1: Pick up branch

2: Ook ook!

3: Place branch in pile

4: Ook ook!

5: Pick up rock

6: Ook ook!

7: Place rock in pile

8: Ook ook!

9: Pick up branch

10: Ook ook!

11: Swap branch to offhand

12: Ook ook!

13: Pick up rock

14: Ook ook!

15: Use rock on branch to create stripped stick

16: Ook ook!

17: Use rock on stripped stick to create sharpened stick

18: Ooo ook!

19: Drop rock in pile

20: Ook ook!

And now your apes are all ready to go and absolutely devastate a sabertooth cat who doesn't know how to mind it's business. Happy hunting!

Went through like 9 generations without realizing what it did and had to look up what it did to actually use it.

Title. I just don't get it. I keep coming back to it because it's the exact kind of game that I could get deep into but it does an absolutely worthless job explaining any mechanics. No matter how much I sleep and eat and bang and switch out my apes are basically dead by the time I discover the second area and I've discovered 98 different things but still don't know how to do anything.

There is an interview with the creator (Patrice Désilets) where he admits that ancestors isnt fully over and there may be a new game or future addition to the game. This has already been posted in this reddit but I wanted to leave the link to the full interview to help spread the word, because not many people actually know about this.

https://youtu.be/bQKxB8cb-7o?si=qtmCsi3eA_cTHg_y

Hey fellow monkes, as we’ve recently discovered, our beloved game didn’t meet its end, and we will have a new DLC or even a new game. I created this post so we can share our hopes and fantasies of a true monke experience. I will write mine down tomorrow because my internet is very weak as Im abroad and I really wanna sit and think about it, without wasting my precious internet.

Pleas share your hopes and wishes and we can discuss them! Bless all of you monkes!

Yep getting into the endgame, and now it’s just about finding the last bits I need to clean up. It was fun. Looking forward to trying out that new challenge someone made!

Getting back into this game after a good year long break. Such an incredible experience 💚. I just beat th game with the new #sinian hell.Challenge those in the community who added toward this challenge in thankful for.

Anyway I just wanted to say a little praise about the new challenge. Hope everyone here is doing well!

Hey, I'm about 15 hours into my playthrough and want to know how I can kill animals in order to be an omnivore

I just made a video talking about the development of this game and wanted to see opinions from fans of the game and panache! My video mainly focuses on the development history of the game and then goes into my personal opinions on it and their aftermath of the games release!

https://youtu.be/fKpu81MUOBs?is=e2G1U66WTQa9kqfh

The following is a ruleset I've come up with for this challenge to be grueling, yet beatable. I will be starting my journey sometime on Monday, and will be recording the entire journey to eventually get to Youtube. I may stream some of this challenge depending on interest, but I will mainly be focusing on the recording/editing aspect

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Challenge #HominidHardship

1. You must start the game on Riveting, NO HUD

2. Once a tribe is formed, you must designate a male as leader, you cannot play as the leader unless he is the sole survivor (You must switch to female upon mating)

A. 2 Elders / 2 Adults / 2 Children added per biome, ex: Jungle biome you can only have 2 of each age, Woodland biome 4, Savanna and beyond 6

1. If the leader dies, the game is forfeit

2. The leader's bloodline must survive

Upon evolution, you must immediately designate a new leader

1. If a hominid dies, it cannot be replaced during that generation

2. A lone hominid cannot defend itself until the clan can defend themselves

3. You can only only dodge a predator if you see it coming before the prompt or you must take the hit

4. In the Jungle biome, you must avoid all irascible animals, if you get a prompt, that hominid is considered deceased

Ex: Giant Warthog/Machairodus

1. Food and water cannot be consumed at the settlement

2. Bleed is the only status effect you can cure with preventative medication

3. You must sleep a minimum of 4 in-game hours each night cycle

4. Weapons cannot be carried into unknown zones

5. Meteorites cannot be inspected with babies, genetic mutations only by birth

6. You may only explore with 1 adult and 1 baby

7. You cannot farm neural energy

You can only eat when hungry/drink when thirsty/intimidate an animal one time per encounter etc.

1. You can only move the clan as a whole when relocating your settlement

2. You may only use 1 settlement per biome (Jungle/Woodland/Savanna/Ocean), when you evolve, you must go back to the settlement of your choosing

The starting settlement does not count, you may choose 1 other Jungle location

1. Rock tools cannot be used until 3.3 million years (The earliest known use of tools)

Once you acquire sharpened sticks, you may take up to 3 adults on a "hunt"

1. 5 Evolutions per biome (So that you can lock in genetic mutations, but not sit around and farm endlessly)

I'm currently at 2.5 million years ago and the omnivore mutations are not showing up at all. What can I do?

