Micro guide - From start to settling

[Sevenless]

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Posted it inside the "What do I do?" FAQ topic. If someone wants help but my detailed guide is too much, refer them to that.

Comments welcome here if you'd like to contribute

Four hour Playthrough and what I did along the way to getting myself established with a small claim:

Childish things
Survival Skills (Abuse rock maracas and flint as much as possible)
Foraging

[Got black bile to 10 by eating blueberries, lots of em. 5B, 5P, 5YB, 10BB] - Max stat is the amount of points required for all stats to be raised next go around, don't go more than 5 points above your other humours if possible.

Self Defense

[Got a tumbleweed for it, otherwise wait for Lore of Lumb to get with lumberwood figurine]

Lore of the Lumberwoods

[Found Large Autumnal Forest (looks like orange puke on the minimap), living off Waxing toadstools for filler food, always use forage mode in forests]

Nuts and Seeds (if in a forest for more chestnuts)
Exploration (More forageables, unlock good skills)
Hiking (Ability to make leanto)

[Made leanto, don't have to go to boston if a snake kos me now]

Indian Tracking (For silver income, feathers almost impossible to see otherwise)
Colonial Tradesmanship

[Made an Axe]

Whittling (Spinning top and Simple Crucifix a must have for literacy)

[Found first indian charm materials, 30s and a pilgrim purse for me]

Literacy (difficult but worth it, study faster)
Small Game Hunting (punch cricket/rabbit, walk away until they walk at you, line up punch as they come in, repeat)
Simple Cooking

[Most foods for low level stats are grassland related, so I'm being lazy while working on skills in the forest. What to do for stats: Berry on Straw for Blood, Lean rabbit for phlegm, Lavendar Bluets for yellow and Witch caps for black. Current Stats: 6B, 6P, 7YB, 13BB]

Backyard pugilism (Easier rabbit/cricket kills with the unlocked uppercut. Used Lumb Figurines & Taste of Autumn. Takes work)
Mushroom Hunting (Pain to get, but I'm living off mushrooms and the shrooms on a stick recipe is awesome for early YB)

[Raised Phlegm to 8 with lean rabbits, sizzled slug, roasted rabbit cut. 6B, 8P, 6YB, 13BB]
[Can't find Lavendar Bluets in the Autumnal forest, need to go to grassland for blood/YB now.]
[Found a swamp! Sweet Bluets are all mine :> Forage mode on grassland seems to find more of these if you're in a pinch, but the movespeed is brutal.]
[Current stats: 9B, 8P, 8YB, 13BB]

Settling

[I didn't need to because of savage charms, but if I needed more silver: Killing crickets and making cricket teams for silver would be the way to go]
[Time to hunt for a good living location. Big forest, Big grassland and water nearby is a nice minimum to have in mind when looking. And avoid ridges if you want easier foraging, or try to live in the mountains to avoid people]
[Make sure you're at least a 1 hour walk from boston! 2 hours is better. If you saved your free port and aren't going to a friends place feel free to use it now and start searching for a new place to live from there. It's almost guaranteed to get you a decent distance from boston]


This took me roughly 3-4 hours of gameplay, and I never used my free port to do it. My final stats were 9B, 8P, 8YB, 13BB.

~You've got the basics now, beyond this it's up to you what you need/want to do. Some even stick with the nomad life and just wander the lumberwood, it's really up to you!~

[Monohan]

This is great help but I was hoping you can do another post for more intermediates. I've been playing for over 1 week now, I have a claim, can produce leather, cereals, bricks, breads and am about to start mining. But I never knew which things to focus on after getting settling and in what order. Perhaps you can extend the guide to include what to do after that.

[Sevenless]

Right now there really isn't anything necessary after this except getting your farms in order. The agriculture post of my linked guide below explains how to work a farm and that's a pretty core step. In particular, you want to get purity grinding good foods for your four humours started as it's a slow march.

The issue is of course that end game is lacking content for PvE types. Updates like this new wall type are slowly filling in the gaps, but there's no clear progression right now. For example, once brick walls hit the game that's likely the best walltype an industrious hermit could ever afford to make. At that point the lay of the game will change. Simply setting up a stone hedge won't be enough, you'll want to be cranking out bricks and setting up a small brick industry.

So right now I'd say get working on two layers of stone hedge while leaving ample room on the inner layer for a Plank Wall. Get plank production going. Get your farms running as I suggest in my agriculture guide.

And yeah, that's honestly "endgame" right now. Content has finally started flowing though, so we'll be looking at significant updates mostly once a week from here on out.

[VagabondX]

@Sevenless I have a lot of trouble increasing my stats. Eating lots of the same food doesn't work really well in gluttony mode, as invariance goes to the sky... What am I missing?

[Sevenless]

More types of food of course! Each recipe eaten reduces the invarience value if you have one.

Want blood? Get 2-3 recipes for blood and eat one of each per level + something easish you have left to finish it off. For blood for example, eat 1 bluet, 1 crikebab, 1 berry on a straw and then finish with bluets.