It's now in game pass for anyone who wants to try it on the cheap btw.
I need some beginners tips if any veterans can give me some advice.
It's now in game pass for anyone who wants to try it on the cheap btw.
I need some beginners tips if any veterans can give me some advice.
The number one thing that people often miss: you can repair your gear for free at a base level station of the relevant type. Unlike most survival crafting games, equipment durability is not a resource churn but instead a soft timer to force you to return to your base or an outpost.
Beyond that, be careful of falling trees, learn to dodge and/or parry like it's dark souls, wait to make a boat until you get to the second tier, remember that you can deconstruct almost anything back to its full material cost (torches and fires don't return their fuel, and spikes either don't refund anything or only partially refund themselves), get beehives going early and stockpile all the flowers and berries you see in a chest, and be careful of new biomes when exploring because they're usually difficulty spikes.
More advice for after you beat the first boss and start raiding tombs:
Always keep an unattached exploration portal at your base and bring the materials to make a portal with you. When sailing, always put down a workbench and a portal as soon as you land in a safe spot so that if you die you can return to the same landmass without making another boat and traveling all the way there again.
Oh, and if you get trapped respawning at a bed far from your base with no materials or gear to help you get back, break the bed and it'll reset your respawn point to the stone circle you started at, which at least theoretically should give you an easier trip home from there.
What should I be doing at absolute star in the meadows biome? I crafted a makeshift bed and house for now.
You'll want to create most of the stuff you can, get a good stone axe and so on, a bow, and some leather armor maybe. Then you'll want to find Eikthyr - the stone near your starting point will show you where to find him. Get ready for a fight.
Get an axe and a club, then gather flint and hunt boars and deer until you have a spear and bow. You can make leather armor at this point, but it's not particularly necessary (might be helpful if combat's feeling rough). A shield is also an option at this point. You can and should upgrade your workbench as much as possible after you get your gear. You need deer trophies to progress further, and your spear and bow will be your weapons of choice for the first boss.
make stone equipment. Make leather armor. practice some skilz. When you think you are prepared go find the sacrificial altar or a runestone pointing to the altar and follow it's instructions.
The progression loop of each biome is - explore the new biome, upgrade to the next tier of gear, improve your base, discover new recipes and items, fight the boss, the use the boss item to collect the biome resource in the next biome to continue the progression.
free repairs and receiving 100% of crafting materials back makes the game so, so much less punishing. It's very rare that gear is ever permanently lost and not recoverable. Even if you die in the ocean most of your stuff will end up in a floating grave stone.