Black & White – Walkthrough (walkthrough)

Black & White - Walkthrough

Von: "Elliott" 
INDEX

1. Version History

2. Introduction

3.Doesn't exist

4. The Basic Gameplay

4.1 Playing Good

4.2 Playing Evil

5. Creature Training

5.1 Basic knowledge

5.2 Basic behaviour

5.3 Basic learning

5.4 Specific creature actions

5.4.1 The urges of feeding and sleeping

5.4.2 The eating of villagers

5.4.3 The art of throwing objects

5.4.4 The assisting in village duties

5.4.5 The importance of housekeeping

6. Village Management

7. Island specific tips and secrets

7.1 The first island

7.2 The second island

7.3 The third island

7.4 The fourth island

7.5 The fifth island

8. Silver scroll solutions

8.1 Quests on the first island

8.1.1 Throwing Stones

8.1.2 The Savior

8.1.3 The Lost Flock

8.1.4 The Singing Stones (1)

8.1.5 The Explorers

8.1.6 The Pied Piper

8.1.7 The Hermit

8.1.8 The Ogre

8.1.9 Mushroom cooking quest

8.2 Quests on the second island

8.2.1 The Plague

8.2.2 The Sacrifice

8.2.3 The Sea

8.2.4 The Singing Stones (2)

8.2.5 The Beach Temple Puzzle

8.2.6 The Greedy Farmer

8.2.7 The Idol

8.2.8 The Slavers

8.2.9 The Riddles

9. General Questions

9.1 Where can I find Easter eggs in the game?

9.2 How does one use miracle dispensers?

9.3 What makes the creature grow faster?

9.4 What do I need to do to unlock all the creatures?

9.5 How can I backup my creature?

10.  Final Notes

11. Credits
2. INTRODUCTION
3. Yip , like i said (don't exist)
4. THE BASIC GAMEPLAY
First  of  all,  there is no way to skip  the  tutorial.  By

watching  the Forums and various IRC channels, I'd say  that

this  is  a  very  good feature (the manual is  rather  weak

anyway).

Second, read the signs.

Third, read the signs.

Always  read  the  friggin'  signs!  Signs  next  to  houses

contains valuable information about what's in the house  and

how to operate it. Signs in the terrain can contain valuable

information on how to properly train your creature, or small

gameplay tricks, or even hints on how to accomplish  certain

goals.
The game teaches you the basic gameplay very well, if you'll

just  have the patience to look, and it will be much  easier

than  reading a tutorial (and if you are intelligent  enough

to  appreciate  a long detailed tutorial, you have  probably

learned your basic gameplay already, so I won't waste  space

writing about it).
I will say this for a reminder, though: Leaving your hand on

an object is

Very  useful  (for  example over a construction  site  where

you'll  find  out  the  exact  amount  of  wood  needed  for

completition  or over a village totem to find out  how  many

people your village has room for).
The sections below will go into a bit more detail. Note that

these  sections try to cover both extremes. That is, if  you

want a white, or even rainbow colored creature or hand, read

how  to  play good. If you want a black creature with horns,

and  a red hand, read how to play evil. If you just want  to

stay neutral, mix in a little of both.
4.1 PLAYING GOOD
Now  this is a challenge. Here you will need to spend a  lot

of  time managing your villages, which is an utter pain. But

you  cannot neglect your creature either, if you want it  to

be  good  aligned too, and performing the two  together  can

initially be extremely difficult.
If you train your creature well though, you might be able to

leave  it on it's own for an extended period of time,  while

you are away managing your

villages.

Staying good means that you must have the flags of a village

storage  raised as low as possible, or even  not  raised  at

all.  This is an enormous task in itself. But not only that,

you will have to carefully watch all your worshippers at the

temple  shrines  so they don't starve and  die,  which  even

Blackie disapproves of!
You must also act passive, and avoid any killing whatsoever.

