Smalland is a game about small human beings in a dangerous way of insects. Players can survive in different weather conditions, fight against insects, build their own house and create things. There are a decent amount of items in the Smalland game, from clothes to decor elements in the house. As you progress, you will have to achieve technological perfection gradually. Smalland was created by the developers at Merge Games, who managed to provide players with a very impressive product.
We will tell you about the important points that beginner inhabitants of Smalland need to know. The article contains information on survival and tips that will significantly simplify the gameplay. It is worth noting that in the future the game will continue to develop and new special gameplay mechanics may appear. At the moment, the main important details regarding the passage are listed.
Tips for beginners on playing Smalland.
Start with the simplest.
At the beginning of creating a game mode, it is desirable to set up an individual game where the surrounding insects in the world will not attack you. This will allow you to better prepare and understand game mechanics, study resources and their locations. You can safely engage in the collection of resources and focus on weather conditions. In this mode, it is much easier to prepare and wait out the storm and night, which happen quite often.
If you choose the main mode, online, where an owl server is created with its own password, then the insects will become more hostile. This will make the game very difficult, as insects can attack from behind if they are spotted. Insect attacks from behind are very unpleasant and a little scary, as attention is occupied with other things. For example, when collecting resources, when you need to quickly collect resources and prepare for a storm, insects will simply be able to interrupt the process. In addition, partying at night is simply fatal, the hero can die quickly.
Tip of the first armor that protects from the cold.
It is advisable to wear multiple sets of armor, as all sets of armor are designed for specific purposes. For example, “Stitched Armor” increases survivability in cold weather, such as rain, storms and at night. It will also give protection from damage in cases of battles with insects. The other set of armor, Ern’s, is more geared towards increasing movement speed. Therefore, we do not recommend producing it, since you will have to constantly switch between sets of armor, due to the night time.
Dialogue with an elder.
After a dialogue with the elder, he will talk about the problems and give two tasks. One task concerns a locked chest and a healer who is missing. The second task relates to the protection of people from the tribe. Do not rush to complete the task of the elder, you must first prepare well and obtain the necessary resources in good quantities. It is advisable to start completing the main tasks when you build a tree house, a Stone Cutting Machine is made, good sets of armor are received from the existing characters Kalev, Skadi and Drustan, as well as good weapons.
The most important things will be crafting a good weapon and crafting a good set of armor. A good set of armor refers to the available protective properties. We suggest going to the character “Kalev”, after Ern, you can get stone armor and information on the stone machine from him. In addition, the road to the character “Kalev” is very simple, since there are no dangerous hostile insects.
The first time of the game is completely occupied by collecting important resources and training battles on simple insects such as “Bull Ant”, “bugs” and “bees”. Bees can be the most dangerous of most of the insects that are in the first location. It is advisable to start attacking bees after crafting stone armor and ranged weapons like the bow.
Construction of the first small house next to the elder’s building.
As soon as you talked with the “Elder”, you can begin to master the construction business. It is advisable to build the first house next to the Elder building. The places next to the elder are absolutely safe, so the place for a small first house will be suitable. This will allow you to get the first restore point, save point, and start producing the right things. To the most necessary things that need to be done first of all at the Workbench, this is the Simple Bandage. Since bandages can restore damaged health points, they greatly increase survivability in the vastness of Smalland.
In the future, we recommend finding a large tree that is located above the elder’s house. We recommend that you establish your first main base on this house, it is advisable to spend time and drag a decent amount of different resources there. Bases on such trees can be transferred quickly and automatically, for this you need to talk to the statue of the tree. In this case, the gameplay and the very development of the main base are greatly simplified. In addition, less time is spent on creating the necessary equipment, since it will not be necessary to collect resources again for the manufacture of the necessary machines.
Making the first offensive weapon (Sword) and the Rough Hatchet tool.
We do not recommend attacking a bull ant without a sword. With a sword weapon, you can safely attack ants, bull ants, a grasshopper, that is, simple insects that are in the initial location. It’s better not to attack the Bees if you don’t have good weapons and normal armor, with protection of at least 2 units. The first desired insect for further passage will be the Maravey Bull, you can get resources from him to create the Pickaxe. Thanks to the Pickaxe, it will be possible to mine stone and continue to develop by getting new items.
