Dawn of Man | The Homestead of Gruntings - Part 1

Dawn of Man is a prehistoric colony builder! Starting in the paleolithic era, our early humans will struggle to survive with sticks and stones; but over time as their understanding grows, new tools and domestications will completely change their way of life. In this playthrough, we'll be playing on a temperate forest river map as an introduction to the game. Our settlers have decided to call their new home Gruntings. Can they build a new civilization?
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[@SangoProductions213]

"Boars are not particularly dangerous" -How you know it's a game. Those bastards will rip and tear you to bits.

[@nuclearlefthook5008]

They're not particularly dangerous compared to many other wild beasties.

[@josephpentony4804]

Boars are terrifying. Wolves and bears aren't suicidal, but boars are. Guns are the really only safe way to deal with them, while wolves and bears can be left alone.

[@SangoProductions213]

@@josephpentony4804 Yeah. people invented special spears just so that if someone stabbed the boar, head-on, it wouldn't just keep running down the spear and gore the stabber

[@Gekkibi]

@@nuclearlefthook5008 Not particularly dangerous? The first prerequisite for hunting wild boar is the ability to climb on trees. The second prerequisite is a firearm. If you think a female bear is dangerous when they think their young ones are in danger then the bear would have to hold the wild boar's beer...

[@anarchyandempires5452]

I once shoot one 3 times with an AK, the bastard didn't go down until the forth shoot.

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conq 12 Grug from apple tribe. Grug have BIG rock.

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@@sev8304 Ug from Tribe That Got Inexplicably Rich All Of A Sudden. Here to give seminar on bronze.

[@vucko9201]

I totally forgot about this game, Praise Pravus

[@stevengrieb7211]

It's a Kool game n it's like BANISHED witch is awesome aswell

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[@dirkgonthier101]

I have to praise someone because you forgot a game? 🤔

[@jamielonsdale3018]

Tips for the Paleolithic Era: You will want the following early: Composite tools Dog training Food drying Funerals if you lose someone while hunting For settled start on Normal mode: First gather 15 sticks Build two skins dryers straight away, and a 3rd tent. Then build a crafting tent. Then set 3 people to gather sticks until you have 20, two to gather flint until the resource runs out, and only gather one pile nearby. Set your wood storage and stone storage next to the crafters shop. If you did this away from the default wood storage area, recycle the default one to optimise pathing. Build as many spears as you have adults. Once all adults have a wooden spear, take every adult and send them hunting. Keep the children on stick duty. Once you have enough skins to fill both skin dryers, send one adult fishing over 2 or 3 sections of river. Send the rest back out hunting again. By now you should have spirituality, and have placed at least 1 skull pole. Once you have enough skins, build a storage tent. If you've been playing efficiently, you should now be entering late spring and should be getting ready to stop collecting sticks with children, as they're going to be busy collecting berries all summer. Only 1 child should be collecting sticks. The adults should continue to hunt or build, depending on access to skins. Keep building tents, even when you don't need them yet. Every building is worth prestige. Prestige increases the frequency of trader visits, raises your birthrate, and also makes immigration more frequent and also makes more people arrive. Once you get your first group of immigrants, start collecting flint regularly with 1 settler, fishing with another, and keeping the rest hunting. Once you can keep two skins dryers filled 24/7, build two more. By early Fall you also want to get food drying going, and build 2 food dryers. One on meat and fish, the other on raw meat only. Once you get 12 people, you will want to set up as follows: 3:25 sticks, 2:10 flint, 1:12 fish, 2 crafting, 3 hunting, dropping to 1 for sticks and flint and no fish in the summer. You use summers to replenish the fish stocks. This means 1 person is free, so you don't hit 100% workload. Build bifaces and spears for everyone older than child, and make sure to always have spare clothes for immigrants or wear and tear. Keep building tents. Lots of tents. Once your population hits 24, have 5:50 sticks, 6 people hunting, 4:25 flint, 2:12 fishing (except summer, when you basically go all hands to berries and fruit including all but 1 stick gatherer and flint gatherer) 2:15 stone, 4 crafting in two different shops and 1 person going round cutting down Birch and Beech trees. Keep this ratio until you hit 30 people, when you want to begin increasing the size of your hunting party. Keep gathering skins and making tents. Make sure you have at least 10% of your population worth of skull poles, and half as many burial grounds as dead settlers. Once you have 40 people, get Pottery. With a lot of hunting and efficient resource gathering, you should be entering your 4th year as you enter the Mesolithic Era. You have plenty of people to hunt, and plenty of prestige. Your economy is strong, and you're ready to push to 100 settlers, using your children as sticks gatherers, skin carriers and waterbearers. The adults just hunt, build and craft. Mainly sledges for a while. You want 3 sledges for every 4 people. Now you can gather much more stuff, your building materials and skins can be accrued by fewer people, so you have more people for hunting, building and crafting. Keep making as many skin dryers as you need. If you can keep all your dryers filled all the time, you need to build more.

