A complete newbie guide

This guide will provide explanation on how to beat the game as Druid with basic starting options and without delving too much in advanced mechanics of breeding. By following this you should expect a lot of combat, portal exploration and leveling. Certain descriptions suit for any other main character, but the guide is optimized mainly for druid.

Starting Options
First start a New Game and pick Druid with grass affinity. On difficulty page disable breeding quests and reduce starting money to 500 so you can get gallery unlocks, which are only possible with 100% game difficulty. Set your profession to Scout and pick following traits: You can spend any remaining points for whatever you like or can spend for, MagicAdapt would be the best option here if you have enough points for it, and raising genes is generally useless since Druid is not affected by them. Proceed customizing starters, pick Centaur and male Lymean. Specific gender is important. All starting traits provide only negative effects, but they give free points to spend. We are going to use some trick here - select all negative traits and raise numeric values as following: for Centaur and for Lymean. We are going to get rid of negative traits when we will be prepairing for our first fights.
 * Fast
 * Lucky
 * Perceptive
 * Potential
 * +5 to level
 * +3 to health
 * +5 to strength
 * +5 to level
 * +5 to mana
 * +2 to magic

Initial Preparation
Whenever you are done hit start and go through introduction, you'll get to Home screen right after. To not be completely overwhelmed by diversity of options try to follow tutorial popus and different hints which can appear if you hover your cursor over yellow "?", usually located at the top left part of the screen. Close Home screen and hit Right Mouse over a background, this will open town map. All locations highlighted with yellow have active events, visit every of those. Following options are important to select: Feel free to pick any other choices however you like. After that, click on Druid's portrait and select options to spawn a Seedling and 3 Spirits. Now to the hard part of preparation, open Fusion window located at your farm. Your goal would be to fuse both starters in a way that they lose bad traits, but keep good ones with improved genetics. Select Centaur and spirit, preferably one which has "strong", "fast", "resilient", "scales" or any other good fighter-related traits other than "GrassAffinity". If there is none - then select any with bad/no traits. Click on stength, health and level numeric values on Centaur stat column. This will make those stats 'focused' during fusion and result will have exactly those stat values. Also select any good traits from spirit and hit fusion afterwards. Perform same operation with Lymean and other spirit, prioritizing level/mana/magic and good traits, but also selecting skill focus from Lymean. Heal is 'fixed' skill which doesn't need to be prioritized. Recommended skills for fusion focus would be "Focus">"Strengthen". When you are done open "Home" screen and click "Party" button on all of the remaining characters to add them to party. Close the window. (Important!) Press "C" or click on "Change" button at the bottom left of the screen to visit Druid's skill tree and get acquainted with provided selections. Select Seduction tree from options at the bottom left corner and close the window. Now open party preparation window (Q), and equip Centaur with gear you managed to get from shop or river event, this would be Sword, Leather Armor or Leather Gloves. If you are missing any of those you can also visit shop and buy missing pieces. You can also equip Druid with his personal spear, but it is not important at this moment. Wait for 6 hours to regenerate some stamina, save your game, go to arena and pick any simple arena match, generally it would be in Plains biome with battle difficulty 1, without any additional modifiers and where your main character will fight with team. When you start battle you can tweak combat speed for your liking with panel on the right. Go through tutorial popup and read combat descriptions provided with "?" tooltip, this will help you greatly. Following tactics should insure you can win the fight: Ensure you don't get anyone injured and win 3 battles. You can always Surrender with certain penalties applied and heal injured party members at Market, but try your best to avoid resorting to these measures. Grab you first arena reward from Aila and use provided equipment for Druid in future. Fight 2 more times without MC to spend some amount of party stamina, so you can make full use of daily recovery. Before advancing to next day check Tavern for available tasks, find easy ones like "Job", "Research" or "Item" quest types. Most of those quests are detrimental for your resource supplies with few exceptions, but the further you raise your tavern rank, the better results are, up to legendary items, unique eggs with special traits and decent resource payouts. Some items required for quests like DrainPowder can be easily bought from a shop, spare no expense on buying cheap items to get quests completed because you'll need some amount of HealingSilk later on, which is a reward only from these quests. Advance time to next day by sleeping few times afterwards. Check for new tavern quests and arena fights at the start of the new day and complete some of them. You should aim to level seedling/spirit to level 5 through arena fights. Whenever they reached it open respective creature window at Home by clicking on their portraits and choose to evolve Seedling to "Monster form" and "Reshape" Spirit. Whenever Viridion hits lvl 3, learn Companion, change his leveling type to a different one. At this point you can choose between two builds and pick leveling tree respectively, see "Skill trees and Equipment" for details. The rest of the guide will take Support build as a base so make necessary adjustments if you are risky enough to play any other, there wouldn't be a way to turn back afterwards because Viridion doesn't have enough skillpoints to level every skill tree on max. Choose Support tree and start leveling it. Whenever you get enough points - learn SeedBoost skill and replace one of your MC skills with it.
 * Tavern - Milk
 * Farm - Fusion focus
 * Portals - pick teleport stone
 * River (it is not highlighted) - Steal armor
 * Shop - Sword
 * Charge as Centaur in the straight line to your opponents. This will perform free attack on them. Finish first enemy off before charging to another. If it is possible to stay close to several enemies at once - this will attract their attention on her.
 * Follow Centaur as Druid and flank lone enemies, don't be too cheeky as he is not equipped with much gear. His spear impales another additional target behind main, make sure you make a good use of this mechanic and try not to harm your teammates by accident
 * Follow both fighters with Lymean, use Focus and/or Strengthen on Centaur as soon as they are off cooldown, Heal her up if needed. Try not to stay close to opponents as they would engage you in combat, reducing AP regeneration to 1/turn. Enemies would probably try to get to your Lymean, if you got surrounded - use Aegis. There is a chance that you don't have every mentioned skill as they are generated randomly for each starting character or during fusion.
 * Keep seedling and spirit away from enemies, at most you can use Toxin/Rejuvenate. They are too squishy to take damage.
 * Keep Centaur lust lower than 50% as otherwise penalties will be applied. If she reaches higher amount - service her (R) while staying close with any character and put her on Defend (W) for a turn, this will negate her vulnerability from sexual actions. Other characters can masturbate (M) for 2ap cost, but not Centaurs because of their anatomy. Note that excessive use of masturbation will make characters exhausted by losing all energy, resulting in reduced combat effectiveness.
 * If you notice some kind of hard-hitting enemy while checking stats with Shift button - seduce them up to 50% lust, this will debilitate them.

