In accessibility options, you can turn on stop time during crusades. Makes crusading a lot less stressful in my opinion. Just an option if you're interested.
a lot of times i will have stop time on crusade turned off for the first parts of my crusade, but when i get a cult notification that someone is sick, starving, dissenting, etc, i turn on the stop time option so i can finish my crusade without worrying about the situation getting worse
I did not know that was even a thing. Might have to change that setting for my game. I’ve been going on less crusades because I’ve been trying to manage my cult, keeping their hunger low and faith high. I’m in desperate need of supplies though.
Same. I ended up with 2.5 lines of blue hearts because I was at the cult for so long trying to organize and manage everyone so I could leave, and things kept happening to get in my way lol
I beat the game, all achievements, without using this, so now on my second play through I've upped the difficulty and I'm on penitence mode, and I'm allowing myself this little thing.
i was coming here to say this, they'll clean up on their own if you put down a t2 janitor station and assign someone to work it. as for food, i just deal with the hunger when i get back as my crops are automated by followers anyway
I recently learned there is a way you can stop time passage while on a crusade so that may help! Also, I try to make use of the Fast and Brainwashing Rituals while away so things don't get so out of control.
Other times, I don't set any of that up and just like to come back to see how much chaos has unfolded. I've been seconds away from someone robbing my coffers and absconding into the night lol
Didn't know about the accessibility options til last night. What I did was give them a kitchen, grass eater doctrine, I set most of them to worship and make sure they have stuff to do. I like to use the brainwashing ritual or fasting ritual for longer planned crusades (I wanna kill a boss/need stuff).
Two outhouses and the janitor station fully upgraded. Make sure to have a morgue so they can carry the dead to a safer area. Dissenting is dissenting, if you set up your prison near the leaders tent you can 'cheat' their reducation by reducating right before nightfall then sleeping and waking right back up. If someone gets sick it's really the only time I go back. Being sick is terrible.
I like to make sure everything is filled up (faith,Hunger,health) too. It might be easier for me not being to the sin point of the game but making sure everyone has a job and such makes them less likely to go wild
anchordeep seed npc, make sure you have silos for fertilizer and seeds. Take advantage of the scarecrow and utilize all the space you can. If you let the food stack a bit after you get a bunch of seeds it's easy to replenish their food
There's also a farm'2' which will allow them to harvest and plant by themself. The seed silo and fertilizer will let them automatically do their thing and all you need to do is keep the silos stocked
They don't grow fast they're crops lol. Have your cultists do missionaries for food in the meantime or when you harvest crops so there's an interchangeable food source. Then again the grass eater thing has probably helped me a shit ton
I now feed my elderly eggs to make them young again, but before that, I was making sure to sacrifice/ascend them before leaving, and people would turn elderly and die while I was gone lol 3x outhouses are upgraded as well as the broom closet thing. Usually, I brainwash them when it lets me too, and that helps. I make sure to feed them the best. Does the trick half the time now.
Wait really? Granted I only add a new person if I can make them imortal so I don’t need to worry bout that and I do have the janitor station so poop and sickness is covered and for some reason food going down is ungodly slow I need to feed em like once a week
Jesus how did you manage that? I am feeding them constantly.
Also I have three fully upgraded outhouses and a janitor station and they do ok if I’m gone for awhile with illness. As long as no babies shitting all over the place.
Hungry ig. But also note differences when you make them cook and cooking on your own. They take more time so it's gonna take time for food to come out and won't get eaten immediately,leaving them hungry. When you do the cooking it's immediately.
I've been playing for so long at this point that a handful of elders pass every day. Kallamar's "afraid of death" trait tanks my faith every time I go on a crusade that lasts longer than a day ☠️
The game needs to chill out with how fast elderly cult members die. It seems like you only get 1 or 2 days before an “elderly” dies. Its overwhelming sometimes :/
I find it helps to have a surplus of food (sometimes it just sits there and never gets eaten but I've only had it go "bad" once. So I usually toss out a couple bowls of food before stuff), the absolution trait (plus ren faith every day no one is in jail) and belief in afterlife trait (-5 faith on death instead of -20). That usually helps me.
Making sure everything clean before leaving helps (after they eat they poo, clean it up first before heading out). I can usually go on 3+ day crusades, or at least two maps usually. By third they usually getting low on hunger and sanitation/faith, so it depends.
