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* AnachronismStew: The trailer states that the game takes place "10,000 Years Ago", which does fit the fact that you can eventually craft mud bricks, which began seeing use around 9000 BC. However, you and other ''Homo sapien'' individuals live alongside ''Neanderthals'' and ''Homo erectus'' individuals, the latter of which had went extinct around 100,000 years ago in real life. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] since everything else is for the most part somewhat consistent with the set time period.
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* AnachronismStew: The trailer states that the game takes place "10,000 Years Ago", which does fit the fact that you can eventually craft mud bricks, which began seeing use around 9000 BC. However, you and other ''Homo sapien'' sapiens'' individuals live alongside ''Neanderthals'' and ''Homo erectus'' individuals, the latter of which had went extinct around 100,000 years ago in real life. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] since everything else is for the most part somewhat consistent with the set time period.
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* TheExile: Eroca, an Erectus who was exiled from his people, and the only way to un-exile himself was to kill a ''Homo sapien'', and you happen to be his target.
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* NotAlwaysEvil: While Erectus people do attack you, one Erectus attacker, who reveals his name as Eroca, can be interrogated to find out that he [[ForcedIntoEvil was forced to attack you]] due to being banished. He needs to [[DecapitationPresentation bring back the head]] of a ''Homo sapien'' to come back. If you spare him, he doesn't continue his attempt to kill you, but he notes that [[NowWhat he is still exiled, and has nowhere else to go, leaving after.]]
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* NotAlwaysEvil: While Erectus people do attack you, one Erectus attacker, who reveals his name as Eroca, can be interrogated to find out that he [[ForcedIntoEvil was forced to attack you]] due to being banished. He needs to [[DecapitationPresentation bring back the head]] of a ''Homo sapien'' sapiens'' to come back. If you spare him, he doesn't continue his attempt to kill you, but he notes that [[NowWhat he is still exiled, and has nowhere else to go, leaving after.]]
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Tribes and villages don't really support the idea of humans of different races in general. A Neanderthal and Sapien couple can be encountered, and if they are told on, their tribes will [[KilledOffscreen send them to their deaths.]] Alf is the one of the few people who notably opposes these prejudices. This proves more significant later when you learn from [[{{Diary}} his diary]] that [[spoiler: he had an Erectus lover named Margira, who died saving their son, Itaku, from people raiding their original home village to kill off runaways and interbreeds.]]
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Tribes and villages don't really support the idea of humans of different races in general. A Neanderthal and Sapien couple can be encountered, and if they are told on, their tribes will [[KilledOffscreen send them to their deaths.]] Alf is the one of the few people who notably opposes these prejudices. This proves more significant later when you learn from [[{{Diary}} his diary]] diary that [[spoiler: he had an Erectus lover named Margira, who died saving their son, Itaku, from people raiding their original home village to kill off runaways and interbreeds.]]
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* RandomDrop: Skinning birds may randomly drop eggs, which can be used to cook omelettes.
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* BribingYourWayToVictory: Better food, tools, containers, Recipe Part Tablets, and Generational Items can be purchased with real-world money besides obtaining them in-game.
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* BribingYourWayToVictory: Better food, tools, containers, Recipe Part Tablets, and Generational Items can be purchased with real-world money besides obtaining them in-game.
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* BreakableWeapons: All tools in the game have a set durability for which the tool expires after being used to craft items enough.
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* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Sorting out your inventory can become tricky since some ingredients produce more than one kind of item when crafted together. Each slot can store up to 100 of the same item, and any excess items will be instantly discarded if there's no more space. You can increase your storage by crafting containers and hideouts, but even if the containers are empty, the game treats them as taking up a full slot each and will prevent you from putting more items directly inside them if the other slots are filled.
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* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Sorting out your inventory can become tricky since some ingredients produce more than one kind of item when crafted together. Each slot can store up to 100 of the same item, and any excess items will be instantly discarded if there's no more space. You can increase your storage by crafting containers and hideouts, but even if the containers are empty, the game treats them as taking up a full slot each and will prevent you from putting more items directly inside them if the other slots are filled.
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* GoldenEnding: To minimize the destruction caused by the ''H. erectus'' attack, you have to set up a big village with a high enough population, on top of having the best equipment you can craft for yourself and Minion, as well as helping out Kula and his tribe so they can all help you fight off the Erectus.
