Dismantle Trick

Dismantling: the steps to generate +1 brave

The dismantle trick is a method to quickly gain extra braves without waiting the period of time a hut takes to produce them automatically. Gaining braves quickly is important to generate mana.

The trick is useful for levels like those in Adventure Worlds where the player often starts out with only a trapped Shaman and a full sized hut. As many braves are needed to worship the idols on these levels, getting braves short term can help more in the long run than following the normal upgrade pattern. On levels with convert and lots of wildmen, the trick is useless as the tribe can easily pass the hut capacity using only convert.

Executing the Trick

Hover over the total follower count to show the total followers in the tribe and the maximum allowed with current number of huts, the trick will only work if there is capacity left.

Click the dismantle button on a hut and wait for the braves to dismantle the hut by one wood. Then switch off the dismantle button on the hut so the brave rebuilds it. After the hut is completed a brave is created immediately.

This trick can be expanded to any number of huts, but is limited by the tribe follower capacity. Any huts partially dismantled no longer contribute to the maximum tribe count, so timing and coordination is key.

Drawbacks

• Dismantling and rebuilding resets the hut to the beginning of its current stage which will slow the hut upgrading process.
• When not carefully monitored, braves can remove the entire hut, especially bad while performing the trick on upgraded huts.
• A partially dismantled hut is more vulnerable to being fully destroyed by enemies.

When to dismantle

When you start the game, you always have a population limit of 5. Whenever you make a hut, this limit increases with 3. A medium and large hut increases it with 6 and 9 respectively. With this data, the maximum pop when having 1 hut is 8. 8 minus 1 is 7. So whenever you have a population of 7, you can dismantle all your huts and gain a follower from each hut.

Based on this information, we can make a table that shows you each milestone and how many huts to subtract. Keep in mind that a middle hut counts for 2, and a big hut as 3.

Example: You have a population of 32. That's 8 small huts to subtract. If you have 10 small huts, that means you can effectively dismantle 2 small huts.

Current pop	Small Huts to subtract	Medium huts to subtract	Big huts to subtract
7	0	0	0
10	1	0	0
13	2	1	0
16	3	1	1
19	4	2	1
22	5	2	1
25	6	3	2
28	7	3	2
31	8	4	2
34	9	4	3
37	10	5	3
40	11	5	3
43	12	6	4
46	13	6	4
49	14	7	4
52	15	7	5
55	16	8	5
58	17	8	5
61	18	9	6
64	19	9	6
67	20	10	6
70	21	10	7
73	22	11	7
76	23	11	7
79	24	12	8
82	25	12	8
85	26	13	8
88	27	13	9
91	28	14	9
94	29	14	9
97	30	15	10
100	31	15	10
103	32	16	10
106	33	16	11
109	34	17	11
112	35	17	11
115	36	18	12
118	37	18	12
121	38	19	12
124	39	19	13
127	40	20	13
130	41	20	13
133	42	21	14
136	43	21	14
139	44	22	14
142	45	22	15
145	46	23	15
148	47	23	15
151	48	24	16
154	49	24	16
157	50	25	16
160	51	25	17
163	52	26	17
166	53	26	17
169	54	27	18
172	55	27	18
175	56	28	18
178	57	28	19
181	58	29	19
184	59	29	19
187	60	30	20
190	61	30	20
193	62	31	20
196	63	31	21
199	64	32	21

It's also possible to do it the other way around. Simply check your population limit and subtract your current from it. Then divide by 3. ( 6 for medium huts, 9 for large huts )

So example, 184 - 133 = 51. Which is 17 small huts. You can dismantle 17 small huts at the same time.