New Player Guide

Basic new player guide as well as tips/recommendations on what you should do to maximize growth early on. Includes guide for 4th character class (The Journeyman)

Intro

It's a good idea to decide on what your class will be on character creation. There are 4 starter family buffs and 4 class upgrades. 3 of the class upgrades are easy to achieve when you reach level 10 on your character. The last you will need to progress past the class upgrade npc before selecting and need a large investment of raw materials. The support of your first 3 characters can help with this immensely.

Character Creation- Picking your star sign

Upon character creation you'll be given a choice as to what gender you want your stickman. This changes nothing for the look of your character or anything so it's not important.

You'll also be given a choice of starter hats. You'll upgrade your hat within about 10- 20 minutes of play so this also doesn't matter. Just pick one and sell it as soon as you make your helmet slot.

The last thing to do upon creation is choose your star sign. These pair with a character class so read this and the character class section before you pick one.This is the reason you should pick a class to go for when creating your character.

The Buff Guy-1% damage and a +3 base strength stat buff. Pairs with the Warrior class

Flexo Bendo- 2% movement speed and +3 Agility. Pairs with the Archer class

The Book Worm- 1% Combat exp gain and +3 Wisdom. Pairs with the Mage class

The Fuzzy Dice- +3 Talent points and +2 Luck. Pairs with the Journeyman class.


Once you are able to get your class, you'll get a family buff added to your character. Having the star sign pair correctly with the class will increase this buff growth over time.
Here is what it will look like if you do it right.-------------Here is what it looks like when wrong.





You cannot change your star sign for quite a while so choose wisely.

Your starting town

In the first town there are a lot of things you'll gain access to as you progress and more you can do with each



Anvil- Used to craft gear and produce a few resources over time. Always be producing. You can access and quick deposit into your chest while away from the anvil so only return to town to use this for crafting or to change what you are producing. Purchase the infinity hammer upgrade form the gems shop to produce 2 crafts at once.















Forge- Used to smelt ores into bars. Early on you'll be unable to keep it producing, but you should aim to keep it always running once you start needing iron and have a few characters. Having a dedicated miner character isn't a bad idea. Purchase the brimstone upgrade from the gem shop to increase smelting speed and chances for extra bars




Mr. Pigibank- Bring any stamps to this npc. These are used to upgrade your characters abilities in a number of ways as you collect them and purchase them in the shop. They are global buffs to all your characters so purchase upgrades as you can with coins. Use resources to increase their max level cap. You only need 1 of a type so once you get it on any character and turn it in. Sell the duplicates. You can also purchase bribes that will help you along the way for coins. I highly recommend getting as many of these as you can early on. Especially the ones that increase shop stock and decrease price if you want a journeyman. Afk exp rate is another excellent one to get asap






Grasslands Gary- You gain access to this npc at level 11. Complete tasks to unlock recipes in the unlock screen. Bottom right task is a daily task so aim to finish this one every day you can play. The merits screen lets you purchase buffs for W1 (blunder hills) that will help you progress slightly faster.

Town Marble- Purchase the sculpting tools from the shop to unlock this npc. Bring statues you gather to increase your general stats and skills. These are character specific so give them to characters that can maximize the buff. Mining to you miner, woodcutting to your woodcutter...













Chest- Store what you gather here. This is shared storage across all your accounts. Use this to trade gear and resources between characters. There are drops from monsters to increase the capacity and some in the shops.

Shop- Purchase foods, town teleports, inventory upgrades, and other things to help you on your journey. Shop inventory is shared across characters. Buy all the hot dogs you can every day. You'll need a lot.

Classes

The 3 Starter Classes you'll be able to reach at level 10 will decide how you'll want to focus you character build. I highly recommend getting one of each of these before aiming for the fourth or doubling up on classes as you will save time in the long run. Here is a list of the 3 and their strengths and weaknesses

Warrior-Miner and can hit multiple enemies with class weapons each hit. Most balanced build
-Strength is the main stat
-Wisdom is the accuracy stat

Archer- Crafter and weakest starting combat class, but second best looter class
-Agility is the main stat
-Strength is the accuracy stat

Mage-Woodcutter and strongest attacks, but lowest defense
-Wisdom is the main stat
-Agility is the accuracy stat

Journeyman- Looter and money making class. Truly the weakest combat class
-Luck is both the main stat and accuracy stat


Your main stat boosts your character's damage in addition to your specialty skill. This is where you will generally want to focus early level points.

Mining efficiency is boosted by Strength.
Smithing efficiency is boosted by Agility. According to the description
Woodcutting efficiency is boosted by Wisdom

Skills

Although there are many skills for the characters you'll build, I recommend focusing on these 4 beginner skills once you figure out what class you want to go for in the very beginning.
boosts mining, crit damage, and max hp




boosts move speed, crit chance, and smithing (?)




boosts woodcutting, max mp, and boss damage.




boosts drop rates, exp gains, and anything relying on rng. Also affects your damage as beginner class, but I wouldn't invest in this with my first characters as it's pretty easy to get your class upgrades.

