Master crafting, village upgrades, and essential skills in Far Cry Primal. Learn resource gathering, specialist recruitment, and a recommended skill point allocation for optimal gameplay.
Gathering resources like wood, stone, and animal hides is crucial for crafting weapons, gear, and village huts in Far Cry Primal. Completing missions and recruiting specialists unlocks new crafting options. For instance, collecting dhole hides allows for a larger quiver, while recruiting a Wenja specialist and upgrading their hut enables weapon and gear enhancements. Plants can be used to craft health and boost items. Resources are found by hunting, scavenging, looting bodies, and from stashes at outposts and campfires. Sayla's gathering skills can increase resource yield.
Takkar's base of operations begins as Sayla's shelter. As the game progresses, Takkar must recruit four Wenja specialists and gather resources to build and upgrade huts for them, Sayla, and his own cave. The village expands with each new Wenja. Later, two enemy leaders are also recruited, requiring their own huts. Each hut and the cave have upgrades that demand rare resources and a village population of at least 40 (50 for leader huts). Village population increases by completing main and optional missions, and Wenja events. Building or upgrading huts often unlocks new gear, such as the long bow after upgrading Jayma's hut or winter clothing after building Karoosh's hut. Huts also enable or expand skill trees and provide significant XP, making their construction and upgrades a high priority.
As the campaign advances and specialists are recruited, skill trees become available. Your playstyle influences your character's development. The following skill progression is based on a standard campaign path, but players undertaking numerous side missions can earn skill points more rapidly. Prioritize skills that enhance main missions or gameplay, such as Tame Wildcats before recruiting Wogan or Mammoth Rider before the 'Stomp Udam' mission. Side missions, while optional, offer substantial XP for skill acquisition and provide diverse gameplay experiences. Skills like Beast Rider (levels 26 and 27) and their prerequisites can be prioritized once a brown bear or sabretooth is tamed, allowing for faster travel across Oros Valley.
The recommended allocation of the first 70 skill points:
- Primitive Heal 1
- Extra Heath 1
- Sprint Heal
- Owl Attack 1
- Tame Wildcats
- Extra Health 2
- Extra Health 2
- Owl Cool Down 1
- Owl Cool Down 1
- Tame Apex Predators
- Tame Apex Predators
- Reveal Terrain 1
- Show Resources
- Find Rare Resources
- Find Rare Resources
- Tag Enemies
- Primitive Heal 2
- Primitive Heal 2
- Primitive Heal 2
- Owl Attack 2
- Owl Attack 2
- Owl Attack 2
- Death From Above
- Mammoth Rider
- Mammoth Rider
- Beast Rider
- Beast Rider
- Owl Cool Down 2
- Owl Cool Down 2
- Owl Cool Down 2
- Shard Takedown
- Shard Takedown
- Shard Takedown
- Heavy Takedown
- Heavy Takedown
- Heavy Takedown
- Extra Health 4
- Extra Health 4
- Extra Health 4
- Extra Health 4
- Extra Health 4
- Extra Health 4
- Club and Spear Handling
- Weapon Agility
- Use Weapons While Moving Bodies
- Extra Health 3
- Extra Health 3
- Extra Health 3
- Extra Health 3
- Crouch Sprint
- Crouch Sprint
- Hunter Vision: Sacks
- Craft Arrows 1
- Craft Arrows 2
- Craft Arrows 2
- Craft Arrows 3
- Craft Arrows 3
- Craft Arrows 3
- Craft Arrows 3
- Food Boosts 1
- Double Clubs
- Double Clubs
- Vicious Traps
- Precision Sling
- Precision Sling
- Double Spears
- Double Spears
- Double Spears
- Sprint Forever
- Sprint Forever
- Sprint Forever
Note: Prioritize Dah's entire skill set and Roshani's Fire Resistance when they become available.
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