Ariella's Setting Up Your Homestead

Using Hotkeys

In this tutorial we use hotkeys.
You must have Press Enter to Chat showing to use hotkeys.
Just hit Enter to toggle it on and off.

Setting Out Your Camp and Building Your Initial Compound

You may Self/Utility/Reposition your camp about 3-4 coords, up to 3 times.

• Step 2 - Build Your Compound (100 Boards + 200 Bricks) Don't forget you can Take materials from your camp!
  

You will not be able to expand your compound where your door is so face the direction you want your door to face.

Processing Wood

• Build Your Crafting Bench by raising your Carpentry Skill
  

Click on the upper left Skills icon. Make boards to raise the Carpentry Skill.

You'll need to build a Wood Plane (1 Slate Blade + 4 Slate) from Self/Projects/Carpentry.../Wood Plane.
Hold on, we need to also Self/Skills/Knap a Slate Blade. So find a shore and run to find more Slate. Slate can appear where the Mud icon lights up.

You need to click Build on the icon with all the arrows in the upper left.

Picking Wood from Trees. An explanation of Oasis is needed here.
An Oasis in this game can be 1 - 12 flora (trees, plants, thorns) in a group.
In the pic below there is an Oasis of 4 trees and several plants.
Each Oasis group has a chance of spawning an herb.
The pic below says the Bottle Tree will give you 4 Wood. But why do you get 16 Wood when you click Gather?
If you check out the Trees wiki page you will see that some trees produce 1 wood and a few 4 wood.
As of Tale 9, instead of Gathering from each tree separately, you gather from ALL the trees in the oasis group at once.
So whichever tree you click on, the amount of Wood for that tree x the number of trees in the Oasis group is what you receive.
To Gather Wood from all the trees within an Oasis group you can click on any of the trees within the group.
After picking wood from an oasis, a timer of 2 minutes, 58 seconds starts before you can pick wood from the Oasis again.

Want to pick Wood faster?
Click the gear icon on the far right top/One Click and Related/Check Fast gather wood from Trees
Click on a tree and it gathers all the wood without a tree menu popping up.

Plane 250 Boards to raise your Carpentry Skill to the next level.

Hover over the Carpentry Skill to see your Current Progress so you know how many more boards to make.

And it says at Level 1 we can Make a Crafting Bench!

Go to the Buildings page located on the left side of this wiki page to find the cost of a Crafting Bench.
Click the compound edge/Projects/Carpentry.../Crafting Bench.
A blue shade over a grid of squares shows the footprint of the new machine.
Click Build button (will be in the upper left).

Load the materials to finish the Crafting Bench.

Making Bricks

Make 6 Bricks at a time: 3 Mud + 2 Straw + 1 Sand on a Flimsy Brick Rack.

Hold the Hotkey [B] down while you swipe over multiple Flimsy Brick Racks to go faster!

You make Straw from Grass.
Pick Grass by clicking on a far spot and then hitting 1 over and over when the grass icon lights up.
Drop Grass and it turns into Straw. Click to Pick up the Straw. Dropping smaller amounts converts Grass into Straw faster.