Ashwalkers

EXTRATERRESTRIAL STAFF
Ashwalker	Access: N/A Additional Access: N/A Difficulty: Hard Supervisors: The Underground Duties: Protect the Tendril, remove the intruders Guides: This is the guide Quote: "SSSsss"

You are an ash walker, one among the plains. The land is bountiful of prey and sustenance, but foriegn powers move to exploit your land. You must build up your tribe and expel these aliens from your home.

You are essentially a group of tribal Lizards who must craft low tech weapons and armor to fight off the more technologically advance, but fewer in number, Human (or Lizard or Plasmaman) invaders. You don't need to breathe, can't use guns or advanced technology, and are immune to ash storms.

For the underground

Your base of operations is small and humble. Your lifeblood is the ash walker nest, a tendril converted and tamed to rapidly grow Ash Walker eggs near instantly when fed.

Whenever any dead sentient corpse (such as the Legion's corpse, or Miners) is brought next to the nest, it'll be consumed and turned into a new Ash Walker egg.

The nest must be protected at all costs, its destruction would spell doom for your tribe.

The nest carries mythril - one of the richest minerals on lavaland - which helps you craft powerful tools and weapons.

Foreign Invaders

These strange aliens clad in dark clothing have begun to invade your home. You must drive them off of your home. They are armed with better weapons and armour, but they are few in numbers and are far away from home. Use your numbers to your advantage and drive them away.

Their weapons are too complex and advance for your kind to understand, as such you cannot wield and use their advanced weapons.

The Wildlife

Main Article: The Wildlife - Non-Sentient

In order to grow and prosper you must find and hunt down the wildlife of this land, for sustenance, reproduction and resources. The main reason to hunt the wildlife is to acquire bones and sinew, these resources are critical in crafting the more advance tribal gear on offer to you.

• Legions: The easiest prey, they're attacks deal low damage and they are weak to your spears. The greatest advantage of the legions are their souls and their host. The host can be returned and reborn as a Ash Walker, while their Souls can be surgically implanted into another Ash Walker in order to heal wounds. These creatures sadly do not drop bones of good value to craft.

• Watchers: Deadly creatures, they should never be approached alone. Their freeze attacks will slow you in place while they rip you to shreds. Attack in numbers. Watchers are nessecary to hunt as they drop the coveted sinew, which is a necessary component for crafting higher tier weapons and armour, they also drop a single piece of bone.

• Goliaths: Powerful creatures, but easily kited and killed by a skilled warrior. Do not allow them to stick you in place, keep mobile and rapidly move in, hit them, then move back. These creatures are a good prize to kill and can be killed by a single warrior. They are a worthy prize as they drop two bones upon death.

• Marrow Weavers: Enormous venomous spiders. Caution is recommended, but they are simple enough to kite and lack a ranged attack. They drop an ever valuable sinew, and 2 bones.

Tribal Equipment

The following is a list of tribal equipment you can craft:

Item	Description	Material Needed
Bone Dagger	A respectable and cheap weapon to craft, deals 15 damage.	2x Bone
Bone Spear	A powerful two handed weapon, deals 20 damage when wielded and 22 when thrown, importantly being able to deal damage to all fauna when used as a throwing weapon.	4x Bone, 1x Sinew
Bone Axe	The most powerful crafted weapon available, also needed to do surgery, deals 23 damage.	6x Bone, 3x Sinew
Bone Pickaxe	A spine and ribcage tied tightly with weaver sinew...at least it's better than your bare hands at digging up dirt.	3x Bone, 2x Sinew
Bone Armor	Respectable armor, provides mediocre protection to melee (35), bullet (25) and laser (25) attacks.	6x Bone,
Bone Talisman	Attached to your jumpsuit, provides a small boost to base protection but a massive boost to bomb and biological protection.	2x Bone, 1x Sinew
Bone Bracer	Provides moderate protection to both arms of the wearer.	2x Bone, 1x Sinew
Bone Sword	Jagged pieces of bone are tied to what looks like a goliath's femur. Deals 15 damage with 10 armor piercing, and is good at blocking melee attacks.	3x Bone, 2x Sinew
Chitin Plate	An incredibly robust plate of armor that makes an ashwalker incredibly durable! Protects the bearer against 65% of melee, 35% of bullet damage, 25% of laser damage, 10% of energy damage, 35% of bomb damage, and 50% of acid damage.	6x Bone, 3x Sinew, 2x Chitin, 1x Mythril
Chitin Gauntlets	Robust gloves that protect the user's arms.	3x Bone, 1x Sinew, 1x Chitin, 1x Mythril, 1x Bracer
Chitin Boots	Robust shoes for kicking the rolled over heads of miners, podpeople, golems, and anyone else that stands in your way. Except you can't wear shoes. Awkward.	1x Bone, 1x Sinew, 1x Chitin, 1x Mythril
Chitin Spear	A well constructed spear with a sharpened edge akin to a naginata, making it equally great for slicing and throwing.	1x Bone Spear, 4x Sinew, 1x Ashy Resin, 6x Chitin
Cloth Medicinal Pouch	A small pouch for holding plants, poultices, resin, and pestles.	3x Cloth
Goliath Cloak	A staunch, practical cape made out of numerous monster materials, it is coveted amongst exiles & hermits.	2x Leather, 1x Sinew, 2x Goliath Hide
Goliath Shield	A shield made from interwoven plates of goliath hide. Allows for good but temporary protection against both melee and ranged attacks	4x Bone, 3x Goliath Hide
Heartprotector	Slightly robust armor. It's probably better than your standard paper armor. Basically a security jumpsuit but way cooler.	1x Bone, 1x Sinew, 1x Mythril
Leather Medicinal Pouch	A small pouch for holding plants, poultices, resin, and pestles.	1x Leather
Skull Helmet	Provides moderate protection to the wearers head.	4x Bone
Sinew Belt	A versatile belt, woven from sinew.	4x Sinew
Sinew Tent	A mostly useless deployable spring-loaded tent. Practically, the ghetto version of a survival pod. Doesn't come with walls however. Sandstone can be gathered from the basalt of lavaland or the sand pile in the ashwalker ruin. Only really useful for hermits, since they start with mythril and lack ash storm immunity.	3x Bone, 2x Sinew, 1x Mythril, 6x Sandstone
Shaman Headdress	Hand carved skull headdress, uniquely suited for the harsh lavaland hellscapes.	4x Bone
Tribal Coat	A light yet tough leather coat reinforced with bone pauldrons.	2x Leather, 2x Bone
Pathfinder Kasa	A helmet crafted from bones and sinew meant to protect its wearer from hazardous weather.	12x Bone, 12x Sinew, 12x Chitin
Pathfinder Cloak	A thick cloak woven from sinew and hides meant to protect its wearer from hazardous weather.	1x Goliath Cloak, 4x Goliath Hide, 6x Sinew
Pathfinder Treads	Massive boots made from chitin, they look hand-crafted.	12x Sinew, 16x Chitin
Resin Crown	Despite being formed with incredibly tough resin and given a mythril insert, it's still more of a fashion statement than a helmet.	2x Ashy Resin, 1x Mythril
Resin Armband	A smooth amber colored armband made of solid resin, generally worn by tribal aristocracy.	3x Ashy Resin

