List of Tribal Stage glitches in Spore

This is a list of glitches that occur in the Tribal Stage of Spore.

Minor glitches

Left And Back Glitch

Sometimes, early on the creature tribal stage after befriending/destroying your tribe, the game will suddenly pause and move to the left and back. a cause of this might be a computer with low RAM and have no known way to stop it.

No Glowing Intro Glitch

Sometimes, when you start up the game, all the galaxies in the main menu, including the one you use for gameplay, will not have a glow effect, making the galaxies look like they are made out of lines and dots. The planets will look like featureless silver circles. This does not affect the gameplay and can be fixed by moving the view point.

Tribal Stage food baskets stick around until Space Stage

If your tribal members were carrying a food basket when you progressed into Civilization Stage, they will still be carrying the baskets when you are watching the movie that plays before you progress into Civilization. But it doesn't stop there. They actually put down the baskets right where they were standing before your tribe becomes your first city. So if you zoom in on your city in Civilization Stage you can actually see the food baskets just laying on the streets. Not only that, they will never go away. You can still fly back to your first city in Space Stage and if you get close enough you can still see them laying there.

This bug is actually kind of fun to cause, as its sort of a memorial to Tribal Stage. To cause this glitch, all you need to do is tell all your tribe to gather food (I use eggs from my tribe's pets) and then once they fill their baskets, just make them stand still away from the tribe. They will not put the baskets down. Then click the progressing button and progress onto Civilization Stage.

Text Glitch

On Spore, the entire screen can suddenly become very small when you restart it. Resetting the screen size will also keep the text and cursor incredibly small. There are no known fixes.

Village Self-Destructs

Extremely rarely, an Epic Creature will attack and destroy the main hut of another village. The other tool huts will remain intact, and interacting with a tool hut plays the tribe conquered cutscene as normal, as well as progress the player's tribe.

"Jackpot" Chieftain Glitch

Sometimes and rarely, the chieftain may get stuck looping an animation, crying with joy. This makes it impossible for the chieftain to eat on the first time, but the chieftain can eat later on, and the effect can also make it impossible to ally other tribes because the chieftain will keep the animation even upon death. The animation consists of a flipping head, then nodding, supposedly to show happiness. There is currently no workaround for this glitch, other than to attack tribes instead of socializing, and the only way to fix it is to delete the affected game.

Two Chieftain Staffs 

This is a rare glitch that can occur when a creature in the tribal stage has two normal or two normal and two robotic arms. For a while, the chieftain will have two staffs. This can also happen whilst sending a gift to the wrong tribe and returning the food to the pile. Note that the chieftain had two normal arms. Sometimes there are more than one heads on a Chieftain Staff. A video showing the glitch can be found here.

Dual axe glitch 

Sometimes you'll be playing tribal stage but you notice... one of your tribe people is holding TWO axes! The glitch appears to occur at random and is entirely harmless.

Tribe fight misplaced nameplate glitch 

Sometimes, if your creatures on tribe stage mock eachother, and the guy being mocked kicks the other guy, who falls flat on the ground, as soon as he hits the ground pause the game (if its playing it won't happen, the nameplate will teleport above his/her head.) and scroll over the creature's body or head. The nameplate and health bar will be located floating randomly, pointing at the guy who kicked the collapsed guy's foot or weapon.

Infinite Music Glitch

If a tribe member tames a creature and a UFO Abducts the Creature before the music stops, the music will continually play from the tribe member until they die, it is not impeding but is extremely irritating, the only solution is to kill the tribe member, interact with another tribe, or Progress to the Civilization Stage. This is extremely irritating if the Chieftain was taming the creature, because even if he dies, when he respawns, the music returns! This may also happen in Space phase after destroying colonies; the war music still plays for the rest of the game. It may also appear in the Creature stage. As soon as the stage starts, the combat music will be playing and will stay for the rest of the stage. Also in Tribe stage, where there are used thrown spears in the ground, the "Assault" music may loop. Even in Civ stage.

Looping Attack Music Glitch

Sometimes, on a tribe game when you hover the camera over your village, the attack music will loop continuously. This does not affect gameplay, but can be very irritating. This may continue to Civ stage and possibly for Space stage. It can be stopped by exiting spore.

