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So whenever I send some followers up to build this beacon they last about a couple seconds before dropping dead. I'm thinking that the swamp right below the beacon is killing them. Does anyone have an idea?

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  • What mod is this from? What are "followers"? (They aren't in Vanilla MC) and could you include a picture?
    – aytimothy
    Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 1:48
  • I'm using the iPhone version of Godus and followers are the people that are in the game in the houses and stuff. The the swamp seems to affect them because every time I send people up they die
    – Andrew
    Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 2:17
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    @Andrew please use the right tag. Otherwise you end up with everyone being confused, which gets nobody anywhere
    – Ben
    Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 6:55

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Yes, swamp will slow down followers and get them stuck, and sometimes kill them. The longer they spend on the swamp (e.g. working on the beacon) the more likely they are to die from it, or get tired and return home.

To clear out the swamp, use the beautify god power. When using beautify, make sure you tap rather than drag, as it uses a lot of belief and you can get the same effect for a lot less belief by placing it in "dots".

On the android version, beautify is awarded when you have 30 farms.

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Beautify

As Samthere points out, the Beautify power will permanently remove swamps/blighted land and solve your problem. However, there is a swamp covered beacon fairly early on in the ios version of Godus and most likely you will not have sufficient population/mines/fields to unlock the Beautify card yet, nor would you be able to find enough stickers to activate the card if it was unlocked.

Let Followers Die for the Cause

Instead of clearing the swamps out so that your followers survive, you will need to send followers to work on the beacon until they die, then send more. This micromanagement makes this one of the more frustrating beacons to work on, but it can be done. I recommend leashing 8 followers at once, sending them up to die while they work on the beacon, then sending another team of 8. The followers won't even survive long enough to get tired and stumble home. Slowly but surely, you will complete the beacon and progress further in the game.

Will Boosting Keep Followers Alive Longer in Swamps?

No, boosting the followers while they are in the swamp does not make them survive any longer. I have seen followers die while working on this beacon even at full stamina from a recent boost. I suspect that simply being in the swamp for a certain length of time kills the followers and boosting has no effect.

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  • I've only played on PC, which I think is relatively accelerated compared to mobile and you can generate gems, so I didn't realise you might not get beautify in time. Good extra info!
    – Samthere
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 17:35
  • My save got corrupted so I had to start again; I unlocked beautify at 20 (I think) farms, with no sticker cost. Is there a sticker cost to unlock powers on the iOS version?
    – Samthere
    Commented May 1, 2015 at 12:55
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I didn't want to sacrifice my followers on that early swamped beacon. I just paid the gem cost to fill it. You can get gems for watching ads. Much easier to recover from than killing followers for an hr.

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If you want you could remove enough terrain to make plots to get the requirement, I did and had enough stickers to get it... then again at that time I had burned most of the astari villagers except one and got the village itself so... I'm a special case?

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I sent the followers to work. Then I closed the app for the time they had to work. When I opened the app the beacon was finished, if the followers died or not I don’t know, but it finished with only one "troop"

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