Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a game all about exploration, exploration which can get you in a lot of trouble. Predators are everywhere in Ancestors’ world, almost annoyingly so — they tend to leap on you out of anywhere and often, leaving you bleeding and in a sorry state.
You can’t let your hominid bleed out, but Ancestors intentionally doesn’t tell you how to fix it, leaving you to your own devices. This can be rather frustrating in the early part of the game, but you eventually learn how to stop bleeding in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
First of all, you need to have learned the Motor Skill ability to swap hands and alter.
You unlock this very early on, so perhaps don’t venture out into the wilderness until you have it unlocked from collecting and inspecting items.
Next up, you need to find some horsetail. This can typically be found in abundance near any body of water, which is why it’s always recommended that you make camp near water. From your starting spot, there’s a giant pond coming down to a waterfall that then goes out to a river. You can find horsetail throughout this area.
This is what it looks like.
If you cannot see any horsetail, use your intelligence with Y and then X to use your smell to see if there’s any nearby.
Grab it and then use LB to swap it to the other hand.
Once it’s in your other hand, you will see the ability to alter it by holding down B. You must then hold down LB and then press RB once you hear the jingle. This varies from object to object, but it takes about a second with horsetail so you will need to press RB almost as soon as you hold down LB. If you mess it up, you will destroy the horsetail.
After that, swap the horsetail to the other hand and then hold A to apply it. No more bleeding.
Check out a video guide for this below.
You can also eat the horsetail for some quick nutrition and also to strengthen your ape against broken bones.
All of the above also applies to aloe, which can be found in Ancestors’ driest areas. We have focused on horsetail here as it’s the most abundant and likely to be found for new players.
From our Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey review:
For a game about the beginning of us all, there’s a bit of irony in Ancestors being at its best in its own beginning before losing its way. The marvel of evolution gives way to a gameplay loop that quickly irritates without enough variety to spice it up, which, when combined with poor combat, fiddly controls, and repetitive crafting, all add up to an experience that might drive you bananas.
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