This  means  that taking full control of an island  will  be

done  by  sending missionaries, traders, yourself  and  your

creature  to enemy villages to assist and impress them  with

miracles,  food and wood. The Flying Creatures  miracle  and

Heal also work fine to generate lots of belief.
It  is  unconfirmed though, that casting  lots  of  heal  on

villagers will cause them to live longer, and thus,  in  the

long  run, increase faster in numbers since less people  die

and disappear.
You  can  train  your creature to only heal sick  villagers,

though.  Zoom in far and listen to pain sounds or watch  for

crawling villagers, then  target a heal miracle on them  and

have  the  creature watch with the Learning Rope.  This  may

take time, though, since it's not often villagers  get sick.
Also, don't overfeed your villagers, since with lots of food

comes  the  desire to breed, and with the  desire  to  breed

comes the desire to expand,

and soon enough there won't be any empty spots on the island

to expand upon (much less any forests left).
As  a  good  player, you can also sacrifice  at  the  temple

shrines  to  get Prayer power, if you want. A shrubbery  and

any  other  plant will work fine. Never try to  sacrifice  a

stone,  though.  It  will cause damage to  your  shrine  and

scatter your worshippers!
And  even if you get attacked by an enemy, you cannot  fight

back!  Use  the  shield miracles to protect your  villagers,

and  try  not to have your  creature attack another creature

unless  it's  wreaking havoc in one of  your  village.  Your

creature may get provoked into a fight as it is.
So  if  it  is  so frustrating to play good,  what  are  the

rewards? Well, if you don't know the answer to that, my  bet

is  that  your creature won't  turn rainbow coloured anytime

soon.  Some  of the visual effects of playing  good  are:  a

white  temple,  white  hand, white  creature,  clear  skies,

longer days, shorter nights and a rainbow over your temple.
4.2 PLAYING EVIL
First  of  all, evil isn't stupid and it isn't  nasty.  It's

sinister  and  devious. If you kill for fun,  sure  you  are

evil, but you are mainly being blunt, and there's much worse

you  can  do  than  that.  Try torturing  people  with  fire

instead,  starve  them, wreck their homes, play  catch  with

your  creature  using villagers or just leave  the  creature

with  the Aggression Leash on in one of your own villages...

Be creative.
Since  you can do pretty much anything while being  evil,  I

won't dig deep into the details here. I will try to give out

a few usefully tips, though. Being evil will finally let you

ignore  feeding the worshippers at your shrines.  There  are

much  better  ways  of gaining miracle power  than  dancing.

Sacrificing  new  born children for example,  is  much  more

effective.
Sacrificing your dead does also work.
If  you want to wipe out a village, or atleast cause serious

damage, you can taint a food storage by throwing a toadstool

or  poop  in it. Some of the visual effects of playing  evil

are:  a  black temple with spikes, red hand with long nails,

black creature which grows horns, red skies, and everlasting

nights.
5. CREATURE TRAINING
Be aware that you can only have ONE creature for each player

profile and that creature will be constant in ALL games  you

play  using  it. It will grow older and remember  everything

you  have done, no matter how much you load the game  or  if

you  pause  your campaign to play a skirmish or  multiplayer

game.  The  only way to reset a creature is to restart  your

game.   Your  creature  does not have  to  be  of  the  same

alignment  as you do. The creature can be so good  it  glows

white, while at the same time, your

Castle  is  growing  spikes. Also note  that  initially  the

Creature Help doesn't show up in the game, even if you  have

it  activated in the Options. The first time it will show up

is  after you have activated the final golden scroll on  the

first island, but it will stay activated after that, even if

you restart a new game or load an earlier save.
If  you start an online game or a skirmish game though,  the

creature help will also get activated and stay so, at  least

until  a  part of the tutorial kicks in again, whereupon  it

will  become  deactivated (so just save, start skirmish  and

then load, to get it back).
5.1 BASIC KNOWLEDGE
In  order  to develop a healthy creature, you need  to  know

about it's vital

statistics. Those are the stats which can be seen  when  you

focus a creature, and are also the only stats which can kill

it.  The  vital  stats are Damage, Hunger and Tiredness.  In

order  to develop a well trained creature, you also need  to

know  about a number of other statistics. These can be found

in  the  Creature Cave, and though they are not vital,  they

still  represents some sort of basic need for the  creature.

