Top 5 Beginner Mistakes | Cult of the Lamb

This video discusses common newbie mistakes for Cult of the Lamb. These aren't all of the mistakes of course, but mitigating these should make one's life much easier. Stay tuned for more quick Cult guides and content :)

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[isaacmayer-splain]

Personally I think that the elderly should still have a purpose, that being they can no longer do physical work but are twice as effective at spiritual work.

[ilikethecokev]

One tip I have is get the Grass Eater doctrine. Completely negates the negative effects of grass meals, and if for some reason at the time you're struggling to make other meals, but you have a lot of grass, it becomes a life saver.

[midnightmaniacs]

Early on I gained a follower who had a problem with sacrifices, lost 5% faith after a sacrifice. A couple minutes later I unlocked the sacrifice mechanic. After finishing the crusade I found out which follower it was, and sacrificed him. Let’s just call it… a test of faith…

[penntopaper]

i know you arent supposed to spend like 95% of the game in the base but god is it fun. i find just doing stuff around base and talking to the cultists just as if not more fun than the crusades. im definitely a character and plot over gameplay person when it comes to games in general. to be entirely honest, the only reason i do crusades is to advance the plot and meet new characters, and im practically just as invested in my follows as the actual characters.

[WerSonst]

Number 1 Trick I should have realized sooner: The exits of rooms ind the dungeons sometimes have decorations hanging around, which signal what the next room is (Stars for card, weapons for smithy etc.). Really easy to notice, but still took me far too long.

[alpacalips]

One thing that’s kinda annoying is that if you have 8 followers and 8 sleeping bags. You’ll lose faith if you try to upgrade one of the sleeping bags to a shelter.. since the game registers that you no longer have enough beds for your followers until you finish building the shelter. Normally it wouldn’t be a problem if you have a high faith level but it can cause issues if you’re already Low on faith as you can have a cult member start dissenting.

[don_kixotejoga]

One thing that helped me:
Fast but low damage are the best type of weappn in crusades, while slow but high damage are better for bosses. At least for me.

[kpcool]

The teleport back to base upgrade is really useful after completing the first area, since the bishops show up throughtout later on and do things like make followers hungry or sick, and now you just tp home and fux it rather than panic and rush the rest of the crusade

[brownbiscuit]

Another thing I want to tell beginners once you unlock the ability to sacrifice a follower upon death in a crusade don’t pick one of your favorites because there is no resurrection for them. You can only resurrect followers you have sacrificed in rituals or died in your camp either by murder or natural death.

[faith-kjpg]

I definitely spent too much time in base during my first playthrough. My followers were always dissenting or dying while I was in the middle of a cruscade. Hell the only way I could beat Bishop Heket in peace was by putting them under Mind control with the mushrooms. By then I had all filled all the doctrines and divine inspiration. Now I've 10, 000 in gold and my lumber and stone is is the 700 range

[MrMaradok]

I’d love to see a way for the followers to make their own food, probably at a reduced rate regardless, but have to go down an upgrade path for what recipes they can use.

This way, you can go out in the longer crusades when you’re critically low on resources, or when you need to grind out specific resources like crystal or webbing, things that you can only get while out and about.

Maybe also have it that they only use the resources that are in a specific chest, again to ensure that you don’t just leave them to their own devices for to long.

Finally, and *SPOILERS BTW* only have this upgrade path available AFTER Heket, so that the points where she makes your followers starve is still impactful to the player

[VenaticSix]

One thing you haven't mentioned aswell is that when you're new there's a stage where your followers are less likely to dissent against you and they're easier to maintain, it's a really good idea to go on as many crusades as possible in the first area and recruit as many new followers as you can before progressing to the next stage but don't immediately indoctrinate them because they actually join a very long queue when you save them, I believe it's a good idea because it provides a way of indoctrinating more members while you also work on the base and that way if you have them queued up you wont need to worry too much about crusades for abit and it's fairly steady as long as you only gradually indoctrinate

[Veiraviss]

Well, my mistake I make every single time and it's not just in this game is that I'm focusing on swinging my weapon and running into enemies mindlessly, not paying attention to those enemies who shoot projectiles, and I'm starting to play more carefully only when I'm on half a heart.
Yeah.
That always ends well.

[MapleNaros]

Small combat tip I found is that dashing cancels all attack animations, but attacking cancels the dash animation. This means you can attack dash and attack again in a very short amount of time. I found this really helps with the axe and sword weapons, but doing it with gauntlets is shit and the dagger sometimes doesn't have enough range to follow up.

[Mr.s]

Here is some mistakes l learned when l was playing on the hardest difficulty.

Mistake 1: Do not play on easy mod Why? Because you will less likely never face those issues and all of sudden when you want to play the game again, on more harder difficulty you start to face the problems and might even lose the run when you're not prepared for it. Including less HP, more punishing cult faith, and so on. As it says it's "Easy", so you will not be prepared for the harder difficulty setting when you want to play again.

Mistake 2: Demon possession does matter! When you're on the hardest difficulty you really need to pay attention to level up your cult members, but pay attention to what type of demon they will become, if you have wasted all your time leveling up the wrong follower, it is just more boring grinding later on when your stuck and can't go on because your followers are too low level and can't give you enough boost to win the boss fight.

Mistake 3: Picking the right cape and bonuses on the Crown abilities. It's very important when playing on a harder difficulty, because of the lack of hp, you can't offer to get hit as you only start with 1 heart, making early game choices very important, or get a slap to face by taking the wrong Crown ability and now your stuck because of your bad choice of ability

Mistake 4: Bones... MORE BONES!! Always sent your cult members to collect bones whenever possible. You gonna do a lot more rituals to keep your cult faith up and high.

Mistake 5: Giving wrong people, wrong gifts / Items. Dear god, pay attention to your follower's traits. So you void giving person who gives you less praying power an item who boosts it because it just going to waste, try to manage your cult member's that way you have workers and prayers. In the late game, this does not matter too much but in the early game, it does matter a ton

[melissamilford]

Another tip: be weary about what fleece you use, your fleece can overall change your ways of combat like the glass canon fleece.

[garyburginjr]

This is without a doubt my favorite indie of 2022 but I have to say there are some run breaking bugs that I've run into about five separate times and it really really needs to get fixed. But other than that I absolutely love this game and I hope it gets more content

[claudiarowe]

Ok this is like the 10th gameplay I’ve seen of this so far so I’m just going to point it out. I noticed in the tarot card room, after playing for a while, a stack of cards appears to the left side of the tarot card man. You can walk up to it, pay gold and pull again. It has a little cool down. So you’re not ‘supposed’ to do it more than once, but if you find it, pull it, play the whole area, and come back, you should be able to do it again. I’ve done this multiple times. At one point I had 8 tarot cards.

[frankmc]

If I was a guide-doing youtuber, I would 100% do a guide on how to use doctrines. I think a few of them have sneaky sorts of uses that aren't immediately obvious, and a few have synergies that are really good to know about ahead of time (e.g. Murder and Good Die Young)

For example, tonight I'm going to try to build enough prisons to incarcerate my whole cult and see if that makes it so I can go on a long crusade without them starving or losing faith or pooping everywhere, because I have the Original Sin doctrine so there's very little cost to doing so. Dunno yet if that's going to work, but I'm like 85% certain that followers don't lose stats while they're imprisoned, and Original Sin (effect: followers only lose 2 faith when you imprison a non-dissenter) is one of those "but why?" doctrines.

[Nindota]

I personally just started out by making a massive farm, and having one person worship, and then proceeded to unlock everything before going to the second area of the game