Tribal Stage

When the player's creatures become sapient, or have enough Brain Power, they enter the Tribal stage.

Anatomy
The Tribal stage occurs when the player's creature has finally achieved sapience and gathers members for surviving, attacking, allying, working and defending from other tribes of other sapient species, which may or may not have been met in the Creature stage, to become the dominant tribe. Plus, any creatures you have befriended and are in your pack will be in the pet pen of your village.

In this stage the player stops controlling one creature and a pack and now controls many, organized into one tribe. New tribe members will be acquired through mating. Each tribe member costs 10 food points. After a short childhood stage, a tribal member will enter adulthood, and be available to interact with.

The tribe has a village at this stage, which may be expanded with additional huts providing more items such as: weapons, music instruments and culture -themed items with which tribe members can interact, instead of using them to extinct or ally with other tribes. Food can be gathered by gathering, hunting, fishing (if your tribe is a herbivore your tribe will gather seaweed instead of fishing for fish) and domesticating animals, and eating their eggs.

Depending on what the player gives his or her creatures and how they play the game they will become friendly, industrious, or aggressive. When a tribe conquers all rival tribes they can advance to the civilization stage (this advance is optional, and can be taken when ever wanted).

There are two ways to deal with other tribes: subdue them culturally and diplomatically or exterminate and destroy them. To exterminate a tribe, one must destroy its main hut, using weapons. Once the main hut is destroyed the tribe falls, and all tribe members that may still be alive run around screaming, and soon die. Rarely an Epic will appear and kill Rival Tribes. There are specializations in tribal stage: for example by building different buildings, the player can give its tribe members the ability to fish or gather seaweed, gather more fruit, attack from range with throwing spears, burn enemy houses with flaming torches or close attack tribe members or creatures with stone axes. To change a tribe members specialization, the player selects him or her and sends the tribal member to the desired house by right-clicking on it. For example, to arm fishermen with a fishing spear, you send him to the "Fishing Spear" building, which will cause the fisherman to drop the item he or she is holding, and grab a spear instead.

The Chieftain leads your tribal village, and cannot acquire tools like normal tribal members. However, the Chieftain has the best tool in the game which is better than the other weapons, instruments, and other special tools. His staff doubles as a gathering cane, and a fishing spear. If killed, a knew chieftan will soon appear at your hut.

The player should never leave his food unguarded, as small wild animals will sneak in and drain your food supply.

TIP: If you end up as Friendly in the Tribal stage, your first city in Civilization stage will be a Religious one. If you finish as Industrious, you'll start as an Economic city, and if you finish as Aggressive, your starting city will be Military.

Check out the list of Tribal stage stubs if you're looking to contribute to Tribal stage articles.

Consequence Abilities
The following table lists the consequence abilities that can be gained by playing in the previous stages for use in the Tribal stage.

The following table lists the consequence abilities given by the different types of victory in the Tribal stage.

Hidden achievements

 * Medic - Heal one of your tribal members back to full health 5x in a single game.

Hard Difficulty

 * Remember that your creatures will sometimes use their natural abilities to fight, so attach the strongest fighting abilities you can when you're about to evolve, and don't get rid of social abilities -- after you've played music for a tribe, the extra social abilities will further boost your relationship.


 * Any animals of another species a player has in his/her Pack at the time they evolve to the Tribal stage will automatically start out as domesticated animals. This might save a small amount of time at the start as the player doesn't need to domesticate animals if he takes them from the Creature stage, eliminating the food use.


 * The easiest way to win is a purely social route. Gifts are cheap and safe (see below) so use them on anybody who isn't neutral with you. Early on, it shouldn't take your whole Tribe to impress other Tribes, so leave behind someone on egg detail (see below). Later you may have to have everyone on music duty, but you should have so much food it shouldn't matter if some of it gets stolen by an animal and, if you have been giving gifts lavishly, you shouldn't be in any danger from raiders either.


 * Style Matters: Make sure you are wearing the best social clothes you can.


 * The fastest way to earn food is if your tribe is near a fishing spot send out your whole tribe to go fishing. Don't worry about creatures stealing food, if you alternate tribe members it scares away the creature by being so close to the food supply. This works for all difficulties. (Note your chieftain can fish too, and he gathers as much as a tribe member with a fishing spear.)