Those stats which are non-vital are Exhaustion, Dehydration,

Strength, Fatness and Poop. In addition to this, there are a

number of trivial stats, which isn't really important to the

creature, but which may be important to you. These stats are

Alignment  and Growth. Further, the creature uses Energy  in

order  to cast it's own miracles. All of these stats  should

be  kept  as  low  as  possible, with  Energy  as  the  only

exception.  Energy  gets lower when  the  creature  casts  a

miracle.  When  Energy runs out, it won't be  able  to  cast

miracles  any more and must feed in order to raise the  stat

again.  Illness  and  Warmth will be explained  at  a  later

point.
When  a  vital  stat  gets  maxed out,  your  creature  will

collapse and Regenerate back in it's pen at your Temple. The

stat  will still remain high after that, so you need to take

care of your creature in order to prevent it from collapsing

again.  Have  your creature collapse too much, and  it  will

shrink  noticeably in size (although it will  grow  back  in

size  over  time). Note that when a creature collapses,  you

may  still  have a few seconds to try to fix  the  situation

(heal or feed it), if you are lucky.
Also,  the  creature will over time forget things,  and  may

have to relearn

it.  The  same  goes  for strength. It  will  need  constant

exercise  in order to keep itself fit and keep it's strength

up.
5.2 BASIC BEHAVIOUR
You  should know that the creature knows a number of actions

by  instinct. These actions are mostly those it uses to stay

alive,  like  sleeping, eating, drinking  and  pooping.  But

encouraging  or discouraging these actions may have  several

different  outcomes,  which will be  explained  in  a  later

section.  The  creature can also learn a  few  new  actions,

either on it's own or by copying you. However, the amount of

these  actions  are not that important. The thing  which  is

important are the variations of these actions. The  creature

does  not  simply  observe you doing something.  It  observs

exactly what you did, what you used and to what or whom  you

did it! It can also learn whole series of actions in a later

stage.
Training  a  creature  is accomplished  by  encouraging  and

discouraging  Different  variations  of  actions  by  either

stroking or slapping the creature accordigly.
The   way  the  creature  carries  out  it's  actions   also

determines (or may be determined by) it's mental state.  The

creature may show you how it is feeling if you focus  on  it

and  you  can also read alot about what is going on in  it's

mind in the Creature Cave.
If  you  want  your  creature to like  you  more,  pay  more

attention to you or show you it's feeling more, just  stroke

it  when it asks for attention or  wants to mess around (but

not too much, since that will only cause the creature to get

distracted  and stop to look at you when your hand  is  near

it).  Keep  in  mind that the creature's AI is  very  short-

sighted and not very reflective. It does not understand alot

of  effects of it's actions so if there is a bad side-effect

on a particular action (either by  accident or all the time)

only  slap  it if you do not want it to continue doing  that

action  anymore. For example, the creature always throws  an

object  over it's shoulder when it doesn't know what  to  do

with  it. If that object damages anything (stone on a house)

or  becomes  damaged  (villager down a cliff)  the  creature

don't  know  how to associate that event with what  it  just

did. So there is no way to punish it for that, as it doesn't

count  as  an action (neither can you slap the creature  for

noticing  either,  since  that is a  separate  action).  You

simply  have  to  wait  until the creature  has  learned  to

properly deal with the object, whereupon it will pick up and

put down the object properly.
5.3 BASIC LEARNING
If  you  want  the  perfect creature,  hang  around  on  the

tutorial island Until it has learned every possible thing to

be  learned there (some spells will  be unavailable as  well

as  certain methods for helping villagers). Your villages on

the  tutorial island won't have any high demands (since  you

can't  build anything) and as long as you don't  active  the

final golden scroll, there is no time limit. Note that it is

rather  hard  to become immensely good during  the  tutorial

islands.  This  is  probably due to not all  features  being

activated yet. For those of you interested in AI,  the  game

supports both supervised and unsupervised learning, as  well

as  reinforcement learning. A decision tree is also used  to

select  which  action  a creature will  perform.  The  first

method  of learning is simply to show your creature what  to

do.  Leash it with the Learning Rope and carry out the exact

action you want it to perform. Make sure that it is watching

you, or your actions will have little effect.
Note  that  you  shouldn't stroke the  creature  for  simply

