Tips

Water and long drops are not your friend. Standing in water slowly hurts you, and falls over 10m deal damage - 30m is lethal.

Your Health only regenerates naturally up to 40%. Eat food to heal the rest of the way.

Stuck? Type /home to teleport back to town.

Your Bank holds 300 items. Bank Boxes out in the world are deposit-only.

Some Conditions stack duration - reapplying a Stun makes it last longer. Others, like Bleed, stack as separate instances and hit harder instead.

Raise your Block right before a hit to Parry - it doubles your damage reduction, costs you no Stamina and drains the attacker's. Shields block the most damage. Weapons give a longer parry window.

Every successful Block costs 20% of your max Stamina - Parries are free. Run out and your guard breaks.

Blocking a Heavy Attack triples the Stamina damage it deals to you.

You can only Block or Parry attacks coming from within 70° of your facing.

Stamina stops regenerating while you attack and for 0.7s after, or after an enemy drains your Stamina. Time your breathers between swings.

Base Stamina regenerates at 43 per second - gear and Attributes stack on top.

Press [Toggle Strafe] to lock onto an enemy during combat. This will help direct your attacks at your preferred foe.

Press [Main Hand Ability] to perform a Light Attack with your current weapon. Hold it to perform a Heavy Attack. Heavy Attacks are good to exhaust blocking enemies.

Tap [Dodge] while moving to dodge in that direction, and hold [Sprint] to sprint. Dodge to avoid incoming attacks!

Drain an enemy's Stamina to zero to Stagger them - they can't act and take 2.5× damage for a few seconds.

Press [Quick Eat] to Quick Eat. Right-click any food and choose Set Quick Eat to pick what it uses.

Tap [Occult Ability] to recast your last quick spell, or hold it to open a wheel of all your Arcana and Occult spells.

You can't change your equipped abilities while in combat - set up your loadout before the fight.

Monsters won't chase you forever. Get far enough away and they'll give up! ... But they heal while they rest.

Basic bow and crossbow shots have a 40% chance to leave the arrow where they hit - pick it back up!

Heavy attacks knock smaller foes back, and parrying a monster can stun it - the smaller the monster, the longer the stun.

Status resistances cap at 80% - resistance alone can never make you fully immune.

Use Auto Move to walk without holding forward. Steer with the camera, then press a movement control or Auto Move again to stop.

Bind Dodge separately under Settings -> Keybinds to keep Sprint for sprinting without accidentally triggering a dodge.

Your curse meter fills as you attack, take hits, gather resources or craft. Consume ichor or use totems to keep it low, lest you take on your curse's negative effects.

Ichor reduces your curse meter and restores health once your curse reaches 50% - twice as much at 80%. Totems can purify or absorb curse, all by choice.

As your curse rises you gain power at a price. Higher humanity strips away the debuffs, leaving only the buffs.

Your humanity level shapes your curse buffs and debuffs. Raise it by leveling any of your skills and by earning Quest Points.

At 300 Humanity you have a chance to cheat death, and at 700 you can become immune to poison.

Occultic Shrines accept Totems as well as Ichor.

Leveling Vitality grants +2 Max Health per level, up to 300 Health at level 100.

Armor Resistance has diminishing returns: 24 Resistance cuts typed damage to about 66%, and 100 Resistance cuts it to about 18%.

Crafting potions is a good way to level your Arcana skill. Casting spells also grants xp, but uses reagents and builds curse.

Take on jobs at Task Boards to level your Warden skill and earn Warden Badges, while leveling a variety of other skills along the way.

Your weapon decides which skill you train: Swords and Spears train Dexterity, Maces and Axes train Strength, Staves and Wands train Sorcery, and Crossbows train Ranged.

Defence levels from damage you prevent - armor, resistances and blocking all count.

Vitality levels from healing - food and healing effects all grant xp.

You can hold 3 Task Board jobs at once. Spend a Warden Badge to re-roll a task's modifier.

Choose a skill in Skills and select Track to keep its XP globe visible on your HUD. Tracking another skill replaces it.

Fractional Loot rolls are real: 130% Increased Magic Find (Quantity) gives 2 guaranteed rolls plus a 30% chance at a third.

Dying sends your Inventory to Death's Shop of Greed - equipped gear, quest items and Ichor stay with you. Reclaim a few items for free, then buy back the rest.

The Magic Find (Quality) modifier bends odds toward rare items.

The contents of looted chests respawn every 45 minutes, about how long it takes for a Thrunk to come by and hide their treasure inside... Finders keepers!

The first player to hit a monster owns its loot. Drops are yours alone for 30 seconds and vanish after 2 minutes.

Claim your free items from Death's Shop of Greed before you die again - unclaimed free picks become paid ones!

Items come in Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary quality. Higher quality means more modifiers and up to +25% base stats.

Rare, Epic and Legendary gear needs +2, +4 and +6 levels above its base requirement to equip.

Equipping a Two-Handed weapon removes your off-hand. Keep a free inventory slot just in case. Modifiers on two-handed weapons roll 50% stronger.

To find something in your Bank, type part of its name into Search the bank, then use the category tabs to narrow the results.

Right-click an Uncommon or better item and choose Lock Item to protect it from accidental selling, dropping, trading or duel staking.

At a bank, use Inventory or Equipment in the Items header to deposit carried items or worn gear in one go, subject to bank space and item restrictions.

Use Sort beside Stored Items to organise your bank by category, even at a deposit-only Bank Box.

Manual Crafting will give you better odds of crafting a quality item than Auto Crafting, even if both your manual craft score and auto craft score are the same.

Better tools gather more reliably. Each Tool Tier adds +5% success, and every tier above a node's requirement gives bonus gathers before it depletes.

For recipes that allow Auto Craft, there's no need to craft them by hand first. Successful manual crafting grants 75% bonus xp.

Open Skills, choose a crafting skill, then select a Recipe entry to see its requirements, ingredients and crafting stations.

On a skill's Recipe or Sources page, select a row marked Show on map to locate its listed crafting stations or gathering spots.

Equip a Tool Belt to carry tools such as your Chisel and Shovel in its five pouch slots instead of your main backpack.

Small, Medium and Large pouches all provide five slots. Their compatible stackable items stack to 2x, 3x and 4x the normal limit.

Press a movement key, move the stick or use Jump to cancel your current gathering attempt.

Pop-Up Events are scattered across the map, provide fun rewards, and can be taken on with friends - parties earn 10% bonus xp!

Rebuilding Desolate Zones offers rewards for the entire server, including Crafting Stations, Bank Boxes, fishing spots and shortcuts.

Press [Map] to open the map, and scroll in to see all the details for interactables or other locations of note!

If you are looking for things to do, why not take on a Quest? Open your quest log to see which ones you haven't taken on yet, and where to find them!

Being in a Party grants +3% xp to every skill. Right-click a player to invite them, up to 12 members.

Interact with a Curse Warp to unlock it, then spend Mana to fast-travel between warps. Longer trips cost more.

Hold [Show More] to free your cursor and see extra detail on tooltips.

Hold [Show More] to inspect minimap icons, then click one to open the world map there.

Press H to see your controls, F1 to hide the UI, or F8 for a hi-res screenshot.

Hold [Emote Wheel] to open the emote wheel.

Right-click a spot on the world map and choose Share Spot With Party to mark it for your party for one minute.

Enable Hide Minimap in Gameplay settings to hide the minimap, area name and world clock.

Choose the Trade chat tab or type /trade before your message to talk in the Trade channel.

If you hit a monster hard enough, they will die.

If you are having trouble with the game, just keep your Health above 0 and it will be significantly easier.