Editing Tribe (section)

== Material Ages ==

Your camp can advance through six eras, each granting '''permanent, tribe-wide multipliers''' to gathering, processing (conversion speed), security, and how fast wanderers arrive. Founding a new Age costs {{Icon|age-catalyst}} '''Age Catalysts''' (dropped by outposts), a total of building levels across the camp, and a bill of goods. It '''retires your workers''' for that power — their assignments, processing lines, sentinels, and any wounds all clear — but since v0.36.9 your '''camp buildings stay built''' at whatever level you left them; only the crew turns over. Your stockpile is banked first, all worker gear comes home, and your skills, dinos, and Homestead are untouched.

Since v0.36.5 there is also a '''building floor''': every camp building must reach a minimum level before you can found the next Age (Bronze needs them all at '''Lv 1+''', Iron '''2+''', Silver '''3+''', Obsidian '''4+''', Moonstone '''5+'''). The Age card lists exactly which buildings still lag. This is on top of the total building-levels count in the cost column.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Age !! Gather / Process !! Security !! Arrival !! Cost to found
|-
| {{Icon|camp-age-0}} Stone || ×1.0 || ×1.0 || ×1.0 || (starting age)
|-
| {{Icon|camp-age-1}} Bronze || ×1.2 || ×1.25 || ×1.25 || {{Icon|age-catalyst}} 2 Catalysts · 8 building levels (all at Lv 1+) · {{Icon|fernwood}} Fernwood ×600, {{Icon|stone}} Stone ×600, {{Icon|bronze-ingot}} Bronze Ingot ×40
|-
| {{Icon|camp-age-2}} Iron || ×1.4 || ×1.5 || ×1.5 || {{Icon|age-catalyst}} 4 Catalysts · 16 levels (all at Lv 2+) · {{Icon|cycad-log}} Cycad Log ×800, {{Icon|iron-ingot}} Iron Ingot ×80, {{Icon|hide}} Hide ×150
|-
| {{Icon|camp-age-3}} Silver || ×1.6 || ×1.75 || ×1.75 || {{Icon|age-catalyst}} 6 Catalysts · 24 levels (all at Lv 3+) · {{Icon|ginkgo-log}} Ginkgo Log ×1,000, {{Icon|crystal}} Crystal ×60, 60 Frostbound Hide
|-
| {{Icon|camp-age-4}} Obsidian || ×1.8 || ×2.0 || ×2.0 || {{Icon|age-catalyst}} 8 Catalysts · 32 levels (all at Lv 4+) · {{Icon|obsidian}} Obsidian ×120, {{Icon|crystal}} Crystal ×100, 100 Frostbound Hide
|-
| {{Icon|camp-age-5}} Moonstone || ×2.0 || ×2.25 || ×2.25 || {{Icon|age-catalyst}} 10 Catalysts · 40 levels (all at Lv 5+) · {{Icon|moonstone}} Moonstone ×30, {{Icon|obsidian}} Obsidian ×60, {{Icon|sky-grain}} Sky Grain ×40
|}

The five advancement Ages ask for '''2, 4, 6, 8 and 10''' Age Catalysts in turn — 30 in all to reach the Moonstone Age. Since v0.47.8, each capture only has a '''20%''' chance to pay its outpost's listed Catalysts rather than a guarantee: summing every outpost's listed amount gives '''28''' as the ceiling if every roll landed, but at 20% that's an average of only about '''5–6''' Catalysts per clean sweep of all ten — so reaching 30 takes many repeat captures as banners expire and reset (see [[#Rogue-clan outposts|below]]).