How do you survive in the oasis?

[Guest]

So my tribe just moved to an oasis. any tips on how to sruvive there?( i didn't know it would be that island when i moved rip )

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

Wait until one of your starters has the claw. Regularly send creatures with very low strenght to attack bearyenas and swipe at leeches, wanderers, whatever you can.

Try to set a base up on land. A base needs at least two double berry bushes, so that one nicheling can collect from two every day. If a nest isn't nearby though, don't bother staying.

Really, really watch out for rogue males. Only let the breeding pair give birth, kill off everyone else when possible or use them as bearyena fodder. Never cut down the small berry bushes, the land has at least one good food spot, but you'll need luck to find it. Have two non- mainbreeding animals create a blind, big-nosed scout for max. efficiency in finding a second base later.

Don't bother with bearyena genes. They're a waste of time. Also don't count on bluebirds to take unwanted children. Get the matriarch pregnant as soon as possible or let her fish in the middle of the Oasis. But rogues always lurk around the pool by the center. Be very careful.

Getting in lean body from wanderers early is better than big ears. If you find a lean bodied wanderer early or one with otherwise good heat resistance, invite them immidiately. Have your starters pick berries and the wanderer scout for a nest. 

As soon as you have enough food, send two creatures to the center to swim and swipe at fishes. If you have claw at this point from the starter, they'll contribute their part, but it won't be much. Keep to the land until you unlock water body. If you stay half-land, take claw + fishing tail + runner leg. I usually have a land line and a fishing line, though. If the island is good, there's also place for another platypus line.

But go land - pond - ocean and you won't struggle. I know some don't appreciate the land, but that way I have never taken starvation damage. Don't skip the phases, adapt to the land and find a good base. Their children or grandchildren can go fishing. Only breed once you've secured a good base, though. Berry bushes are always more important than having two nests.

For the land line, when setting up...

-- don't care about the snout gene

-- blindness is o.k. as they can still pick berries in scent mode, even when no one is around. Try go get one blind scout, but don't let it spread. I usually find a blind wanderer.

-- don't bother with camouflage

-- rogues spawn regularly. You can work against it, but it can't be stopped. Just keep your females pregnant

Pond 

-- Don't have nichelings stay in one spot for too long. Otherwise, fish spawning rates will drop drastically

-- ignore all the wanderers that might spawn on the few land tiles within it, unless they have water genes. Rogue males and bearyenas often spawn on these select few tiles, though, so don't station anyone near them overnight or at day.

-- just aimless swimming around is o.k. at first. Always use up your turns.

Ocean 

-- don't invite all the bad wanderers you might find. There's not much to do there, though, except checking for bleeding. Leeches spawn in kelp, though, but so does food. It's a gamble.

In general, set a low breeding limit and let unwanted nichelings, or nichelings that have the same immunity genes as a better one, pick from the cacti. Picking from cacti isn't a fast death and drowning wastes food. So it's better to use them as a real food source when you can. The only wrong thing to do is the release option. They'll steal too much food.

Roots aren't a viable foodsource. You might barely break even, but more often than not, it's a loss. 

When all cacti and berry bushes are reasonable used, have two grass cleaners, if you can. That will be a dent in bearyena spawn rates and somewhat keep rogues away. You'll want the claw unlocked as fast as possible, though, so when you clean what is an investment. 

TLDR: Don't lose your head and plan a nicheling's job from their birth. It's hard to die as long as you'll use all foodsources and have a good base.

[Jojo]

Get claw, water body and big ears on your Nichelings and you are fine (don't go there if you don't have anybody with claw hanging around)

Fish are by far the best source of food, but don't light up every tile in the pool or you'll soon overfish. If you find you have spare Nichelings send them to the ocean (possibly with cracker jaw as a head gene) to find clams and fish there. I have found that spawn rates are better when you leave areas of the pool dark.

Rogue Males aren't that bad as your base should be in the middle of the pool. As long as you stay away from the edge they are no problem and if you happen to have a rogue male baby it can pick from the cacti.

Bearyena are a good source of food and can be safely taken down from the safety of the pool.

Personally I love the oasis and it is always great fun to start out there

[Lilytuft]

Simple: I die every time I go to a savannah island.

[glitchplight]

If you have nichelings that cant do anything else, have them try to unlock platypus beak since that is godly for the ocean. It is good to focus on claw/fishing tail for the inner oasis and platypus beak/nimble fingers for the ocean and palm trees. Water body will be more necessary for exploring the ocean but not as necessary for the inner oasis (but it helps with swimming and if you accidentally land on a tile too deep)