Kainga: Seeds of Civilization — walkthrough: the first ten minutes, the numbers, and the traps

Kainga is a roguelite village-builder built out of short Challenges. You pick a Thinker, drop a Campfire Hearth, and then have one run's worth of time to convert whatever the biome gave you into a village that can feed itself, survive the weather, and finish the Challenge Festival that ends the run. Everything in a Challenge is temporary; only Karma, unlocked technology groups and a handful of carried-over units survive it.

This guide is the working part of that loop: what things cost, what each structure consumes and produces, which houses give which population and which weather protection, and the decisions that quietly lock you out of options later. Numbers come from the official Kainga Encyclopedia at kainga.wiki.gg, read through the MediaWiki API as raw wikitext, because the rendered pages show ingredient icons instead of quantities. Every table below is generated from those infobox fields — nothing here is estimated, and where the wiki does not carry a number, the cell says so.

What version this is written for

Kainga 1.2.21, the patch released 25 June 2025, which follows Update 1.2 "Points of Interest" (8 June 2025). 1.0 released on 6 December 2022; early access began 11 November 2021. Those dates come from Steam's news API for app 1269710 (api.steampowered.com/ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp/v2/?appid=1269710) and from the wiki's own release field.

Two notes on the identifiers. The queue item that produced this guide carried the link steamcommunity.com/app/1260280/guides, which is not this game; Kainga is Steam app 1269710 (store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=1269710 confirms the name and the 6 December 2022 release date). And the newest item on that news feed now is "ShantyTown Release!" (16 April 2026), which is a different game by the same solo developer, not a Kainga patch — so 1.2.21 is still the latest Kainga build as of this writing.

The wiki is actively maintained but unevenly: its Shelter and Other technology pages were last edited 18 June 2026 and the Materials page 22 February 2026, while the Food and Resources technology pages and the Thinkers page were last touched in 2024 (17 November, 28 July and 13 October respectively). The Food and Resources numbers therefore predate Update 1.2 and should be treated as one patch generation behind the rest.

How to read the numbers

The wiki keeps one TechInfo infobox per technology and one PassiveTechInfo per passive, and those fields are exact:

Karma — the cost to buy that technology from the Karma Shop after its group is unlocked. A dash means the technology has no karma cost and comes with its group.
Chance — the wiki's "Chance to Appear". The Technologies page is explicit that this is computed over all technologies currently unlocked and available, and that "the percent chance for a given Technology to appear in each Challenge may be different". Treat it as a relative weight, not a promised draw rate.
Build materials — one entry per unit. Clay, Clay is two Clay. Chosen Walls and Chosen Roof are placeholders resolved by the house you chose (see the housing section).
Produces — the number of icons in the infobox, i.e. units per production cycle.
Footprint — tiles, WxD. A dagger (†) means the page states no footprint at all; the infobox then prints its own 2x2 default — or the literal None, which is what the fourteen Beast and Walker technologies store — and either is a template fallback rather than data, so do not read it as a measurement.

What the wiki does not carry, and therefore what this guide does not claim: cycle times. No infobox on the wiki has a duration or rate field. The encyclopedia describes production speed in words only — "slowly produces Clay from nothing" for the Clay Pit, "produce a lot of Food very quickly" for the Fishing Net — and the wiki's own descriptions are not consistent enough to rank one structure against another. There are no per-minute ratios anywhere in this guide, because there is no source for them. Where a rate matters, the honest answer is the number of units per cycle plus the wiki's wording, and both are printed below.

The loop, in the order the game asks you to do it

Think at Inspiration. Inspiration are floating orbs of light around the map, each carrying an icon for the type of technology its Idea can provide. Send the Thinker to one and you are offered three options, drawn randomly from all technologies you have unlocked — filtered for compatibility. The Technologies page gives the clean example: choose the Vrisk House, which cannot take attachments, and no future Idea will ever offer an attachment technology such as the Blastpowder Distillery.
Or take a Passive instead. Opting out of any Inspiration type lets you pick a Passive technology instead. Passives cannot be built but change the rules — full-speed hauling, doubled chopping, immunity to a hazard.
Build, feed, house. Shelters consume Food to produce Braves and must be occupied by at least one Brave to produce, and they are the only way to raise your population cap.
Spend Festivals. Four Festivals are available in a Challenge: three unique to your Thinker and one that completes the Challenge. After a certain number of other technologies, a Festival Inspiration appears above the Hearth and the Thinker walks home on their own. The Challenge Festival is the last thing you build; everything you planned for was to make that possible.
Karma, then the Skyloft. Completing Challenges accrues Karma. Karma buys technology groups and individual technologies from the Karma Shop in the Skyloft, which is what carries progress between runs. The Starting group is unlocked the first time you launch the game; the rest are bought, and some, such as the Blueprint group, need a Quest completed first.

What the wiki records for the groups — 220 technology infoboxes in total — is a fair picture of where the bulk of the game sits:

Tech group	Technologies on the wiki	Karma costs seen on individual techs
Group 5	65	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Starting	42	2
Group 2	33	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Group 3	31	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Group 1	19	1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Blueprint	17	2, 3, 4, 5, 7
no group in the infobox (all 7 are Festivals)	7	free
Group 4	3	2, 3
n/a (Karma Shop, Uniques Tinkerer)	2	free
Unknown (Fertilizing Termites)	1	free

Step 1 — the Hearth you place first, and the Totems you should hold back on

Structure	Karma	Chance	Build materials	Footprint	Health	Builders	What it does
Campfire Hearth	—	100%	1 Logs	2x2†	infinite	8	Must be placed before anything else; its radius is your initial claimed territory
Resource Totem	—	100%	none listed	1x1	Unknown	8	Claims a fixed radius around the totem; each one built increases the world Ante by 1
Karma Shop	n/a	—	Fabric, Fabric, Chosen Roof, Bricks	4x4	Unknown	2	Opens later in the Challenge (staffed by a Scrollkeeper); a Thinker may buy one of three technologies there
Uniques Tinkerer	n/a	—	Fabric, Fabric, Chosen Roof, Bricks	4x4	Unknown	2	Same, but it only makes Unique technologies available
Storage	—	7.3%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof	2x2†	800	2	Materials inside stop degrading

Three things follow from that table, and they are the first ten minutes of every run.

The Hearth's own radius is the only free territory you get. The wiki's advice is to put it where resources are dense, because Braves will not automatically use resources outside claimed land: "Braves won't automatically use resources outside of the claimed land area."
Every Totem is a permanent tax. Each Resource Totem "increases the world Ante by 1, increasing the frequency and intensity of events". Expanding to grab ore or bamboo is a real trade against how hard the weather and raids will hit you later in the same Challenge. Expand for what you are actually going to use this run.
Place Storage early. Logs are the material the wiki singles out as degrading ("It is produced by only a limited number of technologies, and degrades if not used"), and Storage is a Starting-group technology with the third-highest appearance chance in the Development group. A pile of rotting Logs is the classic silent failure.

Step 2 — Food, which is the only thing standing between you and a second Brave

Every ordinary Shelter consumes Food to produce a Brave, so Food production is the first thing that has to work. The complete Food list, with counts exactly as the wiki stores them:

Technology	Karma	Chance	Build materials	Consumes	Produces (per cycle)	Placement	Footprint	Health	Builders
Bakery	—	8.4%	Clay, Clay	1 Reeds	1 Food	Attachment	2x2†	300	3
Bread Factory	6	3.3%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	—	1 Food	—	4x6	300	6
Ceramic Crop Pots	3	5%	Ceramics	1 Ceramics	1 Food	—	1x1	50	1
Chef's Wok	4	3.3%	Ceramics	—	2 Food	Hearth	2x2†	200	1
Crop Row	—	8.4%	Reeds	1 Reeds	4 Food	Grass	1x4	50	1
Egg Harvester	3	6.7%	Clay, Reeds	—	1 Food	Attachment	2x2†	400	3
Featherwing Coop	4	5.8%	Logs, Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay	—	2 Food	Cliff Edge	2x2	300	1
Fisherman's Warf	7	3.3%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Logs, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	—	1 Food	Over Water	4x4	300	6
Fishing Net	3	5%	Bamboo	—	3 Food	Over Water	2x4	100	1
Fishing Tower	3	5.8%	Bamboo, Bamboo	—	1 Food	Over Water	1x2	100	2
Fishmonger	2	9.2%	Bamboo, Bamboo	1 Food	2 Food	Attachment	2x2†	300	3
Foraging Hut	2	3.3%	Bamboo, Bamboo, Logs, Logs	—	1 Food, 1 Random Resource	—	2x2†	300	1
Inle Farm	2	4.2%	Bamboo, Reeds	1 Bamboo	2 Food	Water	1x2	50	1
Mastadon Milker	3	3.3%	Logs, Logs	—	1 Food	Attachment	2x2†	400	3
Mighty Pie	2	2.5%	Reeds, Reeds, Reeds, Reeds	4 Reeds	6 Food	Hearth	2x2†	200	1
Mushroom Log	3	5.8%	Logs	—	3 Food	Inside Cliff	1x4	100	1
Paddy	—	8.4%	Clay	1 Clay	4 Food	Mud	2x2†	40	1
Pear Farm	4	5%	Bamboo	1 Bamboo	4 Food	Tree	2x2†	50	1
Seaweed Farm	4	4.2%	Bamboo, Bamboo	—	4 Food	Water	1x4	200	1
Walker Fishing Platform	4	1.6%	Logs, Logs, Logs	—	2 Food	Walker	2x2†	1000	3

