Roots of Pacha

Roots of Pacha

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Comprehensive Smoke Signal Guide
By Totto
An Overview of all the Smoke Signals available and how to unlock them
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Foreword
To make Things easier to understand, i show you how i approached this Guide and how i gathered the different Informations. (Cause i already encountered the first "doubters"^^)
I'll edit the last Chapter into the Information, for who is interested.

Hope the Guide helps you guys :-)


Animal Friendship


  • Unlocked after speaking the first Time with a Wild Animal
  • Unlocked automatically on the 6th of Spring

Animal Riding


  • Righ highest attunement with your first ridable Animal
  • Automatically unlock when reachin 15k Village Prosperity




Animal Taming


  • Reach highest Attunement with a wild Animal

Art Station


  • Reach 67k Village Prosperity


Beekeeping


  • Harvest your first Sunflowers in Summer


Breeding Pen


  • Reach high enough Friendship with an Animal to breed it


Brewer


  • Reach 64k Village Prosperity

Calendar


  • Developed Sundial
  • Reach 87k Village Prosperity


Cask


  • Developed Brewing and Cheese Cloth
  • Reach 228k Village Prosperity

Cheese Cloth


  • Reach 56k Village Prosperity
  • Need to tame an Animal which you can milk (Female Ibex)


Clay Oven


  • Unlocked automatically after upgrading to a LargeHut
  • (Minimum Village Prosperity requirement, needs to be measured)


Cold Storage


  • Unlocked automatically after upgrading to a Medium Hut
  • (Minimum Village Prosperity requirement, needs to be measured)
  • "Developed "Art Station" to fulfill the "Pot" Requirement

Composting


  • Obtain your first 2 Animal Products after Taming an Animal
  • (only Minimum Village Prosperity requirement, needs to be measured)


Fermenter


  • Reach 35k Village Prosperity

Granary


  • Have at least 8 fully Grown Animals of the Species "Ibex" or "Boar"
  • Obtained your first Obsidian
  • Reach 71k Village Prosperity


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Hammering


  • Obtain your first Copper


A New Way of Fishing


  • Catch 40 Fish in Total
  • Get your first Hardwood

Irrigation


  • Developed Smelting and Spindle Whorl
  • Reach 155k Village Prosperity
Mortar and Pestle


  • Reach 30k Village Prosperity


Obsidian Working


  • Obtain your first Obsidian


Vinegar Pickling


  • Developed Brewing and Fermenting
  • Reach 158k Village Prosperity

Plant Nursery


  • Finish the Quest "The First to Farm" (Harvest 4 Crops)


Press


  • Reach 25k Village Prosperity

Smelting


  • Obtain your first Tin


Spindle Whorl


  • Need to tame an Animal which you can shear (Boar/Bison/Guanaco)
  • Reach 135k Village Prosperity

Sundial


  • Reach 13k Village Prosperity


Trading


  • Unlocked automatically on the 2nd of Summer

Water Wheel


  • Developed Smelting
  • Reach 240k Village Prosperity
Well


  • Be at least on your second Day
  • Refill your Waterskin

How i did it
First thing i did, was to make a new Save, talked with Nobody and slept for 2 Years straight.
I wanted to rule out every possibility that an Idea is tied to a Time Requirement.
What i discovered what, that a few Technologies are getting automatically unlocked.
What irritated me, was that i've gotten these Unlocks on my normal Playthroughs at an earlier Time.
I wrote these Days down.
After that i started a new Save and wanted to target one Smoke Signal after another and gave me 100k Contribution Points to make things easier, at this time ive unlocked a few Smoke Signals on the 2nd of Spring.
The Same ones which got "automatically" unlocked, for example the Press, Sundial or Mortar and Pestle.
I gave myself 500k Contribution Points and unlocked even more.

At this Moment i knew that Smoke Signals are tied to Village Prosperity aswell.
Luckely for me i wrote down the Days on the 2 Year Sleeping Save. And on this Safe, the Village contributed 1k Prosperity Daily for 2 Years straight, so on the 25th of Spring where i unlocked the Press i had 25k Prosperity.
I Double checked it and made a new save, gave me 23k Prosperity > no Press > 24k > no Press 25k >Press unlocked.
This Discovery ruled out a few Smoke Signals, which i was happy with.

I wondered why i've gotten 1k Clan Contribution Daily on the one Save, but on my Normal Playthroughs the Contribution was definitely higher.
It was easy to find out, on a another Save i talked with Villagers and saw a higher Contribution then 1k the following night > Bonus Discovery = Clan Contribution is tied to your Friendship with the Members

I used the 500k Contribution Save and played the Game "normaly" on Days where i could finish a quest i made a Backup Save.
For Example:
i finished Brewing > Nothing Happenend > Finished Press > nothing Happened > Finished Mortar > nothing Happened > Finished Fermenter > Smoke Signal for Vinegar Pickling showed up.
Reloaded the Save: Finished Fermenter > nothing Happened > Finished Brewing > Smoke Signal for Vinegar Pickling showed up.

