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“Marry them young and adore them so you can get the most out of them before sacrificing them” sounds ABSOLUTELY INSANE out of context bruh 😂

Beginning tips 1. Growing flowers in the beginning is a good way to farm gold. Get tons of grass from your runs, and make farming plots, like 20. Slowly replace the flowers with veggies as you get more followers. You're basically wasting money by not farming right away. It's not just for food. 2. Don't dungeon run every day. Set most followers to "worship" and do the dirty work on the farm yourself. It's not glamorous but taking a day off from dungeon running to shovel poop is well worth your time. This will get you to the buildings that make wood and stone quickly and also automate these tasks. 3. Unlock Ascension early in your "Afterlife" doctrine. Your followers get old and die. This allows you to turn them into faith rather than use resources to bury them. Also useful if you get a heretic in your rank and don't have a prison yet. 4. Use your special curse a lot. Some of the rooms with more enemies will fill your fervor right back up, especially if you get a tarot card that increases fervor. I've killed a couple mini bosses using just my curse. 5. Be patient on bosses. Let them go through their move set and you should pick it up quickly. The combat isn't hard but button mashing will never work. I find the best attack window right after the boss moves. Also, remember your dodge roll can go through projectiles.

DONT WASTE POOP! Save it for tier 3 shelters. 10 poop per shelter adds up fast so you need a lot if you want a tier 3 for every cult member.

I have a few tips of my own that haven't been mentioned in the video. 1. Out of the four crown powers you can get, go for Omnipresence first. Omnipresence allows you to escape from a crusade and teleport back to your cult at anytime. This ability is VERY useful when dealing with the bishops later on, as, starting with Heket, they WILL mess with your followers, and so having the ability to pop back and quickly remedy the situation is very handy. 2. A little something to add in regards to The Hunger crown perk. While most meals do give you that free blue heart, some don't. Meals with overly negative effects like the Bowl of Poop and the Deadly Dish will NOT grant you that blue heart, they'll just make the lamb throw up. 3. Always, ALWAYS perform your sermons when available, even after you've got all the curses and weapon upgrades. First, you get free money from sermons once your temple gets upgraded, Second, each sermon grants you an additional blue heart on top of perks like The Hunger, and unlike The Hunger, you can get as many blue hearts from sermons as you want. 4. If you plan to use a ritual that decreases faith (like resurrection), do your sermon AFTER the ritual, it will offset the faith cost easily. 5. Keep collecting faith from your statue and tier 3 homes, even after you've unlocked everything. After unlocking all divine inspiration blueprints, faith is automatically converted into coins on collection, allowing you to become ridiculously rich. 6. I would highly recommend picking Alms for the Poor over Ritual of Enrichment, especially if leveling up your followers is your goal. Sure it costs 50 coins, but that cost is easy to offset, plus if you get the cheaper rituals perk, the price drops to just 25 coins. Regardless of the coins spent, the Alms for the Poor ritual grants big loyalty boost for all followers, which saves time on individual interactions. 7. After Omnipresence, the next crown power i'd recommend getting is Darkness Within. This crown power gives you a free Diseased Heart (or Black Heart) at the start of every crusade. Bonus health is also a plus, and this bonus does stack on top of The Hunger (so you can start with 2+ bonus hearts). Diseased Hearts themselves are pretty helpful, if you take damage while you have a Diseased Heart, all enemies in the room with you take a bit of damage too. I'd recommend Darkness Within over The Hunger as you don't have to do anything to get your free Diseased Heart, you're just given one for free at the start of a run. 8. Don't always skip your nights. You can use the extra time you have during the night to take care of any housekeeping things you need to do, which gives you less to worry about in the day. 9. If your having trouble keeping your faith level up, there are many ways to just automatically generate faith that require little to no input from you. First, get the Belief in Absolution perk. With this perk, as long as you have no followers imprisoned, you get +10 faith at the start of every day, and as long as you keep your faith up, you probably won't be using that thing anyway. Second, get the Respect Your Elders perk, it grants you +5 faith everytime a follower reaches old age. Also, i'd recommend getting the Grieve the Fallen perk as it unlocks Graves, an upgrade for body pits that allow your follower to grieve, generating +2 faith everytime they do. 10. If you don't yet have a follower prison, and want to quickly get rid of dissenters, you can always sacrifice (or ascend) them. I would recommend Sacrificing them over straight up killing them because you get more out of Sacrifices/Ascensions than plain murder.

