Mirthwoodis more than just a farming simulator. It’s an immersive RPG where your actions and choices can affect the townspeople and their lives, and lots to do, like acting, and the ability to romance NPCs.
Items are hidden, and quests are behind locked doors, which can make getting started difficult. There are a couple of things worth knowing when you first begin your journey in Mirthwood.
Exploring Is Your Best Friend
You won’t get anywhere without walking around aimlessly in a new direction. Items, such as Fabled Feathers, can be found scattered across the map in inconspicuous locations. Likewise, you can findquests, lore, and loot by exploringnew areas.
One way toearn Moralityis by stumbling upon scenarios that require you tomake a decision. For instance, there is adead bodyon a treeNorth of Northdell Farms. What you decide to do with the body will affect your Morality.
Shrinesare another event you may use to increase Morality. Shrines are found randomly around the world. Remember that this is just as much an RPG as it is a farming game. Following the story alone and staying on a path will make you miss a lot of other content.
You Can Find An Iron Sword Early
You’ll initially start off with Copper tools and a Copper or wooden sword. Collecting materials can be tedious at first, with one rock granting anywhere from one to three ores each. Fortunately, you can acquire an Iron Sword early into the gamewithout wasting resources.
There is aRusty Iron Swordjust lying around near sometraining grounds,just before Brightoak. From your farm,head southand take thefirst rightyou see.
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The sword is labeled Rusty, meaning itdoes less damagethan an intact Iron Sword. Aregular Iron Sworddeals13 Damageand sells for200 coins. You will want to aim for a weapon that isn’t Rusty eventually, but this sword is good enough to start with.
Bramble QuillWorthy Books Contain Hints
You can find book pagesscattered all around the world. Some will be from random excerpts, while others will be from none other than the great Bramble Quillworthy. Don’t do away with pages you find, as they aren’t all just lore. Somecontain useful informationabout the game.
These diaries, or adventure documents, share information aboutnearby resources and potential danger. For instance, there is a Bramble QuillWorthy note on abench in Brightoakthat tells you in which biomes you’re able to find iron, hardwood, and limestone.
NPCs Have Mood Swings
you may forge relationships with different NPCs in the game, but you’ll have to keep an eye on their mood swings, likes and dislikes, and personal lives. Thesepersonal lives can affect an NPC’s moodthat day.
If you want to cultivate a relationship with a specific NPC, it’s not about memorizing what they like and being done with it. NPCs are complex, and their emotions change with the wind.
As you get to know a character, you will learn more about their personality types and what things they enjoy. That will help you learn how to gain affinity.
This is why selecting their profile from the bottom left of the screen is important. Opening theNPC character menuallows you to view how they are doing and what they may bemore receptive totoday.
Sometimes It’s Stealing, Sometimes It’s Not
Crates and barrels can be looted forcoins, food, or resources. While in town, you may see crates that are labeled “Steal”, which, naturally, you should avoid looting. But don’t forget that not every crate in a village is considered stealing.
Stealing gives you -5 Morality.
Don’t completely dismiss any loot in a settlement. Some crates can be looted in and around buildings. At the beginning of the game, measly looting will be helpful for gathering basic items.
If you are eager to steal, save the negative Morality for when you find a chest instead of a small crate. That way, you get more bang for your buck.
Eat Meat, Sell Crops
There are multiple different ways to satiate your Hunger levels in Mirthwood. You can eat raw food such as Berries and Fish. The Cooking Pot allows you to cook meals out of raw ingredients for greater satisfaction.
Cooked Venisonfills 15 Hunger.Cooked Rabbitfills12 Hunger and 5 Stamina.Cooked Fishfills10 Heartsand15 Hunger.
You could use your crops for cooking, but you are better off selling them at the beginning of the game. Finding meat to cook is easy. Deer and rabbits roam the outskirts of towns and your farm. Two hits with a Rusty Iron Sword will take them down.
Raw fish can be foundhanging from postsinsouth Brightoak, near houses. Players can harvest these for free.
Craft A Keg And Cask Sooner Than Later
Alcoholcreated with a Keg willheal a good amount of your health. Crafting a Keg is the best way to ensure you have a steady source of healing and hunger replenishment. you’re able to craft a Health Elixir with the Cooking Pot by using some herbs, but multiple options for healing guarantee you will never die.
The Keg allows you to craftdrinks that healyou anddrinks that fill your hunger.
Craft a Keg by using a Workbench and selecting the cog wheel icon at the top. A Keg requires30 WoodandtwoIron Barsto make.
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Crafting Tables Use Nearby Chests
Running back and forth from chests to crafting machines is unnecessary in this day and age.
In Mirthwood,any crafting machinewill use thecontents of nearby chests. Therange is pretty small, so this won’t work if your chest is a couple of tables away. But if you can lay out the chests surrounding your crafting machine, you can keep a large number of supplies in them ready to be used.
The Map Updates As You Explore
At the start of the game, you won’t know where anything is. The map won’t be of any use to you until you start discovering locations on your own. Locations such as campsites and towns willonly appearon the mapafter you have discovered themfor the first time.
Quest markers are shown on the map. verify your quest isset as Activeby opening your Journal. Head to the map andzoom outas far as possible. Look for a yellow circle on the map.
Quests will be shown as a yellow spoton the map. The yellow spot isthe general areain which you can find what you need to continue the active quest. It will never show the exact location of something.
How To Fast Travel
Fast Travel is possible in the game, but it is limited. You canonly Fast Travel to resting locationslike your farm and campsites.Empty campsitescan be found around the map, and all containa bed and a workbench.
It’s important to discover every campsite you can so that you can Fast Travel to further locations without walking.
