How to play guide for Yaga

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This page will serve as a basic **how to play guide for *Yaga***. While there is very little information available at this time, we urge you to check back often, as new information is being added all the time! Feel free to edit this guide with any tips, tricks, and suggestions.

## Basic gameplay

Yaga gameplay consists of runs through various biomes teeming with enemies to complete quests and side-quests by completing tasks including finding specific items and dealing with important characters.

While each savefile, or Tale, as it’s called, follows the same progression of quests, it is, at heart, a game of choices. You choose how to complete quests. Cut a deal or just pound your way through? Do what’s right, or seek a profit? Ivan’s personality will develop through your choices in nearly every conversation. Is Ivan Aggressive, Righteous, Selfish or Foolish? Once your personality has begun to develop, be warned that choosing options that don’t match it will increase your Bad Luck.

While you’re on the hunt, you’ll need to keep a few things in mind:

* **Willpower:** This is equivalent of HP. Keep it above zero, or you’ll have one opportunity to continue the run at the expense of some items, or to give up and return to the village to heal up. (On hard mode, death is permanent.)
* **Stamina:** Consumed by dodging and using tools other than the hammer. When depleted, you won’t be able to do those things until it replenishes (either by waiting a few moments or by consuming a magic item).
* **Bad Luck:** When unlucky, you’ll be prone to break weapons and drop kopeks (money). You’ll also be less effective at the anvil. Then again, you’ll gain experience faster and you might even find some items that will boost your damage when you’re unlucky. Just keep it in mind. Using magic items will increase your bad luck, so be careful!
* **Experience:** When you finish a run with your experience bar full, you’ll be granted a choice of three perks that will provide lasting benefits.

While you’re out on runs, you’ll find lots of useful things:

* **Treasure chests:** Break them open for kopeks, magic items, talismans and crafting items.
* **Body Parts:** As you pound your way through enemies, you’ll find lots of body parts to pick up. Accumulate these to trade with.
* **Tools:** You’ll start with just a hammer and a cart wheel. You’ll find a few other useful components on runs that you can turn into new tools.
* **Runes:** Every map has a cave. Make sure you find it, as they will contain treasure and runes, which you can use to enchant new weapons and tools at your anvil.
* **Altars:** You’ll find altars to several gods, one per map. Experiment to determine what benefits you can gain through offerings, prayer and cleaning. You’ll receive blessings, items, or nothing depending on your choice.
* **Ovens:** You can bash these apart for ore, but you may be better off repairing them giving them gifts in exchange for bread. You can also use them to fast travel to other oven locations you’ve discovered on the map.

Before and after each run, you’ll find yourself at a campsite with an anvil and a friendly crow. Talk to the crow for tips, to feed him, or to ask him to bring you something next time you see him (in exchange for some kopeks or body parts). Once you’re ready, exit right to continue with another run, or to the left to visit the village.

When you need a break or have completed one of the Tzar’s quests, visit the Village:

* **Priest:** For a fee, you can purchase a couple blessings.
* **Witch:** In exchange for kopeks you can remove your Bad Luck or receive blessings. For body parts, she’ll duplicate a magic item for you.
* **Grandmother:** When you see her outside your house, be sure to say hi. She’s likely to gift you a healing item or two, and might have useful information about a quest.
* **Talisman Vendor:** The vendor will have a small selection of items for purchase, and will also buy virtually anything you’re willing to sell to him.
* **Wishing Well:** You can toss your kopeks into the well for a small reduction in Bad Luck.
* **Anvil:** Visit your anvil to craft hammers an other tools, combining them with weapon enhancements and runes to make them more powerful.