BitCraft Beginner’s Guide

There are plenty of wonders to discover, in the vast world of BitCraft, including foes to slay, masterworks to craft, and empires to be founded. Even the most ambitious goals begin with small steps. At the start, the game throws a lot of systems at you, like professions and workstations. This beginner's guide covers everything you need to know to get started in BitCraft.

Tutorial

Once you set foot into the world of BitCraft, you are introduced to the Wisp. You should trust this companion and follow its instructions, which serve as Tutorial Quests.

The Wisp guides you to the first nearby Settlement and gradually provides an overview of most of the professions by asking you to gather and craft specific items.

Set Home

While following the quest, you are introduced to a structure at the center of the Settlement. You should interact with it and designate the Settlement as your "Home". This is crucial, as you can teleport back home from anywhere, or, in case you become incapacitated, this is the place where you can choose to respawn.

Cart

Toward the end of the questline, you obtain the cart, which increases your gathering and crafting efficiency by allowing you to transport more items. There are special types of heavy items called "Cargo". You can only carry one cargo-type item in your backpack. Additionally, once you carry such an item, you are encumbered and cannot sprint (spacebar). However, a cart can carry up to 10 cargo-type items, significantly reducing the number of gathering trips you have to make.

Hex Coin

Hex Coin is the game's main trading currency. You need it to buy materials from other players through the marketplace or to acquire unique items and blueprints from the Travelers. By using the Traveler Tasks system, you can start accumulating a decent amount of Hex Coins very early in the game.

Professions are a major focus in BitCraft. All the game's key systems involve materials that are gathered, processed, or crafted by players. There are currently 12 available Professions, each with a unique list of items you can gather, craft, and process. You level them up by performing actions associated with each, similar to Runescape. Progression can be grindy, but it unlocks higher-tier materials over time.

Now that you know the basics, you should decide which professions you want to focus on first. But don't worry, there is no wrong answer here. If you play with friends, you should avoid leveling up the same profession. However, if you play mostly solo, you can pick the ones you like the most. If you ever need something from a different profession you didn't level, you can simply use the marketplace to buy it from other players.

But here are a few things to keep in mind before you decide:

• Fishing, Foraging, Forestry, Hunting, and Mining lean more toward the gathering side, while Carpentry, Farming, Leatherworking, Masonry, and Smithing are more focused on the crafting aspect.
• Some gathering-focused professions are closely tied to specific crafting-focused ones.
  • Forestry ⇾ Carpentry
  • Foraging ⇾ Farming
  • Foraging ⇾ Tailoring
  • Mining ⇾ Smithing
  • Mining ⇾ Masonry
  • Hunting ⇾ Leatherworking
• Scholar is unique, as it requires materials from multiple other professions, but also produces ingredients needed to refine those materials.

Skills

Skills are not directly tied to actions associated with Professions. Instead, they require either tools or specific structures, created with the help of certain Professions, to engage in activities related to a Skill.

Leveling up a Skill can be quite time-consuming. However, an efficient way to gain Skill experience and Hex Coins is by completing tasks for NPCs called Travelers. You can check the available tasks for each Traveler in the "Traveler Tasks" window and locate the closest discovered one. These tasks reset every 4 hours. Gather, craft, or purchase the requested resources and deliver them to complete the task.

Skills Overview

Compendium

BitCraft's Compendium is one of the most important tools provided by the game to assist you in your journey and record all your discoveries. It also allows you to check discovered recipes and track specific resource nodes on the map. Use this tool to speed up your gathering runs.

Trading between players is a key aspect of BitCraft. The simplest form of trading is player-to-player trade, similar to many other games. Additionally, you can buy and sell items in the Marketplace of each Settlement. These Marketplaces and their inventories are unique to each Settlement, meaning that the supply and demand of resources vary based on the availability of materials in the surrounding area. By using the Market Search (J) window, you can check buy and sell orders from visited Marketplaces.

