Your first ten minutes
Open the quest book
Click the quest book
in your inventory and start the Welcome chapter. It gives you a backpack, food, and a road map of everything in the pack.Team up
Playing with friends? Make a team before you build anything, so you share quests, claims and rewards. See Teams.
Claim your spot
Once you pick a place to live, claim it so nobody can break your stuff. See Claims.
Set up voice chat
Press V to open voice chat settings. Pick your microphone and choose push to talk or voice activation.
Read the first Ledger page
The Ledger chapter in the quest book holds the story of this world. Your first page unlocks as soon as you finish Welcome.
The buttons in your inventory
Open your inventory and look at the top left corner. These little buttons open most of the server features.
TeamsCreate a team, invite friends, add allies and change team settings.- Quest bookAll the quests and the Ledger story. A red mark means you have rewards waiting to be claimed.
Big mapA full map of everywhere you have explored, with everyone’s claims in their team colors. You can also press M.
ClaimsClaim and unclaim the land around you.
SettingsPersonal settings for the map, quests and team tools.
See a sword, sun, moon and cloud too? Those only show up for staff. They switch game mode, time of day and weather.
Handy keys
You can change any of these in Options, then Controls. There is a search box at the top to find a key fast.
| R or U | Hover any item in your inventory or the item list. R shows how to make it, U shows what it is used for. |
| Hold W | While hovering a Create item, shows a little animated lesson on how it works. |
| V | Voice chat settings, mute and groups. |
| B | Opens the backpack you are wearing. |
| M | Big claim map. |
| J | Full screen JourneyMap, with waypoints and your death points. |
| Tab | Who is online and how good their connection is. |
Little things that help
When you die
Your items stay in a corpse right where you died. Walk back and right click it to get everything back. JourneyMap marks the spot for you.
Looking at blocks
The little box at the top of your screen tells you what you are looking at, which mod it comes from, and what is inside machines.
Farming and chopping
Right click grown crops to harvest and replant them in one go. Trees can be chopped down all at once.
Food
Hover food to see how much hunger and saturation it gives. Fancy Farmer’s Delight meals are worth cooking.