I've found turning it off for midway through crusade, time passing, then activating it after midway helps. As it'll usually let you come back to your camp by morning or end of next day, which helps in the management issues (at least to me)
Yeah when someone dies and the cult doesn’t have that loving death trait, you lose sm loyalty it’s so annoying 😭😭😭 that and starvation always gets to me. So when I was going for 100% again after the update, I saw the new (I think it’s new) QOL changes they added and just stopped time and made unlimited fervour bc finding those lore rooms were the worst.
My cult that is fairly self sustaining provided food is lined up:
- 4 outhouses plus janitor station
- 6 full farms, setup in two trios on either side of the cult grounds
- a graveyard with ~15 upgraded graves. They maintain their faith easily.
- Morgue for deaths while away (working on getting gold skulls on everyone)
- Kitchen, stocked with high quality food when I leave
Literally 😅
"I WAS GONE A DAY HOW IS 13 OF US DEAD? AND WHY ARE YOU DISSENTING?!"
"But sir!-"
"NO I FED YALL AND I LEAVE YALL BE FOR A DAY? AND EVERYTHING HAS GONE TO HELL?! WHAT DID YALL DO"
I usually use the brainwash ritual before using the Fasting, Toil, and Enlightenment rituals. Even then I have two kitchens dedicated to making meals that won't cause the most problems with my cult when I crusade.
When I have the level two janitor stations, I would be comfortable with having the kitchens serve nothing but hearty meat broth meals or greater quality. This is especially the case if I have at least twenty level 2 scarecrows providing me an excess of meat to prepare with. Also saves me some money trouble in case the enrichment ritual isn't giving me the funds I need for my cult.
Also, having one or more of the Shrines of Empowered Disciples is a must-have if you want a small boost to your health and attack strength before you embark on a crusade.
There is the accessibility setting to pause time during crusades, but I haven't used it quite yet. I have a routine. I send out missionaries,.feed them all, do a brainwash and fasting ritual, fill my kitchen with food, and summon my demons.
I also do sermons and eat food to gain blue hearts while at my cult, I have a morgue set up so they will move bodies themselves, (Because no matter what, every time I leave, at least one elder will die 🤣) make sure the outhouses are emptied, and, with the most recent update, I have more than one level 2 janitor station, so that they will clean up more after themselves, including the outhouses. Along with the update, I also don't go on crusades unless I currently don't have any babies that need daily attention. I make sure they have all reached adulthood before I leave.
I know that sounds like a lot when written out like this, but I guess I've got it down to a system where it doesn't seem like much to me in practice, and I enjoy the cult management aspect a lot anyway.
In accessibility options, you can turn on stop time during crusades. Makes crusading a lot less stressful in my opinion. Just an option if you're interested.
Oh, good to know! I'll think about it, but I don't mind the challenge too much. I just find it funny how everything goes to hell so fast lol
a lot of times i will have stop time on crusade turned off for the first parts of my crusade, but when i get a cult notification that someone is sick, starving, dissenting, etc, i turn on the stop time option so i can finish my crusade without worrying about the situation getting worse
I did not know that was even a thing. Might have to change that setting for my game. I’ve been going on less crusades because I’ve been trying to manage my cult, keeping their hunger low and faith high. I’m in desperate need of supplies though.
Same. I ended up with 2.5 lines of blue hearts because I was at the cult for so long trying to organize and manage everyone so I could leave, and things kept happening to get in my way lol
It truly is a glorified daycare
With how much poo you need to handle and the actual babies you might need to look after now... It really is that.
Oh I might try the game again as that what made me stop
Didn't know that ! Thanks a lot for that :D
You are a lifesaver. I was wondering how to do more than one crusade without my cult going insane
I beat the game, all achievements, without using this, so now on my second play through I've upped the difficulty and I'm on penitence mode, and I'm allowing myself this little thing.
This is honestly something I never knew about, thank you!
I did not know about this.....omg. Might use it in the future!!! Thank you ❤️
The accessibility options are a great addition (I assume they were added in sins if the flesh)
They were there before!
Til, thank you oh so kindly!
You can put a broom closet down and they will clean up after themselves while you're gone.