heres a trick that you didnt see then, offering tables. offering tables are so OP. build as many of them as you can, you will be stacked up on fish and you'll never have to forge your own gold bars again, it gives so many free recources, and having a fourth of your map be just offering tables, combined with having a lot of lumberyards so you can make the offering tables, and you'll be set on recources for the rest of the game

After a sermon, you can beat most of the followers out of the door with a couple rolls. Have some gravestones outside to distract them upon leaving the sermon. Bless 90% of them with one shot

Looks like Stardew valley combined with binding of Isaac haha

I refuse to sacrifice anyone, or let anyone die at that... If someone asks to be sacrificed I will do it and then immediately res them, old age? Res them. I like my members and I refuse to let them die :)

I always clear the camp out of resources on first arrival as there is no hunger day/night cycle until you head back out which gives you a lot of resources plus leaves your growing followers free to worship and generate faster upgrades, I also name my followers in line with their attributes, e.g. one who works faster is called Speedy, one who is materialist is called Greedy, makes it a little easier when assigning tasks or giving complimentary gifts.

small tips: resurrection ritual can bring back dead followers allowing stupid high loyalty levels and unlocking natural death allows follower corpses to be turned into fertilizer

Bro really said "get the spirit heart you have to eat for first" Instead of the free, no strings attached diseased heart for every run

To add to the necklaces, theres another one that actually increases the life span of a follower. So it's good for keeping a follower you really like to last longer.

One tip to keep in mind is that upgrading lumberyards and stone mines resets their capacity to the second tier's. So, if you're *really* hurting for resources, wait until your mines and yards run out before making the second tier upgrade. You don't even need to worry about taking them down to 1 piece of wood or stone in the chest, all the resources you didn't claim before upgrading will be there after you upgrade.

Not sure if you mention it in any of your videos or not yet, hut if you transform a follower with the Demon Summoning circle into a heart shaped demon, and bring it to a dungeon with the Heart guy, he will ask for your follower in exchange for permanant half a heart

Better note: it does matter a lot which food you eat! Grassy gruel will take half a heart vs how follower meat gives you two black hearts!

I’m not sure if there’s a way to see a followers traits after you’ve indoctrinated them but I started color coding them based on their traits. Makes it easier to know who’s easier to level up or who generates more devotion etc.

Another small tip that could help you in the long run!!! With mines and lumberyards, ALWAYS WAIT FOR THEM TO BE DEPLETED before upgrading them! It saves you on resources trust me

there are also the rainbow tarot cards. it's gonna have its effects x2. an example: if you find a tarot card that gives you x1.25 movement speed with the rainbow upgrade it transforms in x2 movement speed.

Probably one of my favorite takes on the rogue genre, and there's so much freedom to the game! I love it!

One small detail I missed was Recylcling old weapons/curses when I got a new one. I didn't realize it until I was a few dungeons in.... I also highly recommend to level up and get the perks where rituals will cost half of required resources and the other perk on the next tier that cuts down cooldown timers, it helped me SO much to keep my followers happy being able to ascend the elderly with the elderly death perk!

1. You can buy fish from the fisherfish in the Pilgrims Passage zone. Octopus, squid, and lobster can all be purchased for 10 gold and sold for up to 20 at the chest in your camp where you sell to The One Below. 2. The Ritual of Resurrection is a great way to bring back high value followers, especially the ones you like to convert to demons for help in dungeons. 3. Setting the Ritual of Fasting before going on a long dungeon run will help with follower happiness because they will not be starving. 4. I only spend time inspiring the followers that I convert to demons for dungeon runs. Having a high level archer / melee / fervour follower can help a lot.

When starting a cult with 1 follower, I have all the time needed to clear the entire base, getting all the wood and stone. This is the only time where faith, hunger, and sanitation counters are not present. Toward late game, gold bars are pretty hard to come by, so I build a lot of refinery and offering altar.

Thanks mate! I just started this on Switch. Loving it so far.

Best tip. Get the golden fleece asap. Its op. You get 10% more dmg per kill until you get hit and take double damge. Used to scale infinitely but got nerfed to 200% max. Still is really good and invicibilty frames while dodging a very generous that you shouldn't get hit often. Even if you get hit its quite easy to get back to 200% dmg in just a few rooms.

