Old - Character

The standard experience.

### Description

You have arrived to the island on your own, with nothing but the bare necessities...

### Perks

Islander, Dark Skin, Climber, Swimmer, Spearfisher, Strong Immune System, Bug Resistant, Rough Sleeper

## Unlucky Guy

Challenging experience, not for the faint of heart!

### Description

They were supposed to be the perfect holidays... but your plane had to crash in the middle of nowhere...

### Perks

Plane Crash, Tourist, Bleeding, Pale Skin, Overweight, Weak Immune System, Bug Attractant, Shortsighted

## Custom Characters

### Perks

Varies

**Character** is what the player interacts with to progress in a location. You can choose to create your own character, or choose existing characters that starts with its own perks and bonus. Also, you cannot start a game without a character.

Besides your customized character, there are currently 3 playable characters, which are already pre-made and available to play, and it's female versions.

This is your main character in the game. You have the total control of him in the entire game, and it's your responsibility to take care of him, *fulfill his deepest necessities*, enjoy all the adventures and beware all the dangers throughout the whole game.

Your character portrait, which can also be considered as
**"You"** are located right in the Equipment tab, below the Journal and the Blueprints tabs.

*Game fact*: **Before the Weight System update**, there were these 4 buttons: the **Journal**, **Blueprints**, **Equipment** (individual button) and the **Survival Guide**. Now, after the update, the Survival Guide is merged with the Journal, with a **Help** button, and the Equipment (t-shirt) button turned into **your character portrait**, with a Weight meter at the bottom.

But, before we start, *let's begin from the very beginning*: the character creation.

## Character Creation

Here in the save file, is presented to you the **Character Creator**.
Though the name of it is *quite* amazing, it is also quite simple: when starting a game you'll be given the option to create a new character or to pick one from the existing ones, already made by the developers.

The creation screen has the following sections:

* **Name**: That is *self-explanatory*.

* **Description**: For immersion or roleplaying purposes, *if you are feeling inspired*.

Ex.: *"You have arrived to the island on your own, with nothing but the bare necessities. The evil spirits thirsty for your unravelling, the good ones clamour your name, they want you to join them! Yet you aren't ready. You must first understand the shape of your own soul. Your old life is no more. Now there's only the skies, the island and the sea."*
-Islander Description

* **Portrait**: Where you can pick a face for your character.

Ex.: *These ones at the right, but with a light blue background*.

* **Perks**: The **most important section**. Here you can pick from a selection of perks, each giving you certain **advantages** or **disadvantages** that will **affect** the difficulty rating of your character. **Perks start locked**, but **you can unlock them by playing the game**. They can give you anything from a **different starting location**, to a **different set of unique starting equipment**, to different *traits* that can help or *hinder* you.

Ex.:**Inappetent**: Makes it harder to eat food, making it easier to get malnourished.

* **Difficulty Rating**: Each character has a difficulty rating. Mostly so that you can see how challenging the experience is going to be with the perks you selected (i.e. above 7000 points, the difficulty is entitled as "Desperate".)

You can also see it from the total score. The more points you have, the more difficult that gameplay will be. Click here for more details.

It's important to notice that the existing characters already has its own selection of perks, that corresponds to its *class* or *terminology'.*

The choice is yours: pick an existing character or create a new one to start playing!