Board Thread:Guides/@comment-24108228-20140526004953

See Part 1 Here.

After the success of my last beginners guide, I decided to make a sequel. This guide focuses on progressing from "Post-Noob" to "Intermediate", and putting the player in an excellent position to pursue any career they may choose.

This assumes you completed the previous guide, and can do everything shown there, and your playing a new game.

Spawning In
Ok, so your back for more. Even better however, is the fact that your still following educational guides to speed up your learning in this harsh world. You're definitely resourceful enough make an excellent survivor.

More to the point, you've just spawned in and the hunger clock is ticking. You should probably stop congratulating yourself and get to work. Chances are, your not on paradise. You'll need to create a raft, and to get the 2 carpentry you'll need, you should make a large handle, craft that into a medium handle, and finally craft that into a handle. A tedious process, but it triples your carpentry gain from creating the handle. If you are on paradise, excellent! Your very lucky! But make the raft anyway, you'll need the skills.

Once you arrive at paradise, eat from the centre orchard. Any fruit remaining should be foraged. Forage a lot of trees, make a bucket and firemaking bow, make 5 walls, and then use them to create a mill and a lumbermill. Store the lumbermill, and create a few wheat bundles. Place the mill and make the bundles into flour, and use your bucket to make them into dough, and finally bread. You'll want a couple of these for survival at rockma island.

Once you have your bread, full bucket, and wheat, you should head off to rockma island. Forage three piles of small stones, and make a stone pickaxe and Forge. Mine one last iron with your stone pickaxe to make an Iron Pickaxe, and at this point, you will start learning new stuff.

Strong as Steel
You now have an iron pickaxe. Do not bother creating any more iron tools, as you will not need them. Instead, mine three iron ore, and climb up on top of the cave to collect three coal. You will be going back frequently, so leave any scaffolding you used to get up there behind for later use. You will then need to craft some steel mix, which is made as follows: Refined Iron + Coal After cooking the steel mix, you get refined steel, which is used to create steel tools. You will want to spend your first three steel on three steel pickaxes, which can be used in conjunction with each other to allow you to mine extremely fast. You will want to use these pickaxes to create a lot of steel. At least two inventory rows. If your prone to disconnecting, you may also want to collect some iron ore and coal, as the 10 minute save removes all items of value, which includes refined iron, steel mix, all tools (stored and held), and anything else you can think of (which defies the point of the save, but it's not like you can do anything). Iron ore and coal are exceptions to this rule, and so they make the best checkpoint in the event of disconnects.

Once you finish, two/three sets of steel tools are a good idea. That allows you to be more flexible about death, as everyone hates starting from square one when they accidentally die of thirst. You'll want a small amount of spare steel, because you never know what life will throw at you. If your stuck for an idea of a steel tool set, this has served me well over the past few months:
 * Steel Hatchet
 * Steel Sword
 * Steel Javelin
 * Or if you really want ranged power, try a Crossbow, although this will use up steel fast.

Once you finish, you'll want to collect some gold from the other end of the island. You can use this to make gold jugs, along with miscellaneous end-game tools that you will be unlikely to come across, but may come up in a fortunate twist of fate.

As a final thing to do before you can call yourself prepared for anything, you will want to go to bento island to get bento hide. The inhabitants should be friendly (ones that aren't usually get wiped out quickly), and you can spawnkill a bento buck for a multitude of leather. It can tan while in your backpack, so while on the go to your next location, make sure your making all the leather you'll ever need.

The Big Wide World
Firstly, I want to point out that you are in an amazing position for doing whatever you want. Don't forget, unless your in a war, you'll most likely never need to call on the power (and price tag) of bluesteel and mithril. With what you have, you could set up a thriving tribe, live as a wealthy nomad, hunt down mushrooms and mithril, or even try and find the bluesteel recipe. Your in an incredible position to interact with the world around you, and all of its unpredictable people inside. No longer are you a "Post-Noob". I promote thee to an "Intermediate/Experienced Player". Congratulations.

Unfortunately, you've just hit a snag. You see, due to wiki rules and regulations, I am unable to aid you in progression towards becoming a pro, as I cannot tell you the hidden locations and recipes of the pro stuff, such as mithril and bluesteel. You will have to find that by yourself. Well, unless you can make yourself some friends in the big wide world. Friends who do know the location and recipe of the highly desired materials. I bid you good luck.

Enjoy the wonderful world of Survival 303! Was this/would this be useful (assuming your a beginner)? Yes No  