Guides

This page lists guides to complex topics. For a more complete list of topics on the wiki, see the Index.
If you can't find what you're looking for here, feel free to post a question on the How To page and hopefully you will get an answer pretty quickly.

Beginners

• Citizenship
• How to - quick solutions to common problems
• Spoiler-free guide

• Travel - how to get around Egypt
• Resources - Item information
• Skills and Techs - Skills, learnable with tuition from Schools, and technologies, learnable free from Universities
• Attributes - what character stats do and are needed for

Construction

• Buildings - Building information, including construction costs

Specialised buildings:

• Compounds - most buildings have to be inside a compound,but not all
• Pyramids

Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

• Barley - how to grow barley
• Beer - making beer
• Livestock care
  • Beetles, Camels, Chickens, Cobras, Fish, Rabbits, Sheep, Silkworms
• Flax growing and advanced flaxes
• Flowers
• Fruit And Vegetables - growing vegetables
• Indonesian bees - flavoured honey & citrus fruit
• Papyrus planting and gathering
• Thistles - for feeding silkworms
• Wine - grapes, vineyards and viticulture to increase your Oenology skill

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• Crossbreeding - flax, vines and flowers only, no animals ;)
• Mutagenics 101 - ditto

Simple Resources

• Basic Resources (action icon collectibles, clickables; basics of fish, metals, gems, dirt, and limestone)
• Bonfires (charcoal, ash, grilled fish)
  • Recipes - when you only want the recipe
• Charcoal - making charcoal with a charcoal hearth or oven
• Digging (medium stones, cuttable stones, gypsum, bauxite)
• Foliage (includes wood-bearing and thorns-bearing plants)
• Foraging/Herbs - details on foraging and how to identify and forage particular herbs
  • Fumeology - smoking herbs for Fumeology
  • Herbiculture
• Marble (working the quarry and building it)
• Mining (details of metals, gems, dirt, limestone)
  • (Basic Mining - start here for information on how the whole process works)
• Mushrooms (details of mushrooms, terrain, spawn times)
• Water Mining (production of cuttable gems)

Complex Resources

• Advanced Resource Costs (made from more basic ones)
• Altitude Readings - Using a quality 1 barometer to get altitude with 1" precision
• Blacksmithing
• Chime Tuning
• Cooking - especially premade recipes
• Distillation
• Foraging
• Gearbox Design
• Gemcutting
• Glass - basic glass (glazier's bench)
• Glassblowing - advanced glass (glory hole)
• Paint
• Mutagenics Research
• Pyrotechnics
• Wood Treatment - treated boards
  • Recipes (and Tale1's recipes)