[@daniell1483]

The idea that this goes from the stone age to Bronze Age makes me want this. This looks like Banished, but with a Paleolithic start. Love it!

[@lockretvids]

Fun fact: wooly mammoths were still around during the time the great pyramids of Gizzah were being built.

[@milky694]

I wish my furry elephants were still here 😔

[@samotnaf007]

@markin ace Not really homo sapiens came along cca 200 000 years ago and mammoths extinct cca 8 000 years back

[@lockretvids]

@markin ace I beg to differ: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Extinction

[@futurewolftsw4462]

@markin ace nice irish accent

[@adamnagar7386]

*Giza

[@dekdekker338]

never heard of this game but it looks really fun! thanks for showing!

[@stevengrieb7211]

Have u played banished bc it's like that

[@dekdekker338]

@@stevengrieb7211 dont think i have i will take a look thanks!

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[@Jacob-qr8pl]

2:05 Pravus was just getting his... Bering Strait

[@autobotskyflame6287]

This seems like it'll be a fun series. Though I do wish the seasons were longer.

[@IansMentalOmega]

Not just the Dawn of Man, but the Dawn of Women and the Dawn of Children too!

[@jokubasjurgaitis146]

"Man" is sometimes short for "Human"

[@Wolfinsheepsclothing0707]

I HATE THEM!!!

[@brandimason331]

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

[@brandimason331]

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[@IansMentalOmega]

@@brandimason331 YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE MAMMOTHS, NOT JOIN THEM!

[@nimblehuman]

Truly a fascinating and immersing game, and the music is just without peer. Love it, I have 248 hours in the game as of this comment!

[@LtWoolfe]

I'm So glad your playing this game. Its one of my favorites but I'm not the greatest at it. i have a bad habit of trying to get big population before i have the food or clothes for them and the ether starve or die of hypothermia. A little tip you need at least 5-6 adults with bone or flint spears or bows to go after a mammoth and if there is more than one adult don't attack cause you'll aggro all the adults the baby just run and that goes for aurocs and bison

[@benboyer2283]

Glad yer playing this game my friend, its way too unappreciated.

[@AzazelOne]

Hm! A management game, but prehistoric. Haven't seen that concept before

[@brianriley5108]

Empire Earth. Start out prehistoric and advance all the way up to space. Great game. Developed by one of the designers of Age of Empires. He had the idea for it, but Microsoft didn't want to change AoE's format. So he left and built this. ee.heavengames.com/new/eeh/gameinfo/epochs.shtml

[@gadrill4285]

@@brianriley5108 Empire Earth is an RTS, not a management, game

[@ash-1889]

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[@kingnothing8570]

@@gadrill4285 to be fair those concepts overlap more than they don't.

[@gadrill4285]

@@kingnothing8570 Sure, they are both strategy genres, but don't pretend sim city is similar to starcraft.

[@ShadowVonHaze]

Fuck yes, i've wanted you to play this for so long

[@gamiezion]

ibex: *exists* early man: *pauzes to think* yeet!

[@yaujoseph751]

This series is gonna be the best series.

[@trapper7954]

You’ve earned a sub, i think that you pick interesting and original games with good gameplay

[@jcr5083]

No way, I love this game, absolutely continue uploading this please 😍😍

[@Minecraftingization]

Always happy for more Pravus

[@Turner94-]

I watched a lot of this game when it was first released and i loved it! Can't wait to see more!

[@jimtalbott9535]

The resource tree reminds me more than a bit of Don't Starve.

[@ashleyn.9166]

Kids gather sticks, loose flint, water, plants and will pick up and deliver goods. I try to keep them busy close to camp to stop them from wandering past that den of hungry cave lions to get a single bone Groelk left behind. The best way to do that is too give them lots of the jobs they can do by camp and pacing myself on the hunting. Not 100% but it helps.

[@JamYar4]

Would love to see a series of this!

[@smudolinithegreatdragobear2433]

YES! I was wondering why you never played this before as it is right in your wheelhouse. I LOVE that game.

