Getting Started in Creativerse

How you spend your time in Creativerse is entirely up to you. You can...

• Explore. Climb the highest peaks or plunge the furthest depths of the catacombs -- there's always something interesting just around the corner...
  
• Gather. Scour the land for resources and valuable minerals.
  
• Fight. Seek out and battle ferocious monsters and collect the rare items they drop.
  
• Cultivate. Work the land by planting seeds, cooking food and taming pets.
  
• Create. Build your dream house. No -- build your dream town. It's up to you!

At the heart of it all is Creativerse's system of Recipes, where you'll unlock powerful tools, weapons and building materials that will empower you to take full control of your world.

To fill Recipes, you'll need to gather resources and refine them in stations. From there, you can craft all sorts of goodies -- swords, collection tools, chests, walls, decor and more. Each station has a different purpose.

• The Processor is where you'll break down raw materials for use in recipes, such as creating wooden slabs and sticks from tree trunks or seeds from produce. To build, gather 8 Wood blocks, 8 Stone blocks, and 2 Vines.

• The Forge refines raw ores like Iron and Obsidian for use in complex recipes. To build, gather 6 Stone Slabs, 6 Wood Slabs, and 6 Bedrock.

• The Cooking Station lets you take harvested crops and make delicious food you can enjoy yourself or feed to pets for varying effects. To build, gather 2 Obsidian, 2 Stone Slabs, 4 Stone Rods, and 1 Coal.
  Tips:
  
  • To get crafting once you have a few stations and are busy refining materials, try opening up the crafting menu by tapping Q.
    
  • The first thing we suggest you build is a Stone Gauntlet. Equip it to start mining stone, which will begin your path to unlocking all sorts of recipes.
    
  • A couple important early materials that may be harder to find are vines (found clinging to some Cragwood Trees), red, blue, and yellow flowers (found among the leaves of Cragwood, Elderwood, and Ashenwood trees) and beeswax (found clumped together among the leaves in all sorts of trees).
  
  

Mining Cells, also known as gauntlets, are the collection tools of Creativerse. Creativerse is chock full of a wide medley of blocks, and certain blocks require different power levels to be collected. You can craft upgraded gauntlets with increased power in the crafting menu.

Tips:

• The selection cursor will be green if you can gather a block with your current gauntlet or red if you can’t.
  
• Create better gauntlets to dig deeper and get better materials.

Extractors allow you to get impossible-to-collect blocks like ore. Build extractors in the crafting menu and place them on ore nodes (like Coal, Obsidian and Iron) to collect their raw ore, then refine them with the Forge.

Tips:

• The selection cursor will be blue if the block requires an extractor.
  
• Place extractors like you would regular blocks to use them on nodes (right click on the mouse).

Each player starts with a Touchstone, a mysterious piece of technology that will help you immeasurably in your quest. Place your Touchstone on the ground to set your spawn point when you die. You'll also be able to teleport back to the Touchstone anytime you're not in danger by tapping T. If you're playing with friends, you can also choose to visit their Touchstone if they've enable access to it.

Chances are good you'll die at some point in the game, leading to the frustrating moment when you realize you've lost all your inventory. Don't fret! Your inventory is safe -- it's retrievable by navigating to the location where you died and looting the Death Statue your avatar left behind. There are two ways to find your Death Statue -- look for the skull in the compass at the top of the screen and look for the beacon of light pointing upward in the sky. Both will lead you to your precious loot!

• Place your Touchstone.
  
• Build a shelter to protect yourself from hostile creatures.
  
• Place torches to cast light and prevent enemies from spawning near you.
  
• Build a processor and start refining materials.
  
• Craft a Stone Mining Cell to collect stone and unlock additional recipes.

• If you find a recipe in the wild, you'll need to activate it to use it. To do this, click and drag it from your inventory over to your character's avatar.
  
• Many items can only be crafted by collecting materials from a variety of biomes. It's worth venturing out into the world and collecting as much as possible -- you never know when something will come in handy!
  
• The following commands might come in handy:
  
  • "/who" - find out who is in the world at that moment
    
  • "/stuck" - use if a bug ever traps you inside a wall
    
  • "/kill" - if you just can't take it any more, take the easy way out with this command
    
  • "/help" - displays a list of other available commands

Tab ... Cycle Mode (Mining, Melee)
1-0 ... Quick Slot Select
W ... Forward
S ... Backwards
A ... Left
D ... Right
Space ... Jump
Shift ... Sprint (or hold while clicking to split a stack)
E ... Inventory
T... Touchstone
F ... Interact
C ... Safe Walk
Esc ... System Menu
~ ... Take a Screenshot
Left click ... Mine/Swing Sword
Right click ... Use/Place/Interact

Additional controls, and the option to remap keys, are available in the game options.