What matters in that table:

The three cheap openers. Crop Row (1 Reeds → 4 Food, on green grass, 8.4% appearance chance), Paddy (1 Clay → 4 Food, on mud, grows fully when flooded, 8.4%) and the Bakery as an attachment (Clay, Clay; consumes 1 Reeds → 1 Food, 8.4%) are the non-karma, high-chance options. The Reed Field in the Resources table (1 Clay → 4 Reeds, on mud or dry grass, 5.4%) is what feeds both the Bakery and the Paddy economy.
Mighty Pie is the biggest single food structure in the game — 4 Reeds in, 6 Food out — but it must be placed on the Hearth, so a village gets exactly one.
Fishmonger is the highest-chance Food technology on the wiki (9.2%) and turns 1 Food into 2. Its description adds why it matters: it accepts any type of Food despite what the in-game encyclopedia says, and it returns Meals "which do not degrade".
Free producers exist but you cannot count on them. Chef's Wok (Ceramics, Hearth, 2 Food per cycle, no consumable) is one per village. Crop Row and Paddy are free in materials but tied to terrain. Several houses skip the Food requirement outright: Karamana Houseboat (Nomad Houses: "does not require Food to produce"), Clay Huts (Eagerness: "First Brave often requires no Food") and Thatched Huts (Randomly Free: spawning "occasionally costs no resources"). Three more skip it conditionally on weather: Frilled House (Wind Rations), Snow Spire House (Snow Rations) and Thatched Spire House (Rain Rations) — their consumable requirement "is ignored" while that weather is happening. Serrano's A-side replaces it altogether (Silk Outfits under Step 4).
Crop Row is fragile in a way the build menu does not shout about: "it needs to be placed on green grass, and will need to be rebuilt if the tiles underneath it become anything other than fertile grass". The Permaculture passive is the fix — exhausted crops "grow fertile grass around them".

Step 3 — houses: population, weather cover and the attachment trap

Houses are the only source of population, and the house you take also fixes the elemental resistances of all your structures. Full table, ordered by technology group, with the wait-a-moment properties underneath:

House	Pop cap	Build materials	Fire	Rain	Wind	Snow	Health	Builders	Karma	Footprint
Clay Huts	2	Clay, Clay	Half	None	Half	None	—	—	—	2x2†
Embedded Home	4	Chosen Walls, Clay, Clay	None	None	Full	Full	250	4	—	4x4 Diamond
Frilled House	4	Chosen Walls, Clay, Logs, Clay	None	Half	Full	None	200	4	—	4x4 Diamond
Haken House	3	Logs, Chosen Walls, Reeds	None	Full	None	Full	200	4	—	2x2†
Isolated Home	4	Chosen Walls, Logs, Logs	None	Half	Half	Full	250	4	—	4x4 Diamond
Log Tents	2	Logs, Reeds	Half	Half	None	Half	—	—	—	2x2†
Rattan Home	4	Chosen Walls, Reeds, Reeds	None	Full	None	Half	250	4	—	4x4 Diamond
Rotunda	4	Bamboo, Reeds, Clay	Full	Full	Full	None	200	5	—	4x4 Diamond
Sprout House	3	Chosen Walls, Reeds	None	Half	None	Half	200	3	—	2x2†
Sturdy House	3	Chosen Walls, Logs	Half	Full	Half	Half	200	3	—	2x2†
Thatched Huts	2	Reeds, Reeds	None	Half	None	Half	—	—	—	2x2†
Tiwa House	3	Chosen Walls, Clay	Full	None	Full	Half	200	3	—	2x2†
Tressed Farmhouse	5	Chosen Walls, Reeds, Logs, Reeds	None	Full	Half	Full	300	5	—	2x4
Gassho Estate House	6	Chosen Walls, Reeds, Logs, Logs, Reeds	Half	Full	Half	Full	900	6	3	4x4
Alkazar Homestead	5	Chosen Walls, Clay, Logs, Logs, Clay	Full	None	Full	Half	300	5	4	2x4
Kiva Burrowed House	3	Bamboo, Bamboo, Bamboo	None	Full	Full	Full	800	4	3	4x4 Diamond
Tulou Townhouse	5	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Reeds	Full	Full	Half	Full	800	4	2	4x4
Karamana Houseboat	6	Logs, Logs, Logs, Bamboo, Bamboo, Bamboo	Half	Full	Half	Full	400	7	4	2x4
Vrisk House	5	Chosen Walls, Reeds, Logs, Reeds	Full	Half	Full	Half	250	4	3	1x2
Clay Housing Compound	5	Chosen Walls, Clay, Logs, Clay	Half	None	Full	Half	300	5	—	4x4
Clay Manor	6	Chosen Walls, Clay, Logs, Logs, Clay	Full	None	Full	Full	400	6	—	2x4
Clay Spire House	5	Chosen Walls, Clay, Logs, Clay	Full	None	Full	Full	350	5	—	4x4 Diamond
Clay Tower House	4	Chosen Walls, Logs, Clay	Full	None	Full	Half	300	4	—	2x2†
Potala Mansion	6	Chosen Walls, Logs, Logs, Reeds, Logs	Half	Full	Full	Full	400	6	—	2x4
Snow Spire House	5	Chosen Walls, Logs, Reeds, Logs	Full	Full	Half	Full	350	5	—	4x4 Diamond
Sturdy Tower House	4	Chosen Walls, Logs, Logs	Full	Full	Half	Full	200	3	—	2x2†
Thatched Longhouse	5	Chosen Walls, Reeds, Logs, Reeds	None	Half	Full	Full	300	5	—	2x4
Thatched Mansion	6	Chosen Walls, Reeds, Logs, Logs, Reeds	Half	Full	Full	Full	400	6	—	2x4
Thatched Multi-story House	4	Chosen Walls, Reeds, Reeds	None	Full	Half	Half	300	4	—	2x2†
Thatched Spire House	5	Chosen Walls, Reeds, Logs, Reeds	None	Full	Half	Full	350	5	—	4x4 Diamond
Wood Longhouse	5	Chosen Walls, Logs, Reeds, Logs	None	Full	Full	Full	300	5	—	2x4
Ghostcaller House	8	Logs, Logs, Logs, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls	Half	Full	Half	Full	800	8	7	4x4
Gosanke Harborhouse	30	Logs, Logs, Logs, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Reeds, Logs, Logs, Reeds	Half	Full	Half	Half	800	2	7	4x4
Lamba House	4	Bamboo, Logs, Chosen Walls, Reeds	Half	Full	None	Full	300	5	—	4x4 Diamond
Mushroom Hut	3	Logs	None	Full	Full	None	200	1	—	2x2†
Ringhouse	3	Bamboo, Bamboo	None	Full	Full	Half	800	4	—	2x2†

Protections are read from each house's own Protections block. "None" means the page lists no protection for that element — that is what the wiki renders, not an inference.

Every placeable property the wiki records for a house, and which houses carry it:

Property	Houses	Effect
Attachment Boost	Clay Manor	All attachments produce twice as fast.
Baskets	Thatched Longhouse	Provides the Baskets Passive technology for free.
Canoe Knowledge	Gosanke Harborhouse	Grants the technology to freely build Canoes.
Cohabitation	Clay Housing Compound	Spawning happens 2 at a time.
Combat Ready	Thatched Multi-story House	Units exiting a house will gain bloodlust.
Conditionally No Attachments	Haken House	This house type doesn't allow for artisan attachments if it's used to produce Food.
Eagerness	Clay Huts	First Brave often requires no Food.
Enormous House	Ghostcaller House, Gosanke Harborhouse	Adds 8 to the population cap (30 on the Gosanke Harborhouse).
Excavations	Embedded Home	If built inside a cliff, Braves will spawn holding Clay.
Fertilizing Edges	Tressed Farmhouse	Nearby soil becomes fertile.
Fishing Knowledge	Haken House	Unlocks fish type technologies.
Fishing Net	Haken House	Periodically capture fish when placed near the water but no longer produces Braves.
Full Circle	Tulou Townhouse	This house produces faster when its edges are covered.
Gargantuan House	Clay Manor, Gassho Estate House, Karamana Houseboat, Potala Mansion, Thatched Mansion	Adds 6 to the population cap.
Ghost Call	Ghostcaller House	Also spawns an additional spectral unit if able.
Grown	Mushroom Hut	This building is not built, but grown over time.
Hardened Skin	Wood Longhouse	Braves start with 50 percent more health.
Hearth Ring	Ringhouse	This house type can only be built around the Hearth's territory circumference.
Huge House	Alkazar Homestead, Clay Housing Compound, Clay Spire House, Snow Spire House, Thatched Longhouse, Thatched Spire House, Tressed Farmhouse, Tulou Townhouse, Vrisk House, Wood Longhouse	Adds 5 to the population cap.
Isolated Progress	Isolated Home	Spawn speed increased 50 percent when built far from neighbors.
Large House	Clay Tower House, Embedded Home, Frilled House, Isolated Home, Lamba House, Rattan Home, Rotunda, Sturdy Tower House, Thatched Multi-story House	Adds 4 to the population cap.
Living Walls	Sprout House	Grows Bamboo behind the house but only on grass.
Medium House	Haken House, Kiva Burrowed House, Mushroom Hut, Ringhouse, Sprout House, Sturdy House, Tiwa House	Adds 3 to the population cap.
Multi-Storey	Clay Spire House, Ghostcaller House, Lamba House, Thatched Multi-story House	Houses can still be used while flooded.
No Attachments	Clay Huts, Ghostcaller House, Gosanke Harborhouse, Karamana Houseboat, Kiva Burrowed House, Lamba House, Log Tents, Rotunda, Thatched Huts, Vrisk House	This house type doesn't allow for artisan attachments.
Nomad Houses	Karamana Houseboat	This house does not require Food to produce.
Placed in Water	Karamana Houseboat	Can only be placed on water.
Placed on Cliff Edge	Vrisk House	Can only be placed on a cliff's edge.
Placed on Mud	Mushroom Hut	Can only be placed on mud.
Production Boost	Gassho Estate House	All structures and farms placed next to this house work faster.
Rain Rations	Thatched Spire House	When rain falls on this house its consumable requirements are ignored.
Randomly Free	Thatched Huts	Spawning Braves occasionally costs no resources.
Rattan Hats	Rattan Home	Provides the Rattan Hats Passive technology for free.
Repaired with Food	Mushroom Hut	This building is repaired using Food rather than its build materials.
Reservoir	Rotunda	Capture rain and release it to fertilize the soil around you.
Rooftop Walkways	Frilled House	Walk freely between houses from a higher elevation.
Round Housing	Clay Huts, Clay Spire House, Embedded Home, Frilled House, Isolated Home, Kiva Burrowed House, Lamba House, Log Tents, Mushroom Hut, Rattan Home, Rotunda, Snow Spire House, Thatched Huts, Thatched Spire House	Circular shaped houses.
Security For Progress	Thatched Mansion	Increase spawn speed 50 percent.
Sharpened Axes	Log Tents	Provides the Sharpened Axes Passive technology for free.
Small House	Clay Huts, Log Tents, Thatched Huts	Adds 2 to the population cap.
Snow Rations	Snow Spire House	When snow falls on this house its consumable requirements are ignored.
Soil Roof	Alkazar Homestead	The center of the roof is available for building and even farming.
Structure Safety	Potala Mansion	Provides the Structure Safety Passive technology for free.
Sturdy Construction	Sturdy House, Sturdy Tower House	All structures have double health.
The Sky Is The Limit	Tiwa House	Roof space can be built on, if you can access it.
Watchtowers	Clay Tower House	Combat units can be placed in the top as lookouts.
Wind Rations	Frilled House	When wind passes through this house its consumable requirements are ignored.

The decisions inside that data:

Population cap is the hard limit. Sizes run Small 2, Medium 3, Large 4, Huge 5, Gargantuan 6, Enormous 8 — except the Gosanke Harborhouse, which is listed as Enormous at 30 and is the only Shelter technology that can be built once per Challenge, capping you at 30 population for the whole run. The Metropolis achievement ("Grow a village to a city with a population of 60") tells you what the game considers a large village.
The best weather house is not the biggest. Kiva Burrowed House (3 Bamboo, 800 health, karma 3) reads None/Full/Full/Full — full rain, wind and snow cover, with the wiki's own caveat that it is still exposed to high tide and flooding. Rotunda (Full/Full/Full/None) and Vrisk House are the other standouts, and Rotunda also stores rainwater and fertilises the soil around it.
Flooding is its own hazard and most houses ignore it. Multi-Storey is the property that fixes it (Clay Spire House, Lamba House, Ghostcaller House, Thatched Multi-story House), Clay Spire House "do not collapse when they flood", and the Karamana Houseboat simply floats.
Chosen Walls and Chosen Roof are not a cost you can plan for. Per the Materials page: the Chosen Walls are "the first 2 resources from your house's construction resources" (two random materials, one drawn from what is around your Hearth), the Chosen Roof is the rest of the list, and a Shelter with no Chosen Walls uses its last listed material plus one unit of Reeds. So the house technology you take at the start is your wall and roof economy for the whole run — Bamboo Focus, Bricks Focus, Slate Roof, Terracotta Roof and Wood Roof exist to rewrite that.
"No Attachments" is the trap with the longest fuse. Clay Huts, Log Tents, Thatched Huts, Kiva Burrowed House, Lamba House, Rotunda, Vrisk House, Karamana Houseboat, Gosanke Harborhouse and Ghostcaller House refuse artisan attachments — and, because Inspiration is filtered for compatibility, taking one of them at the start can permanently remove attachment technologies from every future offer. That is exactly the example the Technologies page uses, with the Vrisk House and the Blastpowder Distillery.
Attachments are where a lot of the economy lives. Bakery, Lumberjack, Silk Loom, Silk Harvester, Topsoil Digger, Egg Harvester, Mastadon Milker, Ceramics Production, Canvas Press, Adobe Oven, Firebird Perch, Pellet Collector, Blastpowder Boiler, Bowyer, Swordsmith, Spearsmith, Grenade Wright, Library, Powderstack, Whiptwister, Sauna, House Extension and the Beast attachments are all "Attachment" placement, i.e. they override a house's production. A village that picked an attachment-less house has a materially smaller tech pool.
House Extension is one of only two technologies that do not override the house's production, and it adds 2 to the population cap.

Step 4 — the passives, complete

Passives are the cheapest leverage in the game: they cost karma but no materials, and several of them are handed to you for free by a house or a Thinker side. The complete list as the wiki records it:

Passive	Group	Karma	Chance	Effect
Spectral Units	Blueprint	6	0.9%	Houses no longer require Food but only produce ghosts.
Stilt Foundations	Blueprint	6	1.2%	Houses always start stilted off the ground a bit.
Lightfootedness	Group 1	5	1.2%	Units will not alert Beasts or other towns they pass by.
Lotus Hooks	Group 1	6	1.5%	Boats will collect Lotus they pass over.
Permaculture	Group 1	2	2.2%	Crops grow fertile grass around them when exhausted.
Sharpened Axes	Group 1	3	1.9%	Doubles Braves' damage and chopping speed.
Snow Outfits	Group 1	3	3.1%	Braves will still work and move at full speed during snowfall.
Bamboo Focus	Group 2	3	2.2%	Replace all Reeds construction Materials with Bamboo.
Ceramic Mandate	Group 2	1	3.8%	After spawning, a water-filled Ceramic is placed in front of your house for quick firefighting access.
Fish Lures	Group 2	6	1.5%	Boats will collect Fish they pass over.
Light Planks	Group 2	3	2.5%	Replace all Reeds construction Materials with wood Planks and increase your house fire protection.
Pangolin Armor	Group 2	3	2.5%	Braves take no damage from behind.
Solid Planks	Group 2	3	2.5%	Replace all Clay construction Materials with wood Planks but decrease house fire protection.
Structure Safety	Group 2	2	1.9%	Allows structures to be placed half over the edge of cliffs.
Sturdy Planks	Group 2	3	2.5%	Replace all Logs construction Materials with wood Planks and increase house snow protection.
Terracotta Roof	Group 2	3	1.2%	Roofs are made with Ceramics and are immune to wind and rain.
Thinking Caps	Group 2	3	2.5%	Braves work faster during production in attachments.
Defensive Spikes	Group 3	3	1.5%	Add defensive spikes around your Hearth to damage intruders.
Enchanted Firejars	Group 3	6	1.5%	Units automatically hide in a protective magic jar when fire is near but no longer bother firefighting.
Hollow Bricks	Group 3	5	2.5%	Replace all Bricks construction Materials with Ceramics but your houses become vulnerable to wind damage.
Runed Axes	Group 3	2	2.2%	Chopping a tree yields an extra portion of Logs.
Silk Outfits	Group 3	4	1.5%	Braves no longer cost Food and instead cost Fabric to produce.
Stone Focus	Group 3	3	2.5%	Replace all Logs construction Materials with Bricks and increase house fire protection.
Sturdy Shovels	Group 3	1	3.1%	25% chance not to destroy a Clay deposit when digging.
Urban Planning	Group 3	5	1.9%	Round houses can be placed closer to one another.
Warding Headbands	Group 3	3	3.1%	Units become immune to mind bending like conversion and amnesia.
Wood Roof	Group 3	2	0.6%	Roofs are made with wood Planks and are protected from rain and snow.
Flathead Bridles	Group 5	5	4.4%	Allow you to control Flatheads to make them dig up the soil and create Clay.
Snail Bridles	Group 5	—	2.2%	Allow you to control snail spits to fertilize the soil and extinguish fires.
Totano Bridles	Group 5	5	4.4%	Allow you to control Totanos to make them shake seeds and sprout resoueces.
Arm Bracers	Starting	—	2.8%	Your ranged units have better accuracy and no longer damage allies.
Baskets	Starting	—	3.1%	Gives Braves the ability to carry resources at full speed.
Braided Rope	Starting	—	3.1%	Increases animal taming speed.
Brick Walls	Starting	—	3.1%	New structures are made with Bricks and are immune to fire and wind damage and have double health.
Bricks Focus	Starting	3	2.5%	Replace all Clay construction Materials with Bricks.
Chimneys	Starting	—	2.2%	Adds fireplaces and a dedicated chimney to each house to protect it from internal fires.
Incense	Starting	—	3.1%	Increases movement speed within your campfire's radius.
Rattan Hats	Starting	—	3.1%	Braves get rain hats so they can still work while rained on.
Slate Roof	Starting	—	2.5%	Roofs are now made with stone slate and are protected from rain and fire.
Stone Soup	Starting	—	2.2%	Add stones to your meals to keep your people from being pushed in combat or by wind.
Wooden Nails	Starting	—	3.1%	Structures are constructed as fast as you can acquire the resources.

