Mirthwood – Useful Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks for Noobs

Quick Tips

• You can pick up a total of four (4) trout, before you even get on your horse in the prologue.
• Make sure you check the house for any items before you go to the docks. There is a family heirloom which can’t be obtained after the prologue!
• Search the world diligently. You never know when you might find something that will help you on your journey!
• Side Quests give you valuable experience and items.
• If you get stuck on a particular enemy, try to farm materials and upgrade your weapon/armor at the anvil station. You can always run away and live to fight another day.
• If you encounter an issue on a quest, going to sleep and returning will likely resolve the problem.
• Shift+Click selects one item.
• F2 helps out in most situations when the player gets stuck.
• Save and reload the game when you notice that frames start dropping drastically. Alternatively, pull up a cooking menu and cook some food!
• Not enough food recipes? Check the inventory of the tavern/inn shops! They sell various recipes that not only make your belly full(er), but also give you that extra coin if you have cooked for an entire village.
• Looking for (more) iron? Go south! (But make sure you carry a weapon).
• Leave the tree stumps of the trees on your farm so they regrow! It’s quicker than waiting until new trees spawn.
• Follow quests from your journal with F, to have a yellow indicator on your map show up.
• Red barrels, are explosive barrels, use them to your advantage in battle!
• You can outrun every enemy when you sprint!

General Tips

• If you are having issues with materials in general, try upgrading your pickaxe and your axe. Upgrading allows you to farm bigger versions of trees and rocks that yield more crafting materials.
• Food is so plentiful that you should just be nomming on stuff that you pick up. Don’t save food items for later. You’ll find more.
• You can “follow” a quest or contract from the journal. When followed, a yellow indicator appears on the map telling you were to go. You can only follow one at a time.
• For those of you that like to build, limestone is awesome for building new things. Limestone is found on the far eastern side of the map.
• The game is about progression and survival, it should take a while to go through it. So yeah, there’s grinding.
• There are multiple shops in The Freelands. Not just in the forest area, but there are shops in the other major towns, and at the far north east of the map.
• When you’re battling a difficult enemy, pressing V will confuse the hell out of them.
• Bow and arrows make mincemeat out of bears, wolves, and other animals.
• Shift + Attack is an unblockable attack, get the timing right and you’ll wreck everything.
• Explore as much as possible, do the side quests. You find a whole bunch of things everywhere. Read every note, read every book.
• Find the Tom Bombadil looking guy (Fernfoot or something). He’s in the area around the forest shrine in a house. He’ll trade you 8 feathers to expand one of your inventory spaces. If you haven’t been collecting feathers, then get on it!
• If your graphics cards is really having a rough time, turn off shadows from the settings, save the game from the menu (press esc), exit the game completely, go back in and reload. It should help.
• Regarding ores: Each area of the map “specializes” in ores. The forest area has abundant copper, the marsh has iron, the foothills have the large iron deposits, steel you need to make at home using charcoal + iron, the greyshores and bleakwood have silver, the plains have gold. You need to upgrade your pickaxe to mine each subsequent ore (like terraria).
• You can use the middle mouse wheel to cycle through your tools when equipped.
• Doing the standing stones mini-quests give you skill cards. Skill cards good. Some stones are SUPER far away from the main monoliths.
• Bringing up the radial menu slows down time, useful when battling. Cycle through the items in each radial section using Q and E.
• When you gain a level, you need to press K! Pressing K activates the particular trait for the level you gained. Also, don’t forget to equip skills cards.
• Skill cards are locked in for one (1) day. After that day, you can equip another card into the slot.
• You can drop items from the item menu, press C while hovering over an item.
• Leave tree stumps! This causes the trees to regrow! If you cut down the stumps, they don’t regrow.
• If you can’t cook it, then there’s probably a recipe out there waiting for you to purchase it.
• Plants need to be watered, but the watering can does not need refilling to do so. When the little mounds of dirt are a light color, they need to be watered. If it rains, there’s no need to water. You need to water your plants every day unless it rains.

Inventory Management Tips

• There is a man called Fernfoot. He will trade you 8 feathers for a slot of inventory space OR a skill slot.
• Place your chests/barrels close to your crafting station and crafters! Your chest/barrel inventory is now easily accessible for crafting and cooking.

Homestead Tips

• Every season is a total of 28 days. Not all seeds can be planted in every season. Check the item cards before planting!
• A “free” design tip: you can move the non-harvestable trees on your plot! So, even if you’ve just arrived at your homestead, you can make it your own.
• Made a mistake or want to start fresh (for a new season) with your crops? You can use your hoe to remove previous dirt piles/plants.

FAQ

How Does Fast Travel Work? What Do I Need to Activate?

To the right of your cottage, between the cottage the fence and the workbench is a signpost. Active that signpost and it’ll offer a selection of places that you’ve visited. Through the game and map there are various “camps” called things like “murkwater march – camp in the marsh”. When you find those locations they’re marked on your map. There a lots of camps dotted about the map. You’ll know you’re at a camp becasue your HUD changes slightly and allows you to place paths down like you can at the main cottage.

Where to Get Bow?

Bow and arrows can be built from the anvil.

Where to Find Gems?

Gems are found in caves only. They are random spawns. Each item “re-spawns” after about a 3 day period. So if you go into a cave and mine some gems, come back later and some different ones will be available. You need a higher tier picaxe to mine the gems (I think it’s steel).

How to Save?

You can press esc to save from the menu at any time… except in caves.

World Map

Remember, there’s a whole map to explore and it’s huge! Venture off the beaten path and find new and exciting things. Every area has something different to experience.

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