Brighter Shores – Things You Should to Know

Helpful Things

Things You Wish You Knew Earlier

  • The quartermaster spell you unlock early lets you bank gear from anywhere in the map, don’t need to run back to sell/bank.
  • Cooking skill prints money and is pretty AFK.
  • There’s a little arrow on the left of the screen that lets you keep some HUD elements up all the time, like map + backpack. Very useful imo.
  • I would first focus a skill to level 20, gives you knowledge points for bonus xp/money constantly, and unlocks a passive xp method you can use all night even with the game closed.
  • Areas with enemies highlighted with red are aggressive, meaning you can AFK there, and are at risk when running through. AFK warning though, enemies do level up without you leaving and will just kill you
  • In Chapter 2, with the Spiders’ Nest quest, you can unlock a spell to bank from around the world, so most consider it worth rushing.
  • Cooking early is pretty quick silver. Ctrl+S is the shortcut for sense. There is no spoon. The lvl 18 crows hit like trucks. Teleport seems to have no cooldown so that’s nice. Discovery everything you can with sense.

General Tips

Potions

You can make different types of potions that help you in the game. The Fear potion keeps monsters away from you for 3 minutes, which helps you walk through dangerous areas safely. XP potions give you 5-10% more experience points. Combat potions make you stronger in fights, but only last for one battle. There’s also a potion that makes peaceful monsters drop 250% more money for 1 hour.

Map Discovery

Make sure to click on everything you see – creatures, plants, and objects. This marks them on your map forever. After you discover something, you can click its name in quest text to see where to find it again on the map.

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Skills and Episodes

The game is split into different episodes. Each episode has its own skills, but your skill levels stay with you when you move to new episodes. You’ll need certain skill levels to make items, collect resources, and fight monsters. You might need skills from earlier episodes to do things in later ones, so old areas stay useful.

Gear and Areas

Gear only works in the episode where you upgraded it. When you start a new episode, you need to find new gear.

Extra Experience

You can buy enchantments from shops to get more experience points. Different episodes have different enchantments available.

Shopping Tips

Look for the “Future Items” button in shops to see what you can buy later and how much it costs. You can do the same with monsters to see when you can fight stronger versions.

Useful Features

  • Use the Quartermaster spell to send items directly to your bank
  • Press Control+S to use the Sense spell, which shows everything in the room
  • At level 20, you unlock Knowledge. You earn it while training skills and can use it to unlock new activities or get experience/money

Progress Tip

Don’t stay too long in the first episode. Move on to at least episode 2 before spending time leveling up skills, as you need to progress to unlock important features.

Crenopolis Tip

Powerful tip for those of you in crenopolis: You can buy merchant items, and drop them infront of the turn-in NPC for later, meaning if you need to go to the soap vendor, buy 24x and drop whatever extra you have, making it an instant turn in for your next run. This is insanely powerful for pumpkins and soap specifically, and is most likely unintended. Expect it to get patched, but make use of it while you can.

Carpentry Tips

How to get 32 carpentry? Expect 8-10 hours of grind!

Tip: Use spare knowledge points on silver if you’re broke.

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Tips to Make Money

Combat might be the best way to earn money, but if you’re looking for a more chill approach, you could make and sell Vege Stew and do some Door Dash. Killing thieves with a arboreal weapon seems to be the absolute best atm since they have very little equipment or filler drops other than xp potions which are welcome anyway.

Only problem is their dagger attack seems to be slightly faster htan most mobs making them pretty dangerious but maybe im wrong on the attack speed thing either way it’s real nice seeing like 1 silver a kill, only real frustration im having is how crowded the 2 alleys are.

  • Do cooking bounties.
  • Also fishing entire inventories is good silver too.
  • Reputation points dont feel terrible early either.

So, fishing and chef is just to sell them not use it as food. It is just a way to make money for stuff.

Best skill for making money

Depends what ep youre in. Some say Merchant, Carpenter, Cooking, Your classes armor…

Also for cooking… If you want to make money the bacon sandwiches are good, the fish jellies are better. But the chicken and leek and ESPECIALLY the sausage and mash are literal scams and cost you more money (unless you gather).

Fishing Tips

How to start fishing? Melv’s fishing supplies is at the town square here:

Note: Doing eels and pufferfish around level 34 gave me 160 silver in 1 hour of gameplay.

Spider Room Route

Spider Room correct tiles to walk on.

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Merchant Locations

Merchant Locations with the buy / deliver info.

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Horn of Hopeport Location

Go to the room on the north side of the river in Riverside Goblin Cavern. You’ll be in “Communal Goblin Area”. Go another room north to a guarded door. Talk to the goblin, ask if the Horn is in there, then ask about a key.

If you pick all the right dialogue he’ll say it’s randomly assigned to a goblin each day. This is your cue to go kill goblins in this area until it drops. It is a random drop.

Helpful Tip: You can fight the level 2 variants of the goblins by using “past action”, the weaklings still drop the key.

XP / Level Milestones

Level – XP

  • 25 – 128,617
  • 50 – 752,539
  • 75 – 1,762,204
  • 100 – 3,396,108
  • 125 – 6,040,195
  • 150 – 10,319,013
  • 175 – 17,243,259
  • 200 – 28,448,494
  • 225 – 89,611,386
  • 250 – 160,276,100
  • 275 – 241,918,762
  • 300 – 336,244,832
  • 325 – 445,224,715
  • 350 – 571,134,915
  • 375 – 716,605,603
  • 400 – 884,675,555
  • 425 – 1,078,855,621
  • 450 – 1,303,202,085
  • 475 – 1,562,401,381
  • 500 – 1,861,867,939

Grouping terms for each profession’s level

  • Novice is lv 0-19
  • Apprentice is 20-49
  • Journeyman 50-99
  • Adept 100-199
  • Expert 200-499
  • Ultimate 500
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A lifelong gamer Jan Bakowski, also known as Lazy Dice, was always interested in gaming and writing. He lives in Poland (Wrocław). His passion for games began with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64 back in 1998. Proud owner of Steam Deck, which has become his primary gaming platform. He’s been making guides since 2012. Sharing his gaming experience with other players has become not only his hobby but also his job.

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