Beginners Guide

1. Begin of your journey

Welcome to Ylands! In ... Steps this guide will help you to understand the basics of the game.

When you start up the game and got to the Homepage there are different things to select: '**Player name'**, **Servers**, **Social**, **Shop** and **Editor**.

2. The Player

You can always customize your character by click on 'the player-name' on the left-top corner of the screen. Then a menu will pop up with your character in game, where you can choose your **Name**, **Gender**, **Skin**, and **Hairstyle**.
Put in your name and select a gender. After that your skin and haircut can be choose.

For more info see The Player, Controls and Inventory.

3. free Games

**Playlands**

Ylands’ player hub. Play minigames, earn XP points and dress up your characters with costumes you unlock. You can find Playlands in the Game section of the main menu as a big button in the center.

Playlands consists of two main areas – the castle courtyard and the fashion room. The courtyard is where you can play minigames and the fashion room is where you can find all the cosmetic rewards you earn through leveling up by playing minigames.

**Courtyard**

Minigames can be accessed in two ways in the Courtyard. You can activate an automatic queue by walking through the portal in front of the main gate or by pressing F2 at any time, the automatic queue puts you in line to any minigame that’s currently open and searching for players. That’s useful when you don’t want to wait and you have no specific minigame in mind. The second option is to walk up to different NPCs representing minigames and choosing what game you want to start. Starting a specific minigame costs you vouchers that you can purchase with Coyns from the Voucher Vendor NPC.

Playing minigames and finishing daily and monthly quests reward you with XP. If you gather enough XP you reach a new level and every fifth level you gain unlocks new rewards in the fashion room.

**Minigames**

*Rolling Rocks* – Avoid the rocks and stay as high on the slope as possible to collect points

*Save the Sheep* – Save as much sheep from the Alien attack as you can

*Dodge the Bomb* – Dodge the spawning bombs for as long as you can, last survivor wins

*Horse Racing* - be the fastest rider

*Floating Flats* – Get through this floating obstacle course first to claim victory

*Volcano Sacrifice* - stay on the crumbling rocks and avoid falling in the lava, the last one standing wins

*Forest Friends* - save the forest from various dangers and help animals to collect points

*Medieval Training Camp* - fight your way to victory

*Western Shootout* - shoot the most targets to win

*Count or Fall* - solve the puzzle and get to the right platform, last survivor wins

*Fashion Room*
Different clothing is unlocked by gaining levels. Every five levels get you new options up until level 25.

4. Games

There are 3 different play modes that you can play: **Exploration Experimental**, **Legacy Exploration** and **Sandbox**.

### Exploration

(The two **Exploration** mode are quite similar so everything will be done in Exploration.)

After you purchase the DLC (*Ylands Exploration Pack*) there are new ways to discover Ylands. The Exploration mode gives you and your friends a really a chance to see what Ylands has to offer. By giving it a survival and building aspect it will make an unique world for everyone to discover. You can sail around the world and drive with your own car around every yland. When you want to settle somewhere you can build a house in your own creative way. But first you need to select a region for you to start in. At this point you can only select two out of six biomes. Temperate and Tropical (Arid, Artic, Far East and Tundra are later in the game available.) Choose **Temperate** for the easiest start. Then you can choose your name for your very first Yland!

After you clicked **Confirm** you will spawn on a 'starting Yland' you can start exploring your Yland and its time to gather some resources for basic tools. Collect some sticks, stone and grass. The first thing to craft is rope out of grass.

Make with the resources you found a: **Stone Axe**, **Stone Pick** and **Stone Hammer**.

When you made some tools chop down some trees in de surrounding area. They provide you with logs, resin, wooden pieces and more sticks. With this there are a lot of thing you can craft. Look for some flint so we can make more basic tools. The flint can be used for a Flint Lighter and Stone Knife.

**Flint Lighter**

**Stone Knife**

When you're busy running around the Yland its hard to remember to eat something. The easiest way to provide yourself with some nutrients is to harvest some corn, patato or any other vegetable. When you want some more food in your belly its better to hunt for animals. To start hunting we need a bow and arrow. The bow can be easily crafted by getting some sticks and rope, but for the arrow not everything is collected yet. The arrows need feathers. They can be found on your Yland. Try always to cook your food for more foodpoints, see also cooking for more info.

**Bow**

**Arrow**

**Campfire**

The next thing to is getting workstations up. Collect some Cotton/Flax so you can use it later. Make some wicker baskets if you need some storage space outside of your inventory.

**Wicker Basket**

You can make some clothes or armor for yourself. The easiest for now is Bark Armor, so make some for yourself. Find some trees and cut them down. (Don't forget to yell TIMBER!) Collect everything from the tree. The bark is usefull for the bark armor, and the logs for building your first house or boat. To make everything you need to explore the world iyou need cloth. It can be made in a weaving loom. But first you need to make yarn in a spinning wheel.

**Spinning Wheel\**

**Weaving Loom**

Now its time to make a boat so you can explore the surrounding Ylands! You can make up to 3 boats.

Boat, Upper Deck Boat and Duck Boat.