I am sure you know this but the red orbs that float around your camp and night can be collected for devotion.

A good one that I found out thanks to someone on twitter! If you're like me and picked funerals and gravestones for the faith instead of resurrecting and the fertilizer option- if you worry about wasting space with pits filled with bodies, you can always harvest the bodies at night when everyone is sleeping. That way you wont lose faith and you'll get plenty of bones and meat you can sell. I do wish there was a way to remove them tho since there have been occasions where I accidentally wrapped the body instead of harvest.

Simple tips: You can deflect arrows and explosive enemies. Using the brainwash event prevents negative side effects from other events. Using inspiration booths near crafting stations and praying altar helps to speed up the process. Turning your followers into demons doesn't kill them.

Thanks for the tips ! I wish there were an option to call all your followers in order to inspire them all at once as well as a way to prevent them to instantly eat some meals. Sometimes you need to give a specific meal to a follower but as soon as it cooked, another one come and eat it. This lead me to two more tips: 1- Sermon as the sunrise and inspire a follower as soon as he leaves the main house, all the others around will be inspired at the same time. A good way to start the day. 2- If you need to give a specific food to a follower, feed the other ones first then cook the meal, no one will eat it if they are full.

Here's a few additional tips: - Something that can easily be lost if you don't take it is the Revival ritual. This not only allows you to bring back a follower with great traits, but they also return at their old loyalty level and with whatever necklace they were buried with. This is incredibly helpful when mating two followers to birth an Uber version. - You should unlock Natural Burial as well since it removes bodies without you having to butcher the follower. - Interference from a Bishop that affects your followers are one-off events that typically happen at the beginning of a run. If you take the teleport option that's unlocked via Bishop hearts, you can easily fix whatever they do and resume your run without it wrecking your faith and spawning dissenters.

As little there is to do after you finish the main game I wouldn't even worry about rushing anything. Take your time and enjoy things.

it's pretty light on the rogue like side, but Im enjoying it, the theme really saves the game.

07:07 About the necklaces, don't forget to take it back when the follower dies, it has a penalty but worth a lot to get it back

I really liked the high risk high reward cape that makes you take double damage but every enemy you kill increases the amount you deal by 10%. Playing perfectly, I 3-5 shot the bosses with an axe

To me, one of the best parts of the game is naming the followers & the cult. My 3 cults are the : Filthy Clerics GraveLords Of Ni Londo Darkwraiths Then I start naming the cultists after pets of mine, ones that are living or that have passed on! A few examples : Filthy Oscar, Cleric Katie, Gravelord Lola, Gravelord Rocky, Darkwraith Bootsy & Duke of Darkness. Had a lot of cats, rats, dogs & lizards growing up! Now they can all hang out in the Cult of the Lamb haha! One of my all time favorite games!

I got this game not really knowing what to expect. I love it so much, it took all the best aspect of my favorite games.

I've just finished playing it and although I didn't figure everything out from the get go, it was such a good game and had a wonderfull time discovering everything one by one.

The bonus terro card thing will actually have this little recharge ring above it, that fills as you complete combat rooms. So it might say recharging when you first find it, but finishing the floor and going back it could be unlocked again

Just some general info I you die as you kill a heretic you will NOT be able to get the heart of the heretic anymore! Just a quick heads up (it will probably get fixed in a future update).

An Beginner One Is The Demonic Ritual thingy, i thought it would actually sacrifice them so i was scared of using it, except it helps a ton specially if the level is high and ends up giving you Extra Hearts, Damage Demons (damage the enemys themselfs) and your followers that you sacrificed will come back except tired A More Mid-Late Game one is when in silk cradle when the spider try to summon your followers so you kill them you can use omni-presence so they dont die and you will end up only having to play the dungeon for a lil more time

In regards to the Wood problem, the first time I died on my run I had restarted the Lighthouse which cost me most of my wood. I didn’t realize and since I died, I had to do a quest that required me to perform a ritual. All of my rituals had just started their cooldowns except for the bonfire ritual, for which I had less than half the required resources. I had to complete this quest before I could leave my cult and I couldn’t just choose to fail and suffer consequences either. This was also before I had built a lumberyard, so I had to wait for trees to grow and give my followers meals with a chance to drop resources and hope it’s wood. Cost me an hour or two

Yay I’ve been hoping for this vid

The silk cradle soundtrack in the background is just a.. chef kiss!

