Speedrunning Thread - Page 82

Here are the pretty big game-changers and discoveries, some well-known, some I’ve made.
1. This isn’t going to be a ‘Good God’ run ): By far the fastest way to capture a village is to kill all the inhabitants, which resets the belief requirements (you have to impress them a certain amount to capture), then repopulating slightly and impressing easily.
2. Most land’s victory conditions can be short-circuited by just destroying the opponent’s temple. Every time their temple is damaged, it heals itself by taking HP from village buildings and eventually villager’s lives. Highly evil, yet highly efficient way to kill everyone. Usually you win by converting all the villages, but if the village is completely desolate of life...
3. You can only do actions within a certain radius of your domain, your radius of influence, this prevents you from say, stealing all your opponent’s food, since you can’t reach them. The only way to extend influence is impressing your villages, capturing other villages, or planting size-5 town-centre scaffolds. Usually you can only dip outside your influence for a short time, not long enough to plant scaffolds far, so you’d have to leapfrog.
4. You can slow down time, pick up something, pause, move somewhere without influence, quickly unpause, and drop what you were holding. This is used to break the game. While you could drop flaming rocks on their temple, it gets better.
5. My biggest discovery was that you can arbitrarily proxy town centres anywhere. If you pause glitched a size-5 building scaffold to an area you have no influence (i.e. right outside their temple) it wouldn’t build. But if you glitch a size-4 field scaffold, then glitch another one onto it (warning, math!) 4+1=5 it will build! This way you can mercilessly pound away at their temple and kill them as fast as is possible.
6. In certain circumstances killing the temple won’t work, and you have to have influence near the village to kill/repopulate. Now use proxy TCs and lots of lightning (exception is Land 3, where by throwing around a specific NPC you can have a local region of influence).
7. I use unpatched version as it lets me economize (exploit) wood and food miracle seeds. I also steal food and wood when possible, and particularly steal Kazahar’s scaffolds.


To give you an indication of how abusive and quick this skips through the lands, you can complete a land before even constructing your temple, and I harvest one-shot miracle seeds from the first land which I carry through all the way to the last (5th). My creature sadly never learns anything as there’s too little time, I win before he’s even big enough to pick up a miracle seed (~4 hours currently).

Things that need doing: Finding skips for tutorial sequences, quest descriptions and cutscenes. I never actually considered eating Sable so I’ll try that. Currently I skip most things like Kazahar’s tutorials, since I steal his (food, wood and) scaffolds, so I win the land faster than he has time to explain things. Plus if you do it right you never have to build a workshop in the entire game, as you get them (stack to 5) from (both of) Kazahars and carry them through.
Ways to speed up the 3 fights (Guide, Sleg Land 4, Final). I could possibly cast lightning on their creature while managing to not hit mine, tricky though. I was considering working out my creature with stones, but its tricky to micro.
Way to make an artefact. With one artefact you can win the game, but you need enough idle worshippers and 3 nights, neither of which I ever have. I get particularly stuck for Lands 4 and 5. Land 4, I can’t afford to kill all the Japanese then repopulate since my main town is so devoid of villagers too. Land 5 having an artefact would greatly help capture the Tibetan village, since I have no time to train my creature how to do so, but no time for artefacts either...
I’m currently in the process of timing things out and seeing how few miracle seeds I can survive off of. Plus the question of completely neglect village vs. Build it a bit so their idleness can make artefacts.