Tutorial writeup for new players?

[cor-karolis]

HELLO NEW FRIEND! Er, not that I’m so far from new myself, but still. I started writing up a new player tutorial soon as I saw the sale announcement, actually, but then I got distracted and, uh. Yeah. Lessee, tho, quick version:

1. yes there’s a discord: https://discord.gg/GfnFbQA which I hope will work…

2. afaik there’s no way (yet) to search for what you want in the crafting stations

3. Mass crafting requires a skill which is in…one of the later trees, the one with the equipment crafting

4. Yeah, the Unstable Connection thing is a bear. Things that can help include setting your cache to high, your chunk download to low, playing on geographically-nearish servers, and – especially when going thru portals – tuning down your graphics settings.

Other things to note:

• there are a handful of portal networks set up that connect all the worlds
• resources are biome- and world-dependent, so if you can’t find something it may just be that you’re looking in the wrong place; ask here or on discord
• there are a few shops people have set up that you may find very useful as a new player; don’t feel like you have to craft every little thing yourself unless you’re into crafting
• the “Objectives” are more like a tutorial system, and are entirely optional. You don’t need to do them all.
• Wildstock are currently going through adolescence and HATE EVERYBODY. they will kill you on sight. BEWARE.
• don’t trust error messages in workstation menus. Especially the furnace – when it says “missing basic skill crafting recipes” it actually means “you don’t have enough fuel or are missing an ingredient”
• similarly, if a station tells you “Can’t craft in sanctum” when you aren’t in sanctum, it actually means your inventory is full

Anyway, there are several planets (12) and each is something like 4x4km, so you might easily not meet people outside of major hubs at major timezone-playtimes. But we’re here, I assure you!

Edit: Useful links time!

Worlds are connected like this (there’s a diagram in the post):

Wiki: Worlds

Every world in Boundless is a planet and server. All twelve servers are separated by four geografical areas. Below is the universe map “the Crown of the Boundless” where every area is represented as a column: [image] Also worlds are divided by three categories of enviroment aggresion: home worlds. moon worlds and ring worlds. Moon worlds placed in top row on the map, home worlds - in middle row, and ring - in down row. Connection between worlds Lines between worlds are the paths of traveling…

The four starter worlds are Berlyn (US West), Solum (US East), Therka (EU), and Vena V (Aus). It should say which you’re on at the top of your screen (usually something like “Northeast of ??? – Solum”).

You can get your world-local coordinates from the Locations menu (Game menu → Worlds–> Locations → Current Location). If you click on Current Location it’ll unfold a panel and give you a lat/long/altitude coordinate set of the form “1234N, 321E (Altitude:111)”. From wherever you are, if you want to get to a portal network, here are some useful coords for the starter worlds:

BERLYN
New Berlyn City - Planetary Transfer Station (237N, -1670E), go downstairs from the blue spiky ice thingy
New Berlyn City - SWP Hub (221N, -1660E), portal in the white glowy hut

SOLUM
PixelGate - Planetary Transfer Station (-1814N, -280E)
KrackenDown - SWP Hub connection (1264N, -1716E)

THERKA
Therka Market - Planetary Transfer Station (-1935N, 1445E)
Therka Market - SWP Hub (-1924N, 1403E), just across the plaza from above, follow the giant HUB sign

VENA
Planetary Transfer Station (-1741N, -2196E)