Starting guide

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This is a Starting Guide to help you get a foot hold without dying.

Building a Basic Base
Ready to hop in after making your character but you're probably unsure if you should worry about food or the approaching night first? Fear not, your best friend is all the loose stones and piles of sicks laying about. You're going to want to punch at a few of those until you get at least 10 of each. Get yourself a pick axe, axe, and hoe from the crafting menu.

Now, don't worry about getting hungry just yet. If you've gotten mushrooms from collecting wood, go ahead and munch on those but leave yourself at least one--we'll get to that later.

You're now going to equip your axe. There is a tool bar on the bottom right of the UI, and you can just set you axe there in any of thr 1-5 slots. Those slots are keybound to the same numbers on your keyboard.

Once your axe is already to go, just start chopping down trees. Don't go too far away from the stairs because that's your spawn point for the time being. It is suggested to get yourself about 20 logs, and in the crafting menu, go right along and build yourself some walls, then maybe a door. Monsters can't break or open door.

It takes some messing about, but you're going to build a very small house with those walls. This is just enough to put a bed down to fend off the night  A bed is is one of the most simple things to make, as when you were punching lose stones and sticks you probably saw tall grass about? Go punch some of that until you get 8 grass. You're going to use that to make your bed, and then you'll never have to deal with the long night and spiders that come with it.

planting your crops.
exit your house and make a stone hoe and start tiling some soil. plant the wheat you got from beating up grass in the 1st step and go around and start collecting some other crops from cutting down apple trees and beating up crops with your hoe. avoid any monster dens you see. those kill you. plant the apple trees where you will pass by them often. as they make apples very quickly and just fall on the ground without breaking or anything. on to the next step.

starting to fight
ok now that you have your shack and farm its time to go mining. make up about 3 picks and 2 shovels and some stairs. go down the stairs that you spawned next to. or if you left that area to make a base somewhere else then place some stairs in the ground.

how here is the impotent part: we are just trying to get a single copper ingot to make a woodwork bench. then you can make a bow with the pine or oak you have. so you should try to get 100 copper coins to convert into an ingot. the reason the bow is mandatory is that it is ranged and deals more then 3 damage. if you got oak then your golden.

go 2 levels down (to -3) max while searching for a goblin base. When you find one break into it and look around. hopefully you broke into a room without a goblin tent. you don't have to worry about a goblin wandering into the room your in as they cant even open the doors in their OWN BASE... man are they dumb... smash the things that you find (weapon racks, sealed barrels, etc.) and you will get items accordingly from what they are. so armor racks drop armour, and book shelves drop scrolls and paper. barrels give you cc (copper coins) and other materials, when you get 100 cc convert it into a Ingot. run all the way up stairs and make a wood work bench and make your bow/wand. and now you have a weapon, a base, and a farm, so you can finally start your true adventure in lantern forge

tips and tricks
-you can take on weak monsters one by one with stone tools

-I recommend having heavy armor as your armor as it gives the most defense. no seriously high level monsters (10+) deal about 100 damage with about 120 defense. and kiting is very hard to do. heck i have like 440 def and I still take like 100 damage from lvl 29 mobs