Soulmask: Mastering Automation in Survival

Soul mask is an open world survival game that's coming to the steam store later on this year they've announced that they are targeting June for an early access release I've been able to be in multiple tests for soul mask and that's been nice because I'm absolutely addicted to this game it's a ton of fun and I really enjoy playing it I want to cover the automation that's available in Soul mask in this video now there are a couple of pain points that I have with the Automation and I want to get those out of the way right up front when you have your tribesmen harvesting resources around the area they use tools and those tools lose durability there's no way that I found to be able to automate the repair of those tools so that is a point where you have to step into the Automation and do things yourself additionally I haven't found an easy way to get things sorted within your base so let's say you go out on an adventure you bring back a bunch of loot you have to sort that yourself or you have to go through a painstaking process of setting up one of your tribesmen to look for each individual item it'd be super cool and very handy if there was an option to just set the tribesmen to sort anything you put in a particular chest into the other chests that you have set up and I'll show you later on in the video how the entire sorting system works there's just that one piece that I feel like is missing from that that automation otherwise I find the Automation in Soul mask to be very in-depth and at times it can be overwhelming which is why I wanted to put this video together to show you all the things that you can do with the Automation and give you some guidance on how you can set it up so that you don't feel overwhelmed once you get in and start playing Soul mask make sure you stick around to the end of the video where I will reveal the most important part of automation so that you don't have to worry about your base decaying and disappearing while you're away from Soul mask for any item to be crafted in a workbench in Soul mask you are going to need someone to be at that bench so you can do this your clan mates can do this but you can also gather tribesmen and increase your tribe and have them do it most of these processes and tedious things can be assigned to tribes people let's first look at assigning a tribes person to a workbench as you can see right now I am working the workbench but down here it says that my tribesman Jack is taking care of this station the way that you would do this is to click on this icon or press p on your keyboard pick a person that is going to handle that station now there's a couple of ways to start crafting so I'm going to end this queue and let that last one finish and then I'll show you the couple of ways that you can do this so nobody is working the bench if I want to start what is in the bench I can simply walk up and press e or F to craft whatever's in the bench now if I don't want to sit here I just hold R and I'm going to walk away from the furnace my tribesman is then going to get up and go over to the furnace and start crafting the items that I had in the queue I'm going to show you another way that this works I'm going to take all the iron ore out of there and actually place it in a box over here now all the tin ore is in the box but let's say that I want to craft tin ore and I don't want to carry it from the box to this location what I can do is select the item that I want and press D to create a quest and I can change the amount that I want crafted Jack is then going to go to the chest to where I have those items stored he's going to retrieve those items and bring them back to the furnace he'll then put the items in the furnace and start the crafting process for that Quest once that's done he's going to take those processed items and move them back to the chest that they belong if you don't want them moving items out of the crafting stations you can check this box this says items crafted by tribesmen here will not be automatically moved to the storage chest so it's totally up to you how you decide to set that up whether you want the items to stay in the crafting station or whether you want them moved into the storage chest personally I like having them move them into the storage chest because I then know where to go and get those items when Jack is done processing those items he's going to put them in this chest now I have a set of items that are allowed to be stored in here if you press L while looking at your chest you can select the items that you want stored in that chest once you've selected the items the icon that is on the chest will appear and your tribesmen will know exactly what chest to put those items in there's even more depth to the Q crafting and really crafting in general there's a couple other things when it comes to crafting that you should know and that is that some recipes have multiple items that you can use in order to make that item if we look at charcoal it can take logs hardwood premium hardwood or branches but it's not likely that you're going to want to use premium hardwood to make charcoal so if you click on the recipe it'll give you options to choose the different items that are acceptable to be used for that recipe for this example I'm just going to choose brand branches now I want to create a planned Cube so I'm going to press D on my keyboard and I'm going to change the number here to 100 I then want to click on this gear here and that's going to allow me to set this up to happen once every interval so for this specific one I want them to craft 100 every 24 hours clicking confirm on that changes the background to purple and that's going to craft 100 of those every 24 hours now some workbenches require fuel the Kil is one of those examples and we can hold e on there to get this pop-up menu set acceptable fuel choices and tell your followers which fuels are okay to place in there in order to turn the crafting station on again that just gives you another level of control in all your automation let's say you decide you no longer want to