Humankind Pro Tips | 9 Strategies & Tricks Advanced Players Need to Know

[@joshhoey]

Incredible: A "Top X Tips Advanced Players Need to Know" video that gives a bulleted list of tips up front, and a timestamped table of contents for easy viewing! I love to watch your videos, JumboPixel, but also I appreciate the quality and navigability of all this. 👍

[@JumboPixel]

Oh thank you! It does somewhat ruin that surprise-factor 😉 But I figure - you’re not here to be tricked, you’re here to see the tricks! 😂

[@GlennSacks]

If you already have an outpost in a territory, and you plan to use a settler to found a territory. Found it in a different location, and the outpost gets upgraded to a hamlet right away. That's a lot of initial exploitation if you plan it correctly.

[@att7364]

11:05 you can just create a new city with the settler and use it for nuke test, then later liberate it. If you do all 3 nuke test you will recieve 300 fame. Alternative you can attach a archipelago outpost and de-attach it after the tests are done

[@charlesdang2557]

Great tips, my friend. Here is another. In the Neolithic era, I have been selectively picking which of my scouts would pick up the goodies. If done efficiently, you can pop out scouts quicker and go into the classical era without having a lot of scouts that have partial food. For example, when you have 15/20 food, then eat some nuts or berries, you get a new scout and have surplus food. Then you see a goodie hut appear nearby. Which of your two scouts do you send out to pick it up? Upon splitting a party, only one of the scouts will carry that surplus food. That particular scout should pick up the next goodie hut.

[@derekrocco4344]

You can also combine two tribes which each have 10 food, for example, to instantly get a third. It's less than optimal on most turns, but sometimes your scouts don't see anything and moving them together and then splitting off again is the best move. Careful, though, because any food rewards are split between nearby tribes. This also applies to Huns and Mongols.

[@charlesdang2557]

@@derekrocco4344 had no idea! thanks man!

[@Pushing_Pixels]

Awesome! One point, when you finishing discussing capturing vs converting cities, you said at the end we should capture before converting our outposts. Was that a mistake? Wouldn't converting first save influence? Anyway, great tips.

[@GamerPhysics]

Thanks so much for these, I still haven't beaten the game on Nation, but I'm working on it!

[@harrisonlucero74]

Honestly I don’t even worry too much about winning, I just love role playing and building up. But that’s just me.

[@Alex-zv2rr]

@@harrisonlucero74 everyone has their own playstyle, that's what i love about these type of games

[@pdraggy]

@@harrisonlucero74 I have a little voice in my head that threatens my family if I don't pick up that acheivement for beating the game lol

[@Gerwulf97]

Yeah, I have been destroying and refounding my own cities upon reaching new eras. The problem is replacing population, but if you have a couple outposts nearby that you have given some food districts earlier on, when you attach them their population transfers to the city immediately. I then immediately de-tach them and they begin rebuilding their population for another city. I don't know if its the most efficient, but I do it primarily because I can't stand having an ancient era city center in the industrial era, and doing this resets it to whatever culture you're currently at. Territories are thankfully easier with just a detach/reattach to redo their admin-centers.

[@pdraggy]

I'd decided I'm gonna try a similar tactic next game where I ignore infrastructure (other than defenses ofc... and probably influence) until I get settlers and than the same until planners replacing the city center with those shaving off a turn or two of industry. I don't know if this will be viable as you'll just have to replace pop but I'm glad you point this out as it's actually been done before lol. I'm still doin it though see how I like it xD

[@kraz007]

Fresh start has been fixed it seems. I only got guy as replacement last night.

[@forestgreenhobbit]

Ditto, just one replacement, not four on humankind difficulty.

[@SomeOne-hw6jw]

well, I said in your last video that the fusion reactor tech was a joke and I still stands by that... 20k research when radar is 15k... the entire late game is bad anyway. the first thing is probably a bug.

[@JumboPixel]

Definitely needs some tweaking!

