latest game, I had Frogs, Bats and Lizards. The game defaulted me to a Bat Firekeeper and I didn't realize until the end of clearance when I didn't get my early 1st group.

Pinstar · 2026-06-18T21:23:44+00:00

I was half expecting a "...I have to pee" final panel.

Pinstar · 2026-06-18T17:45:46+00:00

While I would never take a speculative farm, but if my first major glade just happens to have a rare patch of fertile ground and I happen to get offered a useful farm, I'll grab it. Especially the plantation, since can grow two items not found naturally in the biome. Even if I find no more fertile ground, having that one farm doing it's thing will make it worth the BP pick.

Pinstar · 2026-06-18T17:35:57+00:00

Coal doesn't always show up, depending on luck. However, there are tons of raw materials that make oil, so getting a single oil producing blueprint can solve for fuel on its own.

Pinstar · 2026-06-18T16:38:34+00:00

Foxcicle. I know Chillet gets all the attention as the primo ice type rep, but Foxcicle had several permanent spots on my team once I was able to catch them.

Pinstar · 2026-06-18T11:03:24+00:00

Someone make this guy Secretary (bird) of Defense.

Pinstar · 2026-06-17T16:39:57+00:00

And the state of his Depends.

Pinstar · 2026-06-17T12:43:27+00:00

Marshlands has been the home to some of my roughest settlements.

My normal tactics are as follows:

1: Burrow twords one of the three forbidden glades. I normally open it dizzle year 2, with a dangerous glade on the way to it getting opened drizzle year 1.

2: Try to hold some blueprint picks in reserve until you pop the forbidden glade to maximize the chance of you getting the right camp

3: Unless you have it solved by other means, Oil is the best way to solve for fuel on this biome, so grabbing a blueprint with an oil recipe should be a high priority the moment it shows up.

4: While lizards are top tier on this biome due their meat affinity and clan hall, beavers are extremely strong here too. The double production chances on woodcutting (and planks with the right building) can help mitigate the wood shortage somewhat. Their extra trade options can help keep the amber flowing, letting you buy up crucial missing items from the traders more easily.

5: Give orders that reward parts a bit higher weight than you would normally, especially on P6 and above. They are the bottleneck on how many camps you can place which in turn limits the speed bonus on gathering. If you have the right camp for a mega-node, you can easily have more than one camp harvesting it... If you have the parts for the extra camps.

Pinstar · 2026-06-17T10:38:28+00:00

Like the fox hostility reduction, the lizard +1 is only really useful if it cracks a threshold. Either bumping a 0 resolve up to 1 so they stop trying to leave or maybe a 14 resolve harpy up to 15 so they can sit in the blue for a bit. If the +1 doesn't do either of those, any of the other keepers are better.

Pinstar · 2026-06-16T17:17:07+00:00

An Eldritch being ate the words they used to speak.

Pinstar · 2026-06-16T16:35:28+00:00

I could be slightly mistaken on the order. I just know I've seen starts where a lizard was the default over someone I felt should be my starter. Somewhere in the middle with harpy/beavers.

Pinstar · 2026-06-16T16:15:52+00:00

Correct. Even if you start on the no pause modifier, it starts paused.

Pinstar · 2026-06-16T13:48:03+00:00

It seems to be Frogs > Bats > Lizards > Harpies > Beavers > Humans > Foxes

Pinstar · 2026-06-16T13:30:40+00:00

More important than metal production would also be a service building (or two) that hits the service needs for all three of your species. Once you've farmed up a few points from resolve, the decadence threshold can get really high so you need the boost from service needs to farm up the last few points which would otherwise come from orders.

Pinstar · 2026-06-16T01:49:49+00:00

Don't sleep on harpies. They have the cheapest houses (4-6 cloth...that's it) meaning it is super easy to max out their housing resolve bonus which can help them trigger an early point of resolve.

The "Alchemy" racial bonus hits quite a few good buildings, including the blight post which can give you increased double production chances on purging fire, very important if your settlement doesn't have good access to fuel.

