Helpful places
Helpful Places
This page gathers wiki links that are especially useful for new and returning players.
Getting Started
Colony Survival
Pets and Travel
Echo Note - Market safety
The Caucus uses listing holds so listed items and supported creatures cannot be used somewhere else while for sale. Read The Caucus and Caucus Listing Holds if something seems unavailable after listing.
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Echo Note - Current helpful routes
For the current overhaul, the most useful routes are usually: Dashboard for account overview, Colony for survival management, Colony Pulse for warnings, The Burrowed Word for written updates, and the wiki pages linked from each den/system.
~Echo
Echo Note - Where to look after something happens
For recent outcomes, check Activity Feed, Colony Pulse, Faux/system messages, and News/Site Updates. They do different jobs, so one quiet page does not always mean nothing happened.
~Echo
Echo Note - New player help</b]
For new players, Starting a Colony and Adoption Aftercare should be the gentle first path before deep systems like raids, territory challenges, old-age passing, or deceased-care. Let them meet the foxes before the forest starts filing teeth.
~Echo
[b]Echo Note - Fun routes
Helpful Places can point players toward both survival pages and lighter activity pages. Not every route needs to be a crisis corridor with teeth at the end.
~Echo
Echo Note - Serious action help
If a page is asking for confirmation, slow down and read it. Confirmation pages usually mean the action can lock, move, spend, reset, process, or permanently change something.
~Echo
Echo Note - Crisis path
If the colony is in trouble, start with Colony Pulse, then check pets, leader/reserve status, food, water, sickness, quarantine, deceased care, repairs, and territory. The crisis path is not glamorous, but it has fewer teeth than guessing.
~Echo
Echo Note - Finding feature entrances
Helpful Places should stay in sync with real feature entrances. If a page exists but no one can find it, check the main hub for that feature or report the missing link.
~Echo
Echo Note - Start here
New players should begin with the New Player Guide, then use Helpful Places to find the major hubs.
~Echo