The game is not about the fights after the time runs out, its about what you do before it does.

While you could play on HWR difficulty so you can abuse the manual character creator, I'll be using random roll.

On HWR, I recommend a bag and craftsmanship for the guide but the goals are still possible without said things.

- Make Money With Crafting
- Leveling With Bathhouses and Alcohol
- Make a Good Character

Profit Gaining Crafts

Potent Medicine - 4x leather (waterskin) + 3x medicine plant (medicine)
- Huge potential gains due to 2x

Any arrows - 1x head + 1x arrow
- Small but guaranteed profit

Bandage - 1x cloth
- Easy to get right out of the shop

There's more than only these recipes to make money such as armor crafting that scales with your crafting level.

Bathhouses and drinking alcohol are the most effective and costly method to level. Thankfully with all that money, you can drink and relax all day everyday.

This is really on you and I can only tell you what I personally do.

Here's an old HWR, manual run I did when mask gave you +1 vit per kill.


Attribute order: agi, end, coord, str (vit gained through mask)
I still died in the desert lol

Here's the actual content of me beating the first 2 screens:

Note that half way through, I stop the music and edit it down from 30min -> 9min
https://youtu.be/E78yfkQwR2c?si=afFog1B5p82B-uVX

Beating Нeads Will Roll — Reforged (Act 1) (1h -> 6min)
https://youtu.be/vFCDXf_RTic?si=jiPzvNqAWPHbLRg4