noticing what you

Just did (it will point in the direction of your action, and

then look at

you).  The  real  reward  should come  first  after  it  has

properly copied your

action.  Sometimes the creature will understand  immediately

and  copy you, sometimes, it takes forever to get it  to  do

the same thing as you.
A  second  method  of learning is to let the  creature  find

things  out  by itself. But, if you let the creature  wander

around  and  it  accidently manages to learn  something  you

didn't want it to know about, you will have to spend  a  lot

of  time  supressing that behaviour, since  nothing  can  be

"unlearned" once found out. In order to properly  control  a

creature's  behaviour  you need to catch  it  at  a  precise

moment in order to get a precise response out of it. If  you

are too late in praising or punishing your creature, you may

affect  a  whole different action. This means that  you  may

need to anticipate what your creature is going to do. Get to

know  your  creature! This is the only way to be  safe.  You

sometimes also have to plan ahead. When you start  out,  the

creature  will only perform basic stuff. Later on, you  will

want it to carry out more complex series of actions, and  if

you  haven't taught it the basic stuff properly, it  can  be

too late when one of the basic things it got wrong is a part

of  a  more  complex  series of actions (for  example,  when

picking  up  a  tree  is  a part of the  being  generous  to

villagers action in order to resupply the storage).
Though  the  game says that handing the creature a  one-shot

miracle  will cause it to instantly cast it, it  has  to  be

trained  to  cast those too (you will have to  slap  it  for

eating  or  loosing the miracles).  Note that your  creature

may  see more detail than you are aware of. If you cast, for

example, heal on healthy villagers and water on grown trees,

the creature

may  do  so  too.  A  better way is to  only  cast  heal  on

unhealthy villagers and tiny trees. All of the above applies

for  fighting too. Tell your creature to move around a  lot,

and it will do it by itself after awhile.  The same goes for

concentrating  attacks  on special body  parts  (note  which

targeted  body  part carries out the different  attacks  you

want it to perform more).
5.4 SPECIFIC CREATURE ACTIONS
The  previous  sections  were  meant  to  be  very  general.

Anything you read in

Those  sections can be applied to any action no matter  what

creature you have. And if you can't get your creature to  do

what  you  want,  try again until it grasps the  concept  or

change  your method of teaching. Please don't mail me simply

stating that you can't get your creature to do what you want

it  to.  It's not the creature who hasn't tried  it's  best,

it's you.
5.4.1 THE URGES OF FEEDING AND SLEEPING
***************** BUG WARNING!*****************************

When  the  creature eats fish by itself, it will lower  that

creature's  alignment! I do hope that this is  a  bug  which

will  be fixed, since fish is the absolutely best source  of

food  (and  you cannot make diciple herders on your  own  in

order  to  make  sure  proper meat doesn't  run  out).  Your

creature  also seems to get hungrier whenever it eats  fish,

which is fishy...
************************************************************
First  of  all, getting it to eat and sleep on it's  own  is

rather  easy.  However, trying to control how fast  it  gets

hungry  and  how  fast  it gets tired can  be  a  nightmare.

Sometimes, the effects of slapping and stroking can seem  to

be  totally at random. In this section, you will  find  some

helpful  tips,  although you should still be  very  careful,

since  they  will not always work. Only slap or stroke  your

creature  a  little  bit a time, in order  to  minimize  the

damage of a wrong outcome.
Since  the  creature  will  initially  eat  anything,  sleep

anywhere  and poop everywhere, basic training goal of  basic

training will mostly be to control these behaviours. You may

have  noticed that discouraging the creature from being just

generally tired may either make it sleep less, lie down less

on  that location or become less tired. The outcome may seem

to be selected totally at random. Careful consideration is a

must before punishing or praising the creature. For example,

when  it  sleeps you have to factor in several  things.  How

sleepy  was it? Was the creature exhausted or low on energy?

When  did  it  go to sleep and where did it lie  down?  Your

creature  will  also  initially  eat  any  moveable  object.