gather wood for your tribe you can simply go into your inventory select the drop-down list of all the people that are in your tribe and choose a tribe member that you want to do a certain type of work now when choosing a tribe member it's good to look at their character screen go to proficiencies and look at what items they are going to be doing so I'm going to send this particular tribesmen out to do logging you want to look in here because there are bonuses that they can get for doing these items so as they level up they are going to unlock different bonuses so you can see at level 60 she is going to have a reduced tool durability loss of 6% I also chose a reduced durability loss at the level 30 of 5% So currently she has an 11% reduced durability cost when she's logging the number on the right hand side of the slash is her cap so she will only be able to get up to 90 for an additional 7% cost but there are other options here like logging output or logging speed and the stamina cost reduction so you can choose which of these perks suits your needs if we go over to the work tab you can see I already have this Quest set up I'm going to go ahead and delete this Quest and remake it so you can see the process so I'm going to hold X to delete it and then I'm going to just click the plus button there to pull this up so the work type that we're going to be doing is wild collection the location is going to be my bonfire that's here and the work goals is going to be logging I want her to get an unlimited amount and store in the nearby chests now if you have chest set up like I showed you already they they will prioritize putting things in those chests with the preferences if you have chests that don't have preferences on them and the chests that do have preferences get filled up they will put items in the Overflow chests with no preferences the automatically discard collecting tools with no durability will simply drop it on the ground and it will no longer exist so I don't personally recommend using this option as you can repair the tools that you give them now that we have all the options set there we're going to press e that is going to put it back in the list you can see currently it says pause and if I hit space bar it's going to say starting work she's going to get up and head out and do her wild collection as long as she has a tool with durability you can see in the work screen it says ongoing if at any point in time your tribesman stops working and you're not sure what's going on go to their work tab like this and look at what it says the current process is they may be on a work break they may have issues with their tool where it doesn't have durability or some other issue this is going to tell you what that issue is and help you sort out why they're not doing the work now I showed you how to set up wild Gathering from your bonfire but you can actually put markers on the map and have them Farm in those locations those markers should be located close to your base because they will have to travel to that location Additionally you want to make sure that whoever you are sending to that location not only has the tools that they need to harvest whatever they're going to harvest but also that they have weapons to defend themselves and some healing bandages so that they can heal up if they get attacked but let's set up this task at that location so we're going to go into the work tab for the tribesmen that we want to send to that location we're going to add a tribesman work wild collection the location is the location for the marker so I named it gather here and then I want them to go out and just Harvest Harvest is going to get you things like thatch and Vin basically anything that they would use a sickle to harvest and we're just going to hit e to start that Quest she's going to harvest anything within a 30 m radius of that marker so she is heading to this marker we should be able to find her out here there she is and you can see she is using her Scythe to harvest all of those items that option is particularly useful for if you have a large base and the resources inside the area of your bonfire are not spawning back in you can send them outside of your base where resources are spawning some automation can also be done with placeables so there's a collection yard a logging yard a breeding Farm an excavation pit and a granary those are some of the different placeables that will allow you to do different types of specific automation I'm going to have Jack make a excavation pit here real quick and we'll just put that in the quest queue he will go and look at the bench see what resources he needs for that and then go retrieve them from the boxes while he's working on that let's talk a little bit about your box setup we'll look in the tools box here and let's say we don't want our tribesmen using our high level tools you can stop tribesmen at any point in time from depositing or retrieving items from any box with these two check boxes down here so tribesmen won't take from here and tribesmen won't store here I recommend setting up personal boxes with these options checked so that you don't have to worry about your tribesmen taking your really expensive tools and using them if you don't want them to now Jack has finished his work and he should have put that excavation pit in here there it is right there this is where all the building supplies go so I can then take that and go place it let's place our excavation pit just a little ways away from the base and then what we can do is look at the options that we have for this so first of all in this situation we appoint a caretaker just like we would any other bench so you can look through the list and see who's the best at mining since that is what this station is going to be doing we want the mining level to be high not only the mining level that they have but their cap should also be high because as they are engaging in this process and doing their work they will be leveling up in that specific proficiency so we're going to pick Black Widow to do the mining if she has the tool to do this she's automatically