As for the Rough Ax tool, it will be needed to collect other useful resources where a regular ax cannot cope. In addition, the collection of resources will be a little faster. In principle, at the very beginning of the game, you can get by with an ordinary ax. But, in the future, you will need the Rough Ax tool to move further in development. Rough Hatchet requires Resin 8, Chitin 4 and Wood 8. The hardest resource at the start of the game is Chitin, as you have to fight bugs.
Master the skill of battles on ordinary insects.
There are many insects in the Smalland game that fight according to their special tactics and deliver a certain danger to the hero. Even ordinary insects can provide a mortal danger for the hero, not to mention the bosses. Therefore, we recommend that you hone your combat skills on ordinary insects, bull ants and beetles. You need to learn how to block blows and dodge by jumping to the side.
Dodging and blocking consumes energy, forcing you to choose between dodging, attacking, blocking, or even fleeing the battlefield altogether. With ordinary insects, it happens that there is no control over the availability of energy, where you can simply miss a blow. With bosses, everything is much more complicated, since they are able to kill the hero with one hit, even if the most powerful armor is worn. The most effective survival tactic is to dodge, so you can get out of the way without taking damage.
In addition to dodging, you need to select suitable opponents, starting from the available weapons. Each species of insects has its own characteristics and weaknesses. For example, they may have protection against cutting damage, in order to speed up the victory, you will have to choose another weapon. Or have a greater vulnerability to some type of damage. It is advisable to choose weapons referring to vulnerabilities to insect damage types. To do this, you will have to carry all types of weapons with different types of damage.
Try to create the best and most affordable set of armor for existing characters.
The simplest normal armor can be obtained from the character “Ern”, who will be waiting at the exit from the starting point of the game. It is desirable for him to create armor with protection from the cold. Thanks to this armor, you can more easily survive at night and rainy weather. The next suitable character to create armor will be Kalev, you can make stone armor from him and learn about a new workbench.
Thanks to Stone Armor, you can safely attack the Black Pine Barbel Beetle, as 2 armor increases survivability slightly. Survival increases noticeably, it is easier to fight and get rare resources. The other two characters “Skadi” and “Drustan” are much more complex. road to Skadi, this is the third recommended character, the road is difficult due to weather conditions, constantly storms or showers. hostile atmosphere is a little tricky, but passable, plus there are places to bypass the insects.
The Drustan character is shrouded in dangerous insects such as bees. We recommend going to “Drustan” after “Kalev” and “Skadi”, as you need to be well prepared and know the place where the silk thread was obtained. The silk thread cannot be obtained without the Flint Shears, and the flint can be found in the Skadi location. As a result, the character of “Drustan” is the most recent of the initial characters.
Rare resources such as Chitin, Nectar and others.
At the very beginning of the game, in order to continue the development of the settlement and the character’s equipment, you will have to look for “Khitin”. Chitin is needed to start crafting Rough Hatchet and start mining more advanced resources. At the beginning of the game, mining the Chitin can be one of the most difficult tasks, as it is obtained from the Beetles. For a guaranteed victory over simple beetles, you will need good weapons and normal armor. The Black Pine Mustache Beetle can be defeated with the Wooden Sword weapon and Stitched Armor equipped.
The best available and suitable weapons and armor will be “Stone Armor” and “Stone Weapon”. With the help of stone technologies, it will be much easier to defeat bugs, bees, ants and other simple insects. If you fight in normal armor, where the defense is 1 unit, it will be a little difficult to fight. In “Stone Armor” the chances increase noticeably, even with a simple “Wooden Sword”.
Further movement is desirable from building and placing control points.
Try to build simple houses more often, at least 2 pieces of foundations, a fire and a bed under the foundations. It is desirable to sheathe the foundations themselves with walls, and the floor of the foundation will perform the roof. Thanks to such a simple construction, you can hide from bad weather conditions and spend the night. Of course, it is desirable to build in safe places, so it is advisable to build during the daytime.
Spending a little time on the construction of “Outposts” can greatly facilitate the passage of the game. The built simple dwelling will give the possibility of rebirth in case of defeat during battles with insects. If the character dies, he will wake up from the nearest bed, without a full set of resources. Therefore, it is advisable to leave some resources in the built simple building.
Such restore points must be built not far from the places of the bosses. Sometimes the road takes a long time and a little dangerous. Until you reach the boss, along the way you will have to fight other insects to fight. This significantly increases the duration of the game. At the same time, in the absence of weapons and tools, after the revival, you will still have to re-collect resources and produce the necessary things.
Required resources.
