Tribe

The Tribe (your camp, 🔥 in the sidebar) is a separate survivor-clan layer: stranded wanderers drift in to your campfire, you put them to work gathering, crafting, and guarding, you advance the camp through five Material Ages, and you send strike teams against rogue-clan outposts. It runs alongside the rest of the game and is never tied to your Skills, dinos, or Homestead — the camp is its own thing.

Not to be confused with Rivals, the fifteen enemy tribes you raid with your dino pack. This page is your own camp of survivor workers.

The Tribe arc shipped in three phases: the Campfire (v0.35.0), Craft & Guard (v0.35.5), and Ages & Outposts (v0.36.0).

Wanderers

Light the campfire and stranded survivors wander in over time (arriving online and offline). As your camp's prestige grows, rarer, more productive tiers start to appear; you welcome each wanderer in or turn them away.

Wanderer	Gather rate	Appears at prestige
🧍 Novice Vagrant	×1.0 (base ≈ 0.5/min)	0
🧑‍🌾 Seasoned Forager	×1.6	3
🧗 Expert Scavenger	×2.4	7
🛡️ Vanguard Elite	×3.5	12

A worker's base gather rate is about half an early hired-hand dino, before its tier and Age multipliers. Workers are transient — founding a new Age retires them (see below).

Putting workers to work

Assign each worker to a job. As with hired hands, your tribe plays by your rules — a worker can only gather what you've unlocked yourself; locked options show why.

Gathering — stocks the camp stockpile on a steady clock (online and offline); one tap collects everything into your Bank.
Artisan / conversion lines — workers run smelting, Cooking, Crafting, and Alchemy recipes you've unlocked, pulling materials from the stockpile first and your Bank second, and stacking the results in camp. The Smelting Furnaces building speeds every line.
Night watch — see below.

Arm your people: workers wear weapon, chest, and legs gear — plain pieces from your Bank or forged masterworks from the gear locker. Kit speeds their work, hardens the watch, and sets their strike-team power at the outposts. A wounded worker wears a 🩹 chip and sits out all jobs until it heals.

Camp buildings

Building	Max level	Effect per level
🛖 Living Quarters	12	+1 worker housed (base cap 2)
🔥 Campfire	12	Faster wanderer arrival + raises camp prestige
🏬 Central Depot	12	+10 to every stockpile cap (base 60)
🏭 Smelting Furnaces	10	+10% artisan (conversion) speed
🗼 Watchfire	10	+2 Security against night raids

Camp prestige is the sum of your camp's development, and it's what draws the better wanderers.

The night watch

Each night, predators eye your stockpile. Put workers on watch as Sentinels and raise the Watchfire to build a Security Rating — shown with the night's honest raid odds. Win and a Sentinel fends the raiders off; lose and the raiders make off with a chunk of your stockpile (about a quarter). A breached palisade stalls the conversion lines until your artisans repair it (a couple of hours).

Material Ages

Your camp can advance through five eras, each granting permanent, tribe-wide multipliers to gathering, processing (conversion speed), security, and how fast wanderers arrive. Founding a new Age costs Age Catalysts (dropped by outposts), a total of building levels across the camp, and a bill of goods. It retires your workers and camp buildings for that power — but your stockpile is banked first, all worker gear comes home, and your skills, dinos, and Homestead are untouched.

Age	Gather / Process	Security	Arrival	Cost to found
🪨 Stone	×1.0	×1.0	×1.0	(starting age)
🥉 Bronze	×1.5	×1.25	×1.25	3 Catalysts · 8 building levels · 150 Fernwood, 150 Stone, 20 Bronze Ingot
⚙️ Iron	×2.2	×1.5	×1.5	6 Catalysts · 16 levels · 200 Cycad Log, 30 Iron Ingot, 60 Hide
🥈 Silver	×3.2	×1.75	×1.75	10 Catalysts · 24 levels · 250 Ginkgo Log, 25 Crystal, 20 Frostbound Hide
🌑 Obsidian	×4.5	×2.0	×2.0	15 Catalysts · 32 levels · 40 Obsidian, 40 Crystal, 40 Frostbound Hide

Rogue-clan outposts

Eight hostile camps dot the valley. Pick a strike team of workers (their combined tier + gear power is your strength), see your honest win chance against the outpost's difficulty, and attack — battles resolve instantly. Victory plants your banner on the Valley Map for seven days and pays loot, Age Catalysts, and — at the four deepest outposts — a masterwork blueprint sheet for the forge. Defeat only wounds the team (a few hours' rest); they never die.

Outpost	Clan	Biome	Difficulty	Catalysts	Masterwork sheet
🦴 Briar Den	the Bonepickers	Grasslands	60	1	—
🪵 Mossback Stockade	the Rotwood Pack	Redwood Wilds	120	1	—
🐸 Sunken Palisade	the Mirefangs	Murkwater Swamp	200	2	—
🕯️ Gloom Warren	the Unlit	Cavern Depths	300	2	—
🪓 Cinder Ring	the Ashwalkers	Scorched Badlands	420	3	Starmetal Blade
🦀 Brine Roost	the Saltclaws	Coral Shallows	560	3	Wardstone Bulwark
❄️ Frostbite Camp	the Palewind	Frozen Wastes	720	4	Heartwood Warbow
🌋 Ember Throne	the Cindershades	Ashen Peaks	900	5	Apexforged Edge

The Field Guide tracks every outpost drop, and the Age Catalyst counts toward the Living Archive item total.