New World – Basic Game Information + Walkthrough Guide

First beach..

 
After the initial tutorial for movement and fighting, you face the captain and awake on the beach. 
 
On route to the initial quest giver gather several flint rocks and green wood from from bush. 
When you reach the quest giver use the fire to ‘craft’ and make one flint version of each tool. 
Press the tab to open the inventory screen and double click each tool to add it to the tool belt. 
 
Making tools before the quest to do so doesn’t stop you being given the quest nor does it stop you from being able to complete them. 
 
 

Easy Arcana XP

 
On route to the first township look out for a river or stream, follow the river and collect about 80 fresh water and all bull rushes you can carry before entering the town. 
 
Find the arcane work station and make all Weak Health Potion’s you can (1 Water and 1 Bull Rush cob is needed for each one) once complete you can carry 100 in the first consumable slot. 
 
This should be enough for six to eight crafting levels and a few hundred XP. 
 
Don’t forget to store the potions that will not fit in the slot. 
 
 

Finding your first Mining nodes

 
So, this is an easy two stage process, stage ones easy to do but stage two may not be as easy to pull off without some form of healing depending on you’re level. 
 
You can not track ore nodes at the start of the game so you can either : 
1 – Wander the map, looking for the little off coloured pyramids of iron joy 
2 – Mine boulders until you get to level 10. 
 
The quickest I’ve found is number 2, mine the boulders until you get to level 10 mining. 
 
Then when you are at level 10 mining, start looking for wolf dens. They all have iron or silver ore nodes within them or around them that you can run a loop around while the nodes respawn. 
Add that to the constantly re-spawning wolves and you have Ore/Raw Hide/Loot and mining/skinning/kill XP etc, all in one place and bundle, until you run out of inventory space at least. 
 
I’ve also found some Wolf Dens that also have Gold and Platinum ore nodes in them. 
Lynx dens also appear to follow the same pattern but I’ve only observed one Lynx den so far so cannot confirm this to be true of all of them. 
 
Dens are also a good source of Saltpetre required for gunpowder. 
 
 

Turkeys are not just for Christmas

 
Turkeys are the main (if not only) source of feathers at the beginning of the game. 
 
Feathers are needed to make arrows, each turkey will drop between 5 and 12 feathers (from my own count). 
 
Even if you are not going to be using arrows yourself, these are likely to be a easy income source for people who do need them, either in the raw state or in the made arrow state depending on if you intent to raise the crafting skills as well. 
 
Update  
One of the settlement quests is to kill 25 turkeys. I skinned all 25 and from the feathers got from level 1 to level 20 engineering just by making the Iron Arrows. ** Do not make the mistake of making Flint Arrows 
 
 

Gathering when turning in Quests

 
Once you have completed all current quests and are on your way back in to hand them in, don’t waste any inventory space! 
From any route back to a quest hub you will find some resources to gather. 
 
This may appear to be a time sink with little benefit, however as the town boards will often have quests for certain food, potions or raw material items always keeping a stock of these items in your town storage is actually a time saver. 
 
Gather hemp for fibres (at least one town quest for 100 fibres) 
Gather herbs for cooking. (Multiple town quests for rations) 
Gather all the food items, carrots, squashes, corn etc. 
Gather all the weird plants and fungi that dot the world, they can give a lot of useful components for potions so can be useful for you’re own use or as a trade item. 
 
Even if it’s just green wood or stone from outside the settlement’s walls, there are quests for Bricks and Timber. 
 
Update  
From all the food items I’d gathered by using this method I was able to get from level 10 to level 79 cooking in fifteen minutes by making light rations until I could make sausages then from them to Light Meals at level 50 and three minutes later I ran out of materials at a few points over level 79 
 
Similar crafting progress with arcana workshop, level 6/7 from the Bullrush Cobs to 50+ in about twenty minutes in the crafting UI. 
 
 

Territory points

 
It looks like the most efficient use of territory points are: 
Gathering speed boost 
Storage capacity boost 
Territory point gain boost 
 
Mainly this would mean the best use of the territory bonuses as it doesn’t matter which faction controls the territory or what the taxes are at that point in time. Leave any gathered resources in the storage until the territory changes hands to a more relaxed taxation scheme. 
Worst case, load up you’re inventory and fast travel to a territory with lower refining/crafting taxes. 
 
In the long term it may be advantageous to spend all the territory points in one territory to lower the taxes and refine/craft only in that territory. The maths would currently support this over a long term real time investment in to the game world. 
 
 

Armour Crafting

 
Armour crafting skill is shared between metal and cloth/leather armours. 
 
The easiest route to increase your metal armour crafting skill is to hunt animals and skin them for the raw hide and make lots of leather armour, salvage them and repeat the process until you run out of leather. 
 
Why is this easier you may ask? Even if you don’t ask I’m still going to tell you… 
At the early stages of the game everyone and their mother are going to be camping ore spawn points, the efficiency of the area will tank as the node respawns will have multiple people after them. 
 
In another section I suggested wolf dens as the perfect place to gather ore, this advice stays the same but aim for using raw hide to raise that armouring crafting skill and then you can save the majority of any ore you do get to make the metal armour items you want and need rather than as a means to raise your skill level. 
 

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