Prairie

Prairie is genuinely exposed: it uses open desert terrain, locally raised base and settlement ground, scattered palm forests, and no scripted water economy. Its fast expansion character comes from the resource spread, not from a central terrain objective; raiding angles remain broad throughout the map.

Exposed prairie and outer resources · Pandora’s Box 2 Final Release · Standard-size 1v1 example Click to enlarge

The opening is either zebra plus gazelle or giraffe, with 4–6 chickens, 6–7 berries, and two to three goats. Close hunt at 55–75 m is zebra or gazelle; far hunt at 75–100 m is giraffe; the next layer at 80–120 m is elephants, rhinoceroses, or hippopotamuses; and a final zebra-or-gazelle group begins from 90 m. Close and far berries, more goats, hyenas, and lions keep Food deep but exposed. These are requested packages, not guaranteed final totals.

Five 17–25-tile palm forests are requested near each player, followed by forty-four global forest requests in standard 1v1. Their small, scattered footprint supports workable Wood access without creating a reliable wall or choke. The source does not support a fixed Wood total.

Prairie requests two 3,000-Gold medium starts, two 1,500-Gold small starts, two 6,000-Gold close mines at 55–70 m, and six-to-eight 6,000-Gold bonus mines from 70 m: 57,000–69,000 Gold requested, with 63,000 as the branch expectation. Bonus Gold is semi-mirrored with deliberately wider angular than radial variation, while settlements and the first Gold layer share a randomized side relationship.

Each player receives a backward settlement request at 65–80 m and an aggressive request at 85–120 m. The second layer does not inherit the first layer’s shared-side setting, so expansion directions should be scouted rather than assumed. Two relics per player begin at least 80 m out, clear of settlements and tower vision.