Beginners Guide To Ancestors The Humankind Odyssey 

So in the video, I state that the game does not tell you the sweet spot for crafting and such and I was wrong about this. For some reason, I can not hear the sound. But there is a sound when crafting to tell you the sweet spot. Many have told me while streaming that it sounds like a small chime. I have no idea why but I am deff to it. There is a small ding when doing stuff like fishing and flipping rocks as well. That one I can hear if I crank up the volume. Sorry for the misinformation in the video.

I bought game yesterday and I found that you can kill the predators too. You wouldn’t believe on how many predators I killed in total. My monkey don’t fear predators, the predators fears me.

Theres a Bee hive on the cliff right inside your base that you can get too by climbing a vine that is located right behind the stick barrier that you built. You can then use the stem to retrieve some honey from the hive by poking it. This goes to anyone who might not have known

There's a beehive near the waterfall shelter, you use the grass stemto gather honey. You have to inspect the hive first, though.

Just bought this game last night and I can't put it down! Literally one of a kind and just so wickedly interesting

I think this dude used every synonym for 'monkey' and didn't use the word 'ape' once.

The number of times I’ve died trying to jump to another tree is insane.

i went exploring with the fam and couldn't help but watch them all get ate by the crocodile

I love how people complain about the difficulty of the game. That's the point of this game. Switch on your brain and it will be a nice experience. Your ancestors didn't survive by complaining about how hard life is.

There is a "sweet spot" indicator while crafting. During the wind up animation, if you listen closely, theres a faint "ting" sound that shows you have hit the sweet spot. If you let go shortly after the sound, the chance of successfully crafting is much higher.

As a baby monkey in the beginning i didnt know i was supposed to hide and ended up finding my clan and continued from there. Took a while to realise i could switch between my monkey friends....

20:00 They actually give you a little sound which tells you when to stop.

Watching this in 2022, thanks SO much for this video. I recently bought this game on sale, and there's SO much the game doesn't tell you about managing your colony, in fact they pretty much tell you nothing, lol. As usual, another great beginner's guide!

Finally, a person who actually good at ancestors!

I wonder if this game was ever used for a school program ever. I think it'd be great for one! Love this game and still play it from time to time.

This video was a perfect guide to help start the game, wasn’t excessive and annoying, taught me a heap of stuff I needed to know and reasonably quickly. well done mate thank you 👏🏽

Please keep making more videos about this game it is extremely helpful

this helped out alot, also the sticks that you make from the natal reeds, if you look up near the waterfall you should see beehive, that you can use the stick with after climbing up near them to dip some honey on it, after examining everything, its a new food source, and it gives a buff against poisons i think,

I just want to say thanks for this video I was having a really hard time trying to figure out this game and this video was just what I needed

So in the time I've played, here are my tips. Also I'm on PS4. Add me if anyone wants to play or has questions. Omfg-loot 1. Eat, sleep, drink regularly to sustain full health and stamina. 2. On PS4 the X button is your best friend. It does everything from grabbing, drinking, eating, and sleeping. 3. R1 and L1 are used regularly for switching hands and altering numerous things so experiment with altering everything. 4. Eat everything, regardless of it poisoning you or not, you will build a tolerance eventually and with the right mutation, immunity. 5. Different fruits, vegetables, and meats will give you different buffs depending on how it's altered. Some will still buff without altering. 6. You hang from foilage by holding the X button on PS4 and whatever the jump button is on PC. 7. To counter a predator you must have a stick or something similar, sharpened or not. When the prompt to dodge comes up hold the button to dodge and up on the stick toward the predator. If done correctly you'll stab them. Some enemies take more than one hit. 8. Having children is very important, always try to have between 4 and 6 ready to reach adulthood. 9. Mate at your bed after grooming the opposite gender to form a couple, must hold O after the pregnancy while lying in bed to produce offspring. 10. Each female can have two children. Elder females are not fertile but males are. 11. Stay off the ground as often as you can, predators roam all over the place. These aren't in any particular order and I apologise if I missed anything important but I'm willing to answer any questions. Good luck, be patient and you'll do fine.

Huh...when I played, I actually managed to get back to the tribe without the hiding part. xD

Very good guide. Easily the best ancestors player i’ve seen. Keep making these please, it will help everyone! Hope your clan doesn’t die lol

I'm so grateful that you made this guide with mouse and keyboard. I hope watching this will help me dodge or kill other animals in the game.

Excellent explanation. I've watched many others playing this game & while it's entertaining to see them flailing about in confusion, most really have no idea what they're doing. Good how-to video.

when you'r crafting there is a sweet spot, the ''hold left mouse'' icon on the right will turn black grayish. that's when you have to release it. also it makes a little ping sound. Ps: left of the waterfall in your base there is a small platform on the rock, i found an emerald stone there.. but i broke it while smashing it.

