Grubby Games’ My Tribe has just been turned into a Facebook social game. I played the original My Tribe about a year ago (yeah, I know, I love desert island survival games). The goal in the new Facebook game, like in the original, is to build a flourishing island tribe, and to solve the mysterious objects on your island.
Island Paradise or the ever-popular FarmVille, require you to have friends help you. FarmVille, and other successful social games, turn guanxi into a game, creating a virtual exchange of mooncakes. In Island Paradise, the “quests” are all necessary items you can’t have unless you ask your social network for clickthrough help until you succeed. Or your friends unfriend you. Either way.
In My Tribe, you can play without help from any Facebook friends. You’ll progress faster with extra shells and stork feathers from friends, of course, and My Tribe is not all that subtle about suggesting you ask more friends to play too. I’d love to see seed and recipe exchange in future upgrades, that would really make the social side worthwhile. But you won’t hit a level cap if you don’t want to harass your friends into playing.
Anyway, I wrote up the solutions to the original MyTribe’s mysteries over on Thumb Gods, because the “hints” that your tribespeople give can be pretty annoying (Hmm! I bet this rusty-colored rock could sure be useful!). So, if you’re playing My Tribe, and you want to solve the mysteries on your own, stop reading here. Yes, here. This is your spoiler alert.
That cool tiki head looks ever better after you complete it. Whenever your tribe has a new baby (depending on your number of stork feathers, and therefore, on your number of friends, this might take some time), bring the baby over to play with the stone statue. This is a bit counter-intuitive because whenever players attempt to solve another mystery with children, babies or teens, a message appears that only adults can solve mysteries. Anyway, each baby plants a special new flower in one of the pots around the Easter Island face, and once the pots are all blooming, the tiki face is surrounded by a ring of flowers, and becomes a strength power-up for babies and children.
To move the tree stump, you’ll need a tribe member with a physical strength of 70 or above to lift it. You can increase their strength with gems, becoming a tribal elder, or breeding. After you’ve done this, you’ll get an Ever Tree. I’m not entirely sure what this special tree does, though… Do you?
Solving the star rock is exactly the same as in the old version. Have a tribesperson who’s had an experience with stardust examine the rock, and they’ll have the brilliant idea to use stardust on the star rock. (And no, you can’t skip straight to the stardust-in-the-rock stage.) It’ll take either 3 or 4 stardusts, depending on how fast you move, and after you’ve unlocked it, it will attract more stardust to land on the island. The moon rock is exactly the same thing, but with moondust.
There’s also a sickly, leafless bush with a pink heart in the branches. I don’t know what to call it, but your tribe member with level 15 in both science and agriculture can probably tell you a good Latin name for it. I’ll call it Deciduous Roseus Cordius. Have your skilled tribesperson examine the tree when it’s raining to solve the mystery and unlock new berry seeds. (I got Beanberry, Bossberry, Bumbleberry, Chuckberry, Niftberry, Polerberry, Riddleberry, Sketchberry, Smokeberry and Thistleberry from my new Cornucopia Bush. What did you get?)
Did I leave anything out? Let me know any other hints or tricks you’ve found.
Edit: Just added the solution to the new mysteries, Flotsam’s Call and the Jewel Vault.
(Probably) Similar Posts:
- MyTribe’s Second Island on May 18, 2010
- My Tribe on December 4, 2008
- Friendship’s Bloom on September 23, 2010
- MyTribe’s New Mystery on August 9, 2010
- Lost in Blue 2 on August 18, 2009
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I need some friends from here that actually play this game…my FB friends dont rlly play like me and dont have the mysteries neone wanna add me. look up stephanie crisi
What if I only have 5 friends that want to play my tribe on facebook and I need 3 more for the cloning station. Anyone have it on their island and want to add me???
which mystery do you need the hair colour for??
I second the hair color question. Is that the Purple Spire one? I’m going to try it.
Oh, and Jenni, if you put your Facebook URL up other people can add you from this blog by following the link.
yes Jenni, if you put your url for fb i will add you as well as my sister she just started playing the game.
PURPLE STAR SPIRE! It IS the hair color thing! Hair colors include: Blonde, strawberry blonde, auburn, red, light brown, brown, dark brown, black and … I’m thinking gray … or dropping a baby on it. If someone would like to try this first and give us an affirmative answer … I have six of the nine crystals and would rather not mess it up for an experiment. Oh, and one also must put a star into it before each application.
I don’t know what it does once completed, but I’m hoping for crazy hair colors.
@Jenni, Stephanie, and everyone else looking for more MyTribe friends: You can FB friend me at http://www.facebook.com/meg.stivison or leave your FB link so others can add you.
@Cap’n Jackass: Completing the star spire randomizes hair color and skin color of everyone on your island. I don’t THINK it gives you any purple or blue hair… would be awesome to see a potion or something for that!