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* ButThouMust: At the beginning, you can decline Alf's request to help him rebuild the village. He'll bribe you with an increasing number of bananas if you keep declining, until [[YouBastard he calls you out for being a "greedy Sapien" and tells you to delete this game and go play something else.]] Saying that you're not sorry will make the game rickroll you.
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* TakeYourTime: After you build a Mating Chamber, an Erectus attack will begin within the next few quest prompts. Though you can wait to take said prompts as long as you want due to how they work.
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* PoisonMushroom: The Goop that's created whenever a recipe fails can be eaten by you or Minion, but it'll deplete 1 energy per Goop. Same goes for certain unprepared food such as chestnuts and walnuts, which have to be cracked open first.
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* PoisonMushroom: The Goop that's created whenever a recipe fails can be eaten by you or Minion, but it'll deplete 1 energy per Goop.
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* JustForFun/XMeetsY: The game's description claims itself to be where ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' meets ''VideoGame/CookieClicker''.
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* JustForFun/XMeetsY: The game's description claims itself WizardNeedsFoodBadly: You need to be where ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' meets ''VideoGame/CookieClicker''.assign Minion to gather food for you so you can cook them into meals, which restore your energy and his.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can catch the Sapien and Neanderthal couple, and tell on them to their villages, which Alf implies will get them both killed as punishment. When you make a village, one visitor named Abena can be personally killed by you to get his Shiny Stones. You can also refuse to give food to everyone who asks for it, including Kula's sister, and Kula's tribe later on (doing this will result in them all perishing later on).
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** You can catch the Sapien and Neanderthal couple, and tell on them to their villages, which Alf implies will get them both killed as punishment. When you make a village, one visitor named Abena can be personally killed by you to get his Shiny Stones. You can also refuse to give food to everyone who asks for it, including Kula's sister, and Kula's tribe later on (doing this will result in them all perishing lateron). on).
** You can also overwork Minion to the point his energy drops to the negatives, but his movement speed will be slowed down. There's even an achievement for that called [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark "Oh my God! They killed Minion! You bastards!"]]
** You can catch the Sapien and Neanderthal couple, and tell on them to their villages, which Alf implies will get them both killed as punishment. When you make a village, one visitor named Abena can be personally killed by you to get his Shiny Stones. You can also refuse to give food to everyone who asks for it, including Kula's sister, and Kula's tribe later on (doing this will result in them all perishing later
** You can also overwork Minion to the point his energy drops to the negatives, but his movement speed will be slowed down. There's even an achievement for that called [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark "Oh my God! They killed Minion! You bastards!"]]
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* ThePhilosopher: Parodied with [[PunnyName Filos O'Fiero]], who claims to your character that [[BreakingTheFourthWall they are all characters within a video game.]] Your character borders toward ExistentialHorror in great disbelief of such claims, believing Filos O'Fiero to be insane.
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* ThePhilosopher: Parodied with [[PunnyName Filos O'Fiero]], who claims to your character that [[BreakingTheFourthWall they are all characters within a video game.]] Your character borders toward ExistentialHorror in great disbelief of such claims, believing Filos O'Fiero to be insane.
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* TimedMission: After you build a Mating Chamber, an Erectus attack will begin within the next few quest prompts. Though you can wait to take said prompts as long as you want due to how they work.
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* BarbarianTribe: The ''H. erectus'' tribe that you encounter and have to defend from in-game.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the background, leaves will be flying on the wind as you're crafting things. However, on very rare occasions, ''bananas'' will be flying along the wind in place of leaves for a small duration of time.
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* CraftedFromAnimals: You can make equipment, including armor, on top of other items, out of animals' fur. There are also Neanderthal recipes which create tools that use [[BadToTheBone sharpened bone]].
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* SufferTheSlings: You can craft a sling, which uses rocks as ammo to hunt animals.
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''Dawn of Crafting'' is a single-player [[ItemCrafting crafting game]] by Goktug and Demir Yilmaz released in January 9, 2016 for [=iOS=].
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''Dawn of Crafting'' is a single-player [[ItemCrafting [[ConstructionAndManagementGames crafting game]] by Goktug and Demir Yilmaz released in January 9, 2016 for [=iOS=].