"The best gift you can give a cultist isn't some Kool-aid...." IT WAS FLAVOR-AID!

The follower offerings statues are really good to get, you can get almost everything from then, even things like 4 gold bars at once

6:58 It might be better to devotion farm until you max out the cult progress tree because all devotion becomes gold at that point and when you're stocking up hearts from the full skill tree sermons for the final boss, you find yourself with 15,000 gold coins

One thing I see a lot of people doing is putting seed silo's and fertiliser silos inside the range of the farms. The silos can be anywhere and farming cultists will still use them, so by placing them outside the range you can have an additional 8 farm plots in a single farm, you can even use one silo for multiple farm plots. Just make sure the silos are still near the farms so the cultists dont have to keep walking back and forth too far

i find smashing everything to not be a good idea. it’s not a big problem in the first zone, but later levels have a lot of debris and that would then take a lot more time, and time is precious in this game. smashing everything might cost you a day, maybe two, and that means you lose one or two sermons, followers here and there might starve, and if you have the precious die young trait it’s even more problematic with the old folks at home. i think it’s best to smash the debris along with the enemies and smash the ones near the exits and take what i get. ive never had a resource crisis doing it this way

Thanks for this video! It really helped. Liked and shared.

just bought it! i got work at 6am tomorrow so can’t play much tonight but i’m excited!!!!

tysm for these tips! i just started playing and its so fun!!

The last one helped me alot, bless homie

My wife is currently a white squirrel 😂 she’s super chill actually but I unlocked her skin by killing a bunch of squirrels so it’s a little awkward.. but what helped me alot earlier on was having everyone destroy the wildlife in your village and help them. Gain them resources get them beds super early and then have them all on devotion while you catch up in the dungeons

My cult follower Alex Jones keeps making me pull pranks on Tim Pool. He’s always like “hey! It’d be hilarious if Tim pool ate poop.”

Just started this game, it’s already one best games ever played

Good tips! Quick tip for you - "tarot" is "ter-OH," not "tarr-OT".

Also another thing worth noting during my playthrough of the game is if you make the lamb eat minced follower meat, you'll actually get 2 diseased hearts!

This game is lots of fun! Love it!

Yeah, I did a lot of things wrong when I started. Glad I watched this

If you go to the heart location on the crusade map, I guess the boxes contain blue hearts so smash EVERYTHING in there lol.

Thanks for that tarot card bit been walking past it for awhile but I just started

My kind of game. Cant wait to have this.

That Kool-Aid joke was everything 😂

Wood beginning tip, smash the training dummies. Can't say if I missed something or just thought they were invincible but you get two wood per training dummy.

9:45 the extra tarot Card is once every minute

Offering statues are absolutely broken. You can have more than one, and you can get any resource from them, and it's an okay amount.

You can also sleep to pass the night. Originally, this was just in Penitence Mode, but the Sins of the Flesh update allows you to build the Leader's Tent to pass the night. Me? I use the night to clean up the area & collect the resources they've collected.

The purchasable tarot card is on a timer so if it’s a longer run you can buy more then one card.

"the younger they are, the more loyalty they have" general good advise?

I have already beaten the game, but before watching this video, I didn't know I could speed up the time at nights

Hahahaha what a funny awesome game! Just bought it today and I am about to jump into it. So innocent looking until you see all the symbolism and dark wickedness hahahaha love it

The soundtrack for this game is sick. Specifically Anchordeep and Saleos

If you purchase the white cloak with red skull it will give you all 4 tarot cards at the beginning of the crusade.

good tips thanks

For gold I chose to have the bounty of the ocean ritual so I can get more and higher chance of rarer fish, not only can it help with food a bit but some fish are value like 20 coins when you sell them, and I was able to easily go over 300-400

I was skeptical about this game, but I caved in and bought it! No regreata!

I absolutely love COTL.

I recommend that you put the outhouse close to your followers home that way they don't have to go so far when they need to use this in the morning

Me who unlocked lumber yards on day 17-25 on my first play through. I can't remember when I got the lumber yard but it wasn't all to bad.

