How to play guide for Valnir Rok

This page will serve as a basic **how to play guide for *Valnir Rok***.

## Getting started

* You start the game naked and without any equipment. Your first priority is to get some clothes and tools.
* Gather a stone and sharpen that stone by hitting it to something solid. Then gather a plant and braid a thread out of it. Then take a wood stick, thread and the sharp stone and craft a Stone-Axe and a Stone-Knife.
* Use the axe to chop at trees and gather wood, which is one of the most important early game materials. You can also gather random spawns in forests, but an axe is far faster.
* To gather stone in larger quantities, you will need to use the stone axe on large stones. This will also randomly provide you with Iron Ore that can be processed into usable iron bars with a furnace and wood. The basic stone axe is enough to get a level of resource income.
* To make clothes, you need to gather lots of plants and create thread and cloth from that. As soon as you have enough cloth you can create fabric. With fabrics you can craft tunics and pants.
* You can also gather fur from animals. There are six animals currently implemented in Valnir Rok:
	+ Neutral animals are rabbits, boat, and deer. You can kill these with your stone tools, but remember that you will need to chase them down to deliver the killing blow. Use sprint
	+ Neutral and dangerous: The boar. It will ignore you, but if you attack it, it will retaliate with overwhelming force.
	+ Aggressive: Wolves and bears. Avoid them on a new character and even when you have advanced weapons and armor, it's best to give those a wide berth.
* Your first order should be to make some leather and thread (from animals you skin and plants you collect), to get some pants. A leather bag is also useful to boost your carrying capacity.

## Crafting

* As stated above, it's a big part of character progression. To access it, simply open the inventory and look at the crafting panel. You can choose the item you want to craft and then add the needed resources. If the resources are available you can start crafting immediately and the items will be added to your inventory on conclusion.
* To discover recipes, open the inventory and choose the discover tab (eye). You can discover new recipes if you simply try out several inventory items together.
* In order to melt resources such as iron you need to drag and drop the items into the inventory of the furnace. Once you did this you need fuel such as wood to start the smelting. The components can then be processed into usable tools and weapons.
* In general, focus on upgrading your tools first, as they increase the efficiency of your crafting and work.

## Questing

* An alternative to finding stuff out on your own is to follow the initial quests issued to you by Hosnir, the panicking guy by the crash site. He will introduce you to basic mechanics by having you craft bandages, forage for food, and introduce other basic mechanics.
* He will subsequently refer you to Gjallandi, who will introduce you to building and the effect religion has on your stay on the island. In the beginning, the gods can be more or less ignored, but as you gain levels and increase your power, you will need to pay attention to appeasing them.

## Combat

* The most important item in combat is not the weapon, it's a shield. With a shield you can block. In combat you should try to block as much as you can. The shield will take damage and might break.
* This doesn't apply to hunting, at least the non-aggressive animals. In their case, hammer away until they keel over and die.

## Tips and tricks

* Throughout the world you can find holy altars. These altars can be used to sacrifice items in order to appease the gods and activate your trait-lines. If you cannot appease the gods you will face their wrath! This can include penalties to vitality, strength, or being marked for death.
* Gods can be appeased through more than just sacrifices (or angered). Defeating a powerful enemy increases their favor, while killing innocents or enemies who didn't agree to a duel has the opposite effect.
* The best armor choice is the Goggle-Helmet, Chain Mail and Armored Boots, the Goggle-Helmet is the best Helmet armor wise and is cheaper to make than the Strong Steel-Helmet. Chain Mail is on par with Heavy Armor, the difference being that Chain Mail weighs 1kg less than Heavy Armor.

## See also

* Release date
* System requirements