Getting Started

This page covers your first hour. Follow the Act I: The Shadowfall chapter in your quest book; it teaches the pack in the order you need it.

The first hour, step by step

1. Open the quest book. The default key is O. If that does nothing, check Options → Controls to set a keybind, otherwise just open from your inventory screen top left..
2. Read the first few quests. Welcome to Arcadia, Your Adventurer's Journal and Learn Your Keybinds. They take two minutes and save hours.
3. Set your keybinds. Dodge or roll, weapon abilities, the spell wheel, the paraglider and the map all matter. Bosses in this pack punish standing still.
4. Punch a tree. Then follow the quests: wooden tools, stone tools, crafting table, furnace, chest and bed.
5. Survive your first night. First Blood asks you to kill a few zombies, skeletons and spiders. Learn how they move; then learn to dodge.
6. Sleep in a bed. That sets your spawn.
7. Find iron and craft armor. Some of it may be locked to a skill level; see Skills and Gear Locks.
8. Get diamonds and enchant something.
9. Try magic. Craft an Inscription Table and a Scroll Forge. The Wizards and Spells chapter goes deeper.
10. Trade with a villager.
11. Enter the Nether, find a fortress and collect blaze rods.
12. Finish Begin Act II. That opens the Ledgerkeeper and the real hunts.

What to bring into the Nether

• Food and a shield
• A bow and plenty of arrows
• Fire Resistance if you have it
• A bucket of water
• A friend, if you can find one

Five survival rules

1. Dodge. Standing still is how bosses win.
2. Light your caves. The dark is not empty.
3. Always carry food, a spare weapon and an escape (an ender pearl, a waystone, or a good pair of legs).
4. Do not rely on graves. Grave and undying-charm mods exist to help, not to be relied on.
5. Open every chest. Loot chests give each player their own loot.

What not to do in the first hour

• Do not dig straight down.
• Do not sprint on soul sand.
• Do not fight anything named after a mod boss yet.
• Do not spend every XP level on one skill. See Skills and Gear Locks.

Your first bit of money

In Act I you will get a single silver coin. Right-click it to store it. That is the beginning of the economy. You will meet the Ledgerkeeper properly in Act II.

What next?

Head to the Roadmap for every stage of the pack, or read the Lore to see why any of this matters.