Tribe Members Can't Interact Glitch

When attempting to ally or attack a tribe that lives on a hill with a creature that can't glide or jump, your tribe will be unable to reach the tribe. Therefore disabling the player from completing Tribal Stage and advancing to Civilization Stage.

WORKAROUND: Befriend the gatherers.

Chanting Glitch

Sometimes if you kill a creature in tribal stage and try to harvest the meat, the tribe member will stand there saying "Hnnn rah! Heenruh!" repeatedly. He will rotate slowly in place. Unless you tell him to walk somewhere else the tribe member will be incapable of all action, and eventually fall through the floor and starve.

Black Screen

If you have the Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, make a creature, and make it have three babies. Once this is done, go to the creepy and cute animations, and repeatedly click the bee button. Each time you do this, the animation resets, making more and more bees swarm around the screen. After five minutes, the screen will be black with bees. By seven minutes, the game will have frozen. Hold down Ctrl, Alt, and Delete to go to the task manager of your computer and end Spore or if you are on a Mac press command q, and then simply re-start it. This also works with the summon swarm command in the captain outfitter.

Disproportionate object glitch

Sometimes, if you scale down your creature's body in creature stage, once it reaches tribal stage every part of the creature will be scaled up.

Another thing this glitch affects when one of the tribe members roasts marshmallows, when he or she pulls the stick out, it will be larger than the tool huts.

The "Magical Stretching Building" Glitch

In the GA editor, you might find you will have a stretched building or item. If it overstretches, it may not be movable, and you are stuck with it. If you have a minor stretch, then move it and it should be fixed.

WORKAROUND FOR OVERSTRETCH A: Pick one of the planet color/flora templates. This does not always work.

WORKAROUND FOR OVERSTRETCH B: Delete and recreate.

Cannibalism Glitch 

Sometimes in the Tribal Stage, if your game is glitched up enough, you can actually collect meat from sentient species that have died. Although this may seem disgusting, it gives the player more food! Similarly you can sometimes eat live creatures in the Creature Stage if you're a carnivore or omnivore. The creatures cannot be interacted with other than being eaten. After you eat some of it, it no longer can be interacted with, but it still does moves like any other creature does. 

Tribe Member Go Bye-Bye 

Sometimes, one of your tribe members will just stand there, not doing anything. Then, he will slowly start floating. Then get higher and higher until he eventually floats out of sight. It can occur in Tribal Stage but is very rare. When it does happen, one can right click the tribe member's icon and see the planet from orbit. There is little one can do if this happens until the tribe member starves to death. If it is your Chieftain, the glitch will keep repeating itself for the rest of the game, making it impossible to ally other tribes and use consequence abilities. When your chieftain respawns you can do things with him for about 30 seconds before he starts floating upward again.

This glitch can be fixed by telling the tribe member to walk to any location on the tribes' continent.

Stuck Babies Glitch 

Sometimes, in the Tribal Stage if there are many babies near a wild animal nest, they will become "stuck." They will usually not be doing anything but staring at an adult animal, not only can they not move around, their whole body is incapable of moving. If a tribal member walks through them, or if you wait, they will start moving again.

Multiple Tools

Sometimes during the Tribe stage, when you tell a tribe member that already has a tool to pick up a different tool, they might not drop the first one and have both at once. Only the most recently acquired tool will affect the tribe member's abilities, but it can be annoying when you think a tribe member has one tool, but doesn't.

Land monster in tribal mode

When you become an Omnivore in Cell Stage and then go onto Tribal Stage, summoning the Sea Monster in a small pool of water will cause it to spawn on land and cannonball on land, the animation is the same with the water ripples appearing on land and nothing bad happens, you still get the fish, it just looks strange. This happens all the time and the only way to fix it is to use it in a bigger pool of water!

Looping Sea Monster mating call

very rarely, when using the Flying Fish ability, the sea monster will appear, do a mating call, and dive back under the water. this doesn't give fish to the player, and leaves a looping mating call sound from the fish-like mouths. the audio can be stopped by exiting and re-entering the game

Tribal Raid Music Remains

Sometimes, if you retreat after raiding a tribe in the Tribal Stage, the drum beats will remain, only near your own tribe. This remains throughout the Tribal Stage and even into the Space Stage! WORKAROUND: Simply restart Spore. You do not have to quit without saving.

