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

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.