Guide:Tips

In-Game Tips

Elder tips

• Ladders help you get underground where you can find resources and treasure
• Some recipes are hidden until you have all the ingredients
• Use the crafting guide book to see recipes using a crafting material
• Some islands have villages with people willing to trade
• The dungeon has a powerful wizard guarding the end
• A dangerous demon can be summoned if you find a portal for it
• Fishing is very useful for creating potions
• Armor usually have a set bonuses when the full set is equipped
• Traders change their prices every day. Try to trade with them on their best day
• Starting your own settlement is very useful to always have access to traders
• Some traders sell more items when you have defeated some bosses
• Bosses usually have more than one drop, so it may be worth killing them multiple times
• If you are looking for some new crops to grow, a farmer might sell you some seeds
• Settlers like the animal keeper and angler will use their profession around your settlement
• If you find the game too easy or hard, you can always change the difficulty in the World settings

Elder topics

• All items with the tooltip "Crafting material" are used in a recipe somewhere. Use your inventory crafting for simple recipes. Crafting stations like workstation and the Iron Anvil can be used for more advanced crafting. Use filter in inventory crafting to filter for specific recipes. Place a crafting material in the slot below to see possible recipes.
• Swimming or sailing to the edge of the map will allow you to travel to different islands. Once you have travelled to the island, you will discover its biome for future travel. Some islands have higher level content, so it may be worth to leave it alone and come back later.
• Some islands have villages with traders. Traders have random items of their profession they want to buy or sell. Some traders of same profession will have different items and prices. Start a settlement to always have specific traders nearby.
• Objects are the things placed in the world. Some objects have collision and some objects you can interact with. Use tools like the axe and pickaxe to break them.
• Tiles are the things you walk on and swim in. Some objects can only be placed on certain tiles. Use the shovel to pick up most tiles.
• Early game tools are crafted at the iron anvil. Pickaxes are used for rock type objects, axes for wood type objects and shovels for tiles. Some objects requires higher tier tools to be broken.
• Basic early game weapons are crafted at the iron anvil. More advanced weapons can often be found in chests around the world. There are a wide variety of weapon types, anything from swords and bows to guns, boomerangs and magic weapons.
• Early game armor are crafted at the iron anvil. Armor sets often have bonuses when entire set is equipped. Cosmetic armor slots do not give any stats, but override the look of the equivalent equipped armor slot.
• Trinkets can often be found in chests around the world and sometimes crafted. They give various of different buffs and enhancements. Equipping 2 of the same type does not work, and will ignore the later trinket. It is possible to get more trinket slots later.
• Most weapons and trinkets can be enchanted to give better stats. You can find a friendly mage to help you enchant an item for a cost. Good enchantments helps a lot to overcome the next challenge.
• Potions can be found in chests or crafted at the alchemy table. They are important for survival and defeating hard enemies, so don't be too conservative when using them!
• Settlements are player made villages. To start one, craft a settlement flag and place it down. Settlers can be recruited to join your settlement at other villages or when you run into them in the world.

Other

• Happy settlers gives better shop prices and take shorter work breaks
• Settlers will only do jobs, fight and wander inside their restricted area. If they cannot find the area, they will go to their room.
• Settlers will only attack hostiles that are within their range and inside the defend zone or inside their room.
• Get one Waystone slot for each completed quest tier. More Waystones can be bought from the settlement Mage