Tips for Newbies
General in Short
- Get wood from trees & stone from the cave.
- Go to workstation in the elders house, craft a couple forges.
- Get some Iron from mining the cave, place it in the forges along with wood in the fuel slots.
- Use iron to build an anvil.
- Smelt all your ore and broken weapons in the forges.
- Craft the best gear you can get.
- Make sure to save all gold bars to make a weapon, then armor for yourself. You are now good to go.
- If you get a good weapon from a chest, you can probably skip using gold bars for that.
Other Tips
Doing some boating to neighboring settlements can yield you all the workstations for free, and each island typically has a surface ruin that has some loot… usually a trinket or weapon in there. some people consider stealing the village workstations a sort of cheat, as it negates resource costs, and speeds up progression a fair bit. On that particular note, can use a random settlement to help defeat bosses, just be mindful that if you accidentally hit a villager, they will attack back.
Torches prevent spawn, similar to minecraft. This can actually hinder progress sometimes, as an example, farming bat wings. A well lit area isnt always the best thing.
On desert islands, there are ostriches that roam around. Killing one can be a bit tough, as they are fairly nimble, but they can drop a mount item. Its a great early game land mount that makes boss fights easier.
Most players would disagree, but bombs arent exactly common, at least not til you unlock the pirate merchant. I usually save these for clearing out an arena area, and the occasional large vein of ore. Use sparingly.
As a new player, you may not know that progression is paced by your exploration. The biomes technically have an order intended to be experienced in. But youre not restricted to this order. Just know that ores can be mined by the previous tier pickaxe, and bombs are two tiers in advance.
In order for villagers to eat, youll have to have a chest added to the settlement. This isnt just placing down a chest. Youll need to open the chest up, and click the green house icon in the top right corner.
Just know that villagers are awesome. Creating a work zone for forestry allows you to have villagers cut trees for you. Play around with work zones, and work priorities will tell you who can do what, as each type of villager have restrictions on what they can and cant do.
My final tip is try to keep your villagers geared in relation to your quest progression. As you progress your quest line, the raid difficulty will increase. Keeping your villagers well geared will help prevent casualties. The villagers are strongest as a single unit, and not commanding them to a defense spot can allow a few raiders to gang up on a single villager, resulting in another gravestone for the cemetery.
The pawn broker is worthless, so never sell your sh*t to him.
go blow up some dungeon walls, dungeon walls sell for 10 coins per wall. if you have 300 walls, you will get 3000 coins. probably my favorite way to get money fast. and yes, they might patch this.
It’s so simple to defend settlers; I don’t even bother building any defenses. I keep my settlers safe by arming them with ranged weapons and commanding them to assemble in the open at one location in the event of a raider attack. I don’t even fire a single shot during the attack, so the raiders have no chance. They just don’t have enough time to get to the settlers and take down even 10% of their health. Throughout the entire game, not a single resident perished. For settlers, crafting demonic and shadow armor is the most advantageous and straightforward option during the middle of the game, while crafting mycelium armor with a glacial bow is the better option towards the end. Hiring two to four miners will enable them to mine enough ore for thirty sets of equipment in a few trips.
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How will I send my miner to mine infinite ores for me if I create the anti-raider trap maze 90000? Will it simply go through the walls or something, or will it simply be killed by my traps?
According to the developer, doors are perceived by raiders as walls, so you can place a door in your outer wall that allows expeditions to escape traps.
The most profitable ways are:
1. Create and sell stone tiles to the pawnbroker after using dynamite to extract a large amount of stone from the first cavern layer.
2. Farm the fourth boss, the Void Wizard. You can craft more Void Caller, the item that summons him, by using the shards he drops. Once you’ve crafted some of it, you can sell the extra shards to the Mage NPC. The other boss drops to the Pawnbroker. (This practically requires the use of a waystone; just set it by the ladder outside his chamber.)
In order to use these strategies, you must have defeated The Pirate Captain, the sixth boss, in order to bring the dynamites and invite the pawnbroker to reside in your village.
Essentially, you can obtain quick money to enchant your equipment and defeat the upcoming bosses after you’ve vanquished the pirate.
The Blood Volley is the most effective weapon against pirates, and it’s simple to make once you’ve taken out a few vampires and void apprentices.
I got my villagers to grind wheat, rice seeds, and sugar into flour, rice, and sugar, which I then sell to my village’s pawnbroker. When I mine, I also create a lot of sand from the rocks in the caverns so I can create a lot of glass bottles and potions to sell to him. I have a ton of sunflowers.