ALSO when I wrote about solving the withered tree/friendship’s bloom I said that it could only be fertilized by one friend per day, but now I don’t think it resets daily, more it resets when your agri. tribesperson checks it out. Anyone else noticing this?
re: withered tree/friendship’s bloom
you are right meg
your islander has to tend to the tree between each fertilization
I have a friend who seems to have quit & I can’t fertilize again until their islander has created a bloom by tending it!!
p.s.
I would love purple hair too!!
cool ideas
hope someone from the powers that be is watching your threads!!
I apologize if this has already been answered but I didn’t see it-how do you solve the crystal structure mystery? Thanks!
I found out that you can’t have more than four islands at a time until you reach level 75.
Hey, I was wondering, how long does it take in real-life to have a person age one year???
Sorry if it had already been answered, but i was also wanting to know how long it took in real-life for a person in My Tribe to age one year.
Can anyone tell me how I get a child with black hair to complete the Polymorph Obelisk on the facebook version. That colour is the only one I’m missing and can’t keep having random children at 120+ feathers a time!
Yeah, the hair-colors one is a bit difficult for me too, because I’d bred for black and dark brown hair and then dressed everyone in white to make Romans! (Shut up.) They’ve had a couple random redheads so far but no blondes. And I have to wait for someone to age enough for grey!
When you sail to a new island, do you keep all your stuff or do you have to start from scratch??? Like for example, when i sail to a new island, will i still have my fully upgraded wood and rock supply??? Help!!
I’ve seen people get twins on My Tribe, and I wanted to know if you get twins randomly when you “call the stork” or if you have to do something in specific to get twins. Please help!!
I don’t know how to get twins in the first place, BUT I’ve noticed that twins are more likely to produce twins when they call the stork.
Thankss. And also, im just about to sail to a new island, and im wondering if i get to keep all my things like my huts and storage places or if i have to build new ones and upgrade them.
i have a mystery which looks like a stone oven with crystals on the top. do u know how to solve it?
i need friends that have the oven lookinh\g thing with crystal’s on top. Please type in Audrey Eichel and put in the personal message “MY TRIBE” Thanks”
i just moved to a new island and i got a whole new set of mysteries. I can’t figure out what this new mystery is :/ when i put my people on it it says “-name- examines that mystery closely. -name- sees symbols for crates, barrels, and fire. -name- also notices four strange holes in the ground” HELPP MEEE!!!!
do you know anything about the statue with the 3 people? i managed to get, like, 3 gems to appear, but i fogot how i got it to happen. can you help?
O_o LOL I HAVE 383YR OLD PERSON I USE MOONDUST ON HER LOADS OF TIMEZ LOL
I have a whole other post on second island stuff – hope that helps — but they’re introducing lots of new mysteries to keep it interesting!
so i got the first gem aligned on my first island but now that im on my second one i cant get the second one to align. what do i need. (for the cloning machine). and for the star crystal one with hair colors, is that all it does is give you random hair colors? because that is pretty stupid.
actually for the iron rock you just need 15 in science and 15 in something else it doesn’t have to be construction mine was wood gathering.
for the cloning machine you need to visit other islands (your friends) who also have the cloning machine and inspect it and then go back to your island and inspect yours again.
how do you get the torch decoration recipe btw? only crates and barrels? or is there another way?
Help!
i need friends that play my tribe.
Friends to help me solve mysterys.
I will do the same in return.
THANK YOU
Charlene Dong
wow, how many purls to make a ship yard?
hey how do the ever tree it keep saying ” try making this bloom with help from friends and progressively skilled farmers”
Ssm! One of my tribe members is OVER 200.. but I havent solved the fountain of youth yet.. Im just needing my 200 year old to stop feeling 64 and start feeling 65 haha!!
plz help how can i level up really quickly
I’m sorry if i’m being stupid and not reading the artical right, but on my Island i have the Baby Tiki (wich i am on the way to solving) the star stone (which has been done) and a statue. The statue is of a mother and father collectivly holding a baby *kinda thing* and i have unlocked 2 hints. One- Try dropping a woman on this mystery. I did that and every woman said “NAME beleives this statue represents a nice large family! She would love to have a large family someday” then i got the next hint–You’ll need several mothers to complete this mystery. I put a mother on the statue (mother of twins) “NAME beleives this statue represents a nice small family. Caring for her children can be hard work sometimes but she loves them” I don’t have the 3rd hint. But after awile it said “NAME beleives this statue represents a nice famley… *i can’t remember the rest* then a little gem appered in a bowl by the bottom… This has happened 2 times and there are 3 more bowls… Do i have to get 3 more moms?!?!
I read that for the family mystery you need a mom of one child for the first stone, a mom of two children for the second stone, a mom of three children for the third stone, etc, etc, etc. And each one has to be a different mom. I’m working on #4 now.
how about some pic’s of mysteries? just started a new island and do not know the name of one and cannot find it on other hint/cheat sites.
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