Cult of the Lamb - Wish I Knew Sooner | Tips, Tricks, & Game Knowledge for New Players

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Beginning tips 1. Growing flowers in the beginning is a good way to farm gold. Get tons of grass from your runs, and make farming plots, like 20. Slowly replace the flowers with veggies as you get more followers. You're basically wasting money by not farming right away. It's not just for food. 2. Don't dungeon run every day. Set most followers to "worship" and do the dirty work on the farm yourself. It's not glamorous but taking a day off from dungeon running to shovel poop is well worth your time. This will get you to the buildings that make wood and stone quickly and also automate these tasks. 3. Unlock Ascension early in your "Afterlife" doctrine. Your followers get old and die. This allows you to turn them into faith rather than use resources to bury them. Also useful if you get a heretic in your rank and don't have a prison yet. 4. Use your special curse a lot. Some of the rooms with more enemies will fill your fervor right back up, especially if you get a tarot card that increases fervor. I've killed a couple mini bosses using just my curse. 5. Be patient on bosses. Let them go through their move set and you should pick it up quickly. The combat isn't hard but button mashing will never work. I find the best attack window right after the boss moves. Also, remember your dodge roll can go through projectiles.

DONT WASTE POOP! Save it for tier 3 shelters. 10 poop per shelter adds up fast so you need a lot if you want a tier 3 for every cult member.

After a sermon, you can beat most of the followers out of the door with a couple rolls. Have some gravestones outside to distract them upon leaving the sermon. Bless 90% of them with one shot

heres a trick that you didnt see then, offering tables. offering tables are so OP. build as many of them as you can, you will be stacked up on fish and you'll never have to forge your own gold bars again, it gives so many free recources, and having a fourth of your map be just offering tables, combined with having a lot of lumberyards so you can make the offering tables, and you'll be set on recources for the rest of the game

I have a few tips of my own that haven't been mentioned in the video. 1. Out of the four crown powers you can get, go for Omnipresence first. Omnipresence allows you to escape from a crusade and teleport back to your cult at anytime. This ability is VERY useful when dealing with the bishops later on, as, starting with Heket, they WILL mess with your followers, and so having the ability to pop back and quickly remedy the situation is very handy. 2. A little something to add in regards to The Hunger crown perk. While most meals do give you that free blue heart, some don't. Meals with overly negative effects like the Bowl of Poop and the Deadly Dish will NOT grant you that blue heart, they'll just make the lamb throw up. 3. Always, ALWAYS perform your sermons when available, even after you've got all the curses and weapon upgrades. First, you get free money from sermons once your temple gets upgraded, Second, each sermon grants you an additional blue heart on top of perks like The Hunger, and unlike The Hunger, you can get as many blue hearts from sermons as you want. 4. If you plan to use a ritual that decreases faith (like resurrection), do your sermon AFTER the ritual, it will offset the faith cost easily. 5. Keep collecting faith from your statue and tier 3 homes, even after you've unlocked everything. After unlocking all divine inspiration blueprints, faith is automatically converted into coins on collection, allowing you to become ridiculously rich. 6. I would highly recommend picking Alms for the Poor over Ritual of Enrichment, especially if leveling up your followers is your goal. Sure it costs 50 coins, but that cost is easy to offset, plus if you get the cheaper rituals perk, the price drops to just 25 coins. Regardless of the coins spent, the Alms for the Poor ritual grants big loyalty boost for all followers, which saves time on individual interactions. 7. After Omnipresence, the next crown power i'd recommend getting is Darkness Within. This crown power gives you a free Diseased Heart (or Black Heart) at the start of every crusade. Bonus health is also a plus, and this bonus does stack on top of The Hunger (so you can start with 2+ bonus hearts). Diseased Hearts themselves are pretty helpful, if you take damage while you have a Diseased Heart, all enemies in the room with you take a bit of damage too. I'd recommend Darkness Within over The Hunger as you don't have to do anything to get your free Diseased Heart, you're just given one for free at the start of a run. 8. Don't always skip your nights. You can use the extra time you have during the night to take care of any housekeeping things you need to do, which gives you less to worry about in the day. 9. If your having trouble keeping your faith level up, there are many ways to just automatically generate faith that require little to no input from you. First, get the Belief in Absolution perk. With this perk, as long as you have no followers imprisoned, you get +10 faith at the start of every day, and as long as you keep your faith up, you probably won't be using that thing anyway. Second, get the Respect Your Elders perk, it grants you +5 faith everytime a follower reaches old age. Also, i'd recommend getting the Grieve the Fallen perk as it unlocks Graves, an upgrade for body pits that allow your follower to grieve, generating +2 faith everytime they do. 10. If you don't yet have a follower prison, and want to quickly get rid of dissenters, you can always sacrifice (or ascend) them. I would recommend Sacrificing them over straight up killing them because you get more out of Sacrifices/Ascensions than plain murder.

I refuse to sacrifice anyone, or let anyone die at that... If someone asks to be sacrificed I will do it and then immediately res them, old age? Res them. I like my members and I refuse to let them die :)

Bro really said "get the spirit heart you have to eat for first" Instead of the free, no strings attached diseased heart for every run

Looks like Stardew valley combined with binding of Isaac haha

I always clear the camp out of resources on first arrival as there is no hunger day/night cycle until you head back out which gives you a lot of resources plus leaves your growing followers free to worship and generate faster upgrades, I also name my followers in line with their attributes, e.g. one who works faster is called Speedy, one who is materialist is called Greedy, makes it a little easier when assigning tasks or giving complimentary gifts.

To add to the necklaces, theres another one that actually increases the life span of a follower. So it's good for keeping a follower you really like to last longer.

small tips: resurrection ritual can bring back dead followers allowing stupid high loyalty levels and unlocking natural death allows follower corpses to be turned into fertilizer

Not sure if you mention it in any of your videos or not yet, hut if you transform a follower with the Demon Summoning circle into a heart shaped demon, and bring it to a dungeon with the Heart guy, he will ask for your follower in exchange for permanant half a heart

Better note: it does matter a lot which food you eat! Grassy gruel will take half a heart vs how follower meat gives you two black hearts!

One tip to keep in mind is that upgrading lumberyards and stone mines resets their capacity to the second tier's. So, if you're really hurting for resources, wait until your mines and yards run out before making the second tier upgrade. You don't even need to worry about taking them down to 1 piece of wood or stone in the chest, all the resources you didn't claim before upgrading will be there after you upgrade.

there are also the rainbow tarot cards. it's gonna have its effects x2. an example: if you find a tarot card that gives you x1.25 movement speed with the rainbow upgrade it transforms in x2 movement speed.

I’m not sure if there’s a way to see a followers traits after you’ve indoctrinated them but I started color coding them based on their traits. Makes it easier to know who’s easier to level up or who generates more devotion etc.

Probably one of my favorite takes on the rogue genre, and there's so much freedom to the game! I love it!

Another small tip that could help you in the long run!!! With mines and lumberyards, ALWAYS WAIT FOR THEM TO BE DEPLETED before upgrading them! It saves you on resources trust me

When starting a cult with 1 follower, I have all the time needed to clear the entire base, getting all the wood and stone. This is the only time where faith, hunger, and sanitation counters are not present. Toward late game, gold bars are pretty hard to come by, so I build a lot of refinery and offering altar.