Salem

So, I was helping my sister and I told her to follow the instructions until it said go talk to the wilderness guide. She says ok now I have to talk to the wilderness guide and before I could even respond with my homestead secret she had a leanto in the wilderness. It is too easy for a noob to mess up and get placed in the middle of nowhere on accident. She did make a new character and we did it over again though.

My suggestion:

Upon the ending of the tutorial where you talk to the wilderness guide, provide a popup box that asks if the player will be traveling to a friend's homestead with options "yes or no". If they click no, they get traveled to the wild. If they click yes, it will ask for the homestead secret to travel to a friend.

Agreed that it is really easy for a newb to accidentally mess up and click the wrong button and go to the middle of no where when they are trying to join friends.