However,  it has a built in learning factor here,  since  it

will  puke  up anything that isn't good for it (grain  which

isn't ripe, for example).
The  creature can also eat on by it's own initiative  or  by

command (rubbing the belly when given food). But before  you

slap  or  stroke the creature for eating, there are  a  also

number  of  factors you must consider. Consider what  it  is

eating.  Is it a food source which is good for him  or  not?

Does  the  source  replenish itself  fast  or  slow?  Is  it

stealing  from someone? Is it eating because  of  hunger  or

greed?  To get a creature to eat more of a certain  type  of

food,  just hand feed it with the food you want to  increase

it's  apetite  for  and  stroke the creature  after  it  has

finished  eating. This will always make it  appreciate  that

type of food more (note that this isn't an exception to  the

above  rule  since you carry out the action  here  and  then

reward  the  creature for the effect). And yes,  overfeeding

will  cause  it to poop more and get fat. To get it  thinner

again, just keep it hungry a bit longer and don't feed it as

much for a period of time, and it's weight will go down.
Water is lacking a graph in the creature info (although  you

can read it's

dehydration level in the Creature Cave), but it is not  that

important  since the creature always knows how to drink  and

will do so when thirsty (and since it's not that often,  you

shouldn't  need to adjust it's drinking habits if you  don't

feel  you simply have to). There doesn't seem to be any  way

to  bring  a  creature water. Finally,  fish  would  be  the

recommended  food  for any creature, since  fish  regenerate

well  without  any care and it won't be considered  stealing

from  the village. Cattle and other animals regenerate  much

slower  and  can run out if you're not  careful (and  though

herders  help, there is a strange lack of a herding disciple

in the game).
5.4.2 THE EATING OF VILLAGERS
This  can be considered a special case of feeding.  Now  you

either want to

Or  don't want to have the creature eat villagers, depending

on you alignment. An untrained creature, even if it is a Cow

or  a Sheep, will sooner or later eat a villager if you have

it  wander the village hungry. Initially, this can  work  to

your  advantage  if you keep a close eye on  your  creature.

When the creature picks up a village, immediately focus  it.

If  it  shows  you that it is hungry, slap it silly.  If  it

doesn't show  you it's intentions, unfocus and quickly click

on  the  ground  next  to it to make it drop  the  villager.

Stroke  it  for that action, if you wish. You can also  slap

the creature after it has eaten a villager, but only if you

get the a Help Text saying that "your creature will eat more

of  that stuff" (if you slap it without that text appearing,

you may affect another action). Also, stroke the creature if

you want it to continue eating villagers. Although, remember

that  an  empty village belongs to nobody, and that strength

comes in numbers.
And  note that even if you have taught your creature not  to

eat  people From YOUR villages, there is nothing which stops

it  from  eating people from other, neutral or enemy  owned,

villages.  You'll have to teach it how to  behave  to  other

villagers separately.
5.4.3 THE ART OF THROWING OBJECTS
--------------- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION! -------------------

You  can give, or throw (if you have taught it to catch) the

creature  a  much  larger object than  it  can  normally  be

commanded  to pick up by itself. Does anyone know  why  this

is?
Throwing (as with kicking) seems to be an aggressive action,

so  if  you  want a passive creature, slap it  for  throwing

stuff.  The exception is when it is throwing trees  or  food

into  the  village  storage, which  doesn't  beem  to  count

neither  as a throw or an aggressive action (same  goes  for

when it's playful).
The biggest question seems to be how to get the creature  to

throw stones.

But  if  you  are  looking to increase the strength  of  the

creature,  remember  that the sign said  that  the  creature

needed  only to be carrying stones. To exercise  it,  simply

give  your creature a stone and action click on a  piece  of

ground away from it and walk or run it around the island for

a   hile.  The creature's strength will increase  over  time

because  of  this.  Anyway, if your creature  can  copy  you

throwing  stones, all is well, and it should be praised  for

it. Note that the creature will take notice of where you aim

your  stone and even if you fetch the stone back or not.  If

the  creature refuses to copy your actions, things  may  get

more  complicated.  Action clicking  on  an  object  with  a

leashed creature is tated to be the command of getting it to

pick  the object up. However,  his doesn't always work  with

stones. A reason of this may be that the stone is too large.