going to come out and start mining the tools are going to be the pain point for you in this whole situation that's the one thing I haven't figured out how to set up on a consistent basis to have them deposit it in the repair bench and then pick up a new tool but let's say that one of our tribesmen used their tool completely they used up this iron pick all the way we need to collect that tool take it to the repair bench inventory and that is going to automatically be repaired you should see Jack grab all the resources that he needs for that come down here and repair this tool so like I said if there's an issue with the process you can look in this work screen to see what the issue is he currently cannot repair that tool because he's lacking the iron ink Ingot that he needs in order to repair it I happen to have some resources to make iron ingots right here once that is complete he will be able to then move those iron ingots to the storage chest and then use those iron ingots to make my repairs now you can set up quests to just continue to process whenever the resources are there for that specific thing so as you can see I have a quest for broth to always be crafting when those resources are there currently we are missing the fresh meat and the blls in order to get this accomplished so I've queued up a few Bulls here we're going to allow our tribesmen just to handle that they'll come and make those Bulls additionally I went out and got some meat so what we'll do is we will toss a bit of meat in here and then as she completes those Bulls she's going to put them away somebody else is going to grab them and then they're going to take them to that bench and that Quest que is going to automatically start so you can see she is coming in she is going to grab the items that she needs and then she's going to start crafting that broth she's deposited four bulls and now she's crafting the broth once she's done crafting those four she'll move them over into the dining table which is where your tribesmen are going to get their food if at any point in time your tribesmen is prioritizing a workload that you don't want them doing at that point in time you can simply change it in their work order so whatever you want them to do first should be the highest and then whatever you want them to do when those other tasks aren't running should be the lowest and you can just drag these items up and down in here in order to prioritize what you want them to be doing if you're ever wondering what tables you have them assigned to you can look at that through the work list as well managing crafting tables around and you can see which ones you have selected to set up Priority for the different crafting tables it prioritizes in the order that you told them to take care of it so I want her to prioritize the cooking station first then she can prioritize the loom after that and then lastly after that she could prioritize going to the Tannery let's say you want to have farming going but you don't want to do the farming yourself you can assign that to your tribesmen so as you can see we have a farm plot here and Jack is the one that's taken care of it so we currently spread a pesticide on there to get rid of the bugs and he will maintain this area completely he's coming and he's planting the seeds that I have set in this so he's always going to be planting corn seeds here he's going to make sure that it's watered he's going to make sure it's fertilized and he's going to take care of any ailments that they'll have additionally he'll then come and harvest everything and repeat that process he's bringing something else back right now looks like maybe he's going to harvest a bit there he goes harvesting the ones that are ready and then he'll replant seeds to start the process all over again for the farm plots you do have to set down a graner and that is what's going to allow you to assign that task to a tribesman you can also assign tribesmen to take care of your animals so if you have a turkey Coupe or a copy bar a pen you will be able to assign that to your tribesmen you do have to create another station for that and that is going to be the breeding Farm once you have that station placed they will handle everything that has to do with your animals I currently don't have any animal pins so I can't show you that process but it's the same process as using The Granary or the excavation pit or any other workbench for that matter you simply place this down and assign a tribesman to it now the most important task that you're going to give any of your tribesmen is to take care of your bonfire you can see currently I have this appointed to Black Widow now what they are going to do is always make sure that there is fuel in your bonfire having fuel in your bonfire is how you stop Decay from happening at your base the other task that the tribesman that is taking care of your bonfire will do is repair your base you need to make sure that you give them a construction Hammer so that they can do the repairs and that they have access to all the resources needed to repair the different items around your base part of the automation for your bonfire is to set acceptable fuel types so you want to go in here and uncheck or check the items that you want them to use when they are caring for your fire so if you don't want them using thatch branch and tree bark because it just doesn't have a very long time you can uncheck those items and they'll use the rest of what's on that list each one of those fuel resources will have different times so play around with it to see what suits your needs best another important item for managing your tribes men's automation is to place a well that way anytime they need water as a resource for something that they're crafting they can take the water receptacle and come to the well in order to refill it just being close to a natural water source isn't going to give them the opport opportunity to automate that function so you want to make sure you have a well placed [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 21min 24sec (1284 seconds)

Published: Fri May 03 2024