Quest reference

The first-hour tutorial chain (16 steps), the main arc (6 chapters), 23 radiant templates that the border graph generates, 14 step kinds.

First Steps: the 16-step chain

Every new character gets it (the Skip tutorial setting drops it). Hints print the live key labels.

Hint text per step:

• flame: Swing your torch with LMB. It lights the dark and never burns out. Move with WASD.
• gather: Walk up to sticks and flower stalks on the ground and press E. Gather 5 sticks and 3 flower stalks (fibre).
• axe: Open the pack (Tab), press Craft and make a Hand Axe. Right-click it in the pack to hold it.
• chop: Hold the axe, face a tree and swing (LMB) until it falls. Gather the logs: you will need 13 wood.
• mallet: Open the pack (Tab), press Craft and make a Builder’s Mallet (3 wood).
• bench: Press B to take the mallet and open the build menu. Under Crafting choose a Workbench (10 wood), aim at flat ground and place it (LMB).
• portal: At the workbench craft the Portal Gun, hold it and fire a pair with LMB. Walk into one portal and step out of the other.
• spear: Stand at the workbench and craft a Hardwood Spear (7 wood, 3 fibre from flower stalks), then equip it.
• fire: Build a Campfire (6 wood; build menu, Furniture) then hold E at it to add wood. It catches from your torch.
• shelter: With the mallet raise a floor, four walls and a roof from wood (Structure, Roofs). Keep the fire close.
• dusk: Night belongs to the Dark. Go back to your fire with the torch in your hand and wait for dusk.
• fight: Creatures come to the light. Face them, swing (LMB), and hold RMB to block. The first one is the hardest.
• cook: Build a Cooking Spit (6 wood, Furniture) beside the fire, tap E at the fire and cook the raw meat, then take it when it is done.
• eat: Eat it: right-click the meal in the pack, or press its hotbar key.
• rest: Build a Bed (8 wood, 6 fibre; Furniture) under your roof, near a lit fire (hold E at the fire to add wood), and use it with E.
• hamlet: Follow the marker to the nearest hamlet and speak to its elder (E). Ask again for odd jobs: trade, farm, fish.

Condition keys: swing, pick:<item>, craft:<item>, fell, build:<piece or cat:category>, equip:weapon, lit, night, kill, cook, eat, sleep, hamlet.

Onboarding toasts

• pick: Picked up [item]. Everything you gather goes to your pack (Tab).
• craft: Crafted [item]. It is in your pack (Tab).
• build: Placed [piece]. Hold the mallet and tap RMB to open the build menu again.
• kill: Your first kill. Stay near your fire at night: the dark sends more.
• done: First Steps complete. The hamlet awaits: your journal (J) keeps the road ahead.

Contextual hints

Main arc

Authored chapters anchored to the world graph (see the story). Targets resolve per world from the strategic state; every chapter stays within tier 4 and below.

Follow-up chains and the ending

After the hamlet (chapter 1 taken up) the elder of chapter 1 offers three optional chains once per world: ids chain:trade, chain:farm, chain:fish; they never expire. Their steps use the existing kinds, with feed targets: talk trade:sell / trade:buy (the host executed a trade), build farm:plant (a seed or sapling went into tilled ground), gather of an item the character holds or * for a harvested crop, fish any species. The ending: main chapter 6 done and the world key boss_nocthra set, then the host sets the world key ending.seen once and every player shows the ending card once.

Radiant templates

Generated from the state of the border graph (relationship per edge, shortages per node, dens and wild cells, season and weather).

Step kinds

• go
• find
• slay
• gather
• deliver
• escortCaravan
• tame
• fish
• build
• defendSettlement
• dive
• delve
• rideRails
• talk

Quest items

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