A few bunch of things have been patched (a "No Expectations" moodlet for a whopping 50 mood helps with breaks a ton, and people can doctor early now as far as I can tell) which makes it far more tolerable. I personally really like the start when I make it start with 5 people, so that I advance faster + can get more stuff done. For colder areas, the Large Fire actually keeps pawns warm if they're close and I don't think I have any mods for that. Still, if Winter rolls around and you didn't manage to get both butchering and crafting then yeah, death sentence.

When I first started a run on that mod, one of my pawns randomly had a masterwork bolt-action rifle as a belonging and it basically won me the entire native stage on it's own.

In my playthrough, I went full nomadic for the first couple years, leaving the moment food went scarce or a major threat occurred. Only settled down once culture was only tech left. I used the Set Up Camp mod to not leave a ton of abandoned bases around.

Definitetly seems like a start that may need some xenotype cushioning to be fun by the sounds of how hard just getting footage was.

For this start. I always advise rushing Hunting and Clothing before anything else if you're anywhere it gets cold.

Thank you for breaking down the features!

I've been hoping someone would make mod rundown videos like this one, let alone more mod showcase videos overall. Looking forward to more if you're so inclined!

My man! I’m having so much fun with this mod! I was waiting for this to drop and it’s been everything I ever wanted!

Nice overview and editing. Thank you!

The key to my survival for this mod is to treat it as Naked Brutality but harder. You absolutely need to munchkin your way to victory, and do not be afraid to eat raw corpses and wear tainted clothes.

Probably my favorite out of recent VE releases ever since Psycasts Exapnded. I always wanted the ability to increase your faction tech level. Other mods did it in the past but it's nice to have a VE option. New content is pretty rad too, although after 2 consecutive "wild men" runs I wouldn't do it again, not very challenging(unless doing in extreme biome) and takes a long while to reach neolithic. Edit: also for some reason my pawns are capable of healing each other, even though I don't think they're supposed to. They're even able to use herbal medicine. Probably a bug in my version

Two views on this one out of me, and another thumb. Not much to say, I was doing some searches to see if I could decide on mods for my tribal nomads run, and this one came up. Liked it enough to check your other videos, and look at that, now I'm subscribed. This told me that it isn't what I was looking for, but I'm not complaining. Still quite helpful, thank you!

DAMN this channel is fire

The tech ups and changing the tech levels are fairly useful additions for medieval and classical starts too. Get your space Romans.

Stumbled upon your channel and is looking good. I hope you try your hand at a playthrough.

doing a playthrough rn with this start and a physically weak/delicate but agile xenotype (Note: they produced jelly every day so some of the food needs were partially met, at the cost of melting the second they get into combat) my starting tile had a bug infestation from the medieval overhaul hornets nest and I had to escape from the idyllic plains to a barren shrubland I plan to eventually reconquer the ancient homeland of my civilization once I invent stronger weapons and the ability to tend wounds

Has anyone else been locked out of the corner stone options after advancing to culture? The button was present before but now it’s not

I think you have to play with the medieval faction mod. Developer said its intended to have the rock wall so that helps building an early base and freezing to death.

Doesn't know what a table is but gets -50 for eating from the ground.

I can’t upgrade to the medieval tech era even tho I already researched every tech in the Neolithic period. It is still locked beyond research, what may I be missing?

Proximity heat mod is a life saver.... literally

That music. Stardew Valley?

I tried this and damn it was suoper head even when I brought some Lycanthropes, just so many ways that your people can die. But I like the concept.

Hey. My comment got deleted on the steam workshop page but I just wanted to ask why I only get a blue empty square when I want to do a tribal gathering. (I don’t have any of the dlcs but it doesn’t say that it requires them.

"game design is my passion" : the mod

Yeah I I had to remove tribal. It seems like a fun idea but it just didn't make much sense. "I'm angry" what why? "Because I ate without a table." Do you even know what a table is? "Is it food?" I get it's probably some kind of difficulty thing but it just doesn't make any sense. You shouldn't be getting angry that you didn't eat without a table or that you slept on the floor because you literally just discovered fire. The concept of sleeping on a cloth woven floating piece of wood should be foreign to you. And the weird thing about the entire mod is I just didn't find it that difficult to counter. Food bed table. Hit those three start in a tropical summer biome and you have almost no problems. So it's just the endless thing of monotonous time sync. Which is weird cuz I like staying around in a colony for vastly longer did I have any business doing. My current one is up to 10 years. But this feels more like mandatory fluffing rather than willingly staying around.

They recently patched this mod to allow doctoring without research.

lol I like VE stuff and tribals, and this seems like a terrible idea

Use Ideology and you can at least make it so they have some tribal boosts like Rough Living and Tough Temperature precepts. :o

I failed this 2 times, got bored the third time and then aced 4th time. First two times I had gloomy furniture, this ignored VE rules and gave me access to structures so I could build houses before construction was unlocked. Recently I stripped all my mods and wanted to learn the vanilla way, I failed the 3rd attempt to winter starvation. My most recent attempt I did some unique strategies that countered the prior reasons why I failed. Pawn selection is key, roll until you get Medic + intelligence Melee + Intelligence (CE has an option that makes you hunt with melee due to its ammo system) if not manual hunt with the stick u start with and good melee, guaranteed food? Lol Plants + Intelligence is OP you won't run around chasing berries all day. Grow large fields once you unlock this too because winter is coming...unlock it first. That's not a game of thrones reference... You WILL DIE at max research Everyone having good intelligence allowed me to complete Basic in one year and upgraded... This does create a good problem, lots of wild men join, but staying below 15k wealth until you can fight back is key so... Got rid of em. I didn't get to pick cornerstone when I completed it, as soon as I clicked upgrade, Cas sent pigs with grenades... Losing... Is not fun lmao everyone got blown up including the raiders who don't seem to be concerned with friendly fire and we all died. 😅 One of the most interesting ways to avoid raids was leaving the map. Throughout the year I was getting raided by 5 guys with shotguns, getting hit by a shotgun in CE is deadly, getting hit naked is death. if there is no traders to defend us, caravan and leave behind what you DON'T have. Rebuild the large fire thingy, regrow your plants when the raiders leave, they don't usually take much anyway Its a type of gameplay I'm very used to from older games, like Pokemon Nuzzlocke challenge or just self imposed limits or... Just being obsessed with xcom, this is definitely the most challenging thing I've ever done tho, because when I started the fourth run, limited mods, I was hit with the fact that I'd be sleeping without walls..... Anxiety 😂