How To Get More Faction Reputation In Caves Of Qud

There are tons of factions for you to interact with in Caves of Qud, with many spanning across the world. At the start of the game, you’ll have no reputation with a lot of them, making you neutral in their eyes. As you play though, this reputation can increase or decrease.

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Looking to increase your reputation with factions in Caves of Qud? You’ve come to the right place. In this guide, we are going to take a look at how to increase reputation with factions, as well as how to avoid losing too much reputation. Sometimes, you’ll need to decrease your reputation in order to gain things like recipes, but overall, having a net positive is ideal.

How To Check Your Reputation

To check your reputation with any faction in Caves of Qud, head to the main menu and click on the ‘Reputation’ tab. Here, you can see all factions and your reputation with them. You’ll be able to search for specific factions, as well as sort them by reputation.

For example, when sorted, we have 750 reputation with the Birds, making them “revere us and consider us one of their own”. This also applies to the Fellowship of Wardens too. There are a lot of factions here, but you can search for keywords to see all related factions.

What Does Reputation Do?

Reputation affects the way other NPCs in the game interact with you. For example, if you have very low reputation with one faction, they may be hostile towards you (even if they are typically friendly). This works in reverse too; if you have a high reputation with a faction that is typically hostile, then they may not attack you.

Reputation is like a currency. You can complete tasks or trade information in order to get more, but you can also purposely decrease your reputation in order to gain things like recipes, followers, and items.

How To Get More Reputation

Some of the best ways to get more reputation involve completing quests for NPCs (and their faction), as well as initiating a Water Ritual. Below, you can check out a list of the best ways to increase your reputation.

• Initiate a Water Ritual with someone who is loved/liked by a faction
• Give information during a Water Ritual
• Kill someone hated/disliked by a faction
• Complete main and side quests for factions
• Sacrifice artifacts in a Sacred Well (only for the Mechanimists)

Some actions can cause you to lose reputation with one faction and gain some with another. For example, if you kill a Legendary NPC, you will lose reputation with their faction in addition to gaining reputation with the factions that hate them.

Rather than trying to please every faction that is present in Caves of Qud, it’s a bit more manageable to please only a handful that you want to interact with.

Tips To Avoid Decreasing Reputation

To avoid unnecessarily losing reputation with a faction, we highly recommend avoiding killing Legendary NPCs without reason. This will cause the reputation with their faction to decrease. If you don’t have any reason to kill an NPC, don’t do it. Attacking an NPC may also cause others in the area to become hostile, which isn’t ideal.

During a Water Ritual, you may see some options that cause a decrease in reputation. While you may want to strive for a positive reputation, choosing these can be necessary at times. For example, this is a great way to learn new recipes and skills, as well as gain followers.

Don’t be afraid to choose one of these reputation-decreasing answers, as you may need to. In order to balance it out, you can always hand over some information or do Water Rituals with others in the faction. If your reputation is over 600 with a faction, losing 50 to 100 reputation won’t be the end of the world.

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