After Inc. Ancient Treasures Mega Brutal Guide

To clear the Ancient Treasures campaign scenario on Mega Brutal in After Inc., you must minimize survivor travel times, limit early population growth, and maintain a 15–20% resource surplus buffer before environmental triggers strike. Success depends on tight spatial efficiency and active worker reallocation rather than rushing high-tier technology.

Early Logistics and Settlement Layout

Mega Brutal penalizes long travel routes significantly. Surplus labor is minimal, so inefficient walking paths will cause food and fuel deficits to spiral out of control.

Central Storage Placement: Build your first storage hubs immediately adjacent to your primary resource nodes to shorten haul distance.
Residential Clustering: Place survivor housing within a tight radius around your food production structures.
Compact Footprints: Expand outwards only when local nodes are fully exploited. Keep work sites and housing tightly grouped to prevent wasted travel time.

Resource Management and Population Controls

Keep your settlement population lean. Expanding housing too quickly increases consumption faster than raw resource nodes can support on this difficulty.

Resource Priority	Target Action	Failure Trigger
Fuel & Food	Focus extraction here first; hold luxury upgrades until stable.	Collapse of heating or utility systems.
Worker Allocation	Dynamically shift workers from construction to extraction when meters drop.	Resource depletion during build queues.
Population Count	Maintain housing capacity equal to sustainable food and fuel output.	Starvation or energy shortfalls from over-expansion.

Monitor fatigue and health carefully. Environmental hazards in Ancient Treasures drain survivor health over time, reducing output speed. Ensure workers return to heated, well-maintained housing off-shift to avoid casualty cascades that are difficult to recruit back on Mega Brutal.

Tech Upgrades and Environmental Buffers

Do not rush advanced, high-maintenance structures during the early or mid-game phases. Focus your research tree on passive upgrades that multiply existing yields.

Prioritize Yield Upgrades: Unlock technologies that provide flat percentage increases to production speed and basic extraction tools.
Delay Complex Buildings: Avoid high-tier buildings that demand high upkeep until basic food and fuel networks run a steady surplus.
Build Emergency Buffers: Build a 15–20% reserve of food and fuel before hitting major mission milestones or facing incoming storms.
Maintain Infrastructure: Keep repair crews active to fix accelerated building degradation before structures collapse and require full rebuilding costs.