- First goal
- The tutorial quests in Temple Woods, then Dragon Slayer: find and defeat Velgar, the first dragon.
- Respawn
- At your claimed bed, or at the lodestone in the Wise Old Man's temple if you have not claimed one.
- Difficulty
- Normal or Hard, chosen when you create a standard world and fixed after that.
Choosing a world
| Normal | Hard | |
|---|---|---|
| Hunger, thirst and rest | Never take your health below 1% | Drain faster and can kill you |
| Skill XP on death | Kept | XP beyond your current level is lost |
| Enemy damage | Standard | 15% more |
| Gravestones | Several at once | Only one: dying again loses the older one |
| Weaknesses and resistances | Standard | Both 10% stronger |
World types
The tutorial quests
First Steps
Starts by itself with a new character. Talk to the Wise Old Man in the temple; he offers to teach you the basics. You can refuse and find him later in Bramblemead Village, but the tutorial quests below are the fastest way to learn the systems.
Getting Started
Doric, just outside the temple, teaches food and drink. Collect dirty water from the pond and boil it before drinking: dirty water makes you ill. Build a crafting table (4 ash logs) and craft a stone club (6 more ash logs and 8 stones). Logs lie under the trees and stones around the temple ruins.
Ratcatcher
Vannaka, south of the windmill, wants food. Kill four giant rats by the windmill for raw rat meat, build a campfire from ash logs and stones, and cook it into rat roasts. The reward is a stone logging axe and a stone dagger.
Rune Mysteries
Zanik, on the road east of Vannaka, teaches magic. Gather 50 ash logs, mine rune essence at a rune essence geyser with the stone pickaxe she gives you, build a rune altar and craft air and astral runes.
On to Bramblemead
Meet the Wise Old Man on the first floor of a ruined building at the far end of Bramblemead Village to finish First Steps. Dragon Slayer, the first main quest, starts with him there.
Your first base
What the reviewers wish they had known
- Gathering is exact: you have to face a tree squarely to chop it, and only certain rocks can be mined; the decorative ones cannot.
- Crafting chains are long and not explained. A bow needs coarse thread, and coarse thread needs a spinning wheel. The in-game recipe book helps.
- Food can burn at low Cooking levels, and a quest that asks for cooked meat will not accept burnt meat.
- Stamina runs out quickly when you sprint, and goblins attack in groups. Do not run far from base until you have armour.
- Chickens, cows and kebbits no longer attack you unprovoked (a change from spring 2026), and since 1.0 the dire wolves and garou of Ghornfell hit a little less hard.