But  if  you crush the stone into smaller pieces  while  the

creature  is  watching, it may very well  copy  that  action

instead the next time it is told to pick up a stone,  so  be

careful.
A better course of action is to crush a number of stones far

away  from the creature and have it travel there only  after

they  are the appropriate size. I personally can't  see  any

use  in  throwing an object other than a stone, so when  the

creature tries that, just slap it to keep it from doing that

again.  Also,  don't  make the mistake of  praising  it  too

early.  f  you  want  it to throw a rock,  don't  praise  it

immediately  after it's picked the rock up,  since  it  will

most  definitely eat the rock instead. The creature can also

be trained to catch stones (and other objects...

Such  as fireballs). Have it in a playfull mode and practice

with  the  beach  ball. Just hrow the  ball  at  it  at  the

appropriate  height  and it should try  to  catch  it  after

awhile. Then move on to other objects you want it to  catch.

Sometimes, double-clicking on a spot on the ground when  the

creature  is  holding a stone will make it throw  the  stone

there,  but  I haven't nailed down the details  around  this

yet, as it may run to that  spot also.
5.4.4 THE ASSISTING IN VILLAGE DUTIES
---------------------- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION! ------------

Is  it  just me, or does the creature always seem to  forget

how to use the

village store?

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******* BUG WARNING!********************************

If  your creature picks up a villager who has just died  and

turned into a

skeleton, the skeleton will come to life and walk around the

village!  This  may be a side-effect of the  healing  effect

being  picked  up by a creature instills, but it's  still  a

bug.
And if your creature decides to eat a Dead villager, it will

count  asHaving killed a person! Also, some  people  do  say

that the creature can make diciples other than breeders, but

I have seen NO evidence of this. The creature always seem to

create  a diciple breeder if it cuddles a villager (even  if

there  is  nobody around to "mate" with, and even if   there

is,  action clicking on the ground to make the creature drop

the  villager will NOT produce a breeder). It must be a bug,

or have a really weird explanation.
If  you  play  the game by micromanaging your villages,  you

will  almost  certainly spend such a large  amount  of  time

doing  it  that the creature automatically will  adapt  your

actions  over time. However, if you do have trouble teaching

it to help villagers, have the creature leashed to you using

the Learning Rope, while you perform the actions you want it

to  adopt. Performing the same actions in different ways may

also  help. For example, the food storage can be  filled  by

either  dropping, for example,  rain on it or by  casting  a

food miracle on it. Note that having a creature leashed to a

building won't automatically make thecreature

interact with the building unless you have taught it what to

do.  In fact, it seems to be a rather poor use of the  leash

(except  for  a  well  trained  creature,  but  even   then,

unrestricting  it's  area of movement will  most  definitely

have it moving out of the village sooner or later). And,  if

you  do  have  your creature leashed to a  building  in  the

village, make

sure  you unleash it when it needs food and sleep, which  it

otherwise might not prioritise. An area of trouble seems  to

be  if  you want to have your creature deliver food  to  the

worshippers  at  your temple. This is very hard  for  it  to

copy,  since  there  doesn't seem to be a clear  distinction

between  the different parts of the temple to your  creature

(it  seems to regard the tower, the surrounding shrines  and

it's pen as one and the same).
If  you have taught your creature the Food miracle, however,

the best way

Is  simply to leash it to the food desire flag on  a  temple

shrine and have

It figure out by itself that it should cast a miracle on the

worshippers. Remember to stroke the creature when it gets it

right. This method is very effective. Also, if your creature

is  kind  to the villagers, it may pick one up from time  to

time,  pat the villager a little and then put it back  down.

That  villager will then have a very high chance of  turning

into  a  diciple breeder! This can happen very often with  a

creature which is kind to villagers, so be watchful of  your

creature so your villagers won't cause overbreeding which is

a nightmare. So, if you want your creature to continue being

nice  to villagers, but not create that many breeders, leash

it  the moment it picks up a villager. Then action click  by

it's  feet  to  make it put the villager down and  make  the

creature  do something more usefull instead. The best  thing

is to assign all diciples yourself. Remember which villagers

you  put  to work far from your village, and seek  them  out

when  you  have your creature leashed to the Learning  Rope.