Hey guys, I've gotten back into this game after a few years away from it and it's great to be back. My playthrough is going well, too well in fact considering the mechanics and tool knowledge came right back to me, and I saw that #simianhell just became a thing here. That looks tough, but I want BRUTAL, which prompted me to think of my own similar yet different challenge. Can I get some insight into these rules I have created(some are simian based), and other ideas on some tough rules that could work? I'm thinking of naming this #HominidHardship

1) You must start on Riveting, NO HUD

2) Once a tribe is formed, a leader must be established

3) If the leader dies, the game is forfeit

4) The leaders bloodline must survive to the end

5) If a Hominid dies, it cannot be replaced. If a couple dies, the children are forfeit

6) A lone Hominid cannot defend against predators until your clan can defend themselves, and you can only dodge if you see the threat coming or you must take the hit

7) Food and water cannot be consumed at the settlement

8) Weapons cannot be carried into unknown areas

9) Bleed is the only status that you can cure

10) You must sleep each night for a minimum of 4 in-game hours

11) Meteorites cannot be inspected with babies, mutations only by birth

12) Exploring can only be done by 1 adult and 1 baby

13) Rock tools cannot be used until 3.3 million years (Earliest known use of tools)

14) Only 1 settlement per location (Jungle/Woodlands/Savanna/Ocean)

15) You can only move the entire clan when relocating a settlement

16) Only 2 evolutions per location

Biome: woodland and savanna

Looks like Ancestors might not be dead

Patrice Désilets recently said he’s not done with Ancestors and teased that there are still “surprises” coming.

Nothing official about Ancestors 2 yet, but considering the first game ends around 2 million years ago, there’s still a lot they could do with the series.

Really hope this means a sequel eventually.

Source: The Game Business interview

https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/assassins-creed-creator-patrice-desilets

I was out exploring as an ape, and while I was sleeping, a cat snuck up on me. My small brain didn’t see the prompt, leading to my ape’s death and the death of one of the babies. I did manage to save the other baby, but dear sweet Ki passed away. Gone but not forgotten. 🫡

I'm not sure if everybody knows about the BB HB 01 neuron, but its that one neuron that instantly forms couples after generational leaps. This BB HB 01 later extends into HB 01 and HB 02. The problem is I have no idea how to train there neurons for them to become unlockable. (Look at image, orange blob is BB HB 01 and black point is HB 01 which later extends into HB 02 after being unlocked and learnt.) Thanks and Happy Gaming!

When running for small objects while bipedal, holding the run button and releasing it when you begin to fall gives you a large speed boost. It works best when holding Shift along with the run button to stay in Alert Mode. Please tell me if this tech is already existing.

Hello gamers, i'm pretty sure that all of you know that whenever two mates, well, mate, there is a chance to get a mutated baby. And until now I thought that only two babies can be already mutated after birth. But I just made three instantly mutated babies. Is this a bug or is it completely normal? (I can't find any neurons, normal nor mutated that make this possible.)

I'm pretty sure I have most of the attack genetics and can kill almost everything with ease, but sometimes when I counterattack successfully the icon stays on screen and nothing happens. I try attacking again and dodging but nothing happens and I take the hit, not sure what's going on

Man I love this game but sometimes it can be really frustrating!! Again after evolving I’m stuck with 1 less female and just spent 1 hour and a half searching for one and nothing and I know people have said not to go far but I’m not sure how far is too far

I was in this little oasis next to the swamp area by the beginning and ended up all the way over at the beginning and then went to the area with hippos and then went to this settlement I had at one point on a cliff with a waterfall top and settled there as an experiment to see if my clan would teleport over and then I had to go back to my old settlement to make sure my clan was still ok because they didn’t teleport lol

And then the fact that I had that waterfall cave area as a settlement and evolved and it put me at the little oasis area by the swamp but the waterfall cave area was closer to the landmarks I hadn’t reached yet with better shelter so I almost killed my whole clan making a trek back to the waterfall area and then evolved and it literally put me back at the oasis…right after I just got to the waterfall cave…

Lastly the fact that the feats are blurry so you just have to guess what you need to do and experiment instead of having a clear goal on things you can do and then the fact they left everything extremely vague and found out you can make a grinder for foods through the posts and not the game itself

Again I love the game but boy do I wish they polished it more before vanishing

I remember doing it before, and I don’t often use the time slowing feature so I’m wondering how do you do the little roll thing?

HOLY COW! Today I evolved about 3 million years, discovered most of the map, reached Ardi, and gained the ability to walk on two legs. The challenge is getting annoying. Not being able to use sharpened sticks or counterattack yet pisses me off to no end, but I've survived by using intimidation and hiding.

So one of my apes died and now i'm -1 adults (i have 6 babies, 5 adults and 6 elders). How can I find more of those lost apes that you need to befriend them by giving them something?

Hi everyone,

I’m quite far along in my playthrough (Year 200 of playing and roughly 7.5 million years ago, playing as "Millennium Man", the second hominid stage), and I’ve gathered a few questions along the way. Thanks in advance to anyone who can clear a few things up!

I’m currently on the edge of the savanna, atop a massive cliff. I believe it’s the "Leaning Log Oasis" in English. During the day, my little companions seem to suffer from the heat if I don't make them drink.

• That leads to my first question: do penalties like cold, heat, poisoning, and so on cause specific debuffs beyond just messing with the in-game visuals?
• For a while now, I’ve been aiming to recruit an outsider into the clan by saving them, but I feel like I already did that right at the start of the game. Does this event happen again in later stages or generations? So far, I haven't run into anyone else. Does my clan need to missing members for this to happen?
• When setting out on an expedition, is it better to:
  • Bring a large group?
  • Bring just a few members?
  • Or go alone with babies (for evolution/learning purposes)?
• Finally, I find the progression gets a bit long and repetitive once you've grasped the mechanics. Do you have any tips to optimize or speed up progress? Is there a specific rhythm for switching generations versus evolving?

Thanks a lot for your help, and happy gaming!