Efficiency Buff Skills

There are mining efficiency, woodcutting efficiency, and smithing efficiency buff skills as well. Should you sink all your points in there though, your damage will be low and you'll find yourself only efficiently killing bored beans or frogs which will slow progress. So for early on, just focus on buffing your main stat. When you are ready to really grind your character skill, then focus on their specialty and put points in there.

Main character levels via combat are always 3 points in your class skills and 3 for your character skills.These are far more valuable than skill levels and should be prioritized when you're not needing resources. Hence why main stats are recommended to level over skill based ones.

I have a miner going only for efficiency and has basically zero skill points in strength. Although they mine well, it's hard to get main character levels since the damage is generally so low. My other warrior is the exact opposite with near max strength and mines modestly, but hits hard enough to train at end of W1 creatures efficiently. I'm using mining as the example because you'll see how much grinding is needed when you start needing iron to upgrade gear as opposed to woodcutting. As an addition, with a level 25 warrior with almost all the best available W1 strength gear and cards for mining, I only mine iron at 49% of my strikes. Be prepared for the grind.

Accuracy

Do level your accuracy stat.
You can get by on gear stats and a handful of points for the first 5-6 areas, but then you really need your accuracy to hit consistently. Grind those weaker mobs a bit longer if it means getting guaranteed hits every attack on the next area's mobs.

Don't over level your accuracy stat.
Only spend points till you can always hit the mobs in the area you are in. If you are about to enter a new area and just leveled up, hold on to those points to check exactly what you'll need to guarantee a hit. You can check by going into the afk info menu and looking at the bottom left upon entering the area

For instance Boa only need 27 accuracy to hit so you hardily need any stat buffs to hit them, but a Carrotman needs 45 accuracy so you need quite a bit more accuracy. Always check this in a new area if you are missing so you can figure out how many accuracy stat points you'll need to make your combat efficiency 100% without wasting them by over leveling.

The Archer Class

The Archer is the weakest combat class, but deserves a special section to further showcase it's useful synergy with the other classes. Not only is it your primary specialist with crafting having several skills that boost it and enhance it(Looking at you godly creation skill), but it's also your early game primary looting class having the only character class skill of the first 3 classes that boosts chances of getting more rare loot drops. Considering it is not the most ideal combat class, it's actually the one you'll have fighting the most. Also the one running back and forth to town to craft so keep teleports for them when you can.

Personally I find my archer to be the most balanced class of them all being decent at nothing time consuming and having the most free time. I tend to have my archer do mining, woodcutting, and monster hunting while afk the most while my main miner is running in the background while I do other things. I might even go so far as to say that the archer is the unsung hero of your characters. You'll likely never want more than 1 for awhile and yet, it'll be the one doing all the grinding behind the scenes for your other characters.

Unlocking The Secret Fourth Class: The Journeyman

Total Quest Line Cost: 2051 Peanuts and 5 Golden Peanuts (2551 Copper ore, 2551 bleach logs, 5102 hot dogs (132652 coins), and 250 gold bars/ 2000 gold ore)

You cannot take another class and then switch to the journeyman. You must remain as the beginner blue character class until the journeyman hidden quest line is complete. You'll have to do a lot of grinding without touching Promotheus. Don't look at him and don't even acknowledge him.
You'll want these 3 bribes asap because you're gonna need a lot of hot dogs and you only have 2 ways to get them. Rare drops from mobs, I recommend slimes for this, or from shops where you can buy 500 from the first shop and 1000 from the shop in the village. (Area 8)








Make sure you can hold up to 1000 food in your inventory with 1 empty slot.

1. Grind through the first 5 areas to unlock the carrot area (area 6). Talk to the npc Funguy on the way for the peanut recipe. I upgraded to iron gear asap and gave my character the spear since it's better for killing fast. Use anything that give extra luck though.




2. Stand at the bush next to the jungle log tree in the carrot area and drop a peanut on the ground. It's on the raise platform below the portal leading from the boas and to the right of the jungle tree on the raised platform. Wait for the exclamation mark to appear.

3. Bring 100 Peanuts to this npc. (Bushlyte)

4.Bring 250 Peanuts to Bushlyte.

5. Bring 700 Peanuts to Bushlyte. Keep clicking through the dialog and he'll tell you where to go with the peanut to continue the quest chain.DO NOT DROP THE STONE PEANUT AND LEAVE AN AREA OR YOU WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO FINISH THE QUESTS ON ONE OF YOUR CHARCTERS!!! If you do drop it on the beginner character trying to become a journeyman, complete the first 5 steps on any other character and place it in your storage chest to transfer over.

