The Wandering Village: Onbu Guide

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The Wandering Village has you building a settlement on Onbu, a creature so massive that it has a small forest growing on its back. Though managing your settlement, growing food, and keeping disease at bay might be your priority, taking care of your oversized turtle should never be too far behind.

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You will need to manage Onbu's heath, poison level, hunger, sleepiness, and trust as you travel together. It's another layer of systems on top of the ones you already manage for the village itself that needs its own investment. This guide will break down how to manage these mechanics.

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Unlike your villagers, Onbu eats mushrooms, which can occasionally be found naturally growing on the path. This source isn't reliable, however, and you'll have to make food for Onbu before long.

Feeding Onbu takes unique infrastructure that the rest of your villagers won't directly benefit from. It eats mushrooms grown at a Mycologist and turned into giant mushroom balls in the form of Onbu Food at an Onbu Kitchen. Unlike conventional crops, mushrooms need to be grown on dirt instead of grass, though it is more tolerant of temperature than most other crops.

You can also find Mushrooms by scavenging at Forests and Poisoned Forests. They may also be given as a reward for some encounters.

Getting the food into its mouth presents its own engineering challenge. You'll quickly unlock the Onbu Feeding Trebuchet to fling each ball into its mouth, restoring 20% of its hunger and making it trust you a little more.

Later in the game, you can use an Onbu