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* GenreMashup: It's a game almost entirely centered around crafting and handling inventory, with elements of a civilization-building game, and the ability to reset the game for newer perks like some incremental games.
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''Dawn of Crafting'' is a single-player [[ItemCrafting crafting game]] by Goktug and Demir Yilmaz released in January 9, 2016 for [=iOS=].
Taking place in the Late Stone Age, where you are a rescued survivor of a village destroyed by a ''Homo erectus'' attack, being taught by your rescuer, Alf, about the ways of crafting. With the help of an assistant named Minion, your job is to gather items, and craft new things from what you're given, and in the process, improve your skills at crafting, discovering new recipes along the way. From new tools to cooked meals to houses, you will eventually be able to create your own village for other people to take residence in, as you meet with new visitors, some friendlier than others.
From there, your village will eventually deal with handling an attack of ''Erectus'' raiders, and regardless of how you fare, you will be able to reset with Generational Points to start a new [[TitleDrop dawn of crafting]] all over again.
The game is available to purchase on [[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dawn-of-crafting/id1067104191#?platform=iphone iOS]] platforms.
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!!''Dawn of Crafting'' provides examples of:
* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted,]] while Neanderthal individuals and Neanderthal tools are present in-game, a majority of the characters are either ''H. sapiens'' or ''H. erectus''.
* AnachronismStew: The trailer states that the game takes place "10,000 Years Ago", which does fit the fact that you can eventually craft mud bricks, which began seeing use around 9000 BC. However, you and other ''Homo sapien'' individuals live alongside ''Neanderthals'' and ''Homo erectus'' individuals, the latter of which had went extinct around 100,000 years ago in real life. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] since everything else is for the most part somewhat consistent with the set time period.
* AndroclesLion: Give Kula and his tribe 2000 units worth of food when they're dealing with an attack from an Erectus tribe, and they will repay the favor [[BigDamnHeroes by joining in your defense against the Erectus.]]
* BigBad: Itaku, who leads a tribe of ''H. erectus'' to attack your village, destroying your creations, and if allowed, [[MentorOccupationalHazard to kill your mentor, Alf.]] [[spoiler: He's the [[AntagonisticOffspring son]] of Alf, wanting his father dead, blaming him for the death of his mother and Alf's wife, Margira. Should you stop his attack, you can choose to kill or spare Itaku, though the former choice will upset Alf, who still loves him.]]
* BottomlessBladder: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the fact that when eating food, you or Minion can produce Poop. By the point at which you start doing so, you don't have any toilets to do so in, until you build one yourself. Otherwise, the poop can be used as fuel for fire, or even for crafting!
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Minion's skills max out at 100, but with generational upgrades, he can increase the cap further. You can also get crafting gloves that affect your skills to increase them past 100. One recipe requires this, with a required Tool Crafting skill of ''120''.
* BreakableWeapons: All tools in the game have a set durability for which the tool expires after being used to craft items enough.
* ButNowIMustGo: Alf will inevitably leave you by the end of the game, [[spoiler: even if you've saved him and spared his son, but not before commending you for your abilities as a crafter.]]
* CrazyCatLady: One of the possible residents you can have in your village, she initially asks for food to feed her and all of her cats. You can offer to have her join your village, but if you take it back after said offer, [[DisproportionateRetribution she will have her cats attack you,]] making you lose energy and some of your food.
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: [[spoiler: Itaku, who is the child of a Sapien and an Erectus, the former being Alf. He avoids the HalfBreedDiscrimination present in plenty of villages due to resembling an Erectus enough to not appear as a half-breed.]]
* CrystalWeapon: The [[InfinityPlusOneSword ultimate tool in the game]] is the Tactical Shiny Tool, which can be used as an axe, knife, or hammer, and has the highest durability of all other tools with 1000 durability. However, you can only get these from Kasino's minigame, or by getting a really high Tool Crafting skill, as explained in the game's BrokeTheRatingScale example.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Alf, who has gone through ''a lot'' from his childhood to becoming an old man. [[spoiler: His tribe and family were killed by Neanderthals, but had to live under a Neanderthal family for a while to survive, but then got banished. He gained expert crafting skills to make a living after finding other Sapiens, as well as a companion named Minion to venture with, and eventually fell in love with Margira, an Erectus woman. They tried to build a multi-race village that housed runaways from other villages, on top of their own kid, but their whole village along with Margira was killed, and Itaku began to hate Alf for it, running away and living among other Erectus. All Alf had left was Minion Jr, who is actually the Minion you cooperate with since his father passed away from sickness, and then found you.]]
