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

Just starting out in Cult of the Lamb? Well never fear, your friends at Legacy Gaming have tons of tricks to help you survive against the onslaught of the Bishops. Codiak shares his favorite tips and tricks that will help you understand the game, and set you on the right path to surviving Massive Monster's brand new roguelite life-sim game.

0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Smash Everything
1:06 - Good Crops, Happy Flock
2:03 - Wood Problem
2:58 - The Lighthouse
3:42 - Don't Sleep On Affixes
4:17 - Tarot Card+
4:47 - Easy To Find Upgrades
5:29 - A Meal A Day Keeps The Devil At Bay
6:06 - Inspire & Extort
7:01 - Diamonds Are A Cultists Best Friend
7:49 - Progression Mindset
8:36 - Death Can't Stop You
9:23 - Extra Tarot Cards
10:06 - Meditate The Night Away
10:24 - We Meet Again...
11:04 - Join The Cult

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

“Marry them young and adore them so you can get the most out of them before sacrificing them” sounds ABSOLUTELY INSANE out of context bruh 😂

[verdantbabble]

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.

[jayswizzle]

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.

[yoshitotem]

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.

[justarandomfrozenpotato]

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

[kc_jones_gaming]

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

[hazelthemcwitch]

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.

[judemorris-jones]

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 :)

[blackwayve]

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

[Aderon]

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.

[TheRandalHandle]

Looks like Stardew valley combined with binding of Isaac haha

[MissCircle]

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.

[kekwxdlmao]

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

[thehappyaipom]

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

[CamperCarl]

Here's a few additional tips:

- Something that can easily be lost if you don't take it is the Revival ritual. This not only allows you to bring back a follower with great traits, but they also return at their old loyalty level and with whatever necklace they were buried with. This is incredibly helpful when mating two followers to birth an Uber version.

- You should unlock Natural Burial as well since it removes bodies without you having to butcher the follower.

- Interference from a Bishop that affects your followers are one-off events that typically happen at the beginning of a run. If you take the teleport option that's unlocked via Bishop hearts, you can easily fix whatever they do and resume your run without it wrecking your faith and spawning dissenters.

[arty_mc_artist]

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

[mew]

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.

[brodyford]

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!

[johntaylor]

One small detail I missed was Recylcling old weapons/curses when I got a new one. I didn't realize it until I was a few dungeons in....
I also highly recommend to level up and get the perks where rituals will cost half of required resources and the other perk on the next tier that cuts down cooldown timers, it helped me SO much to keep my followers happy being able to ascend the elderly with the elderly death perk!

[IthrhaMh]

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.