Skills Guide (Updated) – Steam Solo (2024)

Overview

This guide is now updated and this guide contains the following: What skills to take What skills are important What skills to ignore Skill path to take

Introduction

I’ve played the game vigorously on release, also played it when it was showcased on humble bundle. The game is very simple, very easy and relaxing. In 15 hours of play I’ve unlocked every achievement and pretty much completed the game. So here is my experience on what skills to unlock to get things done fast and quickly.

EDIT: I’ll be updating this guide to match with the current version of the game. A lot has changed and some skills have become more viable compared the old ones.

Foraging Skill Tree

Economy Skill Tree

Industry Skill Tree

Magic Skill Tree

Main Skills To Get

These are in my opinion the best skills to get at the start of your game. Once you get them you can start branching out to different parts of the skill tree. Make sure to look at the skill path example section for a more in depth skill tree to take.

Skill Path Example

After the changes towards the skills here is a skill path that you can take to easily progress in the game. This path is good for classic mode and It may still take some time to progress but it will shorten it by a margin.

Before the update mining rods were the priority but after the changes in the crafting recipe it is now a late game structure and not anymore a priority. So we will prioritize something else and that will be alchemy specifically for bombs. Bombs are cheap to make and will take out most resources in one hit, very useful for clearing out clusters of resources early in the game or in speed run mode.

Why industry over foraging? You can easily level up by getting industry then building a few structures, much faster than getting foraging as you don’t need cotton early in the game.

Why are we getting gambling? The optics skill specifically, lighthouses are powerful build them near you when farming resources as it will increase the resource drop and they are cheap to build in most cases.

Conclusion

I love the game played it for 15 hours straight had my ups and downs, when I realize some skills were more important than others. At one point because I didn’t know mining rods were that useful, all the islands that I unlocked was overrun with resources, had to use bombs to clear it out then after a few minutes, it was chuck full of resources again. At that point I unlocked mining rods and my God it made my life 100 times easier. In conclusion there is a lot of skills that give better bonuses that would last through out your game and it is your choice which one to unlock.

EDIT: Took 3 days to update the guide, Thank you for all the people who liked, rated and favorite this guide. Hope this helps all or old players playing this game.

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