[@akshayak9862]

Hey jumbo ! I really appreciate you are doing this you are an amazing streamer great personality! Cheers! I wanted to ask you if you could elaborate more on district placement and how many districts are healthy etc I tend to just keep building them making pollution a problem and build massive garrisons for stability

[@JackOfBass]

OMG for the first tip XD I was wondering why I couldn't just eradicate other factions in the neolithic era and they had just been reappearing with 4 units :D

[@atlantis_expedition_member4747]

If the video was only the first tip, this video would have been gold. Add the other points and this video is out of this world. This was a great great video. Well done my man.

[@craigmobey954]

Is the new start bonus on beta only? I tried it last night and only got one dude.

[@StallerEternal]

the same for me on last patch. doesn't work

[@JohnQSpartan]

I'm confused about the tip saying to capture a city before you upgrade an outpost to a city. I would have thought it was the other way around?

[@cvdeiana]

That's what I'm thinking..

[@z000ey]

A question about settler cities: if you hadn't researched previous era tech that gives an infrastructure building (thus not having it in your previously built cites), is that infrastructure ALSO available through the settler?!? Tnx

[@michaeljohnson288]

I’m pretty sure that’s a no. I tried this yesterday. As i unlocked earlier tech i still had to build them so I’m pretty sure it’s only what you have unlocked

[@z000ey]

@@michaeljohnson288 makes sense, and good that it does as it would make the settler even more powerful than it is (and could use to some degree of game abuse)

[@Kruszcontrol]

Did the first tip get patched? I just got the fresh start but when I respawned I only got 1 unit.

[@derekroberts1693]

If you build up your industry before picking the French in the Industrial Era it's fairly easy to use Collective Minds and finish the tech tree.

[@gusp6612]

Collective minds is so dumb

[@derekroberts1693]

@@gusp6612 *Useful. A little OP and game breaking.

[@moscowcowboy_13]

@JumboPixel thanks so much for putting out such quality videos, really enjoy them all! Just curious, I am getting frustrated as I keep getting popups when I hover over tiles to see their yields, a big giant window covers everything and I have to fiddle with it forever just to get a glimpse of the numbers beneath. Can you please help, maybe I need to adjust some settings?

[@rubenlopezusa]

I am in the contemporary era, and I am super lost. I have expanded a lot, obtaining territories by grievances, and now I find that I have more cities than allowed, so lots of penalties. If I merge them, stability and food fall to negative numbers and chaos erupts. If I create more outposts, I am also penalized. I can't seem to get the right balance between so many farmer and industry shells with -10 stabilization each, like -700 on just one land/city, and tons of peaceful shells, but no workers to calibrate.

[@gme_to_the_moon-v1p]

I think the first one is fixed now. I died accidentally and only got one unit respawned.

[@forestgreenhobbit]

Ditto, just one replacement, not four on humankind difficulty.

[@chakstandsup]

Anyone else feel like Endless is the only way to play this game? It's the only game type that seems to reward planning. That being said science cultures are super busted...

[@evanragland4930]

I tend to switch between 450 to 600 turns. Anything less feels too quick.

[@chakstandsup]

@@evanragland4930 Totally agree, as some others have said this could be handled by significantly buffing Aesthete and Expansionists to pressure us turtle-players into focusing on a few other things than 5 cities that produce 18k science by turn 100

[@derekrocco4344]

It's absurd how little thought went into the initial balance patch. Like, industrial cultures are already powerful, but comparing, say, the Mughals to the Venetians: assuming a decent population, the Mughal district gives roughly 3 industry to every industrial district and hamlet (plus a bit of raw industry). The Venetian district gives 1 gold per merchant district. Even if the Venetian district were tripled, it'd *still* be worse because money is bad, but COME ON. What's with these low numbers for cultures which already have bad affinities and legacies?! I can't wait until the dev community can get a crack at mods.

[@chakstandsup]

@@derekrocco4344 Undoubtedly, I've been able to reliably get sub 300 victories in all Humankind/Endless games just b-lining Egypt/Harrapans/Babylonians -> Maya -> Khmer -> Mughal -> French. Nothing even comes close in power level. I've had *fun* playing other cultures but they're just so weak comparatively. Money needs a rework, having influence over other nations needs to give you more power to mess with them. Militarist cultures seem fine for war and I think are balanced, I actually really enjoy the Norsemen in maps with a lot of ocean.