 * Before you go into the tribal stage, as a creature, follow your migration route back to the nest where you first started, which will be the one closest to the sea, and select it as your new nest. Because the tribe is set where your nest was, this means that your tribe will be right next to the sea and sometimes next to a fishing spot.


 * Domestic animals will lay eggs, which will appear in a bin next to their pens. This is a really great source of food - both Herbivores and Carnivores can eat eggs, and they will automatically build up without limit while you are doing anything else. Domestic animals will also protect your tribe from rival attacks, always try to domesticate alpha animals or, even better, rogues, as they have a higher HP and will survive longer if you do get attacked.


 * Don't be afraid to run out of food. The worst that could happen is a few members starving after a very long time, so it may be useful to have some good gathering clothes on, too.


 * If you're using a nearby nest of animals as a source of food, attack only the fully grown ones, as babies don't offer as much food. You can still kill babies, and they'll regenerate eventually. As a rule, you can never fully kill off any wild animal nest in Tribal stage, although it might take several minutes for an eradicated species to repopulate the old nest if your tribes kills all of the babies, adults, and the Alpha.


 * When allying or attacking another tribe, if you happen to have babies at the village, make sure you leave someone behind, as the wild animals will sometimes attack the baby rather than steal your food. Sometimes the babies can grow up fast enough to defend themselves instead of needing someone to do it for them.


 * Your tribal Chieftain is more powerful than the other tribesmen, so use him when giving gifts to hostile Tribes or for stealing food. Also, he automatically re-spawns when killed after a few minutes.


 * If playing an aggressive tribe, do not attack without being provoked. Wait for an enemy tribe to attack you, wipe out their attacking force, which will lower their population (a tribe will never send all of its members to fight, so if your tribe is full, you will always win without many casualties), and send a counter-attack to finish them off, which will be easy since they have low population. It is important to always leave your chieftain at "home" if you do that, though - not only do you lose the game if your attack force happens to be killed, but also with the Fireworks consequence power, your chieftain can single-handedly repel any assault against your tribe while most of its members are out. Sometimes, your tribe can kill a tribe if its members are far away, for example fishing.


 * Respond to an unexpected attack from another Tribe by offering them a gift. They will become "Neutral" with you, stop attacking, and won't expect you to attack back, giving you a chance to equip instruments and ally if you want to. You can also use the Fireworks power to instantly befriend another tribe, useful if they're attacking your village.


 * When fighting, if you destroy the tribe's weapon building they won't have any weapons to attack with, making it much easier to attack their Hut. Kill the tribal Chieftain and a small amount of tribe members first, then you won't have to worry about a few "leftovers", so go ahead and attack the Hut. The remaining members will run around screaming and die soon after.


 * Don't forget to steal another tribe's food when you attack their village, this prevents them from producing more babies. You can also take the remaining food after the tribe is destroyed.


 * UFOs will sometimes abduct your domesticated animals, and sometimes even allied or your own tribe members. This can happen to your Chieftain, if this is the case you will permanently lose your consequence abilities and the ability to click the tribe button to highlight all your tribe. If a UFO comes onto the Planet don't be afraid to Save your game so if you do lose the Chieftain you can quit the game and restart it.


 * Remember that setting up certain tools or outfits can greatly affect your ability to achieve social or aggressive traits, so set some tool huts up if you want to have a certain consequence ability later on.


 * Take as many tribe members as possible when socializing, even if they don't use instruments. Tribe members without instruments will become dancers in your band, and they add their own little bonus to the social meter. (They don't work as well as musicians, but they add their small bonus during all 6 requests)


 * Sometimes multiple tribes will come and attempt to destroy your tribe. You can counter this by giving one (or more) tribe gifts while you take on another tribe.


 * If you want to win Tribe stage quickly, then get the fireworks ability. Then, go to the tribe you wish to kill, with weapons. Begin killing their tribe members, and when they begin to hate you, use fireworks. they will become your friend, so they won't fight back. Kill their remaining tribe members and destroy their main hut. There is no effect on your personality chart either, as they were befriended before they were killed. This can help you easily beat Tribe stage and get the consequence ability of your choice with ease.
 * If you use the fireworks ability while attacking a tribe that is hostile with you, they will become friendly and sometimes offer you gifts. if you defeat the tribe members giving the gifts, the population of the rival tribe will decrease, making them easier to defeat.