Some tips and info you didn't mention/known 1:06 I see you have placed your seed bank and fertilizer inside of the farm outline which you don't need to and shouldn't do, since the outline only indicates the range of the farms ability to let your followers to water and later to harvest the plants inside it so you just wasted 8 landtiles for food. The seed and fertilizer bank work always anywhere on the map, you only need to stock them up, so building a couple of it and fill them up to always keep them busy. 9:23 They extra cards aren't only one use per dungeon, then you buy them then a little circle with a timer starts and once it ran out you can buy another one Also once you unlocked the pier and the sacrifice chest you can buy some squids, calamarys and lobsters and sell them with a greater interest to your master. It is a nice extra an coins for the early game. And buying the teleport back for a heart is just a waste since you will be treated like you died and loose 30% of your loot so just playing till the boss or die trying is the motto.

Dang it I should have unlocked the hunger, oh well I’ll get that one next!

9:09 - Oh, so that's why in a certain religion that one guy married a very, very, very, very young girl... Now it all makes sense.

Your number one top priority overall should be building follower loyalty. The higher level your followers, the more efficiently they work, and the stronger they fight as demons. To that end, choose every doctrine that will upgrade loyalty; Inspire, Bribe, Ascension, Loyalty Enforcer, and Marriage are all excellent for that. What will take this to the next level is resurrection. Anyone that you like and have leveled up well, as soon as the get old, kill them with ascension, and resurrect them to keep leveling them up. (I have a team of 3 that I bring to the dungeons that are all level 30+) Another thing to know is, money is important, but devotion comes first. Because once you unlock all the devotion upgrades (goes faster than you think), all that devotion you collect is gold instead. And money is no longer an issue ever. The best food by far is the magnificent mixed meal. It's 2 tuna, 2 beets and 2 meat. 100% chance to increase follower loyalty and stop a dissenting follower, no downside. I basically don't farm anything but beets. I get the seeds from the guy in the room with all the doors to the dungeons. You can buy tuna from the fisherman. The only tough one is the meat, but between teir 2 Scarecrows, Offering Statues, and Missionary trips, you can keep it coming in pretty quick. Offering Statues are super OP by the way, you can spam them for pretty cheap and then you get pretty decent loot just rolling in for free.

To me it’s like don’t starve combined with binding of Isaac

About eating food. Im not sure if you need cannival trait for that (I had it so I dont know how it looks without it) but If you will eat meal from follower meat you dont get 1 blue heart... but 2 black hearts.

Great vid

I prefer to prioritize "Omnipotence" over "Hunger." Once the Bishops of the Old Faith start attacking your followers, you might need to run home to protect them when they get sick or hungry. I can always find blue hearts on a crusade.

"Thought of losing a follower is scary" I named them "Sacrifice" "Cannon Fodder" and "Already replaced/Dead."

Note to self: when you put it on EXTRA HARD, remember that you did so. Cause damn, they werent lying.

the eat something a day to get a heart is op if you have a lot of time

I had a heart and a half, so when I broke the statue and saw the portal, I thought it would take me home. I don’t know how I survived but I did barely get through.

I am hooked, its Dope💩

Instant cult classic!

You should add (and not sure if someone already pointed out) you don't just go and eat ANYTHING. Some meals, the negative ones, will DECREASE your heart by half, so watch what you eat. Eating the berry bowl is a nice cheap safe way to get that starting hard. Things like poop and grass are no go, even if your cult has the grass eater ability, it for some reason doesn't extend to you. I would also recommend smacking those statues and practice Bishops, because you fight them with no tarot card upgrades. This will come in handing for [REDACTED] Who you fight without those upgrades, making your fight harder then you might be use to

Just discovered your channel via this video -- which is just phenomenal. Great placing, perfectly relevant info... I'm an auto-subscribe!

6:06 I prefer bribing my followers over extorting them. Once the ability to sell items is unlocked, the ability to buy Loyalty far outweighs the pittance they offer you.

"The younger, the better" *Warren Jeffs has entered the chat

If you get the mushroom trip and the fasting commandment that locks faith and hunger at max for about three days

Actually, it doesn't matter what you eat as long as you don't eat the grass meal, I believe it makes you throw up and doesn't give you the "armour" heart, but you lose some HP instead. Not sure if it's been already said in the comments :D

Extra tip: put dissenters in prison before re-educating them. That way it’s more effective.