Newbie/Midbie guide

A quick way to start and succeed in Necesse!

First things first

The progression in the game is very similar to that of games like Terraria. Neccesse in itself is similar but not a total clone to Terraria so any kind of progressions you might've done in that game throw it out the window!

Make sure to sleep in the Elder's bed at the start to set your spawn point and it also helps with speeding up time.

Build a wall around where you'd like to set your base and build some bed-less houses. These will be important later for when villagers show up.

Use the Elder's area to help make progression easier, he starts with some farmland. You will get seeds from down below so once you get some seeds, like tomato, plant them asap.













Works towards a settlement flag so you can start making villagers collect basic resources like wood and food much easier.

The beginning

It's a big world, but what should you do?
First start off by accepting the quests given by the Elder, he gives very useful items at the start like ammo pouch, potion pouch, lunch box, coin bag and recall scrolls.
Super useful early on so make sure to progress by doing this.

Second, start by clearing a large plot of land with your axe, make or use The Elder's workshop to make a ladder, torches, a boomerang and dive downwards into the cavern.

Once in the cavern you can begin farming zombies for map fragments, copper ingots, iron ingots, and ores. I never mined in the beginning of the game since you can smelt down the broken tools for ingots. Gather some stone and make a furnace after you grinded for a bit.

Once you see a traveling merchant appear you can buy a brain on a stick for your first summon, I used these summons up till late game on how useful it is to switch between melee and archery summons.

Farm spiders on your next trip downwards and make some easy summon armor. Seriously summons make the game a lot easier, also be on the lookout for Bats/Vampires. You need their wings for one of the best early magic you can get, Blood bolt. It homes in on enemies, shoots 3 bolts out and unlimited ammo. Can't beat it.
You can use map fragments to find a dungeon and delve down by passing the Void apprentices and grab a book from a bookcase. Recall scroll out and bam you got a weapon that will last up till mid game bosses.

Next you'll want to fight Evil's protector, he's not very hard and if you built a settlement early you can recruit a guard from other islands to help with him. Nothing to this boss, spam blood bolt or arrows or the boomerang and avoid his attacks. Use zombie summons or spider summons to kill the small fry that come out the portals.

After killing him, do it 4 more times for a trinket you'll never take off more than likely which is the Foci 20% damage to everything.

He will also drop the dash trinket, which is great in boss fights. Save this and prepare to kill the Ice Spider. The spider can be spawned anywhere in the biome underground or with an egg you can find.
The spider is a little tougher since it's underground but destroy a lot of the walls and give yourself enough space and it will be no issue. Grabbing a regen potion for fights and potatoes helps with living too.


The spider doesn't drop anything too good from what I've seen so you can forget these drops for now.

Move onto a desert island, to fight the vulture. This guy is a pain but make sure you clear an arena when you fight it. Blood bolt will slay this thing fast and you want to farm it until it drops the Bow.
This bow does piercing damage which helps with the next boss in the Swamp.

Swamp boss treat it the same way as the other bosses, potion up, blow away the underground and use the piercing bow to kill it.

Farm this one until you get the activatable trinket and the shield.

Move on back to the dungeon and find the Void Wizard, this guy is a pain. Learn his patterns, blood bolt and win. Farm until you get the trinket upgrade he drops then move on.

The middle

After you've defeated the first few bosses it's time to move onto settlement development. This is super important for bosses as you will need food buffs, potion buffs and enchantments.

So plop down a settlement flag you make in the workbench, find a nearby village and start recruiting.
Here's some useful villagers;
1.The wizard, travel scrolls and waypoints make the grind easier.
2.The farmer, he will sell seeds and tend crops for you.
3.The alchemist, sells you regen potions and a few other useful ones. Easy way to get money as well since you can sell ingredients you do not need anymore.
4.Pawnbroker, you need this guy to sell stuff.
Anything past 4 is not really needed.

Your room sizes don't matter but do affect prices when buying but it's not that big of a deal.
You should always wall a large area off so raiders cannot reach you. Use a ladder down near both sides of the wall to travel between it and you'll never have to worry about raiders killing your villagers when you're not around.

After you've laid down the ground work and got the villagers farming it's time to begin the fun part.

Find a pirate village, kill the captain and grab the ladder he drops. This gives you access to new areas, Deep underground, Deep Ice underground and Deep desert underground. Swamp doesn't get a new underground area as of right now. Make way points all around here to make your life 1000% easier and set some beds up. Clear the areas underground for arenas and begin to prepare for bosses.

Fight the bosses in this order or you will struggle a bit.
1.The Reaper, use the ectoplasm and book to make a upgraded homing missile and make sure to have the vulcher summon to deal with the little guys.
Use your dashes to avoid his attacks and potatoes for more combat regen.

2. Cyro Queen, this one held me up a bit.
She attacks using a waves, shooting projectiles in a clockwise/counter clockwise pattern and then single target. Use your dodges well and you'll be fine on her. I used the homing bolt for her as well but farm her till she drops her cyrospike staff, AOE long straight line and helps with the next battle.

3. Sage and Grit
I was stuck on these guys for a long time, better food, more buffs, banners and the cryospike finally won it for me.
The biggest attack to watch out for is the one where they combine and fire lasers. You can pick off one by one but try to deal damage with the rest.

The only thing left is the last dungeon which I'm still figuring out a strategy for that boss.

Good luck all and feel free to ask questions!

[Kahel]

@TwistedHelix3
The spider armor set helps with summons when you obtain the full set.
You take the drops to the workbench and you can build the entire set.

[ExoneratedPhoenix]

"Farm spiders on your next trip downwards and make some easy summon armor."

Where do I make summon armour? I can only find basic spider chest plate stuff etc, nothing about summons.

[SHY]

good one. thank you. :)

[Drizzard]

thanks so much for this guide! Gives me the direction I need to really dig in to this game. Thank you my dude!

[Dannyboy]

Thx for all ur help man, i have this guide favorited at all times just to reference it, feel free to update it.