* TheDiscoveryOfFire: You have to learn how to make a fire, which lets you access more skills and recipes for crafting, like cooking food or creating pottery.
* DumbMuscle: Minion, who can only do the more physical assignments, including hunting other animals, and will gather items at random primarily, unless you have the proper "Communication Skill" level to make him get specific items. He also mainly speaks in [[TheUnintelligible gibberish]] where everyone else is capable of proper communication.
* EquipmentBasedProgression: Some recipes require tools of a sufficiently high level to create, even if you have the proper materials. Said tools may also require a specific (though lower) tool level to craft as well. Additionally, Minion needs enough "Power" from equipment and weaponry to hunt and catch higher-level animals.
* TheExile: Eroca, an Erectus who was exiled from his people, and the only way to un-exile himself was to kill a ''Homo sapien'', and you happen to be his target.
* FetchQuest: Other characters can put you up to these, including Alf himself.
* FishingMinigame: One of Minion's skills is Fishing, which he can do provided a rod and bait you provide to him. As Minion levels up in this skill, he can catch not only bigger fish, but even walruses, sharks, and even ''whales''! The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZnoE4RRhM trailer]] even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how ridiculous this feat is.
--> "Did he just bring a WHALE? What the [[SoundEffectBleep -BLEEP-]]"
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the background, leaves will be flying on the wind as you're crafting things.
* TheGambler: Gambler [[PunnyName Kasino]], who appropriately lets you play a casino-like game where you match slots, and get an item should you get 3 matching slots.
* GameHuntingMechanic: Minion, if given a weapon (as well as armor) to equip, he will go hunting for animals to bring back to you. You can [[CookingMechanics skin and cook said animals to level up the respective skills.]] As Minion's hunting skill improves, he can catch bigger animals, including dire wolves, giant sloths, and even mammoths, all on his own. Given enough equipment and food (and a big bag to hold it all), and he'll come back with hundreds of said beasts to be feasted on!
* GameplayAutomation: Once you populate the land around you with houses and villagers, you can assign other residents to do tasks like gathering water or trapping animals.
* GetItOverWith: Should you defeat Itaku and his Erectus, he realizes that you're Alf's crafting successor, and in disgust, tells you this word-for-word, which is more heart-wrenching given that [[spoiler: Itaku is Alf's biological son.]]
* GoodTimesMontage: A text version of this is narrated if [[spoiler: Alf dies.]] It goes from talking about the first time Alf taught you to peel a banana, helping you make a fire, and also [[ToiletHumor watching you burn your poop for fueling your fire.]]
* GoldenEnding: To minimize the destruction caused by the ''H. erectus'' attack, you have to set up a big village with a high enough population, on top of having the best equipment you can craft for yourself and Minion, as well as helping out Kula and his tribe so they can all help you fight off the Erectus.
* ItemCrafting: Your main role in the game, being the central mechanic of the game. More active tasks like hunting, fishing, and collecting are done by [[TheBigGuy Minion.]] More than half of the UI is dedicated to either crafting or items you store and craft with. You take on the role of crafting and similar actions like cooking, tailoring, and eventually, building, as a result of being mentored by Alf, a "Master Crafter".
* LethalJokeItem: The Crafting Gloves that decrease your skill level instead of increasing it. Their purpose seems downright negative and counter-intuitive, but since you can only improve your skills by either completing new recipes or failing them, using them to gain a probability of failure for recipes with 100% success rate otherwise can let you improve skills more easily.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Tribes and villages don't really support the idea of humans of different races in general. A Neanderthal and Sapien couple can be encountered, and if they are told on, their tribes will [[KilledOffscreen send them to their deaths.]] Alf is the one of the few people who notably opposes these prejudices. This proves more significant later when you learn from [[{{Diary}} his diary]] that [[spoiler: he had an Erectus lover named Margira, who died saving their son, Itaku, from people raiding their original home village to kill off runaways and interbreeds.]]
