Paid Beta Guide

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Getting Yen / First Starting Out
It’s highly recommended that you start out with a group of friends or someone you absolutely know you can trust, and try to find your way to each other.

When you first spawn in, you'll either be in Kanehira Village or Okoku Village (the medieval one). These villages are very important since they're both safezones. You can't be attacked in these villages. However, if you enter the village while combat tagged, you’ll take damage at a rapid pace if you don’t get out.

In these villages you'll find some shop sellers and other npcs. What you first want to do is get to Kanehira Village if you aren't already there. Kanehira has a quest which can generate some yen with little risk. If you're in Okoku, leave the village and follow the river away from the large Madara looking tree. When you see Hosho Castle (the only castle), go in the direction in front of it into a little alley way filled with trees. Welcome to Kanehira.

In Kanehira, keep going all the way straight to the end until you see a graveyard. There's an npc there. Take his quest and do it until you have enough yen to purchase a weapon. Once you get a weapon, you can start killing bandits. The quest giver for the bandit quest is in front of Hosho Castle.

Once you have the basics of the game sorted out, you should either work towards finding a reliable clan to join, or making one with your friends yourself.

Clans
To create a clan, you must head to the Clan Master and pay a fee for ¥50,000. Once you’ve made the clan, you should look for members to join it. It’s recommended that you invite friends and people you can trust to your clan, as you never know when the next is going to betray you. Clan members have a marker above them that will allow you to separate them from others when afar, and will allow you to know their location from anywhere around the island. As of now, clans are basically groups of close teammates who go ganking together, but in the future there will be much more interactive ways to use them.

Clan Commands
These commands are meant to be long, as they are to prevent someone from spamming invites and such to everyone in the server.

I, [First Name & Clan], invite you, [Target’s Name]
Sends a Clan Invitation.Request appears as an indication box(bottom left corner).

I, [First Name & Clan], banish you, [Target’s Name and Clan]
Removes Target from your clan.

I, [First Name & Clan], leave this clan
Makes you leave your clan.

Getting Souls
The best way to get souls is to grip other players. When you grip, you can click Z on their body to absorb their soul. The second best way is by grinding the bandit quests.

Quests
Quests are the main source of generating yen for the game outside of the global market or obtaining it via gripping. There are quests that will reward you with a colored fruit, which will give you a soul. The color of the fruit determines how effective it is. If you have too high of a potential, the fruit will start to give you fractures pieces of souls, until they become virtually useless, forcing you to move onto the next type of fruit, usually rewarded at harder quests.

Skill Points
Each soul is equal to one skill point. You need skill points and yen to learn skills. To learn skills you got to find the proper trainer around the map. Make sure you have level ten though in whatever skill line you want to go into. For example, if you want to do Taijutsu, make sure you level it to ten (hits give xp).

Spending skill points does not decrease one's potential or overall souls, it only affects total skill points.

Also, click M and click skill tree to view your souls and stuff.

Trainers
If you've found a physical trainer, you must have at least reached level 10 in the respective area in order to learn the first move. Every 10 levels is another move, will increasing stages of SP and Yen requirements. For class trainers, as soon as you hit 20 potential, you're able to learn the first skill right off the bat. Every first Class skill requires no SP, only yen, and every Life skill only requires yen. The first Physical skill will require both 6 SP and yen.

Market / Crafting
Most items in this game is made by other players so things can sometimes run out of stock. If you want to be a merchant and sell things in the market or you just want to avoid the market in general, you have to craft yourself.

The two main crafting skill lines are Blacksmithing and Leatherworking. You can see them in your skill tree (life skills tab). For either one, you can level up the skill line by crafting things. You can earn extra xp by turning in crafted goods to the crafting trainers.

Blacksmithing
For Blacksmithing, you first want to get a pickaxe from the Blacksmith. Find a cave and mine. Make sure you get bronze ores. After you get a few bronze ores (say three for a weapon), find a campfire and drop your ores on it. It'll cook into ingots.

After you get ingots, find the blacksmithing trainer and learn the first recipes (they don't cost anything). Then find an anvil and craft whatever. You can unlock more recipes by leveling up your crafting.

Leatherworking
You don't need to buy anything for leatherworking. Find some deers (dark brown) and just kill them. They'll sometimes drop fur. After you get enough fur, find the leatherworking trainer and get the recipes. Then find a leatherworking station and craft your items. brbr

Surviving
If you see someone, log unless you think you can beat them. Also, if you get gripped, do not log when you're in the astral realm. It still counts as a combat log. Avoid combat logging in general since there's a pretty annoying penalty for it.

Bounty
Bounty is a pretty important thing in this game but it doesn't really matter unless you're kinda relevant. You get a bounty if you grip someone within your organization so if you're a solo player, it might be a good idea to join an organization just for some extra protection.

If you get gripped with a bounty, you get sent to prison where you serve time. You also lose souls so avoid bounties. If you do get a bounty, there's a way to remove it by spending yen.

If you're toxic enough, you're bound to get a hit on you. People can spend their yen to put bounties on others. If your bounty is extremely high, you risk getting your souls wiped out.