Diciples  who  work  far  from home  have  to  travel  great

distances  and will have less time to go to the storage  for

food  or  go home and sleep very often and because of  this,

their  health  will deteriorate. So, cast Heal  miracles  on

these villagers and make sure your creature notices it. Then

give  it  a  big  reward when it casts Heal  on  a  villager

itself.  The deaths in the village will get lower over  time

if your creature learns this well.
5.4.5 THE IMPORTANCE OF HOUSEKEEPING
********************* BUG WARNING! *************************

People  in the forums are suggesting that crapping  is  evil

(you  can't imagine how hard it was to type that sentence...

my  mouth  hurts  from  laughing). It  sounds  like  another

alignment bug to me.

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An  untrained creature will have a rather high urge to  poop

anytime  and  anywhere. It is uncertain  how  the  villagers

react to having poop all over

The  place,  but I suspect that they might not approve.  You

can  actually teach your creature to stop pooping  entirely.

To  do this, slap it immediately when you first witness  the

creature pooping against something.
Hopefully,  the creature will still need to poop,  and  will

show  you this By farting. Slap it again, but this time give

it  a good go. Sometimes, this is enough to have it give  up

ever  wanting  to poop again. (Though it's unknown  if  this

will have any damaging effect on the creature.) Although  it

has  been  suggested that you should train your creature  to

poop   in  the  fields,  it  seems  to  be  of  little  use.

Personally, I'd rather use the Water miracle, as it is  much

more effective and pleasant.
6. VILLAGE MANAGEMENT
***************** BUG WARNING! ****************************

If  you  drop too much food in a temple shrine,  the  ENTIRE

PILE  will be Gobbled up a second the next time a worshipper

decides  to  eat. Since you don't get any Prayer Energy  for

this, a sacrifice of the leftover food hasn't been made,  so

it would seem that this indeed is a bug!
The expand desire flag is also unreliable. Once you create a

construction

Site  for a building, the flag will slide down and disappear

completely,  but once the building is finished, it will  pop

right  up to the top again! A similar behaviour can be  seen

on some fields, if you empty all food and sometimes when you

water  them (field height will then jump up and down). Seems

like some graphical bugs to me, but still...
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Though  handling the creature might be a large part  of  the

game, next to managing a village, getting a creature trained

is a piece of cake. If you

Want  to play really good, satisfying all the needs  of  the

villagers will

Become  so time consuming that you might find it's  suddenly

all  you  do. Now, I always knew that this was true  in  the

real world, but it's nice to

Find  that they accurately portrayed this in Black  &  White

too:  Animals are smarter than people! Humans are  the  most

annoying thing in the game. They are never satisfied, always

want  more, they devour natural resources in seconds,  breed

like  rabbits and spread like locust. I will complain a  lot

about expanding and breeding desires below, and since it  is

vital  to expand in order to gain more influence and  power,

you  might be puzzled as to why it's so bad. Well, the thing

is  that  if you are unlucky, villagers will want to  expand

until  there is no more room on the entire island, not  even

for forests!
And forests are life. Without them, you will die.
A  tip  to keep easier track of all the villagers is to  use

the "S" key, as

described  in  the  manual,  to activate  small  information

bubbles above each

villager.   And  note  that  villagers,  although  seemingly

originating from primitive cultures, may live until they are

well  over  eighty years old. Also understand that villagers

have  their own unique personalities and attributes. If  you

notice  alot of people in your village "chilling  out",  you

may have a problem. Put these villagers to work immediately,

to  prevent  disillusion. Good diciples for  these  kind  of

villagers  would be fishermen, foresters or  traders,  since

they  would have to walk alot, and not have time to sit down

much. Do monitor the health of people who work far away from

the  village storage though, as lack of food and sleep  will

affect their well being. And be aware that breeding one lazy

villager  with another may produce an even lazier offspring.

