How to play

## How to make a weapon?

1. Press [E] to pick up branches and stones that are on the ground.
2. Press [I] to open inventory and crafting screen.
3. Crafting a Club from wood or a Stone axe from wood and stone.

## How to craft?

The player will need a Hammer. Place a workbench and create a Repair Shack to be able to craft more items. Press [E] when prompted when looking at the workbench to access. You can also craft in your inventory by pressing [E].

## How to sleep?

Build a campfire, then create a simple shack. The campfire should be outside or have proper ventilation. Then place a bed inside.

## How to unlock recipes?

*For more details, check: Items List*
New recipes will be unlocked once the player has discovered all the necessary *types* of ingredient to craft them. (That is, you may not have *enough* of one or more of the ingredients to use the recipe immediately on unlocking it.)

## How to build?

*For more details, check: Building*
The player can build using a hammer within the working area of a workbench.

## What to eat?

*For more details, check: Food*
The player can eat harvested or prepared foods to increase maximum health and stamina, and provide healing over time. The best source of healing in the early game is honey.

## How to hunt deer?

Sneak until you get close and strike as fast as you can with the most damage. Alternatively the player can use a spear or a crude bow with wooden arrows.

## How to tame boars?

*For more details, check: Taming Boar*
Build a pit or enclosure and lure/trap two boars inside; feed them until they become tame.

## How to go back home?

*For more details, check: Portal*
The player can claim a bed to set their new spawn point. There is currently no recall to spawn without death.

## What to do after dying?

*For more details, check: Death*
When you die, your possessions will stay in your grave. You can return to your grave and retrieve your lost items. Move your cursor to the grave and press [E] to open the storage. Once the storage is completely empty, you will receive the Corpse Run buff, which makes you very difficult to kill for a short period, allowing you to re-equip yourself.

## How to stop freezing on the mountain?

You need to build a **shelter** with a heat source. The campfire is the only early alternative here. Frankly, you shouldn’t be on the mountain in the early game unless it is absolutely unavoidable.

Later, players can craft Frost resistance mead or wear armor that grants resistance to Frost to remove the debuff.

## Helpful tips

* **DO NOT** leave the meadows until you collect proper resources. Look at the top right of the minimap to determine what biome you are in. You will begin in the Meadows; Black Forest is challenging for an early stage player; Swamp, Mountain, and Plains are dangerous. Stay out of Burial Chambers until you have decent food available to eat. Take caution in Troll Caves until you are confident you can take on a troll at close range.
* Keep an eye on the progress of the sun and **don’t** get caught out at night. The spawn rate of enemies increases considerably, and more powerful variants of common enemies appear. If you can’t make it home, try to find an out-of-the-way place to spend the night, such as a small island just off the coast.
* Remember that being wet is a debuff and rain is your enemy. Fog and mist, too, though they won’t wet you. The things hunting you probably have better sight than you do.
* Collect and kill everything you can. If you gather a surplus of materials, store them for later use in wooden boxes—these are weatherproof. Nearly everything has a use—even Greydwarf Eyes are used to make portals later in the game. In particular, save any biologicals such as raspberries, blueberries, yellow mushrooms, and especially thistle—they grow back in time, but you can’t cultivate them and you’ll need lots later on. Flint is a good resource to hoard as well; the flinthead arrow is the best in the early game and sovereign against trolls.
* If you survive a troll attack, see if the troll did you any good without intending to. Occasionally, trolls will break down hardwood trees giving access to Fine Wood, or even smash up formations of copper ore, both of which require bronze tools to harvest otherwise. Fine Wood can also be harvested early by cutting down softwood trees to fall on the hardwood trees (birch and oak), and then rolling the trunks against boulders on the ground until they break up.
* A fully upgraded flint spear and wood shield will last you into the swamp phase. With rest, decent food, and a little training you will be able to take down a troll with little effort. Interfering Greydwarfs will cause greater threat while fighting a troll, but if you manage your stamina well they won’t be a huge problem. They are more easily taken out with the flint spear than the axe due to its faster attack speed, and likely greater level due to use while hunting meadows creatures.
* Queens Jam provides decent stats early on. But due to its high cost in berries, it is best not to stockpile stacks of it. You will be able to make better food shortly after starting a farm, and the berries will then be put to better use making different meads. Same goes for honey and yellow mushrooms as food.
* Don’t get to attached to your first home. You will build and rebuild many times through your adventure.

## What to do next?

Check out the Progression guide for more information.