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	Watch security	Appears at prestige
🧍 Novice Vagrant	×1.0	2	0
🧑‍🌾 Seasoned Forager	×1.6	3	3
🧗 Expert Scavenger	×2.4	5	7
🛡️ Vanguard Elite	×3.5	8	12

Gather rate multiplies the base rate; Watch security is what that worker adds on the night watch. A worker's base gather rate is 0.5 per minute — about half an early hired-hand dino — before its tier multiplier and the current Age's multiplier.

Camp basics: a wanderer arrives about every 4 minutes at base, speeding up toward a 1-minute floor as the Campfire and your Age improve arrival. A new camp houses 2 workers and holds 60 of each item in its stockpile; the Living Quarters and Central Depot raise those. 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.

Building costs

Each level costs materials that grow with the level (about ×1.5 per step; the Hide lines grow ×1.4). The table gives the exact cost of each level per material, and the Total to fully max the building.

Building	Material	L1	L2	L3	L4	L5	L6	L7	L8	L9	L10	L11	L12	Total
Living Quarters	Fernwood	20	30	45	68	101	152	228	342	513	769	1,153	1,730	5,151
Living Quarters	Plains Fiber	12	18	27	41	61	91	137	205	308	461	692	1,038	3,091
Campfire	Fernwood	15	23	34	51	76	114	171	256	384	577	865	1,297	3,863
	Stone	10	15	23	34	51	76	114	171	256	384	577	865	2,576
	Hide	—	—	—	—	2	3	4	5	8	11	15	21	69
Central Depot	Fernwood	30	45	68	101	152	228	342	513	769	1,153	1,730	2,595	7,726
Central Depot	Stone	20	30	45	68	101	152	228	342	513	769	1,153	1,730	5,151
Smelting Furnaces	Stone	35	53	79	118	177	266	399	598	897	1,346	—	—	3,968
Smelting Furnaces	Hide	3	4	6	8	12	16	23	32	44	62	—	—	210
Watchfire	Fernwood	25	38	56	84	127	190	285	427	641	961	—	—	2,834
Watchfire	Plains Fiber	15	23	34	51	76	114	171	256	384	577	—	—	1,701

The night watch

Every 8 hours predators eye your stockpile. Put workers on watch as Sentinels and raise the Watchfire to build a Security Rating — the sum of each Sentinel's watch-security (per the wanderer table) plus +2 per Watchfire level, further scaled by your Age's security multiplier. The raid chance starts at 60% and drops 4% per point of Security, so 15 Security shuts raiders out entirely. A raid that lands steals 25% of your stockpile, and a breached palisade stalls the conversion lines for 2 hours while your artisans repair it. The night's honest odds are shown before it falls.

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 · Fernwood ×150, Stone ×150, Bronze Ingot ×20
⚙️ Iron	×2.2	×1.5	×1.5	6 Catalysts · 16 levels · Cycad Log ×200, Iron Ingot ×30, Hide ×60
🥈 Silver	×3.2	×1.75	×1.75	10 Catalysts · 24 levels · Ginkgo Log ×250, Crystal ×25, 20 Frostbound Hide
🌑 Obsidian	×4.5	×2.0	×2.0	15 Catalysts · 32 levels · Obsidian ×40, Crystal ×40, 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.

Every win pays its Age Catalysts and loot; the four deepest also drop a masterwork sheet.

Outpost	Clan	Biome	Difficulty	Catalysts	Loot	Masterwork sheet
🦴 Briar Den	the Bonepickers	Grasslands	60	1	Hide ×10, Stone ×30	—
🪵 Mossback Stockade	the Rotwood Pack	Redwood Wilds	120	1	Cycad Log ×40, Plains Fiber ×40	—
🐸 Sunken Palisade	the Mirefangs	Murkwater Swamp	200	2	Marsh Bean ×20, Glowcap ×15	—
🕯️ Gloom Warren	the Unlit	Cavern Depths	300	2	Iron Ore ×30, Cave Pearl ×6	—
🪓 Cinder Ring	the Ashwalkers	Scorched Badlands	420	3	Sulfur ×20, Obsidian ×8	Starmetal Blade
🦀 Brine Roost	the Saltclaws	Coral Shallows	560	3	4 Abyssal Pearl, Horseshoe Crab ×12	Wardstone Bulwark
❄️ Frostbite Camp	the Palewind	Frozen Wastes	720	4	Frostpine Log ×40, 10 Frostbound Hide	Heartwood Warbow
🌋 Ember Throne	the Cindershades	Ashen Peaks	900	5	Obsidian ×12, Crystal ×10	Apexforged Edge

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