I must be blind because I don’t see the # anywhere on the Skills screen?
Also, what do the #'s next to the gold and purple icons on the page represent?
And 1 more unrelated question.
They want me to place 32 blocks in my Beacon.
How do I do that?
That should be all of my newb Q’s for awhile.
Thanks in advance.
The gold icon is the number of skill points you have available to spend/use. The purple one is the number of skill points you can change.
On the skill page, top left next to a “+” symbol.
Not sure about this one without it in front of me.
Your “beacon” is the entire area you have claimed with that beacon. So, if you havn’t added any new plots yet, they mean “within that plot”. If you have more than one plot connected, it can be anywhere in the area you have claimed.
And ask all the questions you want!!! We like questions.
Make a campfire & place it. Make a crafting table and place it within your beacon area. Then craft a beacon & beacon fuel. Place the beacon, put the fuel in it. Then place your blocks. You will probably want to rip up all of these items and take them with you when you are done.
To complement Vex’s answer, the gold icon is the number you can use to increase skills, and the purple is the number of skills that you can ‘unlearn’ to reuse the points (right click on the PC, not sure on PS4)
Until level 20, doing that will not consume any of the purple points (called cleanse points) so you can experiment with all the skills and see what you want to focus on before that level.
It costs 1 cleanse point to unlearn a level of any skill after that, even skills that cost 5 of the ‘gold’ skill points to increase.
You can only use a maximum of 100 skill (gold) points per skill page. That’s the gold progress bar in between the purple and gold icons.
Ok
That makes much more sense.
They really need to change the wording from “in beacon” to “within plot.”
Thus was driving me crazy. Lol
Sorry nce you like questions…
How do you quit the game?
I’m on PS4.
And, how do you know how many plots you have available to place?
Thanks again.
This is such a nice community.
It’s hard to grasp. Lol
There’s two buttons to open a menu, one will open the regular menu:
The other will open the system menu:
You should be able to close the game from the second one.
Strictly a PC user so I don’t know what the exact buttons will be on the PS4 
it’s in inventory screen - just under all the slots for items you have a narrow bar with your coins on the left and your plots on the right
PS4 doesn’t have an exit game option. Just exit to the console home screen and use the start button to close the program.
It doesn’t? That’s so weird.
I figured it would have some sort of interface equivalent. It even has one for Steam Friends in the PSN friends thing.
Yeah, it’s odd.
It’s because the game doesn’t have a home screen. You see it a lot in PC ports.
We don’t have a quit game option on that menu.
It’s the first place I looked.
Apparently not. I’ve seen new PC players get confused about it because the two menus look so similar, so I figured that might have been the issue.
Something similar also happened to a veteran player that’s a friend of mine but in that case it was the shop button that had vanished (in that situation there was a parental control to hide it that was apparently switched on by mistake) 
Hold the PS button and then ‘close application’.
The words Beacon and Plot get used in confusing ways.
Strictly speaking the device you place is a Beacon Control. A Beacon is 1 or more Plots which you start when placing a Beacon Control.
So you could have a 4x4 Beacon which would have 16 Plots. It would have started when you placed a Beacon Control and used a Beacon Plotter to extend it.
That first Beacon Control would, by default, be the Master Beacon Control. If you place another Beacon Control in the Beacon, you can make it the new Master Beacon Control, then break the old one. There’s a Journal Objective for this.
Edit: Plots used is shown in your Inventory alongside Coin - e.g. 18/31 Land Plots