They should change the eating animations of the baby. It always looks like I am stuffing my face, and the baby gets nothing. they even grab for it and get nothing. I feel bad every time I do that. Even the face after they grab things matches that notion. It's the face you're making if pizza is on the table and everyone grabs for it and you end up with empty hands. Change it for something like it actually grabbing food from sources I am eating from, and or let me feed it. It would have multiple benefits. I am not feeling bad anymore, and immersion since I could let it eat from sources that are safe and let me keep it from eating dangerous foods. Like it would not eat anything that I have not given it before, but after I have it to it then it will eat on it's own. It would make the babies I am carrying around more than an XP farm. It would look like that I am actually teaching them things.

Wow. Thank God you explained what “End Expedition” meant. Had everyone following me around the whole time so far.

With the stem you can dip it in honey, if you eat the honey you get a snake venom buff but if you alter the stem with honey on it you can apply it to yourself and get a bleeding buff

Thank u man I just got the game today and had no clue how to advance This video helped me So u got a new subscriber now 🥰😁

About the coconuts, you can peel them with your hand to get just the nut. Then use the chopper to poke a hole in it so you can drink, or the scraper to cut it in half so you can eat. This makes coconuts a lot more useful while exploring, since you can avoid water with potential predators around when you need a drink or eat if you need to.

Thank you for this. You made it clear interesting and informative, until now I wasn't sure about this game but after watching this and with the way you presented it I think it's something that I will enjoy . Many thanks

nothing in this game is about pure guesswork, its about learning and every single action has an audio queue for a sweetspot to increase efficiency in every action and minimize expended energy, also each primate can piggyback 2 babies, so when having a clanmate follow you can max out at 4 babies carried for max experience gain

You forget the 10 minutes of waiting on a loading screen

Bro you know ALOT about this game please a series??

I was so lost I had to watch this tutorial lol

Dark souls doesn't hold your hand, but this game throws you off a cliff ...

Extremely helpful. This game tells you NOTHING ! I didn’t know any thing about how to make the spear or lift the rocks etc. thanks for the details it makes it a little easier now.

this game is so much more fun than i thought it would be, shotout to the creative developers for doing something different and unique!! and to all the people crying in the comments that the game sucks, it doesnt suck you just dont know how to play it and quite honestly i dont know what you were expecting this game to be. Smoke some weed, then return to monke.....peak gaming experience

Excellent and thorough and much needed description of the game mechanics. Many thanks.

So addictive and frustrating, it literally says "we won'thelp you much." Lol sweet video instantly helped me get a grip on what's going on.

Great fun game , you helped me with husk item and clan management circle in the lower right. Runs great on my Laptop and i hope the console version hits soon as well. Skill chain for evolution is brilliant.

OMG, I love you! This video has just saved me so many hours of confusion and frustration... thank you!

Great video one of the few human Odyssey videos I've seen and thumbs uped. Continue the great work 💪

Use the cacade stem to get honey from the bee hive in your first camp. You can either eat the honey or you can pull it off and apply it to you to stop bleeding and something else I believe... good full buff if I remember correctly.

Bruh this game was pissing me tf off, had to figure out wtf I was doing

This was so helpful. There's so much I had no idea about.

Thank you for the awesome info. My wife and I started playing this game and were so lost.

Super useful video! I was really confused before watching this! Thank you!

you can scrape coconuts without a tool, you'll get an unbroken coconut that way... then use a basalt chopper to pierce a hole to drink from it to get the max buffs... and the stem is used for poking beehives for honey or termite hills for termites

Very thorough video. Thanks this helps a lot! Keep up the good work.

Oh my god, the memorizing trick is a life saver. Im really directionally dumb and in games it puts me at a disadvantage. This will help a lot. The only thing I’d add to your tutorial is that its better to have two babies on your monkey, one in the front and one on the back. And stripped fronds are for getting honey

At the base you start off there is a stone that protects u from the unknown for a later mission of inspecting the meteoroid if u use intelligence and look on the ledge of the water fall it should be there. Another way to open up coconuts is having one empty hand and altering the coconut shell u can pull apart the shell with enough strength eventually u will have a coconut u can then use a rock to break the inner shell open after inspecting it'll categorize as food u will get 2 different achievements for doing so ^^

Late to the party but this game is F@cking amazing!!!!

Looks interesting! Never seen a game like this before.

If anyone doesn't understand what the stripped natal cycad does, it's how you harvest honey to eat. Pro-tip: get a few sticks of honey and have someone in your hunting party carry them, that way when someone gets tagged by a green mamba you can just give them the honey stick and proceed with the hunt.

"Because you have to inspect everything as a monke" :D

Stems are used to get honey out beehives and termites out of mounts

27:14 - 32:00 THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST, EASY TO UNDERSTAND, WELL EXPLAINED DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO USE A RADAR/MAP THATS NOT EXPLAINED TO ANYONE UPON PURCHASING THIS GREAT GAME. I HAD A ROUGH IDEA OF WHAT IT WAS, BUT AFTER LISTENING TO THAT BREAKDOWN OF IT, IM COMPLETLY AT EASE :) AMAZING VIDEO BROTHER :)

Now that was helpful AF! Thanks a lot for this guide!!

thanks for the tips! I'm also thankful that your voice is not obnoxious and annoying like most other youtubers lol. You also explain it all very well so for that I subbed up.

