Shelter 1

Shelter 1

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All Shelter levels walkthrough/tips
By Grakie
This is how to get past all of the levels in Shelter including tips on keeping all your babies alive until the end! :D
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Level ONE
When you first start the game you will notice that you will have four baby badgers following you, and one pale one lying on the floor. This badger is hungry (I named this badger Sophie. Jerry is my favourite badger! :D) You may also notice that you can't move further into the cave/ This is because you have a dying baby badger lying there. You're not just gonna leave it there are you? You will notice that there is a plant somewhere nearby. Pick this up and feed it to your baby badger, then you may proceed through the cave. If you go a while without feeding them they will start to go grey and then drop on the ground of hunger so make sure that you share the rations you find with all the badgers and feed the hungriest.

There's many different ways of getting food. Plants, running into trees to get fruit, and hiding in the grass and pouncing on mice, foxes, and frogs.

The first level is quite straight forward. You just follow the path and discover different things however the end is quite tricky. You will go down a narrow path and then the music will change and an angry bird will swoop down and eat a mouse in front of you. You can get past this bird without losing any of your offspring (however if you DO loose one, the bird will no longer bother you and you can just run to the end of the level).
Getting past the ANGRY BIRDIE
Getting past this bird is simple. It can't get to you if you are hiding in the grass so make sure that you are always hidden (crouch if you want [alt]) and then when the shadow of the bird swoops past you, sprint to the next patch of grass. Keep doing this until you see a hill with a log on it. You also come across a hill with a burrow in it. Ignore this burrow as there is nothing in there, it's just another place to hide although sometimes MY BABIES RUN ON TOP OF IT WHEN I GO THROUGH AND THEN GET EATEN THE LITTLE S***S!!
Once you get to the top of the hill (5 babies, or 4) then you can log off... literally. There is log that breaks when you step in it which brings you to the next level.
Level TWO
This level is really dark and being the good mother that you are, you walk slowly so you don't lose any babies. If they are not very well fed by the end of the first level then they will start dropping like flies like what happened to me the first time so make sure that you find food quickly.
--- NOTE --- If you can't drop any food then you might have lost a baby somewhere back there so go back and find it. If you haven't then it could be a bug. Try moving somewhere else.
If you hear a stick crack then your babies will run away FOLLOW THEM! DO NOT LET THEM OUT OF YOUR SIGHT! If your babies run away from you for too long then they will get eaten by a wild animal!!! D:

This level is simple as well. Find food and make sure your babies don't get eaten. Follow the river and you should find the next level :) (Don't ALWAYS follow the river though, sometimes you have to go upstream and sometimes downstream blah blah blah)
Level THREEE
This level is the one where it is raining and there is a large river that you start next to.
Make sure that you do not go too close to the river as a big current swoops in every now and then and you can lose one straight away before you even GET to the dangerous bit (which happened to me #lolfail)

The same rule applies to the other levels, hunt and scrounge for food. There are some stepping stones by the river. Go across that and you will see two fox/weasel type things. You can hunt them for food. When crossing the river be careful as the current could swoop across and wash away a baby as you cross. I would recommend that you wait first for the two big wooshy wave things to go past before crossing. As those hedgehogs said “stop, think, and go!”
Once you cross the stream you will see a very long stream with lots of stepping stones. You have to wait for the current to whoosh past then you have to RUN FOR YOUR LIIIFEE up the stream to get to the safe bit up ahead. Make sure that you stop every now and then and hide behind the rocks so that none of your babies get swept away. Once you get past the stream the exit should be close. Just follow the path until you see it.

-- Note -- the wave can only take one baby at a time so don't worry about loosing all of them. Once again, when going up the long river, hide behind rocks to protect your young from the wave. [Thanks to Spinosaurus Lord for mentioning that]
Level FOUR [FIIREE]
FIRE!
There is a lot of fire in this level.
--- TIP --- Don’t worry about the fire. Fire doesn't hurt you or your babies.










As you run through this level, fiery logs will fall down so be careful. Don't worry about stopping for food right in front of the fire but remember, you don't need to eat every nom nom you walk past. Just carry on running through the very short path (just stick to the right cos the firey logs always fall on the left) and you should make it to a safe place.
Oh what’s that up ahead?
Oh yes. Your friend is back for some more of dat badger booty.

Once again, you CAN make it past the angry birdie thing. If you safely made it past the first time then you know what to do, if you didn’t then you still can because I BELIVE IN YOOOU!
After you make your way through the fiery goodness then you should make it to the cliff at the end of the level. Once you are in a safe pace then find some more food for yo berbies. There is a fox just there that you can easily kill. Nom. Meat.
Level FIVE [FINAL]
By now you should notice that your babies are almost as big as you. How cute :)
This is a very short level. There is alittle bit of food and a fox that you can chase. After that you pretty much get to the end of the level…
THE ANGRY BIRDIE RETURNS
SPOILER: If you want to play the game to find out the ending for yourself then close this and play it…


















In all of the other encounters with the bird, you hide in the tall grass to be hidden from it, however this is the last level of the game and it has a deep meaning. No matter how hard you try the mother bird will get you. She will take you, and the game will be over. The credits start and it zooms out showing (what babies you have left) walking away looking really sad. At the very end of the credits it shows the bird flying to her nest with her hungry babies. This is what you have been doing this whole time too, hunting to feed your young.
Thank you for reading :)
Congratulations you have finished the game. It’s very quick but I still love every minute of it. Hope you found this at least slightly helpful.
Check out my YouTube channel and subscribe as it would help a lot www.youtube.com/gracedoesweirdthings

Love you all <3 Bye
Q&A
Will you make a walkthrough for Nuture?