Which free passive comes from where — the houses' own property lines and the Thinker infoboxes:

Passive	Free source
Baskets	Thatched Longhouse (house); Charnushka A-side (Thinker)
Sharpened Axes	Log Tents (house); Garam A-side (Thinker)
Rattan Hats	Rattan Home (house); Charnushka B-side (Thinker)
Structure Safety	Potala Mansion (house); Sumac A-side (Thinker)
Silk Outfits	Serrano A-side (Thinker)
Spectral Units	Serrano B-side (Thinker)
Stilt Foundations	Sumac B-side (Thinker)
Ceramic Mandate	Ajowan A-side (Thinker)
Enchanted Firejars	Ajowan B-side (Thinker)
Wooden Nails	Achiote A-side (Thinker)
Snow Outfits	Achiote B-side (Thinker)
Incense	Kala & Jeera / Kala A-side (Thinker)
Defensive Spikes	Kala & Jeera / Kala B-side (Thinker)
Braided Rope	Galanga A-side (Thinker)
Lightfootedness	Galanga B-side (Thinker)
Pangolin Armor	Garam B-side (Thinker)

The ones that change how a run plays, rather than just how fast it goes:

Wooden Nails — Braves no longer stand at the structure and hammer before fetching materials, so "structures are built very quickly"; the wiki notes it still wants a little micromanagement because Braves hammer a few times first. Free with Achiote A.
Baskets — Braves "move at full speed, even when carrying Materials", which the wiki calls "a very good Passive technology to have". Free with Thatched Longhouse and Charnushka A.
Sharpened Axes — double damage and double chopping speed; the wiki says Braves dealing double damage "very nearly makes combat trivial". Free with Log Tents and Garam A.
Thinking Caps — a 1.5x production speed boost for Braves working in any attachment.
Runed Axes — every tree chopped yields a second unit of Logs.
Sturdy Shovels — 25% chance to dig Clay from a deposit (clay soil or an anthill) without destroying it.
Permaculture — when an exhausted Crop Row disappears, the tiles around it turn into green grass, which is how you keep re-planting Crop Rows on the same ground.
Chimneys — houses stop bursting into flame spontaneously, "completely negating the effects of the Fire Season event".
Lightfootedness — removes the automatic aggression trigger from Beasts and hostile units; they still defend themselves if attacked, but stop attacking on sight.
Silk Outfits — replaces Food with Fabric as the consumable for all Shelter technologies, which is a complete re-plan of your food economy, not an upgrade.
Rattan Hats and Snow Outfits — Braves keep working through rain and snow respectively.

Step 5 — hazard cover, and which structure answers which event

The wiki names the events it is protecting you from in the entries themselves: Fire Season (fire always starts in a Shelter structure), Rainstorm and Snowfall (clouds that the Windmill pushes away), Night of the Dead (ghosts), lightning strikes that start fires, and high tide or flooding. The Protection technologies, in full:

Technology	Karma	Chance	Build materials	Consumes	Produces (per cycle)	Placement	Footprint	Health	Builders
Cliff Awning	1	8.9%	Fabric	—	—	Inside Cliff	2x2†	150	2
Cloud Popper	2	6.4%	Fabric, Fabric	—	—	—	3x3	100	2
Isolation Tower	3	7.6%	Logs, Logs, Bricks, Bricks, Bricks, Bricks	—	—	—	3x3	1000	1
Jar of Amnesia	5	3.8%	Ceramics, Ceramics, Ceramics	—	—	—	2x2†	10	2
Lightning Totem	4	7.6%	Logs	—	—	—	2x2†	500	3
Rain Collector	2	8.9%	Clay, Clay	—	—	—	2x2†	150	1
Shaduf	—	12.8%	Bamboo	—	—	Over Water	1x2	50	1
Town Walls	5	11.5%	Bricks	—	—	—	1x2	400	2
Warding Lanterns	6	7.6%	Bamboo, Fabric, Fabric	—	—	Resource Totem	2x2†	500	3
Water Syphon	—	8.9%	Bamboo	—	—	Trunkwood or Cactus	2x2†	50	2
Well	—	7.6%	Logs, Logs	—	—	—	2x2†	infinity	3
Windmill	2	7.6%	Fabric, Fabric, Fabric, Logs, Logs, Bamboo, Bamboo, Clay, Reeds	—	—	—	4x4 Diamond	400	5

The mapping that matters:

Fire. Well (2 Logs, no karma, 7.6%) is the one you want: "Once built, a Well cannot be destroyed or moved", and it carries infinite health. Shaduf (1 Bamboo, 12.8% — the highest appearance chance in the group) must sit on a cliff edge above water and is itself vulnerable, so the wiki's advice is to place several. Rain Collector (Clay, Clay, 8.9%) also fertilises nearby soil when full. Water Syphon (1 Bamboo, 8.9%) taps Trunkwoods and cacti, which is the Flatlands answer. Ceramics double as firefighting — Ceramics Production spawns them filled with water. Chimneys (passive) stops houses from spontaneously igniting, which the wiki says "completely negat[es] the effects of the Fire Season event", Cloudcatcher (Ceramics, Ceramics, Logs, Bamboo, karma 2) stores and releases rain, and Skyhook (Clay, Clay, Blastpowder, Bamboo, karma 2) holds clouds over a chosen point.
Rain and snow. Cliff Awning (1 Fabric, 8.9%) protects whatever is below it regardless of build materials. Rattan Hats and Snow Outfits keep Braves working through rain and snow. Which houses resist what follows the wall material rather than the tier: the Materials page says Clay buildings "are generally more resistant to fire and wind, but crumble in the rain and snow", and that Reeds "don't offer much fire protection but can be thatched for solid snow and rain protection". The table above shows it plainly — Clay Manor, Clay Spire House and Tiwa House are Fire Full / Rain None, while Haken House, Rattan Home, Tressed Farmhouse, Thatched Spire House and Wood Longhouse are the reverse.
Wind. Windmill (karma 2, single-use) pushes one cloud formation away at a time; the Windcatcher uses wind, producing Clay significantly faster when the biome is windy.
Lightning. Lightning Totem (1 Logs, karma 4, 7.6%) absorbs strikes in an area — but "any unit that happens to be standing nearby will get a jolt", so place it away from the paths your Braves walk.
Ghosts. Warding Lanterns (Bamboo, Fabric, Fabric, karma 6) stop Night of the Dead ghosts from approaching. Plan totems with room for later lanterns.
Raids and hostile Thinkers. Watchtower (Bamboo, Bamboo, 6.5%, Starting group) warns you a raid is preparing; Town Walls (1 Bricks, karma 5) block movement, with the wiki's warning that they can only go on flat ground; Jar of Amnesia (Ceramics x3, karma 5) ends combat outright but sends your units home too; Isolation Tower (Logs x2, Bricks x4, karma 3, 1000 health) hides a Thinker, including from grenades and ranged fire, though not from wind or fire; Alarm Instrument (1 Logs, 8.1%) is the only technology that changes the UI, adding a select-all-units button.

If a village is caught out, note the priority order the wiki implies: fires start in a Shelter, so the house you chose set your default fire resistance before you built anything else. The houses that already list Fire Full are Rotunda, Tiwa House, Alkazar Homestead, Tulou Townhouse, Vrisk House, Clay Manor, Clay Spire House, Clay Tower House, Snow Spire House and Sturdy Tower House — and Round Umbrella (Step 9) is the cheapest way to force any round house to full protection.