Now  the manual fails to highlight alot of things about  how

demanding  the  villagers really are. In fact,  there  is  a

whole  evil circle involved in managing villages.  First  of

all,  villagers will need food to survive. But too much food

will  induce a desire for breeding, and satisfying  breeding

will induce a desire for expanding from the offspring, which

in  turn  will  require wood and thus raise the  desire  for

that.  And  after all the new villagers has new homes,  they

must  feed again and so the food desire once again goes  up.

This,  if  not countered, will spiral your way towards  your

doom.  The first problem you encounter is usually that  your

initial  village  has a maximum expansion  desire.  Now,  to

expand,  you will need wood, and you can't just keep  giving

the villagers wood forever, since they will become

disillusioned. You will need forests near your village,  and

a  lot of them. Training your creature to water trees  is  a

very  good  idea  as  a couple of disciple  foresters  in  a

village  with a high forest desire can devour a huge  forest

in no time.
Another problem with trees is that the stupid villagers  cut

down  the  smallest trees first, which won't yield  as  much

wood  and which will prevent the forest from growing at it's

fastest rate. Always water the  small trees to counter this!

Also  note  that  since  the buildings  you  construct  vary

depending  on  the  current needs of the villagers  and  the

location your are trying to place it, you can sometimes  get

a  better  building by trying a couple of  different  places

(this  can be important with bigger houses, since  they  all

cost   two   scaffolds,  but  house  different  amounts   of

villagers). The workshop is a very good target for the  wood

miracle,  with  no risk of disillusion, since the  villagers

won't  deliver  wood to it by themselves unless  you  assign

disciple  craftsmen to it (which you definetly  should  do).

Construction sites are also equally good targets. This leads

to  the second problem. The villagers won't deliver food  to

your  temple  shrines  no matter what  you  do!  This  is  a

vertiable  management nightmare since the  shrines  are  the

source of your Prayer Energy. Temple shrines don't work like

the  village storage either. You cannot dump a large  amount

of food on a shrine and expect it to last. A large amount of

food dumped in a shrine will last nearly exactly as long  as

a  small  amount  of  food. Instead,  keep  your  deliveries

regular  and  don't concentrate on the amount of  food,  but

rather  on  whether the flag is up or not. The  food  desire

flag  on a shrine should NEVER even be visible! You can  get

the creature to deliver for you, but it can only carry small

amounts  initially so it's a rather ineffective use of  your

creature. Teach it to use the Food miracle instead and leash

it  do  the  food  desire flag on a shrine.  This  way,  the

creature will automatically try to lower the flag using what

it has learnt.
Note  that  leashing the creature to the shrine altar  won't

accomplish Anything (except if you have an evil creature, in

which case it may start

Sacrificing villagers). Worshippers produce Prayer Energy by

draining  their  own lives, so they will also  need  healing

from time to time, or they will die at the site (even if the

flag  which  indicates the need for sleep isn't  visible  at

all). Next up is breeding. This is the worst thing that  can

happen,  since when villagers decide they want to breed,  it

will  affect  all  other desires too,  as  mentioned  above.

Breeding  doesn't cost you anything to fix though,  but  the

consequences  of  too much offspring will.  Note  that  male

breeders  will  impregnate more than  one  woman.  A  female

breeder  will  only produce offspring once  every  9  months

(about  one  real minute). Select the gender of the  breeder

according to your  expanding plans for your village and your

current needs.
Finally we have food. This is the least of the problems, yet

it still is

A  problem, since even though you can have one field per ten

villagers, a

Couple  of  diciple  fishermen and a good  supply  of  grain

coming  into  the  storage regularly, if the  storage  isn't

extremely  well  loaded, the villagers will  complain.  Food

miracles  cast on the storage by either you or your creature

in  addition  to  many  fields will  remedy  the  situation,

though. But be careful, overfeeding will cause the desire to

breed  to increase, and you'll soon get worse problems  than

just disillusion on your hands. Civic building desire is the

only  thing  which isn't a problem, since only  three  kinds

exist,  and after you've built them, the villagers  will  be

satisfied. The cr


									


									

										

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Miloš Vučić

											Published: August 26, 2005