Experience Points

How does my hero get experience points?  I am stuck at 3247.  I have done all the tasks except the opposition hideout as I cannot get into the cave - 2 caveman left and no meat.  Can someone help?

There are several comments under the "Opposition Hideout" spoiler thread that will most likely assist you with that quest. Your experience points come from several places, including fighting monsters that do not appear until your second town is established.

There is more than one way into the cave...

You can get experience from these ways:

Attacking other player's towns, you have to do damage in order to get exp.

Attacking monsters in your towns which respawn every 36 hours, monsters will respawn only in secondary towns and not in your main town (Dwelling).

Buying exp items from the cash shop (Ambrosia,Nectar). Note that you can only use these items to fill up to 50% of your current experience bar, the other 50% has to be earned the normal way.