Step 6 — movement, elevation, and the cheapest way to grow a village

Technology	Karma	Chance	Build materials	Consumes	Produces (per cycle)	Placement	Footprint	Health	Builders
Bamboo Ladder	—	6.8%	Bamboo	—	—	Cliff Edge	1x1	50	1
Bridge	—	8.1%	Bamboo, Bamboo	—	—	Cliff Edge	2x2†	300	2
Canoe Dock	—	6.8%	Chosen Walls, Logs, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Logs	1 Canoe	Water	2x4	300	6
Climbing Pole	—	5.4%	Logs	—	—	Inside Cliff	1x4	100	1
Dragon Boat Dock	—	4%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Logs, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	3 Logs	1 Dragon Boat	Water	2x4	300	6
Drawbridge	3	4%	Logs, Bamboo, Bamboo	—	—	Cliff Edge	1x2	500	2
Elevator	4	3.4%	Logs, Reeds, Bamboo	—	—	Cliff Edge	3x3	500	3
Gokstad Corsair	3	3.4%	Logs, Logs, Logs, Logs, Fabric	—	1 Gokstad Corsair	Water	2x4	300	4
Landbarge	3	4%	Logs, Logs, Bamboo, Bamboo	—	1 Landbarge	—	3x3	400	4
Lanna Balloon Dock	5	6.8%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Logs, Logs, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Reeds, 1 Bamboo, 2 Fabric	1 Lanna Balloon	Cliff Edge	2x4	2000	6
Mud Arches	3	4%	Clay, Clay, Clay	—	—	Cliff Edge	1x2	600	2
Overhang	—	5.4%	Logs	—	—	Cliff Edge	2x2†	500	1
Passarolla Balloon Platform	5	2.7%	Logs, Bamboo, Bamboo, Bamboo, Logs, Fabric, Fabric, Fabric	—	1 Passarolla Balloon Platform	—	4x4	300	8
Pillar Paths	4	4%	Logs	—	—	—	1x1	100	2
Platform	—	4.7%	Logs, Logs	—	—	Water	4x4	200	6
Rickshaw	3	4%	Bamboo, Bamboo, Bamboo	—	1 Rickshaw	—	3x3	200	3
Sampan Dock	—	4%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Logs, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	3 Bamboo, 1 Reeds	1 Sampan	Water	2x4	300	6
Stilt Elevations	—	4%	—	—	—	—	1x1	100	1
Stilt Pads	—	6.8%	—	—	—	Cliff Edge	1x1	100	1
Totora Dock	—	6.8%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Reeds	1 Totora	Water	2x4	300	6

The economy of movement in Kainga is unusual and worth internalising:

Stilt Pads and Stilt Elevations are the cheapest terrain in the game. Both are 1x1, both list no build materials at all, and Stilt Pads come with a 6.8% appearance chance. They cannot change elevation themselves and must be built in straight lines, but long runs of them replace Bridges and Platforms in most situations — and Stilt Elevations, which come with a stair variant, do change elevation one level at a time.
Bridge is the flexible one — "virtually no length limit", but it obeys physics and a long bridge sags; longer bridges also cost more Bamboo.
Bamboo Ladder (1 Bamboo, 1x1) versus Climbing Pole (1 Logs, 1x4). Both must be built from the bottom, so they grant upward access. The wiki warns that Bamboo Ladders still have pathfinding bugs that can strand units at either end, whereas Climbing Poles do not but need four times the footprint.
Overhang and Mud Arches expand buildable land off a cliff face; Overhang costs 1 Logs with no karma.
Water access runs through Platform (2 Logs, water-only, 4x4), the Group 5 docks — Canoe Dock, Sampan Dock, Totora Dock and Dragon Boat Dock, all 2x4 and each with its own consumable — and the boats themselves: Landbarge, Gokstad Corsair, Rickshaw (Group 4, 3 Bamboo) and the balloons.

Step 7 — the neighbours: trade, gifts, demands, and only then combat

Combat buildings produce the units; diplomacy structures change whether you need them.

Technology	Karma	Chance	Build materials	Consumes	Produces (per cycle)	Placement	Footprint	Health	Builders
Archery Range	—	8.7%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Brave	1 Archer	—	4x4	300	6
Barracks	—	9.6%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Brave	1 Warrior	—	4x4	300	6
Bowyer	2	7%	Logs, Bamboo	1 Bamboo	1 Archer	Attachment	2x2†	300	3
Grenade Wright	2	5.2%	Logs, Clay	1 Blastpowder	1 Grenadier	Attachment	2x2†	200	2
Grenadier Calefactor	3	4.3%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Brave	1 Grenadier	—	4x4	300	6
Library	2	5.2%	Fabric, Fabric	1 Fabric	1 Priest	Attachment	2x2†	400	3
Powderstack	2	5.2%	Logs, Bamboo	1 Bamboo	1 Archer	Attachment	2x2†	400	2
Reefshot	4	5.2%	Clay, Clay, Blastpowder	—	—	Over Water	1x2	400	2
Rifle Casern	4	5.2%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Logs, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Brave	1 Rifle	—	4x4	300	6
Seamine	3	5.2%	Bamboo, Fabric, Blastpowder, Blastpowder	—	1 Seamine	Water	2x2†	50	2
Spear Laager	4	7%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Brave	1 Spear	—	4x4	300	6
Spearsmith	2	7%	Logs, Bamboo	1 Bamboo	1 Spear	Attachment	2x2†	200	3
Stable	3	4.3%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Logs, Chosen Walls, Logs, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Brave	1 Beastmaster	—	4x4	300	6
Swordsmith	2	7.8%	Logs, Bamboo	1 Logs	1 Warrior	Attachment	2x2†	300	3
Temple	5	4.3%	Chosen Walls, Fabric, Fabric, Blastpowder, Logs, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof	1 Brave	1 Priest	—	4x4	300	6
Whiptwister	2	5.2%	Bamboo, Bamboo	1 Food	1 Beastmaster	Attachment	2x2†	300	3

Technology	Karma	Chance	Build materials	Consumes	Produces (per cycle)	Placement	Footprint	Health	Builders
Alarm Instrument	—	8.1%	Logs	—	—	—	2x2†	200	2
Beast Lure	2	8.1%	Clay, Clay	—	—	—	2x2†	100	2
Burial Mound	6	4.9%	Bricks, Bricks, Clay, Clay	—	—	—	2x2†	1000	3
Canal	2	5.7%	—	—	—	—	1x1	infinity	2
Cloudcatcher	2	5.7%	Ceramics, Ceramics, Logs, Bamboo	—	—	—	2x2†	200	2
Demand Table	2	4.9%	Bamboo, Fabric	—	—	—	2x2†	250	1
Fertilizing Termites	Unknown	3.2%	Logs, Logs, Logs, Clay	—	—	Resource Totem	1x1	Unknown	3
Firetower Hearth	—	4.9%	Logs, Logs	—	—	Hearth	2x2†	400	1
House Extension	2	4.9%	Chosen Walls	—	—	Attachment	2x2†	2500	2
Incense Diffuser	4	4.9%	Ceramics, Clay	—	—	Resource Totem	1x1	500	3
Market Tower	4	3.2%	Chosen Roof, Logs, Logs, Chosen Walls	—	—	—	2x2†	600	6
Royal Gift	2	4.9%	Random Resource, Random Resource, Random Resource, Random Resource	—	1 Gift	—	2x2†	200	4
Sauna	2	4.9%	Logs, Clay	—	—	Attachment	2x2†	300	2
Skyhook	2	5.7%	Clay, Clay, Blastpowder, Bamboo	—	—	—	2x2†	400	2
Storage	—	7.3%	Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof	—	—	—	2x2†	800	2
Tallback	3	4%	Logs, Logs, Bamboo, Bamboo	—	1 Tallback	—	3x3	400	4
Trade Table	2	5.7%	Bamboo, Fabric	—	—	—	2x2†	250	1
Warding Apiary	2	4.9%	Clay	—	—	Tree	2x2†	100	2
Watchtower	—	6.5%	Bamboo, Bamboo	—	—	—	2x2†	200	4

Trade Table (Bamboo, Fabric, karma 2, 5.7%) sets up ongoing 1:1 trade routes — you specify what you give and what you want — and standing improves with every trade. The catch is stated plainly: if a route another village started goes quiet for long enough, it stops and your standing drops.
Demand Table (Bamboo, Fabric, karma 2, 4.9%) lets you request resources for nothing; satisfying a demand improves standing, and declining one — or accepting and then failing to deliver — damages it.
Royal Gift (4x Random Resource, karma 2) improves standing significantly, but the finished gift "must be carried inside the territory of the opposing village, so care must be taken not to accidentally start a fight".
Market Tower puts a small overhang on every Shelter in the village so Materials can be stored under it without degrading — a second answer to the same problem Storage solves, for villages that never took Storage.
Burial Mound (2 Bricks, Clay, Clay, karma 6) is the roguelite hook: it carries one or more of your killed units into the next Challenge, where they spawn as ghosts with 1 hit point. Cliff Coffins (Logs, 2 Planks), Combat Memorial (2 Bricks, Fabric) and Funeral Boat (2 Reeds) are the same effect in different build materials.
Combat units are gated behind their own buildings, and each one has a stated role: Barracks (Warriors — "the most balanced and versatile combat Unit"), Archery Range (Archers — fast, small damage, "useful in larger numbers"), Spear Laager (Spears, melee that reaches twice as far as other melee), Rifle Casern (Rifles — long range, high damage, lower accuracy and rate of fire), Temple (Priests, which convert hostile units "5 at a time"), Grenadier Calefactor (Grenadiers — arcing bombs, best against buildings), and Stable (Beastmasters, which are tamers rather than fighters). The attachment forms swap a building for a house slot: Swordsmith, Bowyer, Spearsmith, Powderstack, Library, Grenade Wright, Whiptwister. Reefshot and Seamine are water defences — the Reefshot is fixed to a 180° arc, the Seamine is a manually steered mine that destroys the boat and everyone on it.

