Tips for noobies struggling

[CrusaderLarry]

new to the game. have no clue where to start. also how do you play with others in this game

Edited February 10 by CrusaderLarry

[ItzWalterino]

- Learn knapping stone/flint into tools
- You don't have much inventory, so collect reed/papyrus and make baskets to have more space
- Get some food to start, berries are a good source of food at the start of the game
- Make a safe shelter, you can use dirt, packed/rammed earth and/or mud bricks
- Start with pottery - making pots, molds, crucible and such from clay
- Make a pit kiln to fire your clay stuff - beware! pit kiln spreads fire so make sure there are no flammable blocks nearby (also, rain can put out fire so cover it with a roof)
- Make a fire pit to make charcoal for smelting copper
- Try to find surface copper pieces - ALWAYS MARK THE PLACE ON YOUR MAP! You will thank yourself later, as there is almost always a deposit under those pieces
           - or try to pan for copper if you can't find any - make a wooden pan, right click some sand/gravel, jump into water and start panning
- Make a pickaxe and hammer now you can start mining copper deposits and crushing them with hammer to make them smeltable
            - You will need at least 40 pieces (200 units) of copper - 20 pieces for a pickaxe and 20 for hammer
- Make a prospecting pick, as with this you will be able to find places where certain ores are abundant
- Make a forge and anvil so you can start making tools that are not castable (saw, spear, chisel etc.) from heated copper ingots 

That would be all up to the point of late copper age

As for the 'playing with others' part, here is a guide for that;
https://www.vintagestory.at/selfhosting/

Edited Tuesday at 12:28 PM by ItzWalterino

[Maelstrom]

31 minutes ago, ItzWalterino said:

- Try to find surface copper pieces - ALWAYS MARK THE PLACE ON YOUR MAP! You will thank yourself later, as there is almost always a deposit under those pieces

There is always a deposit under surface nuggets.   The ore may be up to 10 blocks below the nugget though.

My tips

• Be prepared to forage for food most of the first summer.
• Within the first few days plant some grain and veggies so that you can start building a reserve of food and stop foraging.
• As mentioned, smelt a prospecting pick as your third tool to find bigger ore deposits deeper underground than the surface deposits you find.
• My day one objective - 64 reeds (4 hand baskets and 1 reed basket), pick up every loose flint I see, grab enough berries and/or shrooms to last through the night, at least 8 logs, at least 32 sticks and 32 grass then find a clay deposit to dig into for the first night, during which I form 1 cook pot, 1 crock, 1 bowl, 1 crucible and 1 storage vessel.  While the clay items are firing in a kiln knap 4 each of axe heads, shovels, knife and spear heads.

Edited Tuesday at 01:45 PM by Maelstrom

[ItzWalterino]

44 minutes ago, Maelstrom said:

There is always a copper deposit under surface nuggets

Once found no deposit under, checked multiple times, even later in game with iron tools, thus almost always

[Maelstrom]

1 minute ago, ItzWalterino said:

Once found no deposit under, checked multiple times, even later in game with iron tools, thus almost always

<.<

[OBAMFSpike]

Okay.

Welcome to the forums!

I suggest collecting every berry bush, seed, cattail or papyrus root you come across and bring it back to base. Every single one you find. Make base around water. MAKE SURE ITS FRESH. Early game you'll need a stone hoe to figure this out and a seed you'll experiment with. Hoe the ground adjacent to a water block and plant your seed. if it stays healthy you've got freshwater, if it gets poisoned it'll be because of salt water.  A bucket makes this much easier but you won't likely have one early game (just bucket some water and use your cursor over the bucket to see what water it contains if you do have a bucket). 

One last thing, try if you may to pick a region or biome that is heavy with rainfall. Watering cans are not needed if you chose your base build area wisely. 

DONT TILL LOW FERTILITY DIRT. There's a plethora of medium fertility soil in the game so do make sure to collect stacks of medium Fert dirt to create your gardens with. 

Food is the foundation of your survival experience. Treat it as such and the game will pave roads for you. 

Enjoy!

EDIT Don't be afraid to join a server. I know our server loves helping out noobs. Many people out there will be glad to help im certain of it. I got 400 plus hours in my single player world before joining a multiplayer server and now ive got 1000 hours easy into the server and it's a ton of fun for sure.  