--> '''Alf:''' Not a lot of races approve of their young mating with a different race. History has proven lots of conflict because of this reason alone.
* MammothsMeanIceAge: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], it isn't snowing at all, but Minion can still hunt mammoths for you to skin and cook meat from.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: When you and everyone else are attacked by an Erectus tribe, Alf will always die, unless you are gunning for the good ending, in which your goal is [[DefiedTrope preventing his death.]]
* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:Itaku wants to kill Alf as revenge for [[AccompliceByInaction letting Margira die]] when their home got raided by people from other villages, and it isn't stated that he went after those same villages responsible for killing his mother.]]
* MortonsFork: You may encounter someone begging for some food. If you choose to give some food, your gift is wasted as someone mugs him for the food. If you decline his request, he will go mug someone else for food. Either outcome will lead to a mugging, but the difference is whether the beggar is the victim or perpetrator.
* NewGamePlus: Through the Mating Chamber, you can pass down items and skills to your next generation with GP (Generation Points), to replay the game more easily with special items that making crafting and learning skills easier, on top of upgrades to your max energy capacity.
* NonActionGuy: ''You'', [[DownplayedExample for the most part]]. You rely on Minion for many of the "tougher" actions like hunting animals. You are able to fight off a lone Erectus on your own, but you don't pose any threat to a [[ClassyCatBurglar thief]] named Sonka, who is far more experienced in combat, and you can contribute to fighting against the Erectus raid, but ConservationOfNinjutsu is '''not''' a thing here. You'll have to rely on others' help to deal with the raid.
* NotAlwaysEvil: While Erectus people do attack you, one Erectus attacker, who reveals his name as Eroca, can be interrogated to find out that he [[ForcedIntoEvil was forced to attack you]] due to being banished. He needs to [[DecapitationPresentation bring back the head]] of a ''Homo sapien'' to come back. If you spare him, he doesn't continue his attempt to kill you, but he notes that [[NowWhat he is still exiled, and has nowhere else to go, leaving after.]]
* PracticalCurrency: A good amount of {{NPC}}s use food to trade or exchange, since people rely on bartering. After all, the setting isn't at the point where there is any official currency is present, let alone the concept of "money", although "Shiny Stones" are the closest thing to such.
* RedemptionRejection: If you spare the leader of the Erectus raiders, Itaku, [[spoiler: Alf's attempts to hug him in an attempt to bond with him are literally pushed away, with Itaku choosing to run away instead, greatly saddening Alf.]]
* RedRidingHoodReplica: One NPC that can join your village is Robin, a girl in a red hood who wore a red fur hood gifted by her grandmother. Said grandmother was eaten by a big bad wolf, but with a hunter's assistance, she ate the wolf right back, for you to point out that she indirectly [[FamilialCannibalismSurprise ate her grandma]], to her disgust.
* StatGrinding: You gain proficiency at skills by failing at them, which depends on RNG unless your skill level is high enough to prevent failing at it.
* ThePhilosopher: Parodied with [[PunnyName Filos O'Fiero]], who claims to your character that [[BreakingTheFourthWall they are all characters within a video game.]] Your character borders toward ExistentialHorror in great disbelief of such claims, believing Filos O'Fiero to be insane.
* TimedMission: After you build a Mating Chamber, an Erectus attack will begin within the next few quest prompts. Though you can wait to take said prompts as long as you want due to how they work.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can catch the Sapien and Neanderthal couple, and tell on them to their villages, which Alf implies will get them both killed as punishment. When you make a village, one visitor named Abena can be personally killed by you to get his Shiny Stones. You can also refuse to give food to everyone who asks for it, including Kula's sister, and Kula's tribe later on (doing this will result in them all perishing later on).
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Not feeding Kula's tribe to help them deal with the ''H. erectus'' attack will mean you won't get the support needed to fully fend off the ''H. erectus'' attack that '''you''' have to deal with later, leading to [[DownerEnding more of your property being raided and Alf's death.]]
* XMeetsY: The game's description claims itself to be where ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' meets ''VideoGame/CookieClicker''.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed example]], as you start with 0.0 skill on everything, meaning that even simpler tasks like peeling an orange or banana has a chance to fail (also creates Goop in this case), until your skill is high enough to avoid this. Also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since in the time this game takes place in, humans' crafting skills are primitive at best, with only few humans being experts at crafting.
