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A beginners guide to the very early game, intended for newcomers with little to no experience.

Suggested Starting Races for Beginners:

* Do your initial quests from Ashland. They can be accepted from the quest board.

**Following his questline will give the player the supplies to make a shipping box. This allows the player to make money from home, without needing to go into towns. 

* Use the training dummy acquired from Ashland's quests to build your initial melee stats to a point where you can slay weak enemies.

* Furniture tickets are the primary goal of Mysilia questing, as getting a tax box at home saves you a lot of trouble.

** This is the best use of a furniture ticket, as it allows the early player to safely pay their taxes without risk of starvation or ambush.

** Honey is a non-rotting food worth a decent amount of orens that gives stat potentials when eaten, and each beehive produces one honey at 4 am if the ratio of flower-to-beehive is correct. 

* Afterwards, the player should quest in Derphy or Mysilia to acquire a brewery barrel with furniture tickets. Excess milled honey or raw honeycomb can be placed in the barrels to ferment into wine, which can be sold through the shipping crate.

* These steps allow the player to get off the ground safely, with a guaranteed source of food and income before the first tax bill arrives.

* Should the player fall into debt, this allows the player to pay their debt safely without having to die on the way to the tax box in Mysilia.  

**Players also gain a bonus to stats based on the duration of worship to a god. Pick a god that complements your playstyle.

***Jure and Opatos are good generalist picks for new players, as they both provide bonuses to survivability. Their god pets both will protect and heal the player, once they are gifted to the player.

***Horome is also a good pick for a beginning spellcaster, as worshipping her allows the player to refill their mana pool on physical attacks. Her god pet also protects the player, but cannot heal them or herself.

*Once the player's immediate needs are met, the player can begin working on farming, crafting, cooking, or any other creative endeavor. They are now independent and have a safe home.

* Starting in the Hill Cave gives the player a hammer, which can be used to deconstruct items.

**However, the location is much further away from key locations, and thus travel time must be taken into account.

* The further away from My Home the player gets, the higher the difficulty rating of nearby monsters.

* If the player becomes a criminal, Derphy is a town with no guards that will still deal with the player. Simply do quests in Derphy until the karmic debt is paid.  

* Once the player is comfortable in overworld combat, Fiama's quest to the Puppy Cave rewards the players with a ★Cooler Box, which allows the player to carry food with less risk of it rotting.

* Cooking and Farming allow the player to make rapid stat gains. There is no problem that cannot be solved by Doubling Your Stats.

* If the player is stuck, the Self-Harm special action will teleport them after a few turns. It is not advised to do this in combat.

* Magic rods, potions, and scrolls are useful to everyone. Keep scrolls of evac, return, uncurse, as well as potions of cure wounds, restore body and spirit on hand.

* Rather than crafting pickaxes and sickles, the player may buy maces, hammers and sickles or scythes of decent hardness at blacksmiths much sooner in the game. Obsidian is a cheap and hard early pick, costing as little as 300 orens.

*Taxes are based on the total value of items in [[Elin:My Home|My Home]], so sell and keep only what you need for survival if money is tight. The Tax Evasion skill, purchased for 11 gold bars from Fiama, provides a significant cut to monthly taxes if the player is finding it difficult to pay their debts regularly.

*Money can be deposited at one banker and taken out at any other banker. It is advised that the player not keep their money on them unless they need it, as on death the player can drop 20-60% of the money currently on them.

*The packages that are delivered near the hearthstone (and later mailbox) are great early containers, having lots of slots.

**However, they are made of paper, and thus are susceptible to burning. Buy a fireproof blanket early on, and later change the material of the packages to something light but fireproof.

*Any equipment the player wants to use regularly should be Acidproofed by dipping it in Acidproof Liquid. These can be bought from the Drug Dealer in [[Elin:Port Kapul|Port Kapul]] for around 300 orens each.  

**Acid damage significantly reduces the stats from equipment, to the point of causing armor values and damage to go negative. It is much more difficult and expensive to repair acid damage than it is to prevent it at all.