Questions

[Meowzers]

What happens if I die?

Can I be killed by players without provocation? Can I just live peacefully and make a village?

What do skill values do?

How do I claim land? I can't seem to unlock that skill.

Is there any level cap? If I put up a certain skill accidentally am I gimped?

[Ninijutsu]

Your character will be gone forever. When you make a new one, there will be a runestone in the spawn area which will allow you to gain 25% of your dead characters stats and LP, and you will spawn near their hearthfire.

You CAN, but it is rare unless you go chopping down a ton of trees purely for LP.

Skill values differ, but usually have to do with quality. Having a higher cooking skill value will make your cooked and baked goods a higher quality, having higher sewing makes clothing you weave higher quality, etc. Higher Marksmanship makes your aim bar raise higher, capped by your weapon quality. Higher melee combat increases damage. You get the point.

You must get Yeomanry. To get this skill you must first have Farming and The Will To Power.

No and Yes.

[Meowzers]

Your character will be gone forever. When you make a new one, there will be a runestone in the spawn area which will allow you to gain 25% of your dead characters stats and LP, and you will spawn near their hearthfire.

You CAN, but it is rare unless you go chopping down a ton of trees purely for LP.

Skill values differ, but usually have to do with quality. Having a higher cooking skill value will make your cooked and baked goods a higher quality, having higher sewing makes clothing you weave higher quality, etc. Higher Marksmanship makes your aim bar raise higher, capped by your weapon quality. Higher melee combat increases damage. You get the point.

You must get Yeomanry. To get this skill you must first have Farming and The Will To Power.

No and Yes.

So I've been raising skills willy nilly, does that mean I have no chance to recover? In what way did I ruin my character? I'd say i've used about 3k LP so far. If there's no limit how can I gimp myself?

Also, I have been chopping trees purely for LP, is this a problem? I see no others around me.

And why is there clusters of unbuilt fires here and there?

[Escaleone]

So I've been raising skills willy nilly, does that mean I have no chance to recover? In what way did I ruin my character? I'd say i've used about 3k LP so far. If there's no limit how can I gimp myself?

3k LP is very little by most forum-goers' standards. I've been playing pretty lightly for about 2 months, but have 1.03 million so far. Don't worry about it.

Moreover, LP gain never slows down or anything, so it's no problem if you get 10 in every skill or something...you'll make that back quickly enough. (Skills require more LP to keep leveling them up, though, so wasting LP may cost you more time later.)

Also, I have been chopping trees purely for LP, is this a problem? I see no others around me.

It tends to annoy people, primarily because trees take work to replant and several days to regrow. It's quite a hassle to get branches once the logs run out. In my experience, though, nobody is going to hunt you down for cutting a small swath through the deep woods; just don't go and deforest the area around somebody's house, or they might stab you.

You should be aware that some people just like to go around murdering people and knocking down their houses for fun, though. "Griefers" could always show up, and misunderstandings happen, so be as careful as possible. If you're really worried about death, joining a village might be a safer option than living in the woods (though villages draw more attention, they at least have walls).

And why is there clusters of unbuilt fires here and there?

People often put up construction signposts to trap animals, or just to get LP by building them; they never decay, unlike most objects, so they tend to stay there forever. Feel free to take stuff out of them, destroy them, etc.

[Meowzers]

So I've been raising skills willy nilly, does that mean I have no chance to recover? In what way did I ruin my character? I'd say i've used about 3k LP so far. If there's no limit how can I gimp myself?

3k LP is very little by most forum-goers' standards. I've been playing pretty lightly for about 2 months, but have 1.03 million so far. Don't worry about it.

Moreover, LP gain never slows down or anything, so it's no problem if you get 10 in every skill or something...you'll make that back quickly enough. (Skills require more LP to keep leveling them up, though, so wasting LP may cost you more time later.)

Also, I have been chopping trees purely for LP, is this a problem? I see no others around me.

It tends to annoy people, primarily because trees take work to replant and several days to regrow. It's quite a hassle to get branches once the logs run out. In my experience, though, nobody is going to hunt you down for cutting a small swath through the deep woods; just don't go and deforest the area around somebody's house, or they might stab you.

You should be aware that some people just like to go around murdering people and knocking down their houses for fun, though. "Griefers" could always show up, and misunderstandings happen, so be as careful as possible. If you're really worried about death, joining a village might be a safer option than living in the woods (though villages draw more attention, they at least have walls).

And why is there clusters of unbuilt fires here and there?

People often put up construction signposts to trap animals, or just to get LP by building them; they never decay, unlike most objects, so they tend to stay there forever. Feel free to take stuff out of them, destroy them, etc.

Thanks, I've tried building my first house just now and will not be cutting down trees for LP anymore, geez.

What's travel weariness?

What makes a tree grow back faster, keeping the stump or removing it?

[Escaleone]

Thanks, I've tried building my first house just now and will not be cutting down trees for LP anymore, geez.

What's travel weariness?

What makes a tree grow back faster, keeping the stump or removing it?

Travel weariness is what you get from teleportation, which usually means returning to your hearth fire. It goes away over time if you log out using a bed, or right away if you use drugs (beer/wine/hemp/tobacco). I've heard it doesn't actually affect returning to your hearth anymore, but I haven't tried it myself yet.

Trees don't actually regrow on their own; to replace them, you need to make new ones using several materials (also, "natural" trees are all quality 10; planted ones can be much better with good materials). See the Tree article at the wiki for details.

[Blxz]

Yeah, trees never regrow naturally. thats why ppl get so pissed off if you mass deforest in their area. Its wasting resources. Still there are lots of trees out there. So feel free to use as many as you want (note 'USE'. cut them and build stuff out of them like your house or whatever). Its much better to build stuff and devolop yopur little place. You get LP AND actually have somethng at the end to show for the effort rather than just an empty landscape.