Step 8 — Beast technologies, if you tamed something

Technology	Karma	Chance	Build materials	Consumes	Produces (per cycle)	Placement	Footprint	Health	Builders
Beast Farmstalks	2	5.5%	Bamboo, Logs	—	2 Food	Small or Medium Beast	2x2†	200	2
Beast Incense Emitter	2	5.5%	Bamboo, Clay, Clay, Clay	—	—	Small or Medium Beast	2x2†	800	2
Beast Saddle	—	5.5%	Bamboo	—	—	Small Beast	2x2†	800	3
Beast War Drum	2	4.6%	Bamboo, Logs, Fabric, Fabric	—	—	Small or Medium Beast	2x2†	300	3
Beast War Rig	2	4.6%	Bamboo, Bamboo	—	—	Small Beast	2x2†	800	3
Egg Excavation Site	3	11.1%	Bamboo	—	1 Flathead	Flathead Egg	2x2†	400	3
Egg Incubator	3	11.1%	Clay, Bamboo	1 Egg	1 Snail	Attachment	2x2†	400	3
Mastadon Kiln	3	14.8%	Clay, Clay, Clay, Clay, Logs, Logs	—	1 Mastadon	Mastadon Shell	2x2†	400	3
Mastadon Saddle	4	7.4%	Bamboo, Bamboo	—	—	Mastadon	2x2†	2000	3
Mastadon War Rig	4	7.4%	Bamboo, Bamboo	—	—	Mastadon	2x2†	2000	2
Trudger Saddle	5	5.5%	Bamboo, Bamboo	—	—	Trudger	2x2†	2000	3
Walker Firebombs	4	2.7%	Logs, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder	—	—	Walker	2x2†	800	6
Walker Saddle	—	5.5%	Bamboo, Logs	—	—	Walker	2x2†	2000	3
Walker War Rig	2	4.6%	Logs, Logs	—	—	Walker	2x2†	800	3
Walker Water Jars	2	3.7%	Logs, Clay, Clay	—	—	Walker	2x2†	800	3

The wiki's Beast list is small but every entry is a multiplier on something you already built: Beast Farmstalks (Bamboo, Logs, karma 2) is called "one of the most reliable methods" of Food production; Egg Incubator takes Food and turns it into tamed Beasts; Mastadon Kiln (Clay x4, Logs x2) regrows a fully-tamed Mastadon from a dead one's shell; saddles let Walkers, Mastadons and Trudgers carry a small (1x2, 2x2 or 4x4 Diamond) Shelter on their backs; Beast War Drum makes friendly units near the mounted beast attack 1.25x faster; Beast Incense Emitter regenerates the health of nearby friendly units; and Beast War Rig reflects melee damage back at the attacker.

Step 9 — Unique technologies: the combos worth engineering first

Uniques never appear as Inspiration. You have to discover both parent technologies, and then the wiki's rule applies: one of the two parents — always the first one in the formula — is replaced by the Unique. If several become available at once you may only take one. Some Uniques have a single formula; most accept several. These are the 44 that have their own infobox on the wiki, with their karma cost and build materials:

Unique technology	Unlocked by combining	Karma	Build materials
Acid Bombs	Grenadier Calefactor + Ceramic Workshop <br> Grenadier Calefactor + Ceramics Production <br> Grenadier Calefactor + Glassblower Dome <br> Grenadier Calefactor + Snail Bridles	5	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Ceramics, Ceramics, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof
Acidbomb Wright	Grenade Wright + Ceramic Workshop <br> Grenade Wright + Ceramics Production <br> Grenade Wright + Glassblower Dome <br> Grenade Wright + Snail Bridles	5	Logs, Clay
Axe Barracks	Barracks + Beast War Drum <br> Barracks + Log Tents <br> Barracks + Runed Axes <br> Barracks + Sauna <br> Barracks + Sharpened Axes	5	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof
Axesmith	Sauna + Wood Longhouse <br> Swordsmith + Beast War Drum <br> Swordsmith + Log Tents <br> Swordsmith + Runed Axes <br> Swordsmith + Sauna <br> Swordsmith + Sharpened Axes	5	Logs, Bamboo
Bee Bombs	Grenadier Calefactor + Towering Bee-boxes <br> Grenadier Calefactor + Warding Apiary	4	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof
Beebomb Wright	Grenade Wright + Towering Bee-boxes <br> Grenade Wright + Warding Apiary	5	Logs, Clay
Brick Pie Oven	Bakery + Adobe Oven <br> Bakery + Bricks Quarry <br> Bakery + Stone Mine	4	Bricks, Bricks
Ceramics Carver	Ceramics Production + Adobe Oven <br> Ceramics Production + Bricks Quarry <br> Ceramics Production + Stone Mine	3	Bamboo, Bricks
Cliff Coffins	Burial Mound + Lumberjack <br> Burial Mound + Overhang <br> Burial Mound + Planks Workshop	5	Logs, Planks, Planks
Climbing Mushroom Log	Mushroom Log + Climbing Pole	3	Logs
Combat Memorial	Burial Mound + Adobe Oven <br> Burial Mound + Bricks Quarry <br> Burial Mound + Stone Mine	6	Bricks, Bricks, Fabric
Coracle Dock	Totora Dock + Bamboo Focus <br> Totora Dock + Baskets <br> Totora Dock + Potted Bamboo <br> Totora Dock + Sprout House <br> Totora Dock + Sprout Shades <br> Totora Dock + Thatched Longhouse	—	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof
Covered Fishing Tower	Fishing Tower + Canvas Press <br> Fishing Tower + Paper Workshop <br> Fishing Tower + Silk Loom	4	Bamboo, Fabric
Disguised Gift	Royal Gift + Blastpowder Boiler <br> Royal Gift + Blastpowder Distillery <br> Royal Gift + Firebird Perch <br> Royal Gift + Pellet Collector	3	Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder
Efficient Clay Pit	Clay Pit + Adobe Oven <br> Clay Pit + Bricks Quarry <br> Clay Pit + Stone Mine	6	—
Fertilized Crops	Crop Row + Blastpowder Boiler <br> Crop Row + Blastpowder Distillery	6	Blastpowder
Fire Bombs	Grenadier Calefactor + Enchanted Firejars <br> Grenadier Calefactor + Firetower Hearth <br> Grenadier Calefactor + Walker Firebombs	5	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Blastpowder, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof
Firebomb Wright	Grenade Wright + Enchanted Firejars <br> Grenade Wright + Firetower Hearth <br> Grenade Wright + Walker Firebombs	5	Logs, Clay
Fishing Dock	Fishing Tower + Lumberjack <br> Fishing Tower + Planks Workshop	5	Planks, Planks
Fish Pie	Mighty Pie + Fishing Net <br> Mighty Pie + Fishing Tower <br> Mighty Pie + Fishmonger <br> Mighty Pie + Haken House	6	Food, Food
Focused Colporteur	Colporteur + Canvas Press <br> Colporteur + Paper Workshop	4	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof
Frilled Overhang	Overhang + Clay Spire House <br> Overhang + Embedded Home <br> Overhang + Frilled House <br> Overhang + Isolated Home <br> Overhang + Rattan Home <br> Overhang + Rotunda <br> Overhang + Snow Spire House <br> Overhang + Thatched Spire House	—	Bamboo
Funeral Boat	Burial Mound + Canoe Dock <br> Burial Mound + Dragon Boat Dock <br> Burial Mound + Sampan Dock <br> Burial Mound + Totora Dock	5	Reeds, Reeds
Furnace Drawbridge	Drawbridge + Blastpowder Boiler <br> Drawbridge + Blastpowder Distillery <br> Drawbridge + Blastpowder Refinery <br> Drawbridge + Firebird Perch <br> Drawbridge + Pellet Collector	4	Logs, Bamboo, Blastpowder
Furnace Elevator	Elevator + Blastpowder Boiler <br> Elevator + Blastpowder Distillery <br> Elevator + Blastpowder Refinery <br> Elevator + Firebird Perch <br> Elevator + Pellet Collector	4	Logs, Reeds, Blastpowder
Irrigation	Canal + Well	4	—
Longbow Archery	Archery Range + Bamboo Focus <br> Archery Range + Braided Rope <br> Archery Range + Lightfootedness <br> Archery Range + Potted Bamboo <br> Archery Range + Sprout Shades	5	Chosen Walls, Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof
Longbow Bowyer	Bowyer + Bamboo Focus <br> Bowyer + Braided Rope <br> Bowyer + Lightfootedness <br> Bowyer + Potted Bamboo <br> Bowyer + Sprout Shades	5	Logs, Bamboo
Muddy Canal	Canal + Clay Pit <br> Canal + Fertilizing Termites <br> Canal + Sturdy Shovels	4	—
Pear Pie	Mighty Pie + Beast Farmstalks <br> Mighty Pie + Pear Farm	6	Food
Petrified Wood Clay Pit	Clay Pit + Log Tents <br> Clay Pit + Sharpened Axes <br> Clay Pit + Sturdy Shovels	5	—
Plank Bridge	Bridge + Lumberjack <br> Bridge + Planks Workshop	2	Planks, Planks
Raised Paddy	Paddy + Adobe Oven <br> Paddy + Bricks Quarry <br> Paddy + Stone Mine	5	Bricks
Raised Reed Field	Reed Field + Adobe Oven <br> Reed Field + Bricks Quarry <br> Reed Field + Stone Mine	4	Bricks
Round Umbrella	Cliff Awning + Clay Huts <br> Cliff Awning + Clay Spire House <br> Cliff Awning + Embedded Home <br> Cliff Awning + Frilled House <br> Cliff Awning + Isolated Home <br> Cliff Awning + Log Tents <br> Cliff Awning + Thatched Huts	1	Fabric
Shield Barracks	Barracks + Adobe Oven <br> Barracks + Bricks Quarry <br> Barracks + Stone Mine <br> Barracks + Stone Soup	5	Chosen Walls, Bricks, Bricks, Bricks, Bricks, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof, Chosen Roof
Shieldsmith	Barracks + Adobe Oven <br> Barracks + Bricks Quarry <br> Swordsmith + Adobe Oven <br> Swordsmith + Bricks Quarry <br> Swordsmith + Stone Mine <br> Swordsmith + Stone Soup	4	Bricks, Bamboo
Specific Foraging Hut	Foraging Hut + Canvas Press <br> Foraging Hut + Paper Workshop	4	Bamboo, Bamboo, Logs, Logs
Speedy Beast Incense Emitter	Beast Incense Emitter + Incense <br> Beast Incense Emitter + Incense Diffuser	5	Bamboo, Clay, Clay, Clay
Stairs	Climbing Pole + Lumberjack <br> Climbing Pole + Planks Workshop	4	Planks
Stone Arches	Mud Arches + Adobe Oven <br> Mud Arches + Bricks Quarry <br> Mud Arches + Stone Mine	5	Bricks, Bricks, Bricks
Towering Bee-boxes	Warding Apiary + Adobe Oven <br> Warding Apiary + Bricks Quarry <br> Warding Apiary + Stone Mine	5	Bricks, Bricks
Windmill Elevator	Elevator + Windcatcher <br> Elevator + Windmill	3	Logs, Reeds, Fabric
Windmill Drawbridge	Drawbridge + Windcatcher <br> Drawbridge + Windmill	4	Logs, Bamboo, Fabric

