Guide:Getting Started/Upgrading Your Gear

Upgrading your gear

Making a Forge

Now that we are back on the surface i'm sure you are wanting to reap the rewards of your adventure. go ahead and open the  Workstation and craft a  Forge. To do this you will need:

•  Stone (20)
You should have more than enough from your time in the caves. Go ahead and craft it and then place it where you want.

Using your Forge

Now that you have placed your forge you should place your mouse over it and right click. you will get the following window pop up:

you will notice that there is a space for fuel which is required to use the forge. if you followed along with me you should have a bunch of trees around the elders house you can chop down for fuel. place some Logs in and you are ready to use the forge.

Take your ores that you obtained down in the caves and place them in the two slots on the left inside the forge, Bars will appear on the right hand side of the forge over time till it runs out of ore or fuel


💡 Elder's Tip: It takes 4 ore to make one bar, but if you happened to find any  Broken Copper Tool or  Broken Iron Tool they can be put in the forge and only costs 1 of them to make the respective bar






💡 Elder's Tip: If you put 2 different ores in the 2 slots available it will process the ore on the right first

Making an Iron Anvil

The next thing we need is an  Iron Anvil which is crafted with:
•  Iron Bar (5)
Once you have made one place it where you like. we are finally ready to craft some Equipment

Crafting Equipment

Head over to your anvil and you should see something like this:



💡 Elder's Tip: there is a tick box down on the bottom left that says "Use nearby inventories" if this is left ticked you can use items from nearby  Storagebox instead of having to have the items in your inventory

Armor and Weapons upgrade loop

now we need to go back to our  Forge with all the ores we have from our first trip down in the caves and smelt everything we have currently. right now you will likely have mostly
•  Copper Ore
•  Iron Ore
so smelt them down to bars and then head over to the  Iron Anvil to make some armor



💡 Elder's Tip: Different Armor have different set perks which are usually geared towards the different fighting styles in the game.


The style you want will usually depend on what your Weapon of choice is. and we will go more into the what the different styles are good at later.


For now you just want to make the best armor you can so go over and take a look at the anvil.

take a look at the pieces for the armor in the  Iron Anvil and it will tell you how much of each material you need to craft it. in the case of copper equipment you need:

Copper Gear

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Copper Bar (12)	Copper Helmet
Copper Bar (16)	Copper Chestplate
Copper Bar (8)	Copper Boots
Copper Bar (8) Any Log (1)	Copper Pickaxe
Copper Bar (10) Any Log (1)	Copper Sword

💡 Elder's Tip: This is not an extensive list of what you can make with these bars. you can go right to making iron equipment if you have enough resources

The idea is to do this with the best equipment you can currently craft and then head back down to the caves and repeat the process of gathering materials

Once you have a full set of Copper Equipment you should try to move to making Iron equipment and finally Gold equipment.

Enchanting your gear

enchanting your gear is very important to give yourself that extra edge. at this point in the game you only have access to enchanting via  Enchanting Scroll which you will hopefully have found some while down in the caves!

Each enchanting scroll is for a specific type of equipment and the description when you hover over the scroll will let you know what it is for. you right click on the scroll you want to use and then drag the piece of equipment you want to enchant into the slot and then press the enchant button.

ℹ️ Note: the scroll item is one time use and you will lose it on use but equipment can have its enchantment changed as often as you like





In this instance i applied the Sturdy enchantment to my armor giving it an aditional +4 armor.

To The Snow Biome

💡 Elder's Tip: This was my build before entering the Snow Caves. you can mouse over the different pieces of gear to see what they are and mouse over the icon to see what they were enchanted with

 

 

 

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Map Change: there is one more ore above gold that we have access to before the first boss  Frost Shard which we will be needing to upgrade to but its not found here in the forest caves, so once you have full gold equipment you are ready to visit the snow biome for a snowy encounter