Edited Tuesday at 04:47 PM by OBAMFSpike
always more

[CrusaderLarry]

18 hours ago, OBAMFSpike said:

Okay.

Welcome to the forums!

I suggest collecting every berry bush, seed, cattail or papyrus root you come across and bring it back to base. Every single one you find. Make base around water. MAKE SURE ITS FRESH. Early game you'll need a stone hoe to figure this out and a seed you'll experiment with. Hoe the ground adjacent to a water block and plant your seed. if it stays healthy you've got freshwater, if it gets poisoned it'll be because of salt water.  A bucket makes this much easier but you won't likely have one early game (just bucket some water and use your cursor over the bucket to see what water it contains if you do have a bucket). 

One last thing, try if you may to pick a region or biome that is heavy with rainfall. Watering cans are not needed if you chose your base build area wisely. 

DONT TILL LOW FERTILITY DIRT. There's a plethora of medium fertility soil in the game so do make sure to collect stacks of medium Fert dirt to create your gardens with. 

Food is the foundation of your survival experience. Treat it as such and the game will pave roads for you. 

Enjoy!

EDIT Don't be afraid to join a server. I know our server loves helping out noobs. Many people out there will be glad to help im certain of it. I got 400 plus hours in my single player world before joining a multiplayer server and now ive got 1000 hours easy into the server and it's a ton of fun for sure.  

thanks so much!

[CrusaderLarry]

20 hours ago, ItzWalterino said:

- Learn knapping stone/flint into tools
- You don't have much inventory, so collect reed/papyrus and make baskets to have more space
- Get some food to start, berries are a good source of food at the start of the game
- Make a safe shelter, you can use dirt, packed/rammed earth and/or mud bricks
- Start with pottery - making pots, molds, crucible and such from clay
- Make a pit kiln to fire your clay stuff - beware! pit kiln spreads fire so make sure there are no flammable blocks nearby (also, rain can put out fire so cover it with a roof)
- Make a fire pit to make charcoal for smelting copper
- Try to find surface copper pieces - ALWAYS MARK THE PLACE ON YOUR MAP! You will thank yourself later, as there is almost always a deposit under those pieces
           - or try to pan for copper if you can't find any - make a wooden pan, right click some sand/gravel, jump into water and start panning
- Make a pickaxe and hammer now you can start mining copper deposits and crushing them with hammer to make them smeltable
            - You will need at least 40 pieces (200 units) of copper - 20 pieces for a pickaxe and 20 for hammer
- Make a prospecting pick, as with this you will be able to find places where certain ores are abundant
- Make a forge and anvil so you can start making tools that are not castable (saw, spear, chisel etc.) from heated copper ingots 

That would be all up to the point of late copper age

As for the 'playing with others' part, here is a guide for that;
https://www.vintagestory.at/selfhosting/

thats alot to think about thank you. the game seems really in depth but i like survival games and grew up on minecraft. this game seems perfect just the start of it is really confusing on what i should be doing. this helps give me some much needed direction

[CrusaderLarry]

19 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

There is always a deposit under surface nuggets.   The ore may be up to 10 blocks below the nugget though.

My tips

• Be prepared to forage for food most of the first summer.
• Within the first few days plant some grain and veggies so that you can start building a reserve of food and stop foraging.
• As mentioned, smelt a prospecting pick as your third tool to find bigger ore deposits deeper underground than the surface deposits you find.
• My day one objective - 64 reeds (4 hand baskets and 1 reed basket), pick up every loose flint I see, grab enough berries and/or shrooms to last through the night, at least 8 logs, at least 32 sticks and 32 grass then find a clay deposit to dig into for the first night, during which I form 1 cook pot, 1 crock, 1 bowl, 1 crucible and 1 storage vessel.  While the clay items are firing in a kiln knap 4 each of axe heads, shovels, knife and spear heads.

thank you for these tips, Very good goals, I prolly wont be able to do all in a day, im also a couple days in and have almost no progress lol. but this should help me get off me feet haha.

[Maelstrom]

I started playing with the 1.14 release and I didn't settle on that day one strategy until 1.19.  Keep playing to figure out what works best for you.