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''Dawn of Crafting'' is a single-player [[ItemCrafting crafting game]] by Goktug and Demir Yilmaz released in January 9, 2016 for [=iOS=].
Taking place in the Late Stone Age, where you are a rescued survivor of a village destroyed by a ''Homo erectus'' attack, being taught by your rescuer, Alf, about the ways of crafting. With the help of an assistant named Minion, your job is to gather items, and craft new things from what you're given, and in the process, improve your skills at crafting, discovering new recipes along the way. From new tools to cooked meals to houses, you will eventually be able to create your own village for other people to take residence in, as you meet with new visitors, some friendlier than others.
From there, your village will eventually deal with handling an attack of ''Erectus'' raiders, and regardless of how you fare, you will be able to reset with Generational Points to start a new [[TitleDrop dawn of crafting]] all over again.
The game is available to purchase on [[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dawn-of-crafting/id1067104191#?platform=iphone iOS]] platforms.
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!!''Dawn of Crafting'' provides examples of:
* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted,]] while Neanderthal individuals and Neanderthal tools are present in-game, a majority of the characters are either ''H. sapiens'' or ''H. erectus''.
* AnachronismStew: The trailer states that the game takes place "10,000 Years Ago", which does fit the fact that you can eventually craft mud bricks, which began seeing use around 9000 BC. However, you and other ''Homo sapien'' individuals live alongside ''Neanderthals'' and ''Homo erectus'' individuals, the latter of which had went extinct around 100,000 years ago in real life. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] since everything else is for the most part somewhat consistent with the set time period.
* AndroclesLion: Give Kula and his tribe 2000 units worth of food when they're dealing with an attack from an Erectus tribe, and they will repay the favor [[BigDamnHeroes by joining in your defense against the Erectus.]]
* BigBad: Itaku, who leads a tribe of ''H. erectus'' to attack your village, destroying your creations, and if allowed, [[MentorOccupationalHazard to kill your mentor, Alf.]] [[spoiler: He's the [[AntagonisticOffspring son]] of Alf, wanting his father dead, blaming him for the death of his mother and Alf's wife, Margira. Should you stop his attack, you can choose to kill or spare Itaku, though the former choice will upset Alf, who still loves him.]]
* BottomlessBladder: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the fact that when eating food, you or Minion can produce Poop. By the point at which you start doing so, you don't have any toilets to do so in, until you build one yourself. Otherwise, the poop can be used as fuel for fire, or even for crafting!
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Minion's skills max out at 100, but with generational upgrades, he can increase the cap further. You can also get crafting gloves that affect your skills to increase them past 100. One recipe requires this, with a required Tool Crafting skill of ''120''.
* BreakableWeapons: All tools in the game have a set durability for which the tool expires after being used to craft items enough.
* ButNowIMustGo: Alf will inevitably leave you by the end of the game, [[spoiler: even if you've saved him and spared his son, but not before commending you for your abilities as a crafter.]]
* CrazyCatLady: One of the possible residents you can have in your village, she initially asks for food to feed her and all of her cats. You can offer to have her join your village, but if you take it back after said offer, [[DisproportionateRetribution she will have her cats attack you,]] making you lose energy and some of your food.
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: [[spoiler: Itaku, who is the child of a Sapien and an Erectus, the former being Alf. He avoids the HalfBreedDiscrimination present in plenty of villages due to resembling an Erectus enough to not appear as a half-breed.]]
* CrystalWeapon: The [[InfinityPlusOneSword ultimate tool in the game]] is the Tactical Shiny Tool, which can be used as an axe, knife, or hammer, and has the highest durability of all other tools with 1000 durability. However, you can only get these from Kasino's minigame, or by getting a really high Tool Crafting skill, as explained in the game's BrokeTheRatingScale example.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Alf, who has gone through ''a lot'' from his childhood to becoming an old man. [[spoiler: His tribe and family were killed by Neanderthals, but had to live under a Neanderthal family for a while to survive, but then got banished. He gained expert crafting skills to make a living after finding other Sapiens, as well as a companion named Minion to venture with, and eventually fell in love with Margira, an Erectus woman. They tried to build a multi-race village that housed runaways from other villages, on top of their own kid, but their whole village along with Margira was killed, and Itaku began to hate Alf for it, running away and living among other Erectus. All Alf had left was Minion Jr, who is actually the Minion you cooperate with since his father passed away from sickness, and then found you.]]