Man thanks for this video. Felt completely lost on my first game...

Couple corrections: you called venom buff/debuff the “poison buff” and you called the poison buff/debuff “whatever this is”. You have them backwards. Just for clarity, the venom buff protects against snake venom, the poison buff protects against being poisoned (food poisoning, etc. but not snake venom). Remember boys and girls: if you bite it and it kills you, it’s poison. If it bites you and kills you, it’s venom. Other correction: if you play on the easiest difficulty it straight up tells you when to release the button for almost any action you perform. It has the audio cue people mention, but also a visual cue where the whole screen flashes green when it’s time to release. Handy to have for your first playthrough as it’s not as much of a guessing game with crafting or other actions. Great video though, you covered most of the basic stuff that the game doesn’t explain. Solid beginner’s guide!

I'd love to see you stream this game. Watching others struggle with it is such a pain.

You can carry two babies at a time, one on the chest and one on the back. Your clan can have up to 6 babies at a time.

Here's another useful tip: Make sure you pause right after you drink or eat so that way you don't have to keep pressing down the action button. As you unpause they will continue drinking or eating and you can press action button again to stop.

appreciate the helpful video, a little late on getting the game but this video is awesome.

22:40 the stem is for picking into hives to get honey and termite mounds to get termites

At the start of the game its possible to make it back to your tribe as a baby ...you dont need to wait for an adult to rescue you....I decided i was just gunna get myself back....but once you get back you DONT get any kind of bonus for finding your own way and conquering your fears....It would have been nice to get some kind of experience upgrade for making it back on your own as a baby primate.

When you eat something (like meat, eggs, certain mushrooms, etc) DO NOT do anything to skip over the sickness like drinking. You have to ride out the sickness to build tolerance to said food item in a reasonable amount of time, if you drink it makes building tolerance take AGES. Also side note having full bone break resistance does not mean you can fall from any height, if you fall from too high you will still die. Also for food unless it's a vegetable sniff it if the color is even slightly different, this not only is needed for evolution but the reason you get sick when eating fruits isn't because you over ate but because fruit goes bad seemingly at random. Also the timing for counter attacks varies if you find your stick is breaking when you release the button as soon as you hear the quene, then try waiting a second usually a predator starting to open it's mouth or an iriskable lowering its head is a good indicator of when to release the button after hearing the audio quene.

please do a gameplay. it would be really great to watch someone who knows the game

Whenever I press play on steam it just stays on a black screen and I can't do anything. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

How do you take the baby ? I am just on the spot but can't interact with the place, no button nothin...

WHAT. As soon as I got the ability to craft I tried all the different combinations of rock and most of them just broke. What black magic is this?

I had no idea i had to feed them all!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once you busy the coconut open you can also click the button again to alter it and the primate will tear off all the stuff from it down to the coconut and you can then eat it.

This is the manual this game needed. I'm all for games not hand-holding you, but I feel like this game needs a little more explanation than it has before throwing you into the wild.

Well firespark81 this was interesting to see on your Channel I wasn't expecting it in fact but it was certainly interesting to watch I'd be curious once you get the hang of things perhaps you could allow us to tag along after all I have to admit it would be interesting to see how it went in the meantime just have fun with it I guess LOL

You can do the spear with a norma, stone, doesnt have to altered

They do give a tip on the crafting. It is a clock click timing on it .

Very good guide. Please describe now evolution systems, generations of clan

You can carry 2 babies at the same time. The video didn't mention this, it's always best to have 2.

i played this for the first time and I had no idea what I was doing

Excellent tutorial for a prospective beginner about to buy the game. I have a sweet bit of knowledge to start with. Thanks!

There is a sound cue for crafting... Was that not in the early build?

22:31 you use that to get honey. It'll give you a buff against poison and snake venom

Use the stick from the palm fronds to get honey from above camp!!!

this game fascinated me i didnt realize how hard itd be

This video is really useful, thank you so much

if you go to option and change to keyboard, it shows the key on the keyboard.

Just so yall know for a tip the crafting does have an audio Q.

I think that the icon which looks like a gourd represents alcohol. It visually looks like being drunk when it appears and it only comes from fruits. You'll also notice that rotten fruits give you the severe effect while unripe ones don't give it at all, and rope ones give it after eating a lot of fruits. Compared to every other animal in the world, humans have an extreme resistance to alcohol and that, I think, is what they're trying to represent.

Ayyyy thanks for being you, Firespark. 😎👉👉 v glad to see you’ve covered this title.

This might be not that much but u can carry two babies at the same time and so increase ur total xp gain,the same to ur followers

there is a map available on google if that helps

Thanks for the tips , just bought this game on day 5 on it and only just getting to grips with it I think

Thanks FireSpark81 - very helpful vid.

for crasting and things like fishing there is a faint sound that lets you know when to let go of the button you are pressing

the small stick can be used to get honey from the bee hive

22:40 i Think theyre used for getting honey from been nests! Or maybe not! But there is a bee-hive up hanging from the cliff! Hanging Down somwhere from the cliff somwhere above you!

Great tutorial. Will be looking for your sequel…thanks