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That said, there’s a lot of materials to grab if you take your time.

If you see notifications of illness, starvation, or death, it’s time to hurry up. You should probably aim to clear a crusade in around 8-12 minutes, and make sure your followers are well fed and happy before leaving. There’s a small delay before they activate, so test luring enemies into them so they can do the damage for you.

Be on the lookout for rooms with red X marks on them - these are traps that can be activated when you cross them.

Diseased Hearts are similar to Blue Hearts, but they'll also damage everyone on screen when you get hit - so be sure to get Tarot Cards or Crown Abilities that give you more!

Hearts come in a few different varieties: Red hearts refill your health up to its current maximum, while Blue Hearts are 'shields' that are essentially one time use extensions.

Tarot Card rooms always have stars hanging by the entryway, and the blacksmith has swords hanging above the exit to their room. If you look closely at the exits, you can sometimes tell where respite is.

Unless you find the Telescope Tarot Card, you may not know what’s coming next in combat rooms.

Be prepared for tweaks like enemies having less health but damage against you is doubled, or chests that will drop food instead of gold

Certain Combat Rooms will have banners with small symbols on them, which indicate challenge modifiers.

Fists only deal good damage on the last swing in a combo, and Hammers are very slow - so you'll need to judge enemy attacks very carefully if you get stuck with those weapons, and look for opportunities to swap them out during a Crusade if you aren't liking them.

You'll always have a random choice between different speed weapons at the start: Fists, Daggers, Sword, Axes, and Hammers.

You can also break apart the training dummies where you get your first weapon for extra lumber.

The start of every combat area has a statue of the region’s boss, and you can steal Devotion from them, and even break them apart for some stone.

Diving into the land of the Old Faith can be tough, since you’ll never experience the same challenges twice, but these tips can help prepare you for what’s to come.

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