Startup Message Panel

Run if you need to or use Recall (default: hotkey 0) to escape

First steps:

1. Gather stone by pressing interact (default: F) on rocks nearby
2. Craft stone tools by selecting masonry tools in the crafting interface
3. Unlock and use the strong harvesting skills once your harvesting levels up
4. Gather stalks and craft simple clothes by selecting tailoring and light armor
5. Craft a stone club by selecting masonry and bludgeoning weapons

Upgrading:

1. Build and place a forge for metal
2. Build and place a sawing station for lumber
3. Build and place a smithing station
4. Craft metal tools
5. Build other refining facilities and crafting stations as needed
6. Craft improved weapons and armor

Before heading out:

1. Unlock adventuring skills and upgrade your attributes
2. Put the skills you unlocked on your hotbar to use them

* Clear monsters and encounters to gain experience, light (an important currency), and rare resources.
* The further you travel the harder everything becomes.
* The further you travel the higher the tier and rarity of resources will appear.
* Build towns to unlock new materials and recipes.

### Basics

Controls (default)

* Tab: Open inventory

* WASD: Movement
* Q/E: Turn
* Space: Jump
* Left-Shift: Walk
* R: Toggle auto-run

* Left Mouse Button (LMB): Basic Attack (far left hotkey)
* 1-0: Quickbar hotkeys
* F: Interact (harvest/open)

* Tilde (below Esc): Toggle aim-view
* Shift+tilde: Toggle first-person
* C: Swap weapons
* Shift+C Sheathe/unsheathe weapons
* V: Toggle free-look

* Tab: Inventory/main interface
* B: Building
* M: Map
* T: Town interface
* Y: Terraforming
* J: Journal

* F1: Toggle console (type /help for more commands)
* F3: Toggle FPS counter
* F4: Toggle world distance display
* F9: Toggle UI

### Crafting

* Select a Profession and a Category to display corresponding recipes
* Click on a recipe to customize and craft

* The Profession and Category of a recipe will be shown in the upper right

#### Level

* You can only craft items up to the level of it’s [sic] corresponding Profession
* Raise Profession level by using resources (Cloth for Tailoring, etc)
* Equipment level determines the level a player must be in order to equip it

#### Tier

* Higher tier resources will appear as you travel further in the world
* Recipe tier has a greater impact on item stats than recipe level
* Higher tier equipment does not raise the level required to equip it

#### Rarity

* Rarity has the largest effect on item stats
* Increasing an items [sic] rarity will also add more Enchanting Slots

#### Enchanting

* Enchanting requires an Enchanting Table
* Place an item on the Enchanting Table and select a Category & Recipe

### Building

Press B or click the Building button in the Tab Menu to begin building

#### Selecting a Building Area:

* Click Select Area to start a new Structure
* Or select a current structure to continue expanding it
* Move the selection with the arrow buttons or WASD
* Q and E will move the Building Area Up and Down
* Hold Right Mouse Button to move while aiming

#### Selecting a Building Slot

* Select a Building Slot to build via the graphical interface (white rectangles)
* Building Slots are: Floor, 4 Walls, and Center
* Rotate the selected Building Slot using Z and C

#### Selecting a Recipe

* If the selected Building Slot is empty select a Building Recipe to construct
* Construct using Spacebar or the Construct button

#### Altering a Building

* If a Building Slot already has a Building, details will replace the recipe
* Select an upgrade (Door) and click Upgrade to upgrade the building
* Select Deconstruct and click Deconstruct to remove a building

### Skills

Access the Skills menu from the Tab menu

Soul Skills (not yet implemented)

General Skills

* General Skills are unlocked and cannot be upgraded

Attributes:

* 6 Attribute Points (AP) are awarded with each level
* Attributes can be leveled up to 2 x (Player Level +1)

Harvesting Skills

* Harvesting skill points are rewarded one per level

Crafting Skills (WIP)

Adventuring Skills

* 6 Adventuring Skill Points (SP) are awarded with each level
* Adventuring skills can be leveled up to 2 x (Player Level +1)

Click and drag skills from the skills menu (once purchased) to the hotbar

You cannot equip passive skills nor attributes

### Solaces

Accessing a Solace

* Look at it and press F (interact)

#### Crafting and placement

* Solaces are built using the building menu
* Craft using Light gained by defeating Monsters and clearing Encounters
* Rename by clicking the bar left of the Solace’s name

#### Travel

* Teleport between Solace [sic] using the Travel menu
* You will teleport to the NE corner of a placed Solace

#### Storage

* You may store raw resources on your Solace Network
* Resources may be deposited and withdrawn from any Solace
* Deposited resources can be used while building within power range of a Solace

#### Upgrades

* Power will increase the range at which town buildings can be placed
* Storage increases storage
* Beacons can be seen from very far away to guide you
* Level upgrades will trigger a demonic attack

#### Defense

* Demonic attacks are best defended by building and upgrading obelisks

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