[@UnknownGunslinger]

01:11 “Rudimentary language” dude! Anatomically modern humans have existed for 200,000 years. They had the exact same complexity of speech as us! Take Göbekli Tepe - a 12 000 year old temple complex. To organise hundreds of hunter gatherers over generations to lug stones and build that with “rudimentary” speech is insane.

[@metalslinger]

@@thegoldenking225 Indo-European was spoken more than 6000 years ago and it was more complex then Modern English. Hell, Old English was more complex than Modern English. Also, languages change over time, once again, look at Old English compared to Modern English. Old English had a complex case ending system which does not exist today. However, Modern English has more tenses then Old English.

[@brucebaker810]

I watched Raptor cover this game for 4 hours. 2 campaigns. I've learned 10 things in the first 10 minutes here. IOW: This is WAY better. Already.

[@darthbader6506]

This game looks great, going to be another good series

[@piratecracked5699]

I didnt even got to The end and į alredy now that im going to love this gamplay

[@oashen5475]

I've seen a good amount of gameplay for this game, and please, do a series on it. It's worth it, and it gets more interesting as it goes on ^-^

[@damianjs111]

I’d love to see a series of this! Keep it up :)

[@sethking1573]

I've been interested in this game for quite some time. glad your playing it.

[@h.p.sabjion4247]

I actually saw this game when it was in early access and i see how much it has changed. I see that it is much more fluid

[@ashleyn.9166]

They keep releasing updates with better UI, more tech and functional buildings that make managing things easier. I love it when devs don't just hit full release and either price gauge for every little thing or abandon the game. This new March update is still in beta, but seems great with what I've played.

[@CavemanCody]

I have taught survival and primitive skills and my entire KZbin channel is dedicated to survival and prepping. I have never been a big fan of video games but this game is honestly pretty cool. Once I upgrade to a larger PC I might get this game to play with.

[@zegameboi3891]

More of this game please

[@bradmathus09]

Awesome series Pravus

[@landonyarbrough5374]

I couldn’t help but notice a percent changing in the top right corner. I don’t know what that means, but maybe I missed it. Praise Pravus!!

[@thomasskywalker8893]

A good trick to getting people to grab the spears is to turn on the alarm.... all your people will run back to the camp and grab weapons.... then drag and hold H to select all your new hunters! If you have spears at 100% then all your adults will be capable of hunting!

[@maazurrehmanshah3264]

I am glad that you gave this a try.

[@sandeepwangde269]

You had me at Mammoth!

[@lvbsk7013]

Thanks Pravus! Enjoyed this one. Ready to see more!

[@davidh8035]

this game looks amazing

[@Roketerif]

This is a super cool game. Please keep it up! :D

[@snoo333]

great video. learned so much. also very entertaining as well. great commentary. thank you

[@Zerruttung]

This game looks really fun. Cant wait to see more.

[@katerinasiren]

This game looks fun! Hope to see you play more.

[@noeendaya1559]

Here before travus hits 1 mil!

[@kenjitempest8122]

Noe Endaya You a filipino?

[@noeendaya1559]

Yes

[@kenjitempest8122]

Noe Endaya very nice

[@liamevans9815]

I usually go for dogs as early as I can after bone weapons and meat curing, they will fight for your village but don't add to your population so they're handy.

[@lordgong4980]

never seen this game before would love to see more.

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

the dawn of man and imperialism

[@ecmorgan69]

I discovered this game after Planetbase. Great game. 😁👍🏻

[@someguyeban]

i see pravus, i clicc

[@razeguy9639]

Cool game

[@kacperskwarlinski2267]

ANPRIM GANG ANPRIM GANG

[@garrisonkunst3645]

Woohoo, been hoping you would cover this

[@bridgerrivinius9034]

Love this idea!!! Keep doing it!!!

[@Mrmegamickey]

This game is so fkn hard. I had a town with 50 people, I started building massive walls, everyone worked on the walls, Then I hunted a group of fkn deer wich always escape, then raiders came and killed everyone, now I had 16 people, they couldnt do anything every building broke down and everyone starved to death.

[@nimblehuman]

The key is domesticating animals as quickly as possible, once you do that you'll never be short of meat again. Also, don't build more walls than you absolutely need, too much workload and your villagers will ignore vital tasks and even eating to work on some wall or tower until they starve 😖

[@tigerman782]

I would love to see a playthrough of this Pravus. I played it myself earlier in development, but stopped due to I guess......a bug(?), in the task management side. The ai never wanted to farm the food I had growing. And everyone slowly starved, though I had a large enough pop for it to be done.