Hilly Tribe Terrain

Sometimes, when entering the Tribal stage, there will be a lot of hills surrounding the player's Tribal hut. Nests and trees with be scattered in valleys or on top of the cliffs (also found to be isolated on an island). It will sometimes trap your Tribal members and starve them. The only known way to fix this glitch is to save and exit, and re-enter. Also, it can sometimes appear in the Civilization Stage.

Major glitches

Wanderer Glitch

This glitch can be very common at times. The player's creature (mostly the Chieftain) won't be able to move any more and will instead just disappear and wander like a ghost. Usually when the player clicks on a tribe member, the member will make a noise saying that he's ready for whatever the player tells him. But instead, if the player click on the tribal member that has become a "wanderer" AKA invisible, then the member won't make any sound saying he's ready for whatever the player tells him what to do. The "wanderer" won't die from an Epic creature, enemy tribe, or a wild creature but the "wanderer" will starve to death.

(Xweert123) I've experienced this glitch, and it's happened three times. When I went to track the tribal member. (A.K.A double click its icon on the right.) It would zoom out until you couldn't see your homeplanet, and the tribal member or chieftain would be in space. It will not move, and it's very annoying when your under attack and you have one tribal member left.

(Annonymus Response to This ^^^) That sounds like the known glitch where tribe members just float into space to me.

Abducted Chieftain

Sometimes, in tribal stage, your chieftain will get abducted by a spaceship; however he will not be reborn. The only way to fix this is to go back to the last saved game, however, if you save the game after he is abducted you will have to start the game over. You cannot continue after this glitch has happened because the game will crash when you advance to the civilization stage.

Tribal raid loop

sometimes if you kill a tribe in tribal stage, whenever you get near the destroyed tribe it will play the attacking theme

This needs to be posted in Minor Glitches. An attacking theme in a destroyed tribe whenever you get near it won't destroy your game. - Spore Maniac

Murderous Allies

In the tribal stage, if an enemy steals your food, any bystander of your village will attack it. Although this is normal, when your tribe impresses the attacking tribe to be your ally, even after the alliance animation, your defensive member will consistently attack your allied perpetrator. Both of the tribes will start attacking each other, but the relationship does not deteriorate, therefore, when you try attacking them back, it says that you cannot attack allies. In my case, I ordered my tribe back home, while my allies still attacked them. My only choice was to let my tribe slowly kill off the attackers, in which half of them including the cheiftain died in the process. This glitch could completely throw you off-course, mainly because you have no control over what your tribe does in retaliation, as well the possibility of many of your villagers being killed.

Tribe Member Betrayal

I finished befriending a tribe and went to give a gift to one that was attacking my hut. As soon as I finished the ones attacking the hut suddenly turned to the color Pink (the tribe I just befriended) and attacked each other. Then when one dies everyone changes back to the color of their own tribe and go attack their own hut. I don't know the cause of this, but it's not just a glitch- they eventually destroyed themselves. Hehe.

Tribal Stage Freeze

Sometimes in the tribal stage it will freeze. This freeze IS PERMANENT IN ALL SAVE GAMES if you evolved whilst befriending any creature. Solution: Don't evolve whilst befriending creatures. If this happens to you: Too bad, your SPORE game is broken forever. I know this from my own experience.

Solution

I successfully got out of tribe save, but instead of it breaking, I had 4 huts ( the ones in the selection menu) on my screen no matter what save game. But I did find a way to fix it. Save the game that froze without quitting Spore or going to galaxy menu. Then mess around for a few min then exit to menu WITHOUT SAVING. Pop in another save game then leave WITHOUT SAVING. Exit spore and restart spore from going to your GAMES folder in your programs. Double click SPORE and wait for it to start. Immediately go to the tribe game. Your tribe game is now unfrozen and will be like it before it even froze. I hope the user above reads this and fixes their game!

Tribal Twitch Glitch

Spore Tribal Dance (Glitch)

A relatively unprofessional demonstration of the glitch. The standard symptoms of the glitch are present, however.

Sometimes when playing a tribe game your chieftain starts doing a twitching "dance" making him unable to attack or impress other tribes. This appears only to happen when your creature has more than one set of arms, or arms that are not bent correctly (I.e. the elbows are reversed from their original placement). It is also believed that beginning the performance from across the map, instead of sending the tribe to the other village and then clicking to perform, may contribute to this issue.

