Ymir – Beginners Tips

A collection of useful tips when starting out in Ymir.

Useful Tips for Newbies

All credit goes to MarkC2!

Introduction

Being fairly new to the game myself and with few resources available I though I would create a list of useful tips and tricks for anyone starting out.

The Tutorial

• Play and complete the tutorial if its your first time.
• Follow the tutorial in correct order and follow the objectives exactly.
• Storage window crash bug, close storage window before clicking the tutorial text.

Stone Age – Founding Your First City

Starting off with a band of settlers to a stable settlement which meets the basic needs of your Porcos.

• Use the objectives as a guide to setting up your first settlement.
• Settle on starting location as moving is very dangerous, if you must move only one tile.
• You can look in tiles without needing any units so long as its in view of a city or army.
• Only build one water source, you will then get idea for wells once demand gets high.
• Porcos are your most valuable resource in the beginning, more than any early resource.
• Invading barbarians will head for your resources, let them if you dont want to risk losing any militia.
• Some building are free to place such as ground storage.
• Use choke points in the terrain.
• Items dont have to get carried yet so storage can be any accessible location regardless of distance to houses & production.
• Early focus should be to grow population.

Stone Age

Having met the basic needs of your Porcos you now need to go from surviving to prospering.

• Move your storage to an easily defended location once you have a strong militia.
• Food shortage due to population growth should trigger farming Idea for planting fields.
• A level 1 gatherer hut can support about 14 fields.
• Use fertility overlay when placing fields, fertility ranges from 1 (low) to 3 (high).
• When Exploring local map look out for copper (and other resources), you will need it shortly.
• Build enough houses for all your Porcos, upgrade houses when you can. This will improve health and well being and help grow your population.
• Set job priority for tier 1 needs (Wells, Farms & Hunters) to critical.

Misc.

• Starting location has balanced resources such as food, water and wood to get you going, other tiles may not.
• Starting settlement doesnt have to be your capital, you can change later or abandon completely if you want.
• Flatten map also adds red lines for inaccessibility, makes finding gaps in cliffs easier.
• There is no Pause button you must close game.