Farming

Getting dirt

First things first, you need dirt:

1. Use a pickaxe or a shovel on the ground to get sand (9 tiles will last a long time).
2. ‘Use’ the sand (‘z’ key by default) to create sandstone.
3. Stand over where you want your dirt plot and ‘use’ the sandstone to create a dirt plot.

Growing Plants

Here is how to grow without hydroponics, plant analyzers, seed vendors, water, or fertilizer:

1. Insert plant into seed extractor.
2. Right click the seed extractor and select ‘activate seed extractor’.
3. Create a fresh dirt plots (see above) and plant your seeds.
4. Wait for the plants to fully grow.
5. Left click on the plants to harvest.
6. Destroy dirt plots with the shovel.
7. Repeat.

Important: Destroy the plot after you harvest (click on it with your shovel), the nutrients and water that are full upon creation deplete over time. It is best practice to make a new plot for every seed you plant. This includes pre-generated plots, don't use them, destroy them.

Making Cactus Juice

Lavaland Cactus contain Vitrium Froth, a useful healing juice. It has a 80% chance to heal 1 burn and 1 brute damage each tick. To make it:

1. In the crafting menu under tribal, create a wooden barrel (30 wood planks).
2. Left click on the barrel to open it.
3. Insert lots of Lavaland Cactus
4. Left click on the barrel to close it.
5. Click on barrel with a receptacle to transfer the cactus juice.

Lavaland Medicine

Healing methods

You don't got time to bleed. Heal up and get back out there, the tendril needs bodies. Things that will heal you:

• Vitrium Froth from eating:
  • Lavaland Cactus.
  • Porcini Mushrooms. AKA "Leafy Mushrooms".
• Gutlunch Milk. You may have noticed a couple beetle-like creatures moving around your tendril. These little guys eat the refuse of the sacrifices you make, and in time produce either bug cream or milk that heals. To gather milk simply help intent them with a reagent container. Bug cream can be used to make bug cheese with the help of lavaland flora.
• Grub Juice. By butchering gold grubs, you can grind their guts to produce Grub Juice.
• Legion Souls instantly heal 25 brute and burn damage. But it's true advantage is if you can get it implanted with Organ Manipulation it will instantly heal you if you go into crit.
• Improvised bandages. Made from torn cloth from clothing. Plain bandages heal brute, soaked bandages heal burn. Bandages will heal then fall off when done turning red. You can wash used bandages to use them again, but every time they are reused their effectiveness is halved.
• Tribalordrazine is good for when you are low on cactus, since it can turn normally useless mushroom stems and ash into extra healing that also won't make you fat. The best way to make it is to grind up 2 cacti, 2 mushroom stems, an ash pile, and then heat it up to 420K with a welder. Tribalordrazine heals brute, burn, and oxygen damage.
• Capmix is good for getting rid of nutrients when you are fat and for when you have toxin damage. It can be made by grinding together a mushroom cap with ash and heating it to 420K with a welder.

Note: Because Improvised bandages turn red when used and gain the name "reused bandage" you will not be able to tell the difference between plain and soaked improvised bandages.

Surgery Tools

Surgery Instrument	Available at Nest
Drapes	Bedsheet (craft)
Scalpel	Glass Shard (craft)
Hemostat	Wirecutters
Retractor	Screwdriver
Cautery	Welder
Surgical Drill	Screwdriver
Circular Saw	Bone Axe (craft)
Sterilizer	Polypore Juice (contains Ethanol)

Note: Improvised surgery tools have inherent failure chances, you may have to use tools multiple times until they succeed. You can help mitigate this by using Polypore juice from brewing, this will increase success chances by 10%.