Survival Starter Guide

Controls

The default key mappings are as follows (you can change these in the settings)

• WASD Keys to move around
• E for Inventory
• B for Block Info (shows you what you currently look at)
• C for Coordinates
• Shift to sneak
• L-Ctrl to run
• T to open the chat dialog
• Left Mouse break stuff
• Right Mouse place/use stuff

Basic Tools

• Find some loose stones and break some branchy leaves. Those 2 ingredients will let you make a stone axe, a stone shovel, a stone pickaxe and a stone hoe
• A Flint and a stick let's you craft a knife that let's you harvest dry grass from tallgrass. Flint are occassionally found amongst patches of loose stone

Food

Most importantly you will probably want to explore wide and far for crops and berry bushes to secure your food situation.

• Crops can be planted on any soil after tilling it with a hoe, but grows best on high fertility soil. Crops also require a nearby water source.
• Ripe Berry Bushes can be harvested and afterwards broken+replanted anywhere else. After a while they will start to bloom again.

Inventory Space

Once you have a basic farm set up, you could go ahead and increase your inventory space

• Reeds can be crafting into baskets that have 2 slots each. Place it into one of the 4 bottom-right slots
• If you've found Flax, you can work towards Linen Sacks, which offer 4 slots of space.

Entering the Copper and Bronze Age

Producing ingots

1. Collect some dry grass, clay, some logs, lignite or bituminous coal and native copper

• Clay is found in most areas that are not too dry
• Native copper and coal/lignite can be found in caves
• Dry Grass is made by breaking tall grass with a knife

2. Make a crucible and some ingot molds

• Use the clay to craft a crucible as well as a couple of molds

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3. Make a fire pit

• Put an axe and log in your crafting window to acquire at least 4 firewood
• Put dry grass in your active hand, then right click on the ground, now add firewood with the same method

4. Bake the crucible and molds

• Put your raw clay crafts on the top left slot of the firepit, add more fuel to the bottom slot if required
• Place your baked molds on the ground via Shift+Right click

5. Smelt ores

• Once the crucible is baked, move back from the right slot to the left slow. This will extend the firepit dialog by 4 additional slots
• These 4 slots can now hold your ores for smelting and alloying. Put it your native copper and wait.

Currently available alloys:

• Tin bronze: 88-92% copper, 8-12% tin. Double durability than copper and quite strong
• Bismuth bronze: 50-70% copper, 20-30% zinc and 10-20% bismuth. Slightly higher durability than tin bronze but somewhat weaker (slightly less damage on swords, slightly less mining speeds)
• Black bronze: 70-90% copper, 8-16% gold, 8-16% silver. Highest durability and strength of all bronze alloys.

6. Pour your molten mix into the molds

• Once the molten metal has cooled to 300 degrees you can take out the ingots and place them on the ground or store them in chests

Here is a video of the full smelting process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkaakcRTjC4

Producing Metal Tools and Weapons

1. Craft an anvil, forge and hammer

2. Fill the forge with bituminous coal or lignite and your desired metal holding shift + right mouse click. Ignite with a torch.

3. Once the metal is over 60% it's melting point it can be worked. Take it from the forge and place it on the anvil. This will open up a dialog allowing you to choose what to tool/weapon to craft

4. Your goal is now to fill in the empty blue squares with metal. Hit 'F' with a hammer in your hand to see your tool modes. The first mode spreads metal in all directions, the next 4 in a single direction and the last one removes a piece of metal. If your work item cools down too much you will need to reheat it on the forge.

5. The axe currently requires 2 ingots, you can see the available amount of spreadable metal in the block info. Place another hot ingot on top of the work item for refilling.

Here is a video of the full smithing process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5_DXjPPU6Y