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A TRUE GUIDE FOR NEW PLAYERS

By WalkOffThe3arth and 2 collaborators

This is a guide for not only new players, but for those that feel like they just can not stay alive long enough to truly experience what this game has to offer.

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Category: Crafting, Gameplay Basics, Loot, Multiplayer, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Your First Weapon

Some Much Needed Tools

Welcome Home

Locking It Down

Settling In

Final Thought

Comments

Your First Weapon

Once you load in start searching for resources like wood, fiber, and stone.

Once you've located your first tree you can use your left mouse button to peck away at any tree to gather both wood and fiber.

Use the fiber to craft rope for your first weapon, the bow.

Then use the rope and wood (that you collected from the tree) to craft a bow.

Now craft you some basic wood arrows to get you started (this will require you to locate and collect stone the same way you collected wood, with your face).

https://youtu.be/U8atv_qEddk

Some Much Needed Tools

Now with a very basic understanding of crafting, it is time to move to the next step, TOOLS!

Use the materials you've gathered from the tree and the stone to craft a pickaxe and a wood axe.

These tools will allow you to farm materials much quicker than using just your face.

This is also a great time to craft yourself a hammer for base building.

https://youtu.be/XShoZDPOUYQ

Welcome Home

You now have a weapon to protect yourself and the tools to start your first base.

As a new player I highly suggest finding a discreet location far away from the general public.

It's best to get started on a low population server until you understand the basics.

Using your tools, start focusing on cutting down trees until you get a healthy supply of wood and fiber.

Once you have found a location that suits you, start slapping down foundations using the hammer.

With the hammer in your hand, right click to bring up the build menu and select the foundation.

Keep your structure simple and quick when starting off. A 4x4 will get you started without hindering you too much.

Use the same method to get your walls, ceiling and doorway built.

https://youtu.be/UGOqNSEiFc0

Locking It Down

With your initial structure now built you are going to want to put on a door, craft a nest, and most important, craft an IDOL (this is your base marker and is used for base upkeep).

Use TAB to access your crafting menu and start by crafting a door.

Once crafted you can equip the door to place it in your doorway, then you can set a multi digit pin to lock your door.

Next, you will want to craft an IDOL.

Place the IDOL anywhere inside your structure and place wood inside of the IDOLs bowl to keep your base from decaying. *THIS STEP IS COMMONLY OVERLOOKED BY NEW PLAYERS.

If/when you upgrade your base, the materials that are required to upkeep your base will change and need to be placed into the IDOLs bowl.

Now you will want to build yourself a nest and place it inside your base. This will be your spawn point in the case that you die.

You will need to use plant fiber to craft 5 rags in order for you to then craft a nest.

You can build multiple nests on the map to have multiple places to spawn if needed.

https://youtu.be/4GXLMPxBudA

Settling In

Things are finally coming together and you have a place to call home, now what?

This is the time you will want to start building some storage. Storage containers can be found in the crafting menu, make multiple.

After you have some storage, start making some short runs for materials like stone, iron, sulfur, wood, fiber, and scrap.

Try your best to avoid any players or NPCs for now. It is likely that players will be well geared and triggering any NPCs will draw unwanted attention.

In your down time start looking into upgrading the walls on your small base as the LvL 1 walls will easily be brought down by any curious opponents that might come across it.

Do not get disheartened if things do not initially go as planned, they never do. Take what you have learned and build on it.

https://youtu.be/-lkKaRtMmqM

Final Thought

We have felt the ups and down this game has to offer which is why we felt obligated to make these guides. This guide (as obvious as these topics might seem) is intended for the new players who need a helping hand on day one. We will continue to release guides for all levels of players and we are always curious to hear your thoughts on how we can improve them. If you are a new player, feel free to come join us on "40 HOUR WEEKS" and we will be happy to help you while we continue to learn the ins and outs of this very intriguing game ourselves.

Do us a favor and give this guide a thumbs up if you found it helpful and leave a rating to let us know how we are doing.

3 Comments

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finn3nn 27 Aug @ 3:33pm

fire

Odraudeh 30 Mar @ 4:02am

Thank you for this tips. Looking forward to learn more as I go.

Binali 14 Jan @ 6:00am

Good explaination

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