Portal Exploration
Before you start exploring a portal, try to fill all missing equipment slots for you party members. Browse shop and search for defense, health and strength items for Viridion and Centaur, and magic and mana for Lymean. Don't forget to equip TeleportStone, you might need it. Add around 100 gold to your party resources at the bottom of party preparation window (Q), this would help with scouting. Also don't forget to save your game, take spirit and seedling with you. Since you should already have a well prepaired team you can skip easier portal exploration and immediately enter portal #7, one which is usually required for King's quest. In any case it is good to check which one he demands to explore. Right after you entered a portal select Spirit on the left panel and click "Change position". This will add character to reserve slot, excluding it from participating in combat. It will still gain half of team experience shares. With chosen scout profession it is much easier to scout whole map, just roam around, follow exclamation marks for events and loot, pick Light Fairies (yellow spirits) to sustain stamina and search for EverTrees (big tall trees) to scout surroundings (climb tree). Unless you are sure you can handle much fighting, try to avoid combat so you keep your group resources on top. Try to harvest some food with events so you won't need to buy any in town. Refill missing hp and mana with lifeplants or manaplants, and heal with Lymean as much as possible. You can also use some abilities outside of combat by clicking on character bar on the left. Not all events are helpful, some of them can harm your group instead, try to avoid those. If you encoutered an offer to purchase scout info and have a lot of undiscovered tiles around you - don't neglect it, you have some gold for exactly this purpose. Plan your exploration in a way so you start walking back at 10h exploration mark, or when you ran out of team resources to fight. In emergency use TeleportStone. If you hit another max level with a spirit click on it outside of combat on the left side of the screen and click "Reshape". After you came back visit Portals window and claim your rewards for exploration and/or combat. If you've done everything perfectly well you should reach 50% portal exploration and become able to turn King's quest in. In case you didn't - recover stamina in town and try to scout portal a bit more on the next day. In any case don't turn a quest in immediately, you will need some time in reserve for other activity, King can wait for a bit.