The ones worth steering towards, using their own descriptions from the wiki. Note that thirteen of the combination results the wiki names — Bardiche, Buckets of Fish, E-Fish-ency, Firelance Casern, Firelance Rifles, Foraging, Halberdier Garrison, Hermitage, Incense Chapel, Incense Recepticle, Plank Axes, Whitebarrel Casern and Whitebarrel Rifles — have no infobox of their own, so neither their cost nor their effect can be quoted here.

Raised Paddy (1 Bricks) and Raised Reed Field (1 Bricks) — "can also be placed on any soil type rather than just mud", freeing the two terrain-locked starting farms.
Efficient Clay Pit (no build materials listed, karma 6) — "continues to produce even if its most recently-produced unit of Clay has not been used", i.e. it no longer stalls. Petrified Wood Clay Pit instead "has a chance of producing Logs in addition to Clay".
Fertilized Crops (1 Blastpowder, karma 6) — Crop Row built and fed on Blastpowder, with growth "exponentially … faster".
Ceramics Carver (Bamboo, Bricks, karma 3) — "two units of Ceramics for each unit of Bricks", and it removes the Ceramics line's dependence on Clay.
Brick Pie Oven (2 Bricks, karma 4) — the Bakery's recipe at double yield: 1 Reeds into 2 Food instead of 1.
Pear Pie (1 Food, karma 6) and Fish Pie (2 Food, karma 6) — Hearth pies on inputs other than Reeds, still 6 Food per cycle.
Longbow Archery (Longbow Bowyer as the attachment form) — archers become Longbows with much longer range and more damage; Shield Barracks → Shieldsmith trades Warrior damage for blocking; Axe Barracks → Axesmith trades blocking for splash damage; Acid Bombs, Bee Bombs and Fire Bombs convert Grenadiers into units that melt, panic or ignite their targets.
Round Umbrella (1 Fabric, karma 1) — "raise the resistance of any Shelter structure they're built on to full", for round houses only. The cheapest defensive upgrade on the list.
Plank Bridge (2 Planks, karma 2) — a Bridge that does not sag, because it is not affected by physics. Stone Arches, Stairs (1 Planks), Irrigation (a Canal at any elevation near a Well) and the Furnace / Windmill Elevator and Drawbridge line (autonomous, no Brave required) do the same job for elevation and access.
The Burial Mound family — Cliff Coffins, Combat Memorial, Funeral Boat — all duplicate the "carry your dead into the next Challenge as 1-hit-point ghosts" effect in different build materials.

Step 10 — Thinkers: what each side actually starts with

Nine Thinker infoboxes on the wiki (Kala and Jeera appear together and Kala alone). "As A-side" means the field is blank in that side's infobox, and the template inherits the A-side value.

Thinker	Side	Health	Speed	Starting units	Starting materials	Passive	Thinker bonus
Achiote	A	400	20	Brave × 6	Logs × 2 / Bamboo × 4	Wooden Nails	Mighty Warhammer
Achiote	B	400 (as A-side)	22	Brave × 4 / Axe Warrior × 2	Logs × 2 / Bricks × 4	Snow Outfits	Rune of Ice
Ajowan	A	1 (Thinker) / 200 (Alabastron)	25 (Thinker) / 0 (Alabastron)	Brave × 4 / Rifle × 1	Ceramics × 4	Ceramic Mandate	Incorporeal
Ajowan	B	1 (Thinker) / 200 (Alabastron) (as A-side)	25 (Thinker) / 0 (Alabastron) (as A-side)	Brave × 3 / Firelance × 1 / Fire Bomber × 1	Ceramics × 4 (as A-side)	Enchanted Firejars	Incorporeal
Charnushka	A	300	25	Brave × 4 / Grenadier × 2	Blastpowder × 3 / Logs × 2	Baskets	Runes of Growth
Charnushka	B	300 (as A-side)	25 (as A-side)	Brave × 4 / Whitebarrel × 2	Blastpowder × 4 / Logs × 1	Rattan Hats	Following Cloud
Galanga	A	200	20	Brave × 4 / Beastmaster × 4	Food × 4	Braided Rope	Stilts
Galanga	B	200 (as A-side)	20 (as A-side)	Brave × 4 / Acid Bomber × 1 / Beastmaster × 1 / Snail × 1	Food × 4 (as A-side)	Lightfootedness	Stilts
Garam	A	160	35	Brave × 3 / Warrior × 2	Fabric × 3	Sharpened Axes	—
Garam	B	100	30	Brave × 3 / Archer × 2	Logs × 3	Pangolin Armor	—
Kala & Jeera	A	300 (Kala) / 100 (Jeera)	25	Brave × 3 / Shield Bearer × 2	Bricks × 6	Incense	Two Lives
Kala & Jeera	B	300 (Kala) / 100 (Jeera) (as A-side)	25 (as A-side)	Brave × 3 / Halberdier × 3	Bricks × 6 (as A-side)	Defensive Spikes	Two Lives
Kala	A	100	20	Brave × 3 / Shield Bearer × 2	Bricks × 6	Incense	Missing Jeera
Kala	B	100 (as A-side)	20 (as A-side)	Brave × 3 / Bee Bomber × 3	Bamboo × 3 / Clay × 3	Defensive Spikes	Missing Jeera
Serrano	A	200	0	Brave × 3 / Priest × 3	Fabric × 2 / Logs × 1	Silk Outfits	Teleportation Sphere
Serrano	B	200 (as A-side)	0 (as A-side)	Brave × 7	Logs × 1	Spectral Units	Teleportation Sphere
Sumac	A	200	30	Brave × 4	Food × 3 / Logs × 1	Structure Safety	—
Sumac	B	160	25	Brave × 4 / Censer × 1	Bamboo × 3 / Logs × 1	Stilt Foundations	—

Which side to start with, from the wiki's own notes:

Sumac A is the tutorial Thinker and the intended beginner run: 4 Braves, Food x3 plus Logs x1, and the Structure Safety passive that lets structures be placed half over a cliff edge.
Achiote A starts with six Braves — more than anyone else — but the guardian must live: "once the guardian is defeated Achiote is banished as well". Blessed Scaffolding lets Braves build any structure without the resources.
Garam A is the fast, aggressive, food-poor start: speed 35 (the fastest Thinker), two Warriors and the Sharpened Axes passive, but 3 Braves, no Food, and — per the wiki — not enough Fabric to build the Skylamp Festival, which forces a Fabric-producing resource technology out of an Inspiration that may not offer one.
Ajowan A is a jar. The Thinker has 1 hit point and speed 25; the Alabastron has 200 hit points and speed 0 and must be carried by a Brave, so the real thing you are defending is a stationary pot.
Serrano A cannot walk. Speed 0: the Thinker sends an orb that the wiki says is "bound by traversible terrain" — no crossing chasms or water — and which can be blocked by trees, ruins and other map resources, while Serrano stands still and exposed. His Braves do not need Food at all (Silk Outfits).
Kala on his own has 100 hit points and speed 20 — the wiki recommends getting the Beast Spirit House Festival, which is the only way to re-summon Jeera.
Galanga walks on stilts and ignores difficult terrain such as flooding and snow; Galanga A starts with four Beastmasters and Braided Rope (nearly double taming speed).
Charnushka is the only Thinker that can produce new Inspiration at will (via the Boardgame Challenge festival), and his pack speeds up production in nearby buildings including houses.

