Getting started

Welcome! Here's how your first hour usually goes.

1. Accept the rules. Type /rules and follow the link; until then you can look around and read the chat, but not talk, build or earn.
2. Open your kit. Once you've accepted, you get a stone toolset, a golden shovel for claiming land, bread, torches, a bed, a compass that always points to town and a small book with the basics.
3. Find a place to live. Take the balloon at the belvedere by the river for one free flight to the wild (see Getting around), or walk out through a town gate. Protect it: the golden shovel in your kit claims land (right-click two opposite corners), or just type /claim where you stand (see Land & claims).
4. Set your home. /sethome where you sleep; your first home is free. /home brings you back, /spawn takes you to the town square.
5. Earn your first Embers. Just playing earns about 50 ✦ an hour, and the counter at the town hall buys everyday goods (see Selling goods).

Good to know

• No PvP, and you keep your inventory when you die.
• Nothing is pay-to-win. Embers can't be bought with real money; everything is earned by playing. The ranks are cosmetic.
• The town centre is kept by the staff; you build your own home outside town, or buy a plot or a shop in town.
• Lost? The live map shows the whole world, and your compass points home to town.
• Stuck? See Help & reporting.