- there's an in-game guide that goes over almost everything and provides you with necessary starter items
- access it by pressing "U" (by default)
- 0 switches between 3rd person and 1st person camera
- I prefer first-person
- before you leave the starting area, touch the Waystone on the far West side of town
- in your inventory menu, you can use the right side search box to search for any item in the game and right-click it to discover how to obtain it
- you may need to adjust your GUI scale if it's too big or too small
- hit "esc" to get to the options menu
- click "Options..."
- click "Video Settings..."
- on the default tab ("General") adjust GUI Scale
- if a hotkey doesn't make sense to you, change it
- Ctrl+<1-9> switches to the corresponding hotbar slot
- <1-8> casts the corresponding skill from your skill bar
- press "G" to open the character menu
- there's also a button accessible from the inventory menu that takes you to the character menu
- make sure you're allocating all points on level-up
- attributes
- talent points
- class skill points
- class passive points
- make sure you add learned skills to your skill hotbar (can use "G")
- change your auto-salvage settings from the character menu
- probably want to auto-salvage white gear to start, maybe green gear as well
- Nature's Compass finds nearest instance of a particular biome and guides you to it
- Trading Post allows you to trade with all villagers at once
- Construction Wands help you build structures more quickly
- Look into the storage mods in the mod information below, they're extremely useful mods
- the button to send applicable items to the master backpack also sends your weapon from your hotbar
- instead what I do is press "Q" to drop applicable items from the chest, so I can walk over them and they'll get picked up into the correct bags
- Mod Pack Overview
- Runewords
- Bosses
- Storage solutions
- The Twilight Forest
- Botania
- MCA: Reborn
- Farmer's Delight
- Chococraft
- Construction Wand
- Doggy Talents Next
- FLAN (for claiming land)
- try some stuff listed here