So i knew Vinegar Pickling is tied to "Brewing" and "Fermenting"
Again i made a new Save, played it normaly (with a a lot Backups) >
Developed Brewing and Fermenting as fast as possible > No Vinegar Pickling Smoke Signal > Backed up the Save > wrote down Prosperity > Gave me 50k more > nothing happened > Backup Save > gave me 50k more > Smoke Signal for Vinegar Pickling showed up > reload Save > slept every night (1k Prosperity every night) wrote down daily Prosperity > Reached 158k Prosperity > Smoke Signal for Vinegar Pickling showed up.

Reloaded the first Backup Save > Gave me 156k Prosperity > Nothing Happened > Slept for 2 Days, hit 158k Prosperity > Vinegar Pickling showed up.

At this Time i had a definitive Answer for Vinegar Pickling, yippie ^^

I Repeated this Process for nearly all Smoke Signals.

It may look "easy" to look at Irrigation and see: Smelting and Spindle Whirl is needed, but the detailed reality is something like this:

  • Reach Day 4 to unlock the Mine
  • Harvest your first Root-Crop and clear the Owl Totem
  • Get the Flintaxe and progress deeper into the Mines.
  • Obtain your first Obsidian, craft the Obsidian Axe to progress even further into the Mines
  • Reach 25k Village Prosperity for the Press
  • Reach 30k Village Prosperity for the Mortar and Pestle
  • Reach 35k Village Prosperity for the Fermenter
  • Clear the Monkey Totem
  • Get your first Copper and with it the Copper Sickle to progress in the Mines
  • Reach 56k Village Prosperity and tame your first Female Milkable Animal for Cheese Cloth
  • Reach 64k Village Prosperity for the Brewer
  • Harvest your first Sunflower to start developing Honey or reach the 2nd of Sommer and develop Trading with Zelk, to trade with Zeda for Honey
  • Clear the Bear Totem and get your first Tin
  • Develop Smelting (First Requirement)
  • Reach 135k Village Prosperity and tame your first shearable Animal for Spindle Whorl (Second Requirement)
  • Reach 155k Village Prosperity and develop Irrigation (DONE)
22 Comments
21stcenturyrambo 20 Sep, 2024 @ 2:25pm 
Water wheel is 300k now
Arinyes Cant'ari 8 May, 2024 @ 1:25pm 
For the cold storage, you need 125,000 clan prosperity
Totto  [author] 14 Jun, 2023 @ 11:12pm 
Thank you Guys so much, for all the nice Comments and your thanks (on all my Guides) ^^
Nah not in QA just looked forward to the Game Release and had a lot of free time on hand when it released.
Just coupled my normal Job into the Game to make the Guides, cause just wanted to help :-)
TPau 14 Jun, 2023 @ 8:01pm 
1- this is amazing
2 - are you in QA? if not... man you would be so good at it....
Jay 26 May, 2023 @ 1:07pm 
Only had two boars and two ibexes and still got the granary idea. Species doesn't matter apparently (I have 8 adult animals overall)
SumEdd 13 May, 2023 @ 2:23pm 
Also, on second thought, it could be also due to prosperity going above a certain amount, maybe between 48,000-51,000 or something like that. So the possibility does exist that that or something else triggered it. But I did have hardwood and flint unlocked for a while, and I had caught way more than 40 fish at that point (over 100, easily).
SumEdd 13 May, 2023 @ 1:30pm 
For: A New Way of Fishing

I don't believe it is catch 40 fish, or at least isn't anymore after the update.

I just got it to trigger in a new game on Spring 24, the day immediately after catching my 18th type of fish (in this case, my first stargazer late at night).

And I also went to the forest and beech and had caught a variety of fish in Spring, where in previous playthrough's and according to most people it happens in Summer.

That might be just due to to the cycle of new fish to catch.

So as far as I can see the requirement is 18 fish to catch. It may require hardwood/flint, not sure. And has to have 52,000 contribution to complete it.
I Throw Spears. 8 May, 2023 @ 11:51am 
Totto  [author] 8 May, 2023 @ 9:45am 
I did not write down the Requirements for the Quest, but the Moment it got unlocked as an Idea
But thank you :-)
thelastsilverdagger 8 May, 2023 @ 9:44am 
Spindle Whorl requires 140k prosperity.