Solution

Kill the chieftain (suicide by Epic, or starvation, works) and wait for him to re-spawn. According to some players, you can also reset the animation by sending him to eat food or dance by the fire. These solutions do not stop the problem from occurring again, as you will have to reset the chieftain after every musical performance

A milder version can also happen to creatures that have one arm where the contralateral limb is a leg, and the upper limb segment is symetrical. This version can be ended by making the chieftain move elsewhere.

Unresponsive Tribe Members

Rarely, tribe members may go unresponsive, there is no fix except to patch, it becomes extremely difficult to play with this glitch. It has also been seen with a flying creature's chieftain using his power while flying may cause him to go unresponsive.

Note: DO NOT SAVE when this happens, as the tribe member will never go responsive.

Sole Tribe Glitch

If, when playing a tribe game, you save and exit before another tribe appears, whenever you load the game may glitch and not spawn any other tribes, making it impossible to continue.

Tribe members walk on air Glitch

If you command a tribal member to walk somewhere while it is about to be abducted be a spacecraft, the spacecraft won't kill it, and the tribal member will walk to its destination while slowly descending back to the ground. This seems to no longer happen after Patch 5.1 is installed, though.

Animal-Tribe-Bug

If you extinct all creatures of a tribe in Tribal Stage, this glitch may happens. When it happens, all creatures of a non-sapient species walk to the dead tribe. (Also epic creatures can do this, but this is very rare because almost all of the creatures aren't epic) They pretend as if they are members of the tribe, for example they search food and put it in the tribe. In Sporepedia, there is the tribe still marked as before this happened. They have their old names and cannot wear tools. May a new chieftain get birth, but he is from the old species and instantly dies. If you go to Civilization Stage, the glitchy tribe is gone.

"Cook a tribal member" glitch

Sometimes tribal members will do dumb things when they are not being commanded to do anything. One of the dumb things they will do is, they will be talking and a tribal member will push another tribal member and he will fly backwards a few feet, and then he would get up and do the same to the other guy, and then did a jog in place while singing a beat-box/air-guitar song. If one of the tribal members in standing with his back to the Campfire in the middle of the tribe when he is pushed back, he will fall into the campfire. He will get up, but he will be unable to move. You must now simply wait until he dies of starvation, and then replace him with a new baby.

Big Sign Glitch

Sometimes, after finishing attempting to ally by playing music in the Tribal Stage, when the creature pulls out the sign, it is ten times bigger than normal. This can sometimes be funny. Mainly because the tribal member swings it around at an unrealistic speed for its large size.

Always Flying Glitch

Sometimes, after progressing from the creature stage to the tribal stage, if you add wings at the final edit, when you command one of your tribal members to walk somewhere. When it performs that action it will bounce up VERY quickly into your planets orbit and fly to that destination while traveling in your planets orbit. Once it's over the destination, it will slowly come back to your planet.

Notes: It can happen to all creatures, and can last the whole game. The only thing to do is re-load from your last part of the creature stage and DON'T add wings.

SOLUTION: Die of starvation

Abducted Chieftain Glitch

When a chieftain is abducted by a UFO in the tribal stage, the chieftain will not respawn for some reason, basically ruining the stage if you are planning to ally with other tribes.

EDIT: Lol, this thing happened to me, luckily I saved at an earlier time, so my Chieftain was back. He was gathering eggs...

-Bouncerjess on Spore, check me out when you get the chance!

Chieftain from Dead Tribe glitch

Sometimes, when a tribe is destroyed, the Chieftain will still re-spawn at the dead tribe. This can be a nuisance, as you may be attacking another tribe, and the Chieftain of the dead tribe will start attacking your village. The cause of this glitch is unknown.

""AAAAAAHHH" The zombie chieftain of cyan ville has come to EAT, EVERY BODY!!!!!" -Zombie Chieftain of cyan ville comic ad

AWWWW SNAP! Deadly zombies back from the grave to get.... BRAINS!!! mostly revenge but the BRAINS!!!!!!!:P-Stevarooni

Quick! Somebody get the Peashooters!! (Sorry, I just had to. XP)

Don't forget the Sunflowers! And the Chompers! And the Cacti! And the...uh....CHEESESTICKS! - Spore Maniac