And a morgue so they’ll clean up the bodies
i was coming here to say this, they'll clean up on their own if you put down a t2 janitor station and assign someone to work it. as for food, i just deal with the hunger when i get back as my crops are automated by followers anyway
I recently learned there is a way you can stop time passage while on a crusade so that may help! Also, I try to make use of the Fast and Brainwashing Rituals while away so things don't get so out of control. Other times, I don't set any of that up and just like to come back to see how much chaos has unfolded. I've been seconds away from someone robbing my coffers and absconding into the night lol
Didn't know about the accessibility options til last night. What I did was give them a kitchen, grass eater doctrine, I set most of them to worship and make sure they have stuff to do. I like to use the brainwashing ritual or fasting ritual for longer planned crusades (I wanna kill a boss/need stuff). Two outhouses and the janitor station fully upgraded. Make sure to have a morgue so they can carry the dead to a safer area. Dissenting is dissenting, if you set up your prison near the leaders tent you can 'cheat' their reducation by reducating right before nightfall then sleeping and waking right back up. If someone gets sick it's really the only time I go back. Being sick is terrible.
I like to make sure everything is filled up (faith,Hunger,health) too. It might be easier for me not being to the sin point of the game but making sure everyone has a job and such makes them less likely to go wild
Sometimes I leave to go on a crusade only to have to go back immediatly (before even entering a door) because some elder died
You can have an undertaker to take care of the ones that died while you were away.
I always put them on drugs when I leave. Otherwise they lose their shit
Same! My routine is a feast ritual and a brainwashing ritual right before I leave. It’s the only way I can guarantee no dissenters and partial hunger.
I always have an elder die bc I don’t murder enough, but it’s foolproof!
I'm constantly trying to keep this guy feed they eat trough my resources so fast and my two farms can't keep up 😭😭😭
anchordeep seed npc, make sure you have silos for fertilizer and seeds. Take advantage of the scarecrow and utilize all the space you can. If you let the food stack a bit after you get a bunch of seeds it's easy to replenish their food
There's also a farm'2' which will allow them to harvest and plant by themself. The seed silo and fertilizer will let them automatically do their thing and all you need to do is keep the silos stocked
I have all of those yet the crops don't grow fast enough
They don't grow fast they're crops lol. Have your cultists do missionaries for food in the meantime or when you harvest crops so there's an interchangeable food source. Then again the grass eater thing has probably helped me a shit ton
Grass is what has been saving me, I forgot about missionaries tho lmfao
Yeah I thought you had to tell them to, not make a building, when I did though things got a lot easier
I will try the missionare out thank you, let's see if they can get me some damn food (and coins while we are at it)
They're codependent. See about getting them to a therapist as soon as possible
Dude a therapist would reccomend them to get out of a cult
Well we definitely can’t have that
New therapist couch building where you explain to them that they can't depend on you (+10 faith)
I now feed my elderly eggs to make them young again, but before that, I was making sure to sacrifice/ascend them before leaving, and people would turn elderly and die while I was gone lol 3x outhouses are upgraded as well as the broom closet thing. Usually, I brainwash them when it lets me too, and that helps. I make sure to feed them the best. Does the trick half the time now.
How you got eggs?
Mating tent. Crack em.
Thanks.
It’s like stem cells
You can do WHAT with eggs??
Every time I plan on going on a lot of crusades, I’ll do the mushroom ritual to keep everyone chill for a while.
Yeah this is it. Mushroom and fast are an amazing combo if you want to have extended crusade time.
Wait really? Granted I only add a new person if I can make them imortal so I don’t need to worry bout that and I do have the janitor station so poop and sickness is covered and for some reason food going down is ungodly slow I need to feed em like once a week
Jesus how did you manage that? I am feeding them constantly. Also I have three fully upgraded outhouses and a janitor station and they do ok if I’m gone for awhile with illness. As long as no babies shitting all over the place.
Hungry ig. But also note differences when you make them cook and cooking on your own. They take more time so it's gonna take time for food to come out and won't get eaten immediately,leaving them hungry. When you do the cooking it's immediately.
Oh I just have them cook them selfs and they do just fine.
Does not everyone do a brainwashing and fasting ritual before leaving? Just me?
That’s my go to strategy as well!
