Reclaim

The world

You wake on a big island that's been overrun. Old ruins are scattered everywhere; clear one out and it becomes your home. The island is four rings, and it gets harder (and richer) the further out you go:

• The world is shared and saved. Time only passes while someone is online, so nothing starves or burns out while you're away.
• A day lasts 20 minutes. Nights are dark and bring more monsters: carry torches.

Controls

Combat and dying

• Click a monster to attack it; you'll walk into reach and keep swinging until it's dead (click the ground to break off). Damage comes from what you hold, so put a weapon on your hotbar and select it. Armor goes in the armor slot in your pack.
• Bosses mark the ground with a red ring before a big hit. Get out of the ring.
• Health comes back slowly on its own. Food heals faster.
• Dying keeps your inventory. You wake at home Wounded for 3 minutes of play: less max health and slower healing. Easy to shrug off, but don't chain-die.
• Monsters won't come into a ruin you've claimed. Home is safe.

Your first day

1. Punch some trees and rocks. Bare hands work, slowly. Get ~15 wood and ~10 stone.
2. Open your pack (I) and make a stone axe and a stone pickaxe, and a wooden club if you want something to swing. The recipe list shows what you can make right now.
3. Make a few torches (2 wood → 2) before dark.
4. Find a ruin (the map shows them), kill its guards, and make a claim banner (6 wood + 4 stone). Right-click to plant it on the ruin's floor. It's yours now; you respawn here.
5. Make a chest (8 wood) for your stuff and a cooking fire (6 stone + 4 wood).
6. Mine copper and tin (Greenwood ore veins). Build a stone furnace (8 stone), put ore and wood in it, and smelt ingots. 3 copper + 1 tin at the furnace = bronze. Bronze gear is your first real upgrade.

Your ruin

• Inside your claim you can build stone walls, chests, machines and Blood Magic. Nobody else can break or take anything there.
• Repairing walls: hold a stone wall (craft it from 3 stone, anywhere) and click a broken ruin wall or a rubble pile inside your claim. The fresh wall replaces it. There's no separate repair button.
• You can hold up to 3 ruins. Pick one near what you need: water for a water wheel, trees for resin.
• Your stuff in chests stays put. Things dropped on the ground (when your pack is full) vanish after a few minutes.

Food and farming

• Wild plants drop seeds. Make a stone hoe, till soil inside your claim, and plant. A bucket of water on a 3×3 patch makes it grow twice as fast. Crops ripen in about 6 minutes.
• Cook at the cooking fire. Meals heal and give a 5-minute buff (tougher, faster, stronger…).
• Every new food you eat for the first time gives +2 max health, forever. Try everything.

Technology: metal and machines

Metal goes stone → bronze → steel → electrum → dark steel. Each tier needs the last tier's pickaxe to mine its ore, and each is better gear.

• Stone furnace: burns fuel (wood, charcoal, coal) to smelt ore into ingots. Wood in the ore slot becomes charcoal, a better fuel.
• SAG mill (powered): 1 ore → 2 dust. Twice the metal. Smelt the dust.
• Alloy smelter (powered): bronze (copper + tin), steel (iron + coal), electrum (silver + gold), far better yield than mixing at the furnace by hand, and it needs no fuel.
• Item pipes join machines and chests into a network: machines pull ore and fuel from the chests and put what they make back. Things that touch count as joined too.
• Later: a storage terminal shows every chest on its pipes as one searchable list (and crafting uses it), and a storage core with drives holds thousands of items.

Simple power, step by step

The SAG mill and alloy smelter need power. The easiest setup, all with Greenwood metal:

1. Make a generator (10 stone + 4 copper ingots) and a SAG mill (12 stone + 4 copper + 2 tin).
2. Make energy cables (1 copper ingot + 1 wood → 4).
3. Place the generator and mill in your ruin, and join them with cables (or just put them next to each other).
4. Right-click the generator and give it fuel: wood works (10 s each), charcoal is 40 s, coal 60 s.
5. Right-click the mill and put ore in. It grinds while the generator has power. Done!

Make it run itself

• Put a chest next to the generator (or pipe one to it) full of fuel. It feeds itself.
• Pipe a chest to the mill: it pulls ore from it and drops dust back in. Add a furnace or alloy smelter on the same pipes and the dust goes straight on to ingots.

Free power

• A water wheel (beside water) or a windmill touching an alternator gives a small, steady amount of power with no fuel at all. Windmills do double in the Highlands. (Alternators need steel.)
• Resin taps near trees drip resin; a still turns it into tree oil, a long-burning fuel. A grove can fuel its own still.
• A harvester picks and replants ripe crops around it and pipes the harvest away.

Blood Magic

Powerful, a little grim, and it starts early. You pay in life essence (LP), which comes from your own blood.

1. Collect bloodstone (undead drop it; sometimes rubble). Make a sacrificial dagger and a blood altar (12 stone + bloodstone + 4 bone) inside your claim.
2. Hold the dagger and right-click the altar to bleed into it (10 health → 100 LP). Eat, wait, repeat.
3. Infuse things by right-clicking the altar with them: stone → blank slate, bloodstone → a weak blood orb.
4. Carry the orb and right-click the altar with it to pull LP into your soul network (the red bar under your health).
5. Craft sigils from slates: Blood Bolt (shoot), Mending (heal), Swiftness, Growth (crops), Blood Lamp. They spend your network, or your blood if it's empty.

Going further

• Tier 2: surround the altar with 8 blood runes. Reinforced slates, the apprentice orb, and Blood Lance.
• Tier 3: add a blood capstone two steps out on each diagonal (a clear 5×5). Imbued slate and the magician's orb.
• A master ritual stone runs a ritual from its own LP, even while you're offline: the Green Grove (faster crops), and with late-game foci, the Warding Veil (keeps monsters away) or the Well of Suffering (hurts monsters and fills your altar).

Spells and wands

• Spells cost mana (the blue bar). Learn one by right-clicking a tome; it goes on QERF. Click a spell slot to swap what's there.
• Craftable tomes: parchment (from hide) + arcane ink (charcoal + copper dust, so you'll want a SAG mill). Arcane Bolt, Renew (heal), Ward (shield).
• Fire Nova and Meteor only drop in dungeons. Blood Lance is infused from an Arcane Bolt tome. The realm bosses carry the rarest two.
• Wands and staves shoot a missile as their basic attack and make your spells stronger. The first wand is just wood, copper and ink.
• Fen tea (cranberries + onion) refills mana faster.

Dungeons, bosses and realms

• Each ring has a stone portal (blue swirl) to its dungeon: nine dark rooms, rich ore, and a boss at the end. Bring torches; only torches can be placed inside.
• Bosses enrage at half health. They drop a trophy you'll need for top-tier gear and keys, plus magic loot.
• A dungeon resets a few minutes after everyone leaves, so you can fight its boss again. Loot left inside is lost.
• Realms (violet portals) are the endgame: the Hollow (Highlands) and the Twilight Glade (Ashlands). Their portals need a key in your pack, crafted from dungeon trophies. Their bosses shoot back.

Loot and affixes

• Gear can drop magic (1–2 bonuses), rare (3) or, from realm bosses, unique (fixed, named, powerful). Bonuses on what you hold and wear add up.
• An enchanter's bench lifts one bonus off an item into a soul gem (destroying the item) and sets it into another, up to 4 per item. Uniques can't be changed.
• When your pack is full, loot lands at your feet. Anyone can pick it up, so share or hurry.