Nurture? Not sure. I can't figure it out myself. The first time I played it there was a tree in teh way and couldn't get past it. The second time I played it the tree was gone. I kept on walking until I found some food and bought it back to the den and dropped it in the nest. Nothing happens. I might look for one myself and try it out and if I figure it out I iwll add it to the walkthrough :)
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Shelter 2?

ASDFGHEFDHS MUCH EXCITE! I'll play the game and might even make a walkthrough for it if people ask for one :)
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What happens if all your babies die at level three?

I tried out something called "the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mother technique". I ran all through the levels without stopping for food or to make sure my babies are nearby.
I purposly lost one at the first level, three on the second level (two from the wild dogs and one from starvation) and the fith baby from the waves in the third level.

Nothing happened..

In conclution I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter whether you look after your children or not.
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Does fire hurt?

Nope. Toast those little marshmallows all you want.










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What's the quickest way to murder all of your children?

Oh my gosh you horrible person.
1) let your children get eaten at every oppurtunity. Big Bird, evil dogs of doom, giant waves of splooshy sploosh
2) STARVE THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Litterally you can just run through all of the levels without stopping for food. Don't be tempted to murder foxes no matter how fun it is to kill them as all your babies wil om nom nom on their corpses and their health resets. They should drop down dead soon enough
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HELP! My baby has gone grey just like the begining of the level

how many shades? If it's more than 50 then you just need to need to find the nearest peice of food and feed it to them.
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What did you name them? And do you have a favourite?

Jerry, Mikey, Jimothy, Henry, and Bethesda. Jerry is my favourite and he is the one with the whitest back

<3 wuv you Jerry! <3
40 Comments
DogEggs 15 Jan, 2022 @ 12:55pm 
what happens if all your babies die tho????
#1 Randy Bitchford Hater 6 Oct, 2020 @ 4:22pm 
If your babies keep getting swept away in level 3 (I got stuck here for a bit) because they spread out or wont come too close behind the rocks, keep running "into" the rocks (just keep pressing W) and they all come real close to you behind the rock and the wave misses
Torkai 23 Jun, 2020 @ 6:32pm 
why is this game so terrifying i-
Tomas44 11 Sep, 2017 @ 3:31pm 
I need help to pass nurture
AveryCF 4 Sep, 2017 @ 4:41pm 
I played all the games backwards. Started with Shelter 2, got Meadow about a month after it's release (When I had money. x'D) My friend then got me Paws like four months ago? Then I finally bought Shelter 1 on my own when it was just 99 cents and I wanted to be a bear cub in Meadow. x'D Thank you so much, this guide really helped me. I got to the dark ass level two and got so damn scared. I had no idea where my babies were going and realized a bit too late that they needed to stay in the light of your night vistion, before I looked this up. x'D After level two I followed it to the end. I once watched a gameplay of this game but I had no idea I only saw the first and LAST level so I knew how the game started and ended- BUT NONE OF THE STRUGGLES INBETWEEN... The waves made me feel like it was Paws all over again, only I had to remind myself this was the very first. x'D
Pook 23 Mar, 2017 @ 6:54pm 
so there is no happy ending?
Eh 3 Feb, 2017 @ 3:36pm 
I knew right from the beggining that penguin was going to be the only survivor.
R.I.P: (named in order of death) Edward (named after a king because he looked like his mum),Boomerang (his patch made the shap of a circle, which if you can cut it in half, looks like a boomerang) Sarah (because I must have a girl somewhere, it was the one with the thin stripe) and finally, monorang (an infusion between the latin number one and boomerang).
Doktor der Geologie 8 Jan, 2017 @ 5:58am 
you twat actually hunte the fox family on the river?
WHAT KIND OF MONSTER ARE YOU?
Also: fuck the Dark Level! lost 2 Cubbies
Max_Power4210 9 Aug, 2016 @ 9:59pm 
Great walk-through, really liked the mannerisms! You type like I think!
Grakie  [author] 11 Jan, 2016 @ 1:12am 
@aisianboy0122 Yeah you can save all the badgers. If you look at the tips on each level for example, hiding in the tall grass so the bird won't eat your babies, or hiding behind rocks so the river won't swoosh them away. In the last level it should on;y be you who gets taken away.

I've played the game again and gotten to the last evel with all my babies but yet one time the bird still stole about 2 or 3 of them before stealing me. It's been a whie ince I played but I belive there is tall grass before you get to the big open area in which the game ends perhaps hiding in there will protect your babies until it's your time to go.

I'll have to play again to find out but it's 100% possible to get the the last level with all your babies