IXI_playz Posted February 13 Report Posted February 13 Heya! First-time player here!! Need some advice from the public, how do I start in this game? I keep creating new worlds, but I am not actually able to stay with them for a long time. I can get as far as four baskets and some nuggets. Any suggestions? Seriously, anything helps.
LadyWYT Posted February 14 Report Posted February 14 Welcome to the game and the forums! Rather than type everything out here, I recommend reading this guide instead: You don't need to follow it to the letter, necessarily, but it provides a solid walkthrough of the basic first steps of progression. 22 hours ago, IXI_playz said: I keep creating new worlds, but I am not actually able to stay with them for a long time. I did this quite a lot when I first started too, as I found it easier to just start over with a new world when I messed up rather than continue the old and try to fix my mistake. Once you get more experience, it becomes easier to hold onto worlds rather than start anew. Do note that I'm not encouraging you to start a new world whenever you make a mistake! That's really just up to you based on your own preferences. I'm just saying it's not necessarily a bad strategy when learning the game. 22 hours ago, IXI_playz said: I can get as far as four baskets and some nuggets. Any suggestions? Aside from the guide I linked above, I would say that your first big goal should be establishing a secure food supply and surviving your first winter. If you can't establish a secure food supply, you'll struggle doing everything else in the game, surviving winter included. If you can establish that supply though and survive the winter, you should be able to achieve anything else you set your mind to. Also don't be afraid to make the settings easier or harder as needed. Most settings can be adjusted via console command after a world's creation; you'll just need to reload the world for the changes to apply.
ItzWalterino Posted February 15 Report Posted February 15 How do you mean it that you're unable to stay with them too long? You can't find food or something in the same category? Or wander too far away, die without respawn point set and lose everything?
PoisonedPawn777 Posted February 15 Report Posted February 15 If you're starting off a vanilla world my personal goals tend to be to grab basic resources (Flint, sticks, wood, grass and reeds); enough to get basic stone tools, handbaskets, torches, firepit and ideally a few pit kilns. Then I get some clay, sand and dirt and build a dirt hut on top of a water source. This allows me to make and fire a cooking pot, bowl, crock and crucible on night one and spend the rest of the night panning through my sand or gravel for copper nuggets. Getting pottery for cooking is a game changer and allows me to spend more time prioritizing things other than constantly gathering food. Day 2/3 is exploring, gathering food and copper, making charcoal (if I don't have coal nearby) and firing clay molds for copper tools. Usually get 12-15 nuggets of copper a night panning so should be ready to smelt copper tools by day 3-4 and then you're off to the races. You've got tools, can cook food and have basic shelter. Oh and side note, if you're new to the game, avoid any sort of combat you can for the first few days. Healing takes a big chunk out of your hunger, meaning you have to spend a lot more time gathering food.
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