In the process of passing, it is advisable to constantly carry a set of the most necessary resources with you. These resources include Wooden Branches, Fiber and Resin, these resources will allow you to quickly build a safe place to survive storms and night time. If there is no complete set of resources for building a shelter, then the character may die from hypothermia.
Additional highlights are “Cooked Meals” and “Bandages”. Food will help satisfy hunger and restore some health points if the character is completely full. Bandages allow you to urgently restore health in the event of a battle with insects or falling from a height to the ground. It will not be superfluous to use the resources that machines create, they can come in handy when you need to create something important, but go far to the base.
Tame the insect as soon as possible.
At the very beginning of the game, when you build the first tree house and the built “Workbench” appears, you need to try to tame the insect. The most suitable and accessible insect at the beginning of the game is the “Ladybug”. The “Ladybug” lives in the initial location and is noticeably easy to tame. In order for the Ladybug to be tamed, it must first be defeated. After the victory, special equipment “Ladybug Travel Kit” and “Whistle” will appear in the “Workbench” for taming the “Ladybug”.
Taming “Ladybug”.
To tame a Ladybug, you need to craft a Ladybug Travel Kit and a Whistle. To make the Ladybug Travel Kit, you will need 3 Edible Mushroom, 2 Nectar and 5 Fiber. The most difficult one will probably be “Nectar”, since you cannot collect it on the ground, you need the “Wooden Ax” tool. You can get “Nectar” from the “Poppy” flowers, which grows on the left side of the map of the first location.
So, the “Wooden Ax” tool is done, the “Poppy” is found and the required amount of resources is collected. We make a “Ladybug Travel Kit” and go to fight with the “Ladybug”. It is important to bring the health damage to a little more than half, then you can simply interact with the “F” button and tame. With the available “Ladybug Travel Kit” in the pockets, the taming is successful.
After taming the “Ladybug”, we have at our disposal an additional place to store resources. In the pockets of the “Ladybug” can fit 20 pieces of different resources. Despite its small appearance and complete lack of combat abilities, the Ladybug can noticeably speed up the time and process of collecting resources. This is especially useful when a character has multiple sets of armor and a lot of different resources need to be collected.
Try not to leave the new location until you have collected the required amount of available resources.
The road to new locations can take a lot of time and effort. In some cases, you will have to fight aggressive insects if you play on general terms. The road to the right place can be further complicated by weather conditions. It may be necessary to build a small dwelling again in order to survive difficult weather conditions, and this is again time. As a result, it is better to collect everything possible and take it to the main base. To speed up the collection of resources, it is better to go with the “Ladybug” pet.
Try to pay attention to the collected new resources, if not difficult, then you can build machines in a safe place. Permanent machines will allow you to carefully study the things available for manufacturing. Or come with the collected new resources to the main base and explore the possible things that can be created with the help of new resources. For example, a stone can allow you to make a stone weapon, the resource “Flint” makes it possible to create a “Flint Weapon”. Thanks to the new weapons, you can significantly facilitate the battle with new insects.
Survival in the winter.
We were very surprised by the winter in the Smalland game, in terms of viable insects that usually live only in the summer time. And perhaps, perhaps, this is very good. Since in the process of passing you need to constantly extract resources and some of them are extracted from insects. As for the winter period itself, it passes in the same way as in the summer period, sometimes there are storms.
In the early game, the most suitable and available armor that can protect against the cold is Stitched Armor. The cold resistance of Stitched Armor is 9 units. Another, more suitable armor is called the “Primal Armor” set, which can be crafted at Skadi. Protection from the cold “Primal Armor”, also 9 units. That is, survival in winter is similar to summer at night.
The only thing that can increase survivability in the winter is Fay Chowder. You can create “Fairy Chowder” on the “Boiler” machine. The crafting cost is 1 Garlic Leaf, 1 Bug Heart, and 1 Insect Fat. For the extraction of the Leaf of Garlic, you will need the Stone Hatchet, everything else is mined from insects. Once cooked and consumed, frost protection is increased to 50 units for 240 seconds. This stew can still cure the poisoning of the “Gekon” when the character starts to freeze.
Conclusion on survival tips in the game Smalland.
The tips listed above will help to significantly simplify and speed up the passage of the game. Of the above, it does not say that it is not advisable to jump into the water, since the character is guaranteed to die. In one of the messages from the developers, it was said that they are working on this moment and may make some amendments. Even a tamed insect can die if you jump into the water with it. Perhaps in the future it will be possible to swim, but it is not yet known how this will happen.