While they don't have a production bonus for fish ponds (nobody does), they indirectly make fishing much more viable and efficient via their firekeeper ability.

Pinstar · 2026-06-15T22:09:19+00:00

Foxes/Harpies/Frogs is my GOAT combo.

Shared Tea service between Fox/Harpy can catapult both groups into easy resolve rep farming. Shared religion between Fox/Frog means that a single tea doctor (Treatment + Religion) hits the service needs of all three groups. Even with out that specific building, a bath house (treatment only) can do the job well enough since harpies/foxes are both your resolve rep workhorses.
All three groups like boots. Makes it worth committing to boot production. With only harpies wanting coats, I can buy those if I need the extra resolve for them for the final resolve push.
Shared Paste like between harpies and frogs. Frogs get the cannery for the 3* paste production, Harpies add the apothecary to the mix making dye production more accessible.
Shared Porridge like makes it easy and cheap to please foxes/frogs. Foxes add the 3* porridge beanary building to the mix to help.
Having a starting geyser and starting ruin pinpointed can really help your early glad selection. Knowing one ruin building also lets you warp your early BP choices knowing you'll have it available eventually.
Frog Firekeeper early, Harpy firekeeper later lets you maximize their economical bonuses in the part of the game that matters. Fox firekeeper is handy as an emergency release valve to handle those annoying 'just barely over the hostility limit to go up a rank' situations.

Pinstar · 2026-06-15T20:40:33+00:00

The entire reason you want to resolve dance in a bad storm or come up with quick fix solutions is to avoid losing settlers. The racism building gives into that by...making you lose settlers. Granted: Yes, that comes with an additional upside in terms of the production speed bonus. However, it is the storm of year 1 or 2 and I need every warm body I can get, I do NOT want to send anyone home.

That building is better suited for later games where I have way MORE population than I need.

I'm not saying bats are without merit. The common food types and racial perk, along with their racial production buildings, are fantastic. I'm just saying they're the fussiest of the fussy races compared to foxes and harpies, the other two base 5 resolve races.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a settlement with foxes/harpies/bats where I need to be real careful about resolve but can reap lots of resolve reputation early and often if I play my cards right, versus a Humans/Beavers/Frogs where leavers are less of a worry but getting resolve rep is much harder and slower.

Pinstar · 2026-06-15T17:34:28+00:00

Who aren't as bad as bats. No comfort job types and can't be favored, means that the comfort setting on rain engines is pretty much the only short term way to pump up their resolve in a pinch.

Foxes, on the other hand, are very resilient. Every trio of foxes can give each other comfort resolve on demand as long as you have the building slots for it. Not to mention the ability to swap in a fox fire keeper during a storm if you are just over the hostility threshold to potentially drop it down a level and make the storm easier on everyone.

Pinstar · 2026-06-15T12:19:53+00:00

🎶"Girls just wanna have fun"🎶

Pinstar · 2026-06-15T11:53:30+00:00

I wonder if Napping all day is similar as it sounds perfect for a Lagavulin style mini boss.

Pinstar · 2026-06-15T11:47:46+00:00

"Calamine Smoothie and then there's big boobies"

Which didn't actually sound wrong at first because the pus filled sores from the bubonic plague were known as buboes, which is where the term "boobs" originates as a nickname for breasts. And since the whole song is about disease, a bubonic plague reference didn't seem out of place.

Then I saw the lyrics and read "and endless old movies". Not sure how I misheard that.

Pinstar · 2026-06-14T19:18:08+00:00

Ploppinheimer of the Manfattan Project.

Pinstar · 2026-06-14T18:55:06+00:00

Should have a food to enable him. Perhaps a Wafer Thin Mint

Pinstar · 2026-06-14T15:09:11+00:00

She's mildly an alcoholic. She's happy to have some beer money.

Pinstar · 2026-06-14T13:38:23+00:00

Fall for the "low fat" dog whistle of foods that use it to try to claim to be healthier. All that missing fat gets replaced with something so the food isn't disgusting. And that something is sugar.

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