[@derekrocco4344]

@@chakstandsup The Norsemen are great when the new world exists behind too much ocean to traverse realistically and a science beeline for better transport ships isn't viable. I loved playing them in the open dev when the Joseon were OP as all hell. It just sucks that the Medieval era is full of tons of B-and-C tier stinkers and then the SS-tier Khmer with nothing in between. Nerfing Khmer into the ground would make the Norsemen so much more rewarding of a pick.

[@PJAmbition]

I’ve got a question for you Jumbo, what’s the best tile you’ve ever come across. Maximum I’ve ever seen is “7 food, 26 industry”. I don’t know what tile is okay to settle on

[@funnyguy0808]

Hey, not Jumbo, but my main take with good tiles to settle on are anything with food between 7-10, and industry between 6-9. You can settle with something that gives you as you said 7 food and 26 industry, mainly focusing on that settlement for production. You'll need to balance your settlements with each other, so if you have one that's mainly food, make sure you have a settlement that's mainly production.

[@MrMrtvozornik]

Here's a pro tip for you, stop pressing auto resolve on battles xD

[@JumboPixel]

😂😂

[@Krdragon6]

unless you are attacking a city with a primarily cavalry force and don't have time (or units) to bring up a suitable city attacking army

[@beasley_unborn6729]

So is the beta patch out already? I finally was able to buy the game officially but not sure how to get the patch to work

[@rwme4698]

They've put out three patches already, the last one rather large.

[@inspiringminds7284]

@@rwme4698 How is the game now that it's been patched? I had been hearing it felt like a beta game with a bunch of missing mechanics and AI issues.

[@rwme4698]

@@inspiringminds7284 Minor issues, but I never thought it felt like a beta (except for when it was in beta). Several UI issues and quite a few bugs have been fixed.

[@Gerwulf97]

Lol, using that livestream unfortunate death for a tip XD

[@cameronburke8347]

Did Fresh Start get nerfed already? only getting one unit when I get them killed within the first few turns

[@matts6816]

Jumbo you really sound like someone called Dan Wotton. Are you from New Zealand by any chance?

[@destroyer2670]

Any ck3 video ?

[@rasmusmllegaard8633]

How did you play on 🌍 map ?

[@JumboPixel]

I have a tutorial on my channel!

[@rasmusmllegaard8633]

@@JumboPixel tank you I really like you chanel. All love from Denmark 🇩🇰 ❤

[@ASHole71]

How is your merge city cost so low? Around 8 mins it showed 20K or so. Mine are @ 100k with the -20% off lol

[@MirecU]

Dunno... the abilities that focuses your cities to research are kind of pointless in the contemporary era because you can only research 1 tech per turn via normal research... so whats the point in having research higher than the cost of these techs.... But... I have found a way to research multiple techs per turn - you can research additional tech's by the osmosis effect - this way you can research 1 tech per turn (the normal way) and if you get this in several cities (I got around 4000 - 10000 research per city this way) you are researching 2-3 techs per turn. In addition it goes well with Japanese, because they lower the cost of techs... This way I have researched all the techs by turn 199 (on a normal speed) and won the game on the turn 200 (because the game does check the condition at the start of the turn). It was on the empire difficulty though... (and I have had some turns without research because I went with different type of cultures than research mid game and have researched all the techs for the specific eras) I have done all the space missions (satellites and the mission to mars), could not set the civics for nuclear weapons though because.... the obvious lack of influence :D

[@Yarmoss]

What happened at 6:30? Did you roll your computer chair over your foot?

[@desert_druid_xD]

Yesss

[@rellandi]

Good morning

[@ohmaiheavenohamiheaven7995]

Can someone tell me how to get unlimited turns ?

[@pdraggy]

that sucks, you respawned on an isolated Island lol

[@jordanrozum]

It looks like it, but he's actually fine there. It's a peninsula (I saw the stream that footage is from).

[@yafes_han]

These are great but first one is borderline exploit

[@vanr3977]

Fresh start patched?

[@JumboPixel]

Yup they have changed that I think! Edit: could still work on blitz mode or faster game speeds though?

[@CrownofThornsProductions]

Love your videos but hated every min of this game... Sadly it just wasn't satisfying !

[@GoldenChed]

First ✊🏻