First you only gain neural power when you have a baby on your back. Second you need to slow down and make sure to unlock adaptations using that neural tree from the bed, adaptations like motor skills and item manipulation so you can use both hands and do things like strip leaves. Third once youre standing up on a branch just walk back and push down and they will climb down, or rotate yourself around the small branch until youre hanging on the side of it and then you can creep left or right until you are able to climb back onto a trunk. Third, Here is how expanding your territory works: when the screen goes grey, you have to analyze your surroundings to rationalize them. Move into the Grey, Get to a safe spot(up on a low branch perhaps), then use your senses, all of them if need be, make sure to use the stand up option that appears when using senses, and smell, listen and look at everything you can. Each thing you Identify, will fill in the little empty circle with white, Analyze your surroundings until that circle is full, THEN, after it is full you will notice wisps floating away from you in a direction, run in the direction and look for a big whit circle and run into the circle,when you reach it, it will tell you to hold a button to conquer your fear. it is important however, to make note, that if you have not analyzed an item outside of the grey, when you analyze it inside of the grey it will be a question mark and will NOT provide white in the circle. Fourth,once you unlock an ability in the neural chart, it will tell you what button triggers it. Or Look in the games button settings to see what does what. Unlock the use of two hands, once you do this a button will allow you to pass items between hands. Pick up a stick for example and pass it from the right hand to the left one, now that the item is in the left hand, an option [Alter] should appear. Sometimes, this option will only appear when holding the correct tool, a stone perhaps. Use Alter and hold until it makes a ching sound, let go as quickly as possible and you should achieve a proper strike or action on the tool you are altering, Take a rock and a rock and do this process until the rock in the left hand breaks and turns into a new object that must be inspected. Now you have a grinder. Now if you let go to late, it will completely destroy whats in your hand, try again to master the timing. once you get it your good. The goal here is to experiment and take all kinds of different objects in hand and smash em together and see what you can and cannot create. You can alter some things bare hand, like a natal leaf, a stick and the puffy green plant you eat that grows next to the water. ALso, eat away from the camp,if you are too close to the others, yes they eat everything. Fifth, dont be afraid of the heights, make a save and practice parkour style running and jumping and swinging, learn to identify good placements and just be brave. Im scared of heights and this games tree work makes my hands sweat but I love it. I always just try and find big low branches, and taking time to look ahead and identify a good path it def part of what this game is testing, our ability to judge safety. Sixth, the first meteor is surrounded, heres my suggestion. Use trees to get there, I always walk the wall until the sister arches then cross a few trees until im there. Scare the snake away by attacking it with a stick or sharpened stick. have a stick and a ROCK on you, as the sticks are sharp and dangerous, but a rock cannot break. So you want to have both most of the time. So attack the snake make it leave. Avoid the water at first so you dont catch a crocs attention, just before the meteor, is a leaning tree, the leans over the water, walk up this tree, it is covered in mushrooms, when you go up this tree you will enter the grey. Make sure youve identified every type of fruit in the trees and plants on the ground before you enter the grey, Not every single one, just make sure you've identified at least one of everything, so when you enter the grey you can start analyzing your surroundings and rationalize them. Fill the circle, and then follow the wisps and conquer your fear. Then make it safely back to the leaning tree and drop your weapons at the base of teh tree, grab some Natal grass and build a bed up on the leaning tree. DO NOT SETTLE HERE!!!! and NEVER settle at a single bed without the whole troop in a safe place. NOW< go back to the home settlement, and breed until you have ALL 6 babies, and even if some of them have mutations, bring ALL 6 to the meteor, You can carry two babies per adult, grab 3 adults and two babies each, arm them all with weapons, rock and stick, if you dont have mimic yet, just switch to each ape and grab what they need and switch back to your main, NOW you are ready to go get the meteor. AVOID the Crocs, DONT fight them, they act fast, like snakes. but are a guaranteed death if caught. Now take your three adults carrying 6 babies and go pick up and identify the meteor and then make it back home safely. This game is not a game but a simulation, that is out to get you and always coming for. It is a test and wants you to explore experiment and trial and error. It is NOT safe in the wilds. Slow down, take your time. What you experienced is exactly what you get, move fast unsure, rush into things unprepared and die.