The Kids Have Jobs update in 99 Nights in the Forest, released on August 9, adds a new way to make your campsite more efficient. After rescuing the kids, you can now take care of them, keep them fed, recover their lost trinkets, and level them up to unlock useful jobs around the camp.
Each kid has a different role. Some can collect wood, others can catch fish, cook food, or gather scrap. Once you start using their jobs properly, they can handle some of the basic camp tasks while you focus on other survival activities.
How the Kids Have Jobs System Works
After rescuing a kid, you can keep them at your campsite and start working on their progression. The main things you need to do are keep them fed and find their lost trinkets. Feeding the kids is important for keeping them active, while recovering their trinkets helps them level up.
As their level increases, they can unlock additional tasks and become more useful around the campsite. The system is designed to reduce the amount of manual work you need to do. Instead of personally gathering every resource, you can assign the right kid to help with specific jobs.
Dino Kid
Dino Kid focuses on collecting wood. He can chop trees and move the wood to different locations around the campsite depending on what you need. The wood collected by Dino Kid can be delivered to his tent, the Campfire, or the Scrapper.
This makes him particularly useful when your camp needs a steady supply of wood for survival tasks. If you regularly find yourself running low on wood, Dino Kid is worth leveling up early. Keep him fed and search for his lost trinkets to help unlock more tasks as he progresses.
Kraken Kid
Kraken Kid specializes in fishing. Her job is to catch fish and bring them back to her tent. Fish can be an important source of food, especially when you need to keep the campsite supplied. Having Kraken Kid handle fishing allows you to spend more time exploring, gathering other resources, or completing different survival objectives.
Players who rely heavily on food supplies should consider investing time into Kraken Kid’s progression. Keep her fed and recover her lost trinkets to increase her level and unlock additional tasks.
Squid Kid
Squid Kid takes care of cooking around the campsite. He can prepare food and leave the finished meals at his tent. He can also place cooked food into the crockpot when it is empty. This gives players another way to keep food production moving without having to handle every cooking task themselves.
Squid Kid can become especially useful when your camp has plenty of ingredients but you need someone to turn them into prepared food. Leveling him up can make managing your food supply much easier.
Koala Kid
Koala Kid is responsible for collecting scrap. She can search the area for scrap and then deliver what she finds either to her tent or directly to the Scrapper. Scrap can be useful for keeping your campsite supplied with materials, making Koala Kid another valuable worker once she has been rescued.
If you are spending a lot of time searching for scrap yourself, allowing Koala Kid to handle this job can save you some time. Make sure to keep her fed and look for her lost trinkets to improve her progression.
How to Level Up the Kids
Leveling up the kids is an important part of the new system. They do not simply gain access to every job immediately. Instead, you need to take care of them and recover their missing trinkets to help them progress.
There are two main things you should focus on:
- Keep the kids fed so they can continue working around the camp.
- Find their lost trinkets to help increase their levels.
- Level them up to unlock additional tasks.
- Match each kid with the job they are best suited for.
- Use their jobs to reduce the amount of manual resource gathering you need to do.
Since every kid has a different role, it is worth developing multiple kids instead of focusing entirely on one character.
Best Way to Use the Kids
The easiest way to get value from the Kids Have Jobs update is to assign each kid according to what your campsite currently needs. There is little reason to rely on one kid when the four available characters have completely different jobs.
Dino Kid should be used when you need more wood, while Kraken Kid can help maintain your fish supply. Squid Kid is useful for cooking and managing food, while Koala Kid can take care of scrap collection.
You should also make finding lost trinkets a regular priority. These items are important for the kids’ progression and can help unlock more tasks as they level up.
Kids Have Jobs Update Makes the Camp More Efficient
The Kids Have Jobs update in 99 Nights in the Forest gives rescued kids a much bigger purpose at the campsite. Instead of simply being characters that need to be rescued and cared for, they can now contribute directly to your survival by handling important camp activities.
Dino Kid can gather wood, Kraken Kid can catch fish, Squid Kid can cook food, and Koala Kid can collect scrap. By keeping them fed and recovering their lost trinkets, you can level them up and unlock more jobs. Once you have all four kids working together, your campsite can become much easier to manage. Let the kids handle their assigned tasks while you focus on exploration, survival, and other important objectives.