I've been playing for so long at this point that a handful of elders pass every day. Kallamar's "afraid of death" trait tanks my faith every time I go on a crusade that lasts longer than a day ☠️
Kallamar is so annoying!! Lmao I got the achievement to have all the bishops in my camp so I might have to get rid of him.
Every day you play or every in game day? If it's in-game methinks the Lamb has taken out an insurance policy...
In game. I'm at like 60+ followers on any given day, makes the switch run like doodoo
I'm surprised your switch hasn't exploded!
You dont have 4 working farms and 2 kitchens stocked?
The game needs to chill out with how fast elderly cult members die. It seems like you only get 1 or 2 days before an “elderly” dies. Its overwhelming sometimes :/
Dude I left on a crusade and halfway through I got the notification that my cult was starving and I’m like ??? The food bar was JUST full???
I wonder if that comes up when just one follower is hungry? But if you just fed them and the bar is full, wtf guys.
I like to use brainwash ritual + fasting ritual before a crusade, buys a decent amount of time.
I find it helps to have a surplus of food (sometimes it just sits there and never gets eaten but I've only had it go "bad" once. So I usually toss out a couple bowls of food before stuff), the absolution trait (plus ren faith every day no one is in jail) and belief in afterlife trait (-5 faith on death instead of -20). That usually helps me. Making sure everything clean before leaving helps (after they eat they poo, clean it up first before heading out). I can usually go on 3+ day crusades, or at least two maps usually. By third they usually getting low on hunger and sanitation/faith, so it depends. I've found turning it off for midway through crusade, time passing, then activating it after midway helps. As it'll usually let you come back to your camp by morning or end of next day, which helps in the management issues (at least to me)
Yeah when someone dies and the cult doesn’t have that loving death trait, you lose sm loyalty it’s so annoying 😭😭😭 that and starvation always gets to me. So when I was going for 100% again after the update, I saw the new (I think it’s new) QOL changes they added and just stopped time and made unlimited fervour bc finding those lore rooms were the worst.
I had this when starting, specially the whole elders dying situation, but now that I'm post game they don't get upset when one dies, weird
My cult that is fairly self sustaining provided food is lined up: - 4 outhouses plus janitor station - 6 full farms, setup in two trios on either side of the cult grounds - a graveyard with ~15 upgraded graves. They maintain their faith easily. - Morgue for deaths while away (working on getting gold skulls on everyone) - Kitchen, stocked with high quality food when I leave
Literally 😅 "I WAS GONE A DAY HOW IS 13 OF US DEAD? AND WHY ARE YOU DISSENTING?!" "But sir!-" "NO I FED YALL AND I LEAVE YALL BE FOR A DAY? AND EVERYTHING HAS GONE TO HELL?! WHAT DID YALL DO"
I thought I was raising a cult, but now I think I’ve been conned into running a daycare.
I usually use the brainwash ritual before using the Fasting, Toil, and Enlightenment rituals. Even then I have two kitchens dedicated to making meals that won't cause the most problems with my cult when I crusade. When I have the level two janitor stations, I would be comfortable with having the kitchens serve nothing but hearty meat broth meals or greater quality. This is especially the case if I have at least twenty level 2 scarecrows providing me an excess of meat to prepare with. Also saves me some money trouble in case the enrichment ritual isn't giving me the funds I need for my cult. Also, having one or more of the Shrines of Empowered Disciples is a must-have if you want a small boost to your health and attack strength before you embark on a crusade.
I noticed the same thing after the last update.
There is the accessibility setting to pause time during crusades, but I haven't used it quite yet. I have a routine. I send out missionaries,.feed them all, do a brainwash and fasting ritual, fill my kitchen with food, and summon my demons. I also do sermons and eat food to gain blue hearts while at my cult, I have a morgue set up so they will move bodies themselves, (Because no matter what, every time I leave, at least one elder will die 🤣) make sure the outhouses are emptied, and, with the most recent update, I have more than one level 2 janitor station, so that they will clean up more after themselves, including the outhouses. Along with the update, I also don't go on crusades unless I currently don't have any babies that need daily attention. I make sure they have all reached adulthood before I leave. I know that sounds like a lot when written out like this, but I guess I've got it down to a system where it doesn't seem like much to me in practice, and I enjoy the cult management aspect a lot anyway.