Traps, and the places the wiki contradicts itself

Resource Totems are the difficulty dial. Each adds +1 to the world Ante, permanently, for the rest of the Challenge. Building three totems to reach one clay deposit is how a comfortable run becomes a fire season.
Only land you have claimed is worked. Braves will not harvest outside claimed land; the starting Hearth radius is small, and Totems are the only way to extend it.
Absent protections are real. In the housing table, None is what the wiki's own infobox renders for a missing element, and the house you take sets the resistance of every structure you build. Kiva Burrowed House (3 Bamboo, karma 3, None/Full/Full/Full, 800 health) is the outlier that solves weather outright.
A no-attachment house shrinks your future options, permanently. Attachments are a large slice of the Resources, Food and Combat lists, and incompatible technologies stop being offered at all. The wiki's own example is Vrisk House plus Blastpowder Distillery.
Houses must be staffed. Shelters "must be occupied by at least one Brave to produce" — an empty house is furniture.
Crop Row is terrain-dependent and rebuildable. Losing the fertile grass under it destroys the investment; Permaculture is the patch.
Fishing Net is not a passive income. It "does fall apart every time it produces Food", which makes it a micromanagement structure masquerading as a cheap one.
Mushroom Hut is repaired with Food, not Logs. The cheapest house in the game (1 Logs) charges its repair bill to your food supply, and it is grown, not built, so it takes a long time to appear.
Well cannot be moved once built. It is also the only structure in the Protection list with infinite health.
Lightning Totem hurts your own units standing nearby.
Jar of Amnesia affects both sides — it forces all units, friendly included, back to their Hearths and disrupts production.
Wrong biome, wrong wall material. Since Chosen Walls are drawn from your house's build list, a house chosen in one biome can demand a material the map cannot supply in quantity. Bricks Focus, Bamboo Focus, Solid Planks, Sturdy Planks, Light Planks, Stone Focus and the various roof passives exist to force the conversion.
Things the wiki gets wrong, so you do not chase them: the Silk Loom's description says "The Canvas Press produces Fabric from nothing" (its own encyclopedia line correctly calls it a silk loom); the Ceramic Crop Pots description says it "will continuously produce new Bamboo" (the encyclopedia line says corn, and Bamboo is the Potted Bamboo's job); the Walker Firebombs description is the Walker Water Jars text; the Uniques Tinkerer description is copy-pasted from the Karma Shop; and the Unique table on the wiki lists some combos in both orders (for example "Fisherman's Warf + Fishing Net" and "Fishing Net + Fisherman's Warf"), which is the same combination written twice; and the Shelter page's own Protections blocks mis-key the fire field on four houses — Embedded Home and Isolated Home write Fire= with a capital F and Frilled House and Kiva Burrowed House write fire-Full with no equals sign — so all four render Fire: None in the infobox even though the Kiva's own description calls it immune to all weather hazards.
One festival is documented as broken. The Bamboo Telescope (Serrano's Festival) page says: "At the time of writing, Bamboo Telescope does not work and will always result in a warning message."
The wiki's Festival coverage is mostly empty. The Festival page names 38 Festivals as headings but carries an infobox — i.e. real costs — for only 7 of them. Those seven are below; the other 31, including the Challenge-completing Festival for any given run, cannot be costed from this source.

Festival	Locked to	Builders	Build materials	Effect (wiki description)
Blessed Scaffolding	Achiote	8	3 Bamboo	"Completely builds a structure, no matter what resources are needed"; placed on a rooftop
Beast Spirit House	Kala / Kala & Jeera	8	1 Bamboo, 1 Food	Re-summons Jeera if placed on Kala; otherwise locates and can awaken a Crustacean
Amnesia Coffer	Galanga B	10	2 Logs, 2 Clay	Amnesia gas that ends combat; reusable, unlike the Jar of Amnesia
Balloon Call	Garam B	14	1 Logs, 4 Fabric	Summons a Lanna Balloon without a dock
Bannered Grove	Garam	10	1 Fabric	Grows a forest between banners; reusable
Log Bonfire	Garam	10	4 Logs	Grows Reeds and fertilises crops; can be attached over the Hearth
Bamboo Telescope	Serrano	6	1 Logs, 4 Bamboo	Steals Technologies and Inspiration; the wiki states it currently does not work

What I could not verify, and what that means

No production rates anywhere. The wiki carries no cycle times, so this guide gives units per cycle and nothing else. If a reader wants Food-per-minute, the source does not have it and neither does this page.
The wiki's Food and Resources numbers are from 2024 (last edited 17 November 2024 and 28 July 2024) and therefore predate Update 1.2 "Points of Interest". The Shelter, Other, Materials and passive pages were edited in 2026. Whether any Food or Resources cost changed in 1.2, or in 1.2.21, is not recorded on the wiki.
"Chance to Appear" is a wiki-derived figure, and the wiki's own note says the per-Challenge probability may differ.
Footprints marked † are absent from the page, not small. The infobox prints a 2x2 default, or the literal None on the fourteen Beast and Walker technologies; neither is data.
Nothing in this guide was checked in game. Every figure is as the Kainga Encyclopedia stores it, read as raw wikitext on the dates in the version section.
The Festivals the wiki does not document — the other three-dozen Thinker and Challenge Festivals — cannot be costed at all from this source, including the Challenge-completing Festival for any given run.

Sources

Game version: Kainga 1.2.21 (25 June 2025), following Update 1.2 "Points of Interest" (8 June 2025); 1.0 released 6 December 2022.

Official wiki — the Kainga Encyclopedia at kainga.wiki.gg, read as raw wikitext through its MediaWiki API (api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvslots=main&titles=..., and Special:AllPages for the page list):

https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Kainga_Encyclopedia — front page
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Kainga:_Seeds_of_Civilization — release dates and the store links
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies — discovery rules, groups, the three-idea offer and its compatibility filter
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Resources — 27 technology infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Food — 20 technology infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Shelter — 36 house infoboxes, their population properties and their Protections blocks
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Protection — 12 technology infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Movement — 20 technology infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Combat — 16 technology infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Development — 19 technology infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Beast — 15 technology infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Passive — 41 passive infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Unique — the Unique discovery rule and 44 unique infoboxes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Other — Campfire Hearth, Resource Totem, Karma Shop, Uniques Tinkerer
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Technologies/Festival — the four-Festivals rule and the seven documented Festivals
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Materials — Chosen Walls, Chosen Roof, degradation and the material list
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Thinkers — the nine Thinker infoboxes and the A/B-side notes
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Achievements — the 24 Steam achievements, including the population-60 target and the challenge types the wiki names (landmarks, arena, rescue)
https://kainga.wiki.gg/wiki/Template:TechInfo, /Template:PassiveTechInfo, /Template:Protections, /Template:ThinkerInfo — the infobox field definitions the tables are read through

Version and patch history:

https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp/v2/?appid=1269710 — announcement list; newest Kainga patch is 1.2.21 (25 June 2025)
https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=1269710 — name, developer/publisher and the 6 December 2022 release date
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1260280/guides — the queue item's link for this guide; app 1260280 is not Kainga

Wiki page-edit dates used to judge freshness (per-page prop=revisions&rvlimit=1): Technologies/Shelter and Technologies/Other 2026-06-18; Materials 2026-02-22; Kainga: Seeds of Civilization 2026-02-11; Technologies/Food 2024-11-17; Thinkers 2024-10-13; Technologies/Resources 2024-07-28.

Guide changelog

What has changed in this guide, newest first.

2026-10-04Verified against sources: ~1,700 figures re-checked against the Kainga Encyclopedia's raw wikitext (api.php) and Steam's news/store APIs for app 1269710 — 1.2.21, 25 June 2025. 47 figures were wrong and are corrected: the four Shelter protection blocks the wiki itself mis-keys (Embedded Home, Isolated Home, Frilled House and Kiva Burrowed House all render Fire: None, not Full/Half); the 23 Unit/Beast outputs and the 7 combat buildings' 1 Brave input that the Consumes/Produces columns had dropped, plus Egg Incubator consuming 1 Egg; the Resource Totem, Karma Shop and Uniques Tinkerer health, which the wiki states as Unknown; the Enormous House property (8 on the Ghostcaller House, 30 on the Gosanke Harborhouse) and those two houses' population caps. Prose lists of Fire-Full houses corrected to match. The places where the wiki disagrees with itself are reported, not resolved.
2026-10-04Published. Kainga: Seeds of Civilization 1.2.21 (25 June 2025, after Update 1.2 "Points of Interest"); built from the official Kainga Encyclopedia at kainga.wiki.gg — the Technologies page and all eleven of its category subpages, Materials, Thinkers, Technologies/Other, Technologies/Festival, Achievements and the TechInfo / PassiveTechInfo / Protections / ThinkerInfo templates, all read as raw wikitext through api.php — plus Steam's news and store APIs for app 1269710.