[@Tonatsi]

Thunder Dragonman Madruga works don’t seem to be good at making AI that doesn’t kill itself from stupidity

[@tigerman782]

@@Tonatsi Probably going to learn from this game then.

[@tigerman782]

Nope, had cleared what I thought I needed, before the crops were ready.

[@SomeNoobWithCE]

I just want you to know, after watching only one video about this... OFF YOUR CHANNEL... I went and bought this on Steam. I regret nothing, amazing game. Thank you Pravus if you read this.

[@mrsassy4066]

This game sounds fun, keen for the series 😀

[@oskarboman]

Seems super interesting

[@stevengrieb7211]

This is like BANISHED witch is an awesome game as well I forgot the name so I looked at ur playlists n there it was so ty bro keep up the great vids ur a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐in my book for sure n ya I don't watch all ur vids bc some games like Europa isn't my cup of tea ...as the saying goes other then that ur freaking awesome

[@PoggoMcDawggo]

Looks amazing! Can't wait to buy this and play for myself

[@piratecracked5699]

I already love this game

[@coneal2932]

this a good one keep playing

[@TheSolgrid]

You can queue up specific things to make at the crafter then they will keep it in stock

[@kristofbusch3681]

I love your videos, I will name my dobermann after you, Pravus!

[@adammorrison3631]

17:10 no wonder humans made animals go extinct lol

[@brycevo]

This is a great game

[@janoschjobstmann4588]

played it last year and it was nice

[@darkomen4379]

I hope you do a playthrough Splattercat has done a couple of videos on this over the past few years but never more than a few for each update I would like to see a full playthrough if at all possible.

[@DemonicX-vg3vp]

The first game I played thank you

[@lunsen402]

you should build a stone storage area as well they are usefull and are compleatly free.

[@famijher]

Welcome, Gruntings! Bow before your God! Lord Pravus is a benevolent deity, and will teach you the ways of Imperialism! … OK, I lied about the benevolent part.

[@angle2885]

I always approve of new games :)

[@CreativeName457]

DO NOT MESS WITH THE MIGHTY BISON

[@paulpinson4925]

Love this game

[@abdallasherif9738]

LOOK AWESOME WANT MORE

[@nachtmahr666]

please do not too many jump cuts. i like the atmosphere and the graphics of this game.

[@socialistveterant9668]

Like this one.... Get APPROVED

[@gianpreisner]

Please keep this series :D

[@JohnChinese320]

LA RESISTANCE PART 8 PLEASE !!!!! :D

[@leninthebeaniesouhacker.2459]

yeah, boars in real life are really darn dangerous, you can't fool around with them, although there is a video of a russian dude killing a boar with a sink.

[@smudolinithegreatdragobear2433]

BTW if you hold down shift while building you can build multiples of the same thing.

[@ThePurpleBlackDragon]

This looks fun. I hope that we will see a few runs and not just this one.

[@MrSthotwhelz]

seems fun. see where it goes.

[@deathmourne1]

Do not overhunt the animals pravus! They will reproduce over time!

[@leninthebeaniesouhacker.2459]

this one is preety good.

[@lukaskucera7976]

Knowledge

[@thecrimedog8424]

Love dawn of man!!

[@user-uk9tp8ph4s]

I really like the game

[@taun856]

The company that made this game also made a space based colony builder called "Planetbase", which is pretty fun...

[@ashleyn.9166]

I love that game too.

[@stephenbinkley]

awesome game

[@iLLya_]

Woah dude last time i checked up with u, you were around 160k and playing Ck2 ill be looking forward to this series

[@redacted8983]

Mooflon, Pravus. Mooflon

[@Vicerion17]

Looks really cool, been looking for this kind of game since I can't justify the $200+ for games like EU4, HoI or Endless Legends.

[@davidwright7193]

12,000 years ago people had complex languages capable of symbolic abstraction up to and including some complex spiritual and religious beliefs. Probably more phonetically and syntactically complex than English. The cave paintings in France are 30-40000 years old. Evidence of symbolic behaviour goes back about 100,000 years in South Africa.

[@therearelotsandlotsofflowers]

Did the Planetbase devs make this game? These Milestone screenshots kinda remind me of it.

[@Tonatsi]

Yes, same devs

[@mrsmuggiepuss0181]

More please!