Drop Duchy The Tribe

Drop Duchy: The Tribe is a DLC that adds a playable faction inspired by druids and ancient monuments. Its placement-focused playstyle asks you to arrange buildings and standing stones across the grid, while using forests and exploration to develop your economy and expand your duchy. The Tribe can be played in every existing mode, including each Difficulty level and every Trial.

Placement and exploration

The Tribe’s stone buildings respond to their arrangement on the grid. Place standing stones in patterns such as rectangles to create a Cairn’s Area, or in straight lines, to activate effects and gain resources or troops. Terrain and adjacency bonuses still matter, but you must also consider how buildings connect and how the whole layout develops.

The faction’s technologies and structures are tied to forests and the exploration system, making terrain bonuses central to its strategy. Forests support its economy, while exploration unlocks bonuses, helps build the grid and extends the duchy. Lines can be explored twice per round, creating opportunities for combinations with resource-generating buildings such as Exploited Lands. The Lush Woods technology adds food to every forest exploration gain and can combine with existing cards that trigger resource gains.

Buildings and technologies

The DLC adds four exclusive buildings and four unique technologies. The Stone Circle provides a large amount of resources when placed in the Cairn’s Area. The Sacrificial Site lets you recruit one unit for each unit removed during the round, while the War Council lets you recruit for each square explored that round.

The Tribe can sacrifice opponents’ units to protect its land. Law Court removes units from every enemy building inside the Cairn’s Area, while Star Chart uses druidic powers to grant Constellation loads based on the number of explorations.

Quests and modes

The Tribe has a dedicated quest line with 12 new challenges. In every existing mode, you can take the faction through each Difficulty level and face every Trial, including Famine and Fearless.