* TheDiscoveryOfFire: You have to learn how to make a fire, which lets you access more skills and recipes for crafting, like cooking food or creating pottery.
* DumbMuscle: Minion, who can only do the more physical assignments, including hunting other animals, and will gather items at random primarily, unless you have the proper "Communication Skill" level to make him get specific items. He also mainly speaks in [[TheUnintelligible gibberish]] where everyone else is capable of proper communication.
* EquipmentBasedProgression: Some recipes require tools of a sufficiently high level to create, even if you have the proper materials. Said tools may also require a specific (though lower) tool level to craft as well. Additionally, Minion needs enough "Power" from equipment and weaponry to hunt and catch higher-level animals.
* TheExile: Eroca, an Erectus who was exiled from his people, and the only way to un-exile himself was to kill a ''Homo sapien'', and you happen to be his target.
* FetchQuest: Other characters can put you up to these, including Alf himself.
* FishingMinigame: One of Minion's skills is Fishing, which he can do provided a rod and bait you provide to him. As Minion levels up in this skill, he can catch not only bigger fish, but even walruses, sharks, and even ''whales''! The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZnoE4RRhM trailer]] even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how ridiculous this feat is.
--> "Did he just bring a WHALE? What the [[SoundEffectBleep -BLEEP-]]"
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the background, leaves will be flying on the wind as you're crafting things.
* TheGambler: Gambler [[PunnyName Kasino]], who appropriately lets you play a casino-like game where you match slots, and get an item should you get 3 matching slots.
* GameHuntingMechanic: Minion, if given a weapon (as well as armor) to equip, he will go hunting for animals to bring back to you. You can [[CookingMechanics skin and cook said animals to level up the respective skills.]] As Minion's hunting skill improves, he can catch bigger animals, including dire wolves, giant sloths, and even mammoths, all on his own. Given enough equipment and food (and a big bag to hold it all), and he'll come back with hundreds of said beasts to be feasted on!
* GameplayAutomation: Once you populate the land around you with houses and villagers, you can assign other residents to do tasks like gathering water or trapping animals.
* GetItOverWith: Should you defeat Itaku and his Erectus, he realizes that you're Alf's crafting successor, and in disgust, tells you this word-for-word, which is more heart-wrenching given that [[spoiler: Itaku is Alf's biological son.]]
* GoodTimesMontage: A text version of this is narrated if [[spoiler: Alf dies.]] It goes from talking about the first time Alf taught you to peel a banana, helping you make a fire, and also [[ToiletHumor watching you burn your poop for fueling your fire.]]
* GoldenEnding: To minimize the destruction caused by the ''H. erectus'' attack, you have to set up a big village with a high enough population, on top of having the best equipment you can craft for yourself and Minion, as well as helping out Kula and his tribe so they can all help you fight off the Erectus.
* ItemCrafting: Your main role in the game, being the central mechanic of the game. More active tasks like hunting, fishing, and collecting are done by [[TheBigGuy Minion.]] More than half of the UI is dedicated to either crafting or items you store and craft with. You take on the role of crafting and similar actions like cooking, tailoring, and eventually, building, as a result of being mentored by Alf, a "Master Crafter".
* LethalJokeItem: The Crafting Gloves that decrease your skill level instead of increasing it. Their purpose seems downright negative and counter-intuitive, but since you can only improve your skills by either completing new recipes or failing them, using them to gain a probability of failure for recipes with 100% success rate otherwise can let you improve skills more easily.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Tribes and villages don't really support the idea of humans of different races in general. A Neanderthal and Sapien couple can be encountered, and if they are told on, their tribes will [[KilledOffscreen send them to their deaths.]] Alf is the one of the few people who notably opposes these prejudices. This proves more significant later when you learn from [[{{Diary}} his diary]] that [[spoiler: he had an Erectus lover named Margira, who died saving their son, Itaku, from people raiding their original home village to kill off runaways and interbreeds.]]
--> '''Alf:''' Not a lot of races approve of their young mating with a different race. History has proven lots of conflict because of this reason alone.
