UI basics

Inventory, Character info and skills.

Once in game you can hit Tab to open the inventory/character screen.  There are six tabs, Inventory, Crafting, Skills, Town, Building, and Terraforming.

Inventory Tab - This is where you can see the contents of your inventory, equipped armor, and weapons.

There are four sub tabs on this screen, Adventuring, Harvesting, Crafting, and Wardrobe.

Adventuring - character stats, weapons, and armor.

Harvesting - shows harvesting skills and harvesting tools that are equipped.

Crafting - shows craftig skills.

Wardrobe - Alternate armor that can be worn to change the characters appearance.
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Crafting Tab - This is where you go to craft items.  You choose a material and then a sub category.  When you craft something you get experience in that category, i.e. craft a wood shield get experience in Woodworking.  When you level up a crafting skill you can craft higher level stuff, you can only equip armor and weapons that are at or below your current level, the tier of the material used to craft the items can be higher than your current level. You have the option to practice crafting, this uses the resources, awards 2x experience but doesn't fill your inventory with unwanted stuff.

Skill Tab - There are 6 categories, General, Soul, Attributes, harvesting, Crafting, and Adventuring.

General - These icons can be placed in the hotbar and be used with either a mouse click or hitting the corresponding key.

Basic Attack, Basic Harvest, Deconstruct, Recall, and Till

Soul - not used at this time.

Attributes - You receive 6 attribute points each time you level up and this is where you spend them to increase attributes.  There are six attributes, Strength, Stamina, Agility, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Wisdom.

Harvesting - There are 5 harvesting skills each with 3 sub skills, Reaping, Skinning, Mining, Logging, and Quarrying, the sub skills are Harvesting Speed, Harvesting Strength, and Strong Swipe.

You gain experience in a harvesting skill by harvesting that type of resource. i.e. chop down trees to get timber and increase logging. One point per level.

Harvesting Speed - How fast you can harvest

Harvesting Strength - How much damage you do to resources

Strong Swipe - a powerful attack on a resource doing more damage than a normal swipe.

Crafting - Here is where you will find enhancements for each of the crafting materials and enchanting skills. As you craft/enchant items or just practice you will level up crafting/enchanting giving you 1 point per level to spend on skills, after spending 8 points in the left column the next column will become available, spending 8 more points in either column will unlock the next column and so forth.

Adventuring - This is where you choose the class and skills that you will use, you are not limited to just one class.  The four classes are Squire, Scout, Disciple, and Apprentice.  There are six jobs listed for each of the classes, they are not active at this time.You gain 6 adventuring points each time you level up and can spend them in any category, just like crafting/enchanting you have to spend 8 points in the left column to unlock the next column and then spend 8 more points in either of the first two columns to unlock the next one and so on.

Town Tab - You can summon/build NPC buildings that serve various purposes.  You start a town by building a Solace Crystal, stockpile, then a forager, as you upgrade the stockpile and attain various levels it will unlock more town buildings.  Some NPC's will gather resources for you, others will allow you to learn new weapons and armor to craft, while others will let you craft materials to upgrade town building even more.

Building - This is where you construct a foundation to build a solace crystal.  You can expand the foundation to build whatever you want on it.  You can select walls, floors, and center items like stairs and such.  The max size of a single build is 25 in each direction from the initial foundation for a max width of 51, max height for any build is 60.

Terraforming - You can change the height of any cleared land (no plants or resources), this is also how you flatten land to till the soil to be able to grow your own plants.  most plants when selected in your inventory give you the option to extract seeds from them, these can then be planted in tilled soil and they will grow.  You will want to have a watering can in your inventory to water the tilled soil, to fill a watering can you can craft and place a well nearby.  When standing next to the well, open inventory select watering can and click on fill.