This system enables a unique way to make a profit. You can compare supply and demand across different Marketplaces in the Market Search window, allowing you to buy items cheaply in one location and sell them for a higher price elsewhere. However, transactions can only be made when you are physically near the specific Marketplace.

Trading with a Player

Gear in BitCraft can only be crafted or bought from other players. It cannot be obtained as a drop from killing monsters. There are different types of gear, each serving a unique purpose. Some are designed for combat, offering increased armor, while others enhance profession-related activities by boosting stamina and improving gathering or crafting speed. Gear is also divided into tiers, with higher-tier gear requiring more advanced materials and a higher Profession level to craft.

Plated Armor

Combat and movement in BitCraft are old-school style. The game does not support WASD movement and instead uses a point-and-click system, similar to RuneScape.

PvE in BitCraft is fairly simple: you can either use a bow to hunt non-aggressive animals for your Hunting profession or wield a weapon to defeat aggressive animals and level up your Slayer skill. Once you attack an animal with a right-click, your character will automatically continue attacking. Depending on the weapon you wield, you can use number keys to execute special attacks (skills) with longer cooldowns. There are currently five available weapons (Claymore, Mace, Spear & Shield, Crossbow, and Dual Blades), each with a simple yet distinct moveset.

Equipment

In BitCraft Online, you can claim territory in the form of a Settlement. After doing so, add production buildings to expand your access to Workstations, or team up with other players to form an Empire. It takes time to move between Settlements on foot, so use the game's Waystone network to travel more quickly.

Claims

Claim

Each player can choose to claim a part of no man's land as their own to build structures on. You can do this purely to create a place to call “Home”, or with the intention of developing it into something much larger. But keep in mind that you don’t have to own a claim. You can always decide to join and actively help in creating and maintaining a Claim or Settlement established by other players.

The size of your Claim can be freely expanded as long as you can pay the upkeep cost, which increases proportionally with its size.

Settlement

A large Claim, created and maintained by many players, can evolve into a Settlement that serves as a hub for trade, crafting, and socializing, provided it has the necessary infrastructure. The location of a Settlement is another crucial factor. Being next to rare resources or positioned at the crossroads between multiple thriving Settlements can increase its value. All of this makes the game's hubs player-driven, as players determine which Settlements rise and which are destined to fall.

Maintaining a Settlement is challenging and requires significant manpower. However, activities such as trading, conducted within the Settlement's buildings, generate resources for the owner. The more players use the Settlement's marketplace for trading and its workstations for crafting and refining, the more Hex Coins (the game's main currency) the owner earns. The Hex Coins generated from this can be used to maintain and further expand the Settlement based on demand.

Empire

If a Settlement is large enough and meets the requirements, such as completing required research, you can found or join an Empire. An Empire does not change any of the game's systems or interact with the Claims or Settlements of other players.

By being part of an Empire, you can display its emblems and banners on structures within the Settlement, create and use Empire specific emotes, titles, and chat features. Most importantly, you can wear a cape with the Empire's emblem on it. Additionally, the Empire’s borders are highlighted on the world map. However, being part of an Empire does not provide any in-game power-based advantages.

Transportation

Waystone

Use Waystones to explore the world and travel quickly between Settlements and Empires. You must spend Teleportation Energy to travel via Waystone. The cost of teleporting depends on the distance traveled and the contents of your inventory. Teleportation Energy regenerates over time and cannot be recovered by any other means.

Summary

• Follow the Wisp to complete Tutorial Quests and unlock your cart for efficient gathering and crafting.
• Set your Home at a Settlement early. This unlocks fast travel and serves as your respawn point.
• Pick your starting Professions wisely, based on your playstyle. Use the marketplace if you need resources outside your focus.
• Earn Hex Coins and Skill XP by completing Traveler Tasks, and use the Compendium to track recipes and resources.
• Claim land or join others to build Settlements, trade in local Marketplaces, and eventually help form Empires with shared identity and infrastructure.

Credits

Written by: Perciculum
Reviewed by: Tenkiei