Gameplay Guide
Crafting, recipes and mechanics for Season 5.
Updated
Getting Started
Start here if you are new to the server.
Character & Identity
Your character, class and chat, plus everyday roleplay tools.
Characters
Choose and create characters, and learn how chat, injuries, death and clues work.
Classes & Professions
Pick a class and a path, slot your skills, spend attribute points and level three professions.
Equipment Slots
Four inventory slots for a ring, an amulet and two jewellery artifacts.
Account & Website
Link Discord, sign in to the website, support the server, and handy account commands.
Letters & Bird Mail
Write and seal letters, then send them by bird to any character, even one who is offline.
Roleplay Tools
Sit, lie down and crawl, pose armor stands, wear masks, hang pictures, edit books, and name your items.
Medicine & Surgery
Become a physician, operate on healing injuries and make prosthetic limbs.
Companion Pets
Hatch a companion, care for its needs, play fetch and teach it your own words for tricks.
Professions & Crafting
Smithing, goldsmithing, woodworking, furniture and recycling.
Advanced Crafting
Forge weapons, armour and bows, and invent your own alloys.
Gems & Goldsmithing
Infuse gemstones, then set them in gold jewellery.
Woodworking
Carve 92 decorative furniture pieces, each with a 3D preview.
Interactive Furniture
Place, fill, carry and pick up cookware, troughs and display stands.
Recycling
Break crafted gear, runes, artifacts and scrap back down into materials.
Gathering & Farming
Crops, fishing and guild resource nodes.
Food & Drink
Livestock, cooking, brewing and custom drinks.
Magic & Knowledge
Magic and mage weapons, research, the Codex, archaeology and arcane caches.
Magic
The four schools, Resonance, shrines, artifacts and meditation.
Mage Weapons
Build a staff, wand or blade, attune it with a charge, and fit spell runes.
Research
Study papers and runestones at a lectern by testing items to find their hidden aspects.
Codex
Your journal of places, research, important figures and achievements.
Archaeology
Find a ruin, establish a field camp, excavate by sound, then clean, register, and display recovered finds.
Arcane Trace Detector
Follow a clicking, glowing detector to your own buried Arcane Cache.
Combat & Danger
Guns, infestations, locks, thievery and trial rooms.
Guns & Gunsmithing
Build a gun from parts at the Gunsmithing Station, make ammunition, and fire it as a Musketeer.
Infestations
Bog provinces overrun by monsters, and how to clear one with a Lure.
Locks & Keys
Lock your doors with a key, choose who can open your chests, and copy keys for friends.
Thievery
Thieves and bandits: picking locks and pockets, robbing players and looting graves.
Trial Rooms
Use an Unknown Key to enter a series of guarded rooms, clear their spawners and open their chests.
Vehicles & Machines
Building, driving and arming vehicles.
Society & Economy
Money, factions, guilds, war, card games, skins and music.
Money & Market Blocks
Denars: your pouch and bank, coins, earning money and selling goods at Market Blocks.
Factions
Join or found a faction, claim provinces, earn prestige and titles, and run its government.
Guilds & Trade
Run a guild inside your faction, bank its money, build installations and pay vehicle upkeep.
War & Mercenaries
Declare war, fight scheduled battles and raids, keep regiments, and hire or run a mercenary company.
Armour Shop
Change how your armour, weapons and tools look with Skin Scrolls, or upload a skin of your own.
Card Games
Set up a card table and play Blackjack, Hold'em, Five-Draw or Free play for real denars.
Musical Instruments
Play nine instruments from your hotbar or an on-screen keyboard, and record songs onto music discs.
Reference
Materials, crafting stations and the command index.