Overview
Tug is really hard to handle. Here is a list of all the infos you need to know about the game and its current content.Don’t forget to rate it and leave a comment !
Tug: The Unknown Game ?
Tug is an “avant guard” early acess game wich tries to redefine the rules of the actual survivals and voxel worlds based games. You are a Seedling, a magical creature capable to shape its apparence depending of the actions you perform in the game.
Created by Nerd Kingdom, i invite you to check the official forums[forum.nerdkingdom.com] and their website[nerdkingdom.com], also take some time to check the wiki[tugwiki.com]wich is often updated and accurate.
A video made by Inori of Nerd Kingdom, enjoy:
H.U.D and Controls
Heads Up Display :
An example of HUD, note that you have a description on the item when you hover it with the cursor in the inventory.
Status bars
The red bar shows your health, you can loose some health when falling, taking damages or eating mushrooms. Of course, if depleeted… you die and respawn where you spawned on the server.
The yellow bar shows your stamina, you use stamina when you run, jump, use a tool and eat some mushrooms. Depleeted, you are unable to run and working is harder. Stamina refills over time or can be filled with a potion or some mushrooms with positives effects.
The blue bar show the energy, it represents your hunger. You