General -- Getting Started

Welcome to the wonderful world of beYou!
Now that you have registered and are officially a beYou Citizen, you are ready to begin working beYou into your day-to-day activities. The next step is to learn the basics of how the system works.
==Objective/Gameplay ==
What is the point of beYou...exactly?
Well, when using the beYou system, you get to enhance your day-to-day experience by doing things like cooking, farming and if you want adding a profession like becoming a Lawyer, a Doctor, a Refiner, an Artisan and more.
But to do this, you need to maintain one simple goal...
Don't die! It's really that simple!
When you put on your beYou hud, you will have vitals, also known as stats, to keep you 'alive' (well, alive in the context of beYou's roleplay that is). To stay alive, you really need to do two things:
# keep your wellness stat at 20% or higher at ALL times; and
# if you get sick, get cured within 40 days
While you have several other stats to maintain, they are more required to help you gain and earn Life Experience Points (LEP) which will help you level up as a beYou Citizen.
Why is this important? If you decide you want to pursue a profession later down the line, you have to be a certain player level in order to operate different pieces of equipment. To advance your player level, you need to keep your stats at 20% or higher at all times. 
You can definitely let your stats fall. However if you do, you may not be able to do certain activities. For example: if your energy is too low, you may not be able to shower or use the bathroom to boost your hygiene. Or if your hygiene is too low, you may not be able to cook, farm, get food out of your fridge, or other activities. For every stat that is vital to an operation, having another be too low may negatively impact one's ability to do something else.
But before we get too into all of the features of beYou, here's some items you need and some things you need to know...
==beYou Starter Gifts==
When you register, you will receive a few items as starter gifts in your assets. They are:
*Moostache Milk Whole (10) - wearable food that will helps with stats. This will not have a significant stat boost but will help you get familiar with how food can affect your beYou stats. Each time you consume one, a use will be removed from your assets.
*Lemon Toast Tart (10) - wearable food that helps with stats. This will not have a significant stat boost but will help you get familiar with how food can affect your beYou stats. Each time you consume one, a use will be removed from your assets.
*Honey Nut Granola Bar (10) - wearable food that helps with stats. This will not have a significant stat boost but will help you get familiar with how food can affect your beYou stats. Each time you consume one, a use will be removed from your assets.
* Coffee Cookie (10) - wearable food that helps with stats. This will not have a significant stat boost but will help you get familiar with how food can affect your beYou stats. Each time you consume one, a use will be removed from your assets.
*bY Extreme Soapy Soap (10) - wearable hygiene item. You will need the free Basic Medicine Cabinet in order to retrieve ALL wearable hygiene products. This item can be found on the wall next to the beYou Pharmacy on the beYou Sim near the rezzable hygiene products (used for bathrooms). You will need your beYou World group tag on in order to get it (limit one per beYou citizen).
You will need a beYou Refrigerator in order to retrieve these items to consume them. You can either buy a kitchen (which is recommended if you plan on cooking later) or you can buy a standalone fridge (if you have no plans to cook but will be eating lots).
In addition, you will receive a welcome instant message from a member of beYou's Customer Support team which will not only welcome you to beYou but also will give you a link to this wiki.
REMINDER: Items sent as a starter gift are subject to change without notice.
== Things You Need & Things to Know==
You've received your beYou Hud, created and verified your account, and were sent starter items. What next?
As mentioned in the starter gift section above, you should have received a welcome message with a link to the wiki; THIS wiki.
So before you start spending your money all willy-nilly, let's get you started on first things to read:
===Learning Basics===
Now that you have your beYou Hud, start reading up on these things to start:
*Profile (Account)
*Life Experience Points (LEP) and beYou Levels
*Stats
*Assets
*Skills
* Professions: Cooking, Farming, Doctor, Pharmacist, Law, Refinement, Textiles, Artisan, Mixology, Education, and Cultivation
*Getting Help & beYou Support
==Who Buys What==
IMPORTANT: The owner of any piece of furniture, equipment, or devices used for beYou will always be the person who has to own its tools and supplies in order for the item to be used properly, regardless of who is using it. You can always purchase the add-ons and tools needed as gifts using the vendors that you buy from. Do not buy for yourself as those items will go directly to your assets and most items can't be transferred to another beYou user.
Examples:
*Kitchens: if you want to cook on your friend's stove, then your friend has to have all ingredients and recipes in their assets because they own the kitchen. Exception: when cooking if you buy produce or ingredients and want to use someone else's kitchen, then the kitchen owner needs to own the Family Recipe Box in order to transfer the assets from your account to theirs. This box only applies to ingredients for recipes. Recipes either need to be bought by the kitchen owner or gifted to the kitchen's owner.
