Tutorial
New players now start on a very small island of their own and learn by doing. It takes a few minutes: chop a tree, mine a rock, pick hemp, craft a stone hatchet, break a barrel, lay a foundation, raise a wall and walk to the boat.
- Each lesson is a short clip from the game, a beam of light on the spot and a picture of the key or mouse button, with almost no text.
- Yields and recipes are the real ones, so what you learn carries over. Crafting is sped up and your survivor doesn't get hungry or hurt.
- A big welcome card offers the tutorial when you first open the site. Skip it, or hold J at any point to leave, and go straight to the servers.
- If you close the card with the X or Esc, it asks again on your next visit. It doesn't show if you're signed in or have already played.
The Waymark Hatchet
Finish the tutorial and sign up with Discord or Google to keep the Waymark Hatchet, a glowing green stone hatchet skin you can only get from the tutorial. It's one per account and can't be traded. If you play on without signing up, the reward waits in that browser for the first account that signs in there.
Faster first join
The main game downloads in the background during the tutorial, so joining a server after it takes about half as long as a new player's first join without it. In our tests on a 50 Mbps connection that was 22 seconds instead of 45, and the tutorial itself started in 14.
