Building around the environment’s features is the name of the game in Kainga. In its current version, Kainga offers three distinct challenge areas with their own conditions and resource availability. The first of these biomes are the expansive Flatlands.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Flatlands in Kainga.
Geography
As the name suggests, the Flatlands are indeed flat due to the prominent sandy deserts, patches of dry soil, and a moderate number of oases dotting the land. There are some occasional hills, cliffs, and crags, but they’re rare enough that they do little to obstruct or hamper village construction.
Despite the seemingly harsh desert terrain, the wide and expansive Flatlands is perfectly suitable for the development of large and sprawling villages. Another advantage of such geography is that it’s relatively easy to spot incoming attackers or approaching creatures, requiring only minimal camera manipulation to get a good view of the land.
Resources
You might think that the deserts of the Flatlands biome would make it the most inhospitable and challenging biome, when in actuality it’s a great starting location to learn the game due to its easily accessible resources. The most common resources found on the large patches of dry soil are the plentiful reeds – a plant used for thatch shelters, food, and a number of festivals. Essentially, a good baseline resource to get the ball rolling.
Oases act as hubs of the most valuable and durable material for construction – wood, clay, and bamboo. While wood in the Flatlands is the hardest to come by, bamboo and clay act as great replacement materials for shelter and even food. The biggest challenge is that there is only a thin strip of fertile soil around each oasis, making any approach trying to utilize grassland quite the placement nightmare.
Wildlife
The Flatlands also offer the most varied types of creatures and beasts. Players can expect to meet lone Walkers, occasional packs of snails, a massive Trudger, an aggressive pack of Flatheads, and maybe even a rare titanic Crustacean.
Strategy
The oases are key to succeeding in the Flatlands due to the general abundance of clay and at least a minimal amount of wood to leave options for a variety of shelter types. Food won’t be much of a concern in the Flatlands due to how common reeds are and the dry soil makes establishing reed farms easy and convenient.
Due to the abundance of reeds it may be tempting to simply settle in the initial spawn area as reeds can be used to create thatch homes, there’s one deceptive issue with the Flatlands and that is wind. Thatch shelters are susceptible to damage from wind and fire and, as you can imagine, the Flatlands are a matchbox for plant-based homes.
Once the player spawns in, it may be wise to first survey the land and find the largest oases or several oases in close proximity so that they’re clay and wood are next too or not too far from the village hearth. By settling near an oasis players give themselves the most amount of options for expansion and technological flexibility and the ability to tackle most mission challenge missions.
For additional flexibility, if there are snails nearby then it could be a good idea to tame them and use their acid spit to fertilize ground, though the player needs the rope and snail bridle passive technology.
Despite the daunting appearance, the Flatlands are a great introductory biome for players to get acquainted with Kainga’s systems. The desert terrain provides plenty of empty ground to build shelters, while oases provide just enough critical resources to allow for most builds and strategies. How will you tame the deserts?
Kainga is available on PC.
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