 * Send gifts to every tribe on the map with an orange face or less. Quickly socialize the highest relations tribe, then get back and hunker down for a possible fight. Repeat.


 * The Fireworks ability is valuable while socializing, instantly raising many a tribe you are socializing with relation's to Blue. This makes it easier and faster to socialize and get back for defence.


 * If you have sufficient weaponry and numbers, then it would be wise to kill the epic creature in the game if it suits your personality. This will provide an abundance of food if you are a carnivore or omnivore.

Easy
In the Tribal stage on easy:
 * Other tribe progression is 1 tribe of 6, 3 tribes of 9, and 1 tribe of 12. Fewer Tribes hate you and will attack less.

Normal
In the Tribal Stage on Normal:
 * Other tribe progression is 1 tribe of 6, 3 tribes of 9, 1 tribe of 12. More tribes hate you and attack more often.

Hard
In the Tribal Stage on Hard:
 * Other tribe progression is 1 tribe of 6, followed by 4 tribes of 12. More Tribes hate you and will attack a lot.

Glitches

 * Sometimes, the chieftain proves a chronic fidget and is unable to conduct the band, thus making the friendly route impossible. However, you can still give gifts.


 * Sometimes, your chieftain is holding two staffs. This usually happens after fishing with a creature that has multiple hands (more than two).


 * There is a way to keep the domestication staff held when domesticating wild animals. If you start domesticating, then you try collecting some food, the staff will move to the left hand and you will keep it there no matter what, until you re-domesticate or die.


 * Sometimes in the game one of your tribe members will go into space. Let them starve to death and then get a new tribe member. If this is your chieftain then you can't socialize or use consequence abilities for the rest of the game because when the chieftain is reborn he will be in space again. The best way to deal with this is to quit the game and go back to it. The chieftain should be back on your planet.


 * If you lose a domesticated creature during an attack or abduction, you can go back to the same nest of the creature you lost and just take another without giving it a bone. (not really a glitch, as the bone just makes the creature friendly toward you (friendly face) and make them stop being aggressive)


 * If someone is carrying a food basket in your tribal grounds and you progress he'll drop the basket and it will stay there throughout the civilization stage.

Easter Eggs

 * When two tribe members engage in conversation, occasionally above one's head will be a speech bubble with the galaxy/Spore icon. The other one will begin to laugh. Eventually, the first one will hit the second one on the head and tackle him.


 * When your creatures go on to the Tribal Stage (only if you were in at least Creature stage), a scene will play with your (future) Chieftain discovering fire. This is a reference to the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the primitive humans discovered tools in a similar scene. The same music from the movie is also heard.


 * When your tribe is about to enter the Civilization Stage, your tribe engages in a discussion of what to do. One of them suggests pie, but the other creatures have no idea what he is talking about.


 * Depending on if you are Social or Aggressive your tribe members will either play rough or play nice. For example, if your tribe is aggressive, tribe members may push one another down or engage in roughhousing.


 * If you select a tribe member and right-click on the fire that is in the middle of the tribe, he will start to dance. You can also select multiple villagers and follow these steps to have them perform a celebratory salsa.
 * Sometimes if two tribesmen talk to each other, one tribe member's speech bubble will have Will Wright's head in it.

Trivia

 * Tribal Stage could be compared with the Paleolithic Era on Earth.
 * With monkey mouths (2nd row of omnivorous mouths in Creature Editor), many tribal shouts are spelled exactly the same way as in Populous: The Beginning.
 * It is notable that Tribal and Civilization stages bear a remarkable gameplay similarity to LoTR: Battle for Middle Earth.
 * The "at least one alive" rule (you must have either one Regular or Chieftain alive) is the same as in Populous: The Beginning. Overall, Tribal Stage plays very much like that game.
 * The Chieftain is always left-handed whereas regular members of the tribe may be either left- or right-handed.
 * If you domesticate a species, when you approach that species they may say "Hello!".