Home upgrades, team management and resource gathering
Check for tavern quests if there is something valuable there. Also start checking recruits for hire in there, search for any shadow type species that can produce Dark semen, you will need it later. Leave your seedling resting at home, most likely it is more exhausted than anyone in your team at this point. You will need it later for ocean exploration. Summon new grass spirit, importantly male or futa gender. You'll need it for further milking. Check market daily and try to sell all extra spirits if creature vendor arrives. Replace from party you current grass spirit with one you summoned recently. Get into your first ranked arena fights so you can get runic wood and bolster your team stats. Pick as many fights as you feel confident with. Each rank up will affect your characters the similar way as level up will. Good if you manage to get your spirit to level 5 to evolve it to PlantGirl. When you are done with arena move PlantGirl to home, assign her to Hunter job. This can be done by clicking on her icon and selecting Task on the right from her portrait. You can do same thing for any other unoccupied character, just keep Centaur, Lymean and seedling resting. If you are not yet eligible for next few lines - skip to upgrades, but don't forget to come back when you get the requirements. Whenever you get shadow-related character, make sure it produces S_Dark (should be male/futa gender and not GhostPlant), if not - fuse with other character or spirit to get appropriate gender and species combination, utilize fusing focus for this. Head to Farm afterwards, hit "Manage", select PlantGirl and your shadow-related character, select "Milk" option and hit heart button "Bond/Update". They will start producing semen daily. You can also assign both of them for hunter job, just make sure you regulary check their morale through Character Overview screen (Map-bottom button) or they might turn the corners if it reach 0. Putting the to rest or let them "Have Fun" can keep their morale or restore some. Open Upgrades window at your Home. Count missing resources for pool upgrade. If you were lucky enough you might have certain amount of wood or stone already. Gather stone from tavern quest or portal milestone rewards, wood can be gathered the same way + you can chop some trees in portals, move to forest tile and hit harvestWood button. You can also mine stone in portals on mountain tiles, but it can become very time consuming if you need large amounts of it, better get it from portal/taver rewards instead. It will probably take some time gathering those resources, when you come back home your seedling should have regained enough stamina for few arena battles, just enough to reach level 5 and be evolved to Seedling Dragon. It will help you with movement in ocean portals by negating speed penalties from moving through water tiles. Go there whenever you have a drake, fly around and scout for crystal deposits, get a bit less than half of your party carrying capacity and return back. Around 20-30 crystals will be suffice for the first time. If you have all water portal closed other options to get some would be either breed some fertile creature for "Crystals" (switch "eggs" option at farm) or grab some amount of money and find Native event (one which provides scout info) and buy crystals from there, 5 for 200 gold. Gold should be present in party inventory, add it with party preparation window.

Recruiting
Check list: Lust-based character; Shadow~; Lymean hybrid (not Spirit, LightLizard, Siren or Fairy); Characters with BeastGirl, Harpy genetics or just EagleGirl. If you still didn't find any shadow related charater now you can spend time getting one. To help with that task you need a character capable of effectively seducing others in combat. The most effective choice here would be hiring a Succubus from tavern. You should be very unlucky if you are not able to find one there, but if you do - enter a portal which contains Succubus species in it. Plan is simple - check roaming enemies with Right Click, find succubus whose level is equal or lower than any highest from your group, attack, leave her last enemy standing and then start seducing. You need to lower her energy pool (white bar) down to minimum to get her exhausted first, most effective way to do so is Servicing (R) her in close range. Current lust level affects chances if character will orgasm and lose energy point, so it would be good idea to arouse her first by other units with ranged Seduction (S). Every unit has its own likes and dislikes which affect if your tease will be succesful against them or not, try finding her preferences by changing exposed parts (Tab). Whenever energy is low enough, raise their lust to 50% and try to Fuck her (F). Note that it is not always succesful, chances depend on target level, character which level is lower than target's will always fail at recruiting. If recruit attempt was unsuccesful try to repeat the procedure. Follow same tactic for every other species you need, you may also want to build Sauna, Infirmary and appropriate housing for new recruits. When you get a Harpy and a BeastGirl (or any hybrids which have those genetics) go to Fusion screen, fuse them with each other while focusing highest stats and good traits. The result should be EagleGirl.

Further gameplay strategy
At this point your gameplay should be a lot different than any others and therefore the guide takes the form of general tips and directions rather than tutorial:


 * Keep doing King quests until you become strong enough to defeat him and make quests optional.
 * Destroy Creation's hives whenever you meet them. They are tentacle-like structures surrounded with slime tiles.
 * Explore portal and town events to get powerful characters in your group. Some examples include:
 * 1) Liza: decent tank/fighter with mana and health recovering abilities, easy to sustain during long runs. Doesn't suffer from water as much as others because of aquatic origin.
 * 2) Seliel: long range archer, can put down any nasty enemy unit before they reach her.
 * 3) An_3: powerful mage, can easily deal with any unit submerged into water with lightning damage.
 * 4) Yavoli: fast stormtrooper with mana and health recovering abilities.
 * 5) Aila: arena champion, nuff said.
 * 6) Phy: versatile combatant with useful skill set, can decently perform as a damage dealer on short runs as well as increase your team potential if used correctly.
 * 7) Sylvie: good in everything, fighting, seducing, breeding despite of looking fragile.
 * Don't skip artifact portals.
 * Keep exploration difficulty up with your group strength, don't stay at easier portals for too long but neither try to struggle at high difficulty ones. This way you won't experience heavy experience penalties.
 * It is recommended to leave only 4 or less units in combat slots, other 2 need to be in reserve slots for optimal experience gains.
 * Level and reshape spirit to maxlvl 20, afterwards you can either evolve it to a different stronger form or you can fuse it with any humanoid character to increase their genetics and max level. Don't forget to select stat focus while fusing so you don't get average values.
 * When you get Adaptation from skill tree, find some good traits to learn, create new seedlings, adapt traits on them and then repeatedly fuse with each other, adding new traits after every fusion. This way you can get seedling(s) with 10 traits, Strong, Wild, Potential, Heavy, LustEnchanced would be most preferable ones.
 * Note: both summoned spirit and seedling power is affected by base druid magic power. If you have high enough value you can instantly spawn maxlevel 20 seedling, it might be effective to spawn some and fuse them on your party members to get more maxlvl and/or traits. The drawback of this method is that Seedling species genetics are added to fused character, result can only be pure species. Fusing it again with other species can negate this problem, just do a proper genetic focus.
 * Optionally recruit more units for farming milk and working at brothel, but don't get too many as you can easily run out of food/money if you don't manage it properly.

Skill trees and Equipment
Here you can find a description of what leveling and gearing options you have as a druid for this guide. Everything is ordered by priority and availability at specific game stage. Skills can be changed at character window by clicking on skill slot beneath portrait and replacing it with one provided from a list of known skills. Seedling support (recommended for the first time): Heal (support), SeedBoost (support), Invigorate (dexterity), HardenSkin (Endurance), Strengthen and Seedling evolution +1 (strength), Seedling genes+ and Adaptation (dexterity). Rest put to armor>mana, try to take DrainMana passive from Support tree. When you get Adaptation you can start learning traits from characters at home and adapt any seedling with learnt traits. Strength based fighter: Companion, Heal, Jump, Charge, Focus, Companion2, Ram, Crush. Stack strength>armor>health afterwards however you feel like, this build is sufficient for Lone Wolf run at high game difficulties if used correctly. Although new players don't have access to it, taking Light as starting affinity will randomly provide healing unit in combat which is able to regenerate mana. Both builds can take Companion as the first focus, which can provide combat distraction. It is harmless to lose companion unit while you setting up your team or taking down enemy units. Support equipment:
 * Any weapon with mana increases: Obsidian sword, Tide Caller, Void Sword, Crystal Sword. Bows and staves should also be fine, but they are quite specific to use.

Armor:
 * HealingRobe - crafted from 5 plantgirl and 5 lymean semen, 10 Heal silk (tavern quests) and 5 fur. The latter you can buy at crafting tab (restocked each day) or get by slaying animals such as wolves, striders, mules and etc, basically terrestrial creatures.
 * LavaScaleArmor - drops from Leviathan boss. Similar stats to healing robe but can be harder to get.

Misc:
 * RuneAmulet - 4 rune wood 2 healing silk.
 * WispAmulet - Kitsune boss drop.

Fighter equipment: Rune shields are generally good for both builds, crafted from 5 rune wood. As an alternative you can use CrystalShield, it is much cheaper to craft, you can get CrystalFragments from harvesting floating crystals during portal explorations. For consumables I can recommend using StonePotion, but it is quite hard to obtain. S_Stone is milked from Gem and Crystal girls, CaveFish can be caught fishing by yourself or by characters assigned to that job. For EagleGirl and Centaur get equipment that has strength, health or armor modifiers, for Lymean - mana and magic. A trick is to get more armor for non-tanks because current AI prioritizes to attack less armored units.
 * Great Sword - 15 arena objectives milestone reward, craftable from 5 iron which you can buy from materials shop or mine from portals, or sword can rarely drop from portal milestone rewards, tundra events or rare item chests. You should probably have 8 arena objectives completed already, fighting 7 more times will save you money, time, give some exp and desired sword.
 * Breaker Sword - 3 mythril, can be obtained from King's quests, 1 piece per quest. Improved variant of greatsword.
 * Scale Armor - quite cheap armor variant which can provide decent protection. All ingredients can be either purchased from crafting shop (they are usually sold in pair) or you can get them by killing fanged and scaled enemies.
 * LavaScaleArmor - improved variant of Scale Armor. Obtained from Leviathan boss.
 * KnightArmor - while it gives whole bunch of different stats, it makes you slow and vulnerable to seduction. Aila 25 objectives milestone reward, random legendary drops.
 * FrostArmor - slow but steady. Provides hp and defense at cost of mobility. Random legendary drops or tavern quests.
 * MythrilArmor - elite armor for fighters, crafted from mythril. Amazing for solo runs.

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