Cozy game fans who enjoy medieval settings should consider checking outMirthwood. The game takes players into their own medieval farmland, where they decide what kind of life they want to live in the Free Lands.
Whether it’sliving a life of adventures, owning a butchery, or building a beautiful vineyard, players need to put in a lot of work in the beginning to build their lives from nothing. Therefore, players can read the followingMirthwoodbeginner tipsto know some tricks and things they need to focus on in the early game.
10Don’t Ignore Fabled Feathers
They expand your inventory
While walking around the Free Lands,players may encounter a colorful bird feathercalledFabled Feather. The description says that it can’t be sold, and it’s priced at 0 Gold at the trading post, making it seem worthless.
However, that’s not true at all, as Fabled Feathers is guaranteed to be your best friend. Players canuse Fabled Feather to expand their inventory and unlock more skill-card slots. To do this, find Old Fernfoot east of Brightoak town (across the river), and speak to him. Each upgrade costseight Fabled Feathers, so ensure to bring enough before going to meet him.
9Unlock Fast Travel Points
After arriving at their new home, players can see that there’s a mailbox next to their house. If they look further to the right, there should be asignpostthat can be interacted with. Upon interacting with the sign, it’ll sayfast travel, indicating that teleporting is a feature inMirthwood.
Tofast travel inMirthwood, players must visit a big campsite, available all around the Free Lands. After finding the campsite, interact with the sign nearby to unlock the spot as a fast travel point. Keep in mind that the players’ map will look empty at first, but as they find new landmarks, those locations will be added to the map. So it’s necessary to walk around the map if players wish to fill their map with distinct markers.
8Drop Extra Items On Your Farm
Unless you’re into aesthetics
At first, players start their journey with limited inventory space. With the many new things available to collect, it’s easy to run out of space. Therefore,after collecting things in the wild, players can drop items they wish to keep on the farm ground. This can save plenty of Woods andIron Bars that are precious in the early game.
Dropped items will stay where they were dropped (even in the wild), making it safe to do this to save items. They won’t disappear after closing the game or get “stolen.” There’s also no “spoilage” system for food, so everything will stay intact on the ground.
7Poke The Runed Stones
Some are tricky to find
ExploringMirthwoodcan feel overwhelming at first, since the map looks big when one is new to the Free Lands. However, daunting as it may be, players should keep an eye on some stones with a rune engraved on them. Make sure tohit the stone with a weaponto activate the rune.
Some areas havea big stone monument in the vicinity. These stone monuments can be used after playersactivate three runed stones assigned to the monument. The stone monument will grant a unique skill card after it’s used.
6Manage The Trees
Big and small both
If the farm ground has trees that block the view and prevent players from decorating or dropping their items, there’s an easy fix.Small trees can be chopped for wood; make sure tochop the stump to stop it from regrowing. Butif players want the tree to respawnquickly, then the stump should be left alone.
Meanwhile,big trees can be moved using the redecorate option. Players can also “drop” the tree decor on the ground like other items, making their farm a big tree-free area.
5Do The Main Quest
Find out who the Stranger is
Mirthwoodhas a main quest that explains why someone helps players build a new life in the Free Lands. This main quest involves the Stranger who appears when players first arrive at their farm.Follow the mission to experience everythingMirthwoodhas to offer.
Other than quests, don’t forget aboutcontracts, which can be seen on theJournalpage of the players’ profile. Doing quests and contracts inMirthwoodis also the easiest way to buildRenownandMorality. Players lose Morality for stealing, but they can gain it back easily by donating at shrines.If players wish to keep a low Morality, then always remember to make all the wrong choices.
4Get The Bow
Deal damage safely
In the tutorial, players learn how to use a sword, but after arriving at their farm, they can soon own a bow too.To get a bow inMirthwood, find Clayton the Blacksmithin Brightoak town. Speak to him, and he’ll say that he lost his hammer. The hammer is stuck on a tree, soplayers will get a bowto shoot it down and take it back.
After getting this bow, it now belongs to the players.The bow is the best weapon to hunt deer and rabbits, and to kite enemies and cheese difficult fights. Just make sure to be patient, as bow damage is far lower compared to swords.
3Upgrade Your Pickaxe And Axe
Get better resources
Players don’t immediately get their farming tools when they arrive. They need tofind the tools in aMirthwoodquest to start. The tools players get from this quest are all ofcopper quality. While Watering Can, Hoe, and Scythe can be left at copper,Pickaxe and Axe must be upgraded.Iron Axe can chop big tree stumps for Hardwood, whereasSteel Axe can destroy boulders, gemstones, and Silver Ores. Here are the steps players must follow to get a Silver Pickaxe:
After getting an Iron Pickaxe:
The next tier after Steel isSilver, and the best version isGold. Also, extra tip:Don’t build a Well. They’re purely decorative at the moment.
2Process Items Before Selling
The artisan life
Processing items is not only beneficial for crafting other things, but it also increases the price of the item. Therefore,try not to sell raw items and instead see if the processed version sells for better.
After making crafting deviceslike Cooking Pot, Anvil, and Furnace, players must have the required ingredients to start the processing. However,if there’s a Chest nearby, these crafting devices can automatically take from the nearby Chest, making the process far easier.
UseShiftto move one item from the Chest instead of all at once.
1Know Your Animals
When you can’t afford their happiness
The Free Lands can be tough to explore by foot, especially before unlocking the fast travel option. With enough money, players can get a Horse;riding a horse can make exploration a lot faster. Sadly, horses currently don’t follow when players fast-travel.
If players choose to ride their horse but have to get off the animal (for example, when getting attacked), then there’s one tip that can help:use the X button (bottom cursor on a controller) to “whistle” and call the horse to come.