* MammothsMeanIceAge: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], it isn't snowing at all, but Minion can still hunt mammoths for you to skin and cook meat from.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: When you and everyone else are attacked by an Erectus tribe, Alf will always die, unless you are gunning for the good ending, in which your goal is [[DefiedTrope preventing his death.]]
* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:Itaku wants to kill Alf as revenge for [[AccompliceByInaction letting Margira die]] when their home got raided by people from other villages, and it isn't stated that he went after those same villages responsible for killing his mother.]]
* MortonsFork: You may encounter someone begging for some food. If you choose to give some food, your gift is wasted as someone mugs him for the food. If you decline his request, he will go mug someone else for food. Either outcome will lead to a mugging, but the difference is whether the beggar is the victim or perpetrator.
* NewGamePlus: Through the Mating Chamber, you can pass down items and skills to your next generation with GP (Generation Points), to replay the game more easily with special items that making crafting and learning skills easier, on top of upgrades to your max energy capacity.
* NonActionGuy: ''You'', [[DownplayedExample for the most part]]. You rely on Minion for many of the "tougher" actions like hunting animals. You are able to fight off a lone Erectus on your own, but you don't pose any threat to a [[ClassyCatBurglar thief]] named Sonka, who is far more experienced in combat, and you can contribute to fighting against the Erectus raid, but ConservationOfNinjutsu is '''not''' a thing here. You'll have to rely on others' help to deal with the raid.
* NotAlwaysEvil: While Erectus people do attack you, one Erectus attacker, who reveals his name as Eroca, can be interrogated to find out that he [[ForcedIntoEvil was forced to attack you]] due to being banished. He needs to [[DecapitationPresentation bring back the head]] of a ''Homo sapien'' to come back. If you spare him, he doesn't continue his attempt to kill you, but he notes that [[NowWhat he is still exiled, and has nowhere else to go, leaving after.]]
* PracticalCurrency: A good amount of {{NPC}}s use food to trade or exchange, since people rely on bartering. After all, the setting isn't at the point where there is any official currency is present, let alone the concept of "money", although "Shiny Stones" are the closest thing to such.
* RedemptionRejection: If you spare the leader of the Erectus raiders, Itaku, [[spoiler: Alf's attempts to hug him in an attempt to bond with him are literally pushed away, with Itaku choosing to run away instead, greatly saddening Alf.]]
* RedRidingHoodReplica: One NPC that can join your village is Robin, a girl in a red hood who wore a red fur hood gifted by her grandmother. Said grandmother was eaten by a big bad wolf, but with a hunter's assistance, she ate the wolf right back, for you to point out that she indirectly [[FamilialCannibalismSurprise ate her grandma]], to her disgust.
* StatGrinding: You gain proficiency at skills by failing at them, which depends on RNG unless your skill level is high enough to prevent failing at it.
* ThePhilosopher: Parodied with [[PunnyName Filos O'Fiero]], who claims to your character that [[BreakingTheFourthWall they are all characters within a video game.]] Your character borders toward ExistentialHorror in great disbelief of such claims, believing Filos O'Fiero to be insane.
* TimedMission: After you build a Mating Chamber, an Erectus attack will begin within the next few quest prompts. Though you can wait to take said prompts as long as you want due to how they work.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can catch the Sapien and Neanderthal couple, and tell on them to their villages, which Alf implies will get them both killed as punishment. When you make a village, one visitor named Abena can be personally killed by you to get his Shiny Stones. You can also refuse to give food to everyone who asks for it, including Kula's sister, and Kula's tribe later on (doing this will result in them all perishing later on).
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Not feeding Kula's tribe to help them deal with the ''H. erectus'' attack will mean you won't get the support needed to fully fend off the ''H. erectus'' attack that '''you''' have to deal with later, leading to [[DownerEnding more of your property being raided and Alf's death.]]
* XMeetsY: The game's description claims itself to be where ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' meets ''VideoGame/CookieClicker''.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed example]], as you start with 0.0 skill on everything, meaning that even simpler tasks like peeling an orange or banana has a chance to fail (also creates Goop in this case), until your skill is high enough to avoid this. Also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since in the time this game takes place in, humans' crafting skills are primitive at best, with only few humans being experts at crafting.
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