*Bathrooms: if your friend wants to use your bathroom, then you need to own the hygiene items used in the bathroom. Exception: if your friend bought their hygiene products, but want to use your bathroom, then they can transfer them to you using the Family Bathroom Box so they can use your bathroom instead. As the owner of the bathroom, you must own the Family Bathroom Box.
===Essential Tools===
The main item you need to use beYou is the beYou HUD, which you received when you went to sign up for beYou. A beYou Meter is also a useful tool, but it is optional. This can be delivered through your profile page.
====Furniture====
If you're still deciding whether or not to use beYou, then I recommend borrowing your friend's furniture to keep stats up. But if you're all in, you want to purchase items that have mulitple functions, and work on multiple stats. To see all furniture sets available for purchase visit the Furniture Category page or visit the main beYou sim.
NOTE: Aside from a standalone refrigerator and personal placemat, you can not purchase pieces of a furniture set. They are only sold as full suites.
*Kitchens: used for cooking & eating. This furniture boosts reputation when cleaning. It also boosts energy and social when eating at the kitchen island. To learn more about cooking, start with the cooking category page.
*Dining Rooms: used for eating. Also boosts energy, and social when seated with another person (doesn't have to be a beYou user).
*Bathrooms: used to take care of hygiene. But be careful, if other stats have not been boosted first, you won't be able to use this at all.
*Living Rooms: boost energy, social, dedication, reputation. How will vary.
*Bedrooms: boost energy only.
Different activities on each of these will provide different results. Some activities won't give you stats at all. Other activities may take stats away; pay attention to everything.
===beYou Activities===
While some activities and pieces of equipment don't require you to wear your beYou Hud, your activities are still tracked and tied to your beYou account, which is tied to your SL avi key. Not wearing the hud is not the same as not using beYou. All of your activities are tracked and can be seen both by you and by beYou admins. This system tracks activity in order to better assist you later down the line.
====Things to Know====
*beYou activities are tied to and tracked by your account, which is tied to your SL UUID (Avatar Key). Changing your username will not change that.
*beYou is for ALL ages, regardless of age definition when setting up your account. While things like intimacy activities and drinking may not be available to teens or kids, it doesn't mean the rest of beYou is off limits.
*Lil'b, another component of roleplay within beYou, is exclusively accessible by any beYou user with a age of child or teen. Adults can't use that part of the system (eating the treats are the exception).
*When in doubt, head straight to the wiki for articles to help you.
*Do NOT buy anything before reading the wiki.
*When cooking, never buy ingredients without first looking to see if they're required in a recipe. The grocery store is filled with things you need but also with things you don't need.
====Basic/Low-Level beYou Activities====
Until you reach beYou level 5, there isn't much you can physically do by way of professions and equipment. That doesn't mean you can't do anything though.
Suggested things to do until you are able to reach level 5:
*Living beYou: Living in beYou is not much different from the things you do regularly with one exception: stats. How do you learn LEP? Live beYou. What that means is eat, drink, bathe, be sociable, use furniture so you can get into the nuts and bolts of understanding how beYou truly works. As you learn these basic functions, you will see that in practice everything works similarly by way of performing an activity and earning points for it.
*Cooking: you absolutely do not have to have cooking activated as a profession if you'd like to try to cook. However, any food you make before you activate cooking as a profession will not give stats. How can you tell if your cooking profession isn't activated? Your food will have a suffix of NG at the end which means no grade. This means you won't be able to earn stats. But this will still allow you to become familiar with how to cook, how to read the recipe card, etc. You can also take this time to look at the full list of cooking recipes you can make at any level to see breakdowns of each recipe and where to buy their ingredients so you can plan ahead.
*Farming: even though this turns into a profession, you do not need to have farming enabled to actually be a farmer. The benefit of choosing it as a profession is that as you get higher in the profession's level you will earn more harvests. But for basic learning, buy a single plot, a starter kit, or go wild. Just remember that you will collect at least 1 harvest per seed planted. There is no guarantee that you will earn more than one harvest per seed. Your chances increase as your level goes higher. While there are some things you can plant at any level, certain items are not able to be harvested until you reach a higher beYou player level. For more about this, please visit our LEP & Leveling page.
*Skill Trainer: while we recommend waiting until you've chosen your profession to read your profession's books , you can still grab a beYou Study Hall Series Skill Trainer Desk and at the very least complete the training book included with your desk.
For a more extensive listing of what one can do at what beYou level, visit the Life Experience Points (LEP) and Leveling page.
Overall, beYou is a fun experience. But it will take work. So don't feel the need to rush.
Once you've got all of this information digested, please feel free to explore the wiki with keyword searches, and read everything.
Good luck!