6. Go all the way back to the frog area (area 2) to the rock with an x on it at the bottom past the choppin pig. It's below the portal leading to the bored beans area. Kill the frogs in the way if you somehow can't see it. Drop the stone peanut on the ground and wait till the exclamation shows up.

7. Bring 1000 Peanuts to this npc (Rocklyte). You'll receive a recipe for golden peanuts. Read it.

8.Bring 5 Golden Peanuts to Rocklyte.

9. Once you finish this quest talk to Rocklyte till you get this screen.

Congrats! You now have a journeyman which will now be your looter. Particularly suited for rare drops. You'll also get a trophy you can equip on your specials inventory slots and some gems so enjoy!

Bonus Tips for Faster Growth

• You really need to know your short term goals for your characters when you create them because you can't change their star sign in the beginning or delete characters later.
  
• You'll want to match the class to the family buff as you gain the additional stat buff bonuses for matching them.
  
• There are more classes beyond these initial classes once you hit W2, but those you'll learn about when you reach them.
  
• You also want to save those stat resets for when you really need to focus on a particular grind for gear, a drop, or resource because you won't get many. Just don't go resetting every 5 seconds. If you want to level mining, smithing, woodcutting, or whatever and have a fully developed combat character, reset them, but leave them that way till you get quite a few skill levels.1 shard per town shop per day or one tenth of a stat reset.
  
• Don't be afraid to save points and also don't be afraid to spend them.
  
• If you can run your game in the background while having a character auto a task (online afk), do it. If you can switch back and forth to it and collect drops, even better. Your offline afk (setting something for your character to auto perform as a task and closing the game) characters will grind only at roughly 20% of the speed of your online character rates. It's only 1 character, but it's a great way to power level. *cough* combat train like this

Remember as you play that specialists in everything tend to excel at nothing.

Afterword

I never did talk about sharpened axe or even defense. Sharpened Axe boosts your weapon power. It gets better as you progress through the game and it's good early on for your beginner class to increase damage since stats don't help except luck for accuracy. Once you get your class upgrade you should respec into your character's main stat or skill stats depending on your build.

A tip for defense is to treat it like your accuracy stat and only level it if the mob you are facing can hit you. Once it can no longer do that, don't spend stat points on defense. That will save you a lot of money in the long run. You don't want to be buying food and potions unless you have to. Gear will protect you for a lot of the early game mobs same as accuracy.

Combat is important to stay on top of, but as a new player, you really want to focus on getting better gear and always be grinding for the next piece. Don't just rush to kill the next mob with your wooden spear. Gear carries most of the early game burdens for you and will ultimately carry you in the late game too. It's a good mindset to prep early on and establish as your ever present short term goal path.

See you out there fellow gamers!

[Ajax]

I like you username

[Brisingr]

Apologies for missing pictures. I deleted them from steam awhile back not realizing they were in the guide. They were a pain to put in he guide which is why they remain missing. Eventually I'll put them back

[jwnyberg1282]

I am having issue with buying the packs like the auto loot one any one else having issues?

[b3n5n aka L00tziLLa]

Thanks for gettin me quickly in the game ;)

[Brisingr]

I'll look into it. I haven't played in awhile tbh so this could be out of date

[ArbyOfLight]

Not sure as I am a new player! But I was following your guide and did not get the recipe from Funguy, and the folks on Discord told me it comes from the breakfast quest from the Picnic Basket. I have confirmed that as that is how I got the recipe.

[Brisingr]

Is that new? It was Funguy last time I checked

[ArbyOfLight]

As a heads up you get the peanut recipe from the Picnic basket guy, not from Funguy.

[Brisingr]

Buffs for afking start at 20% until you buff it with the bribe for the Mr. Pigibank which is probably one of the first bribes you want. And I added a description in parenthesis just in case as well as changed the phrasing slightly. Only because you can can actually be a bit faster at combat training by being fully actively engaged and playing since you can force more efficient combat unless you one shot what you are training on. Weapons that can attack multiple targets at once benefit most from full activity since you can force multi-strikes more consistently. Not that they all can't be slightly improved by learning proper positioning to maximize targets

[SpaceComplex]

@Zaflis: Check Menu - AFK INFO. there you'll see that your characters will still grind / fight / mine (whatever task you assigned them last) if you go offline.
there is a distinction between being online - partially idle (aka letting the program and the character run on your PC but not actively playing) and completely offline / idle / afk (which more or less means the same).
under the aforementioned afk info you will recognize that afk'ing is never as efficient as playing actively with that character, starting off at about ~25% as fast / efficient.
Keep that in mind and also consider spending talent points in more afk efficiency as you progress.