There are a lot of city builder games out there and there’s usually something mixed into the game to make it more interesting. Like how Farthest Frontier is a city-building game that you can play in medieval times, managing resources like food and wood to expand. Then there are games like City Skylines which make you hate social media because of the constant tweets people make in your city.
Terra Nil is one of the newer city-builder games out there that doesn’t let you build cities. Instead, you’re given a wasteland and you need to make it livable again through different buildings. If you want to try it out here are some beginner tips for you to take to your adventure!
Complete Beginner’s Guide For Terra Nil
In Terra Nil, it’s our job to make these wastelands into livable areas where creatures can live in. That means trying to restore the area with as much greenery and clean water as possible. When you’re placing buildings to reclaim areas you should always aim for the most tiles you can restore.
You can see how much you’ll restore by the number above the building you’re trying to place. The bigger the number the bigger the resources you’ll get. Also, remember that the number takes into account the price of the building. That means if it’s red then you’ll be using more resources than you’ll get out of it!
If you want to place multiple buildings without having to click on the building again and again on the bottom of the screen, just hold SHIFT and click away!
Also don’t worry about spots that you miss out on, later when you try to balance out the temperature or Humidity, you’ll be able to unlock rain. Having rain will make it so random spots on the map that haven’t been restored yet turn into the greenery.
Speaking of Humidity, here’s a great tip for Cloud Seeders, they count marshes as water tiles. Be sure to place Cloud Seeders near those marshes so you can get extra humidity!
Once you build an Animal Observatory you can use the radar to reintroduce animals into the ecosystem. Each animal requires certain tiles to thrive in.
Deer only need a lot of grass tiles, while Beavers need to be near 20 tiles of the river and 10 tiles of forests.
When it’s time to pack up the buildings using the Recycling Silos you might have some that aren’t near any water. That’s a problem because, on the first level, the only way to get to the silos is through waterways using a boat.
Don’t be afraid to use Excavators and Water Pumps to make new waterways to get to those silos. Don’t worry about the pollution the excavators make because at this point you should already have rain unlocked. Rain will turn the pollution made by excavators green with no problem!
Once all the buildings have been recycled you can then press the big red button at the upper left and finish the level! There are a lot of different levels out there and they have a lot more mechanics to work with but that’s beyond the scope of this article.
Congratulations with these tips you can now start restoring this dead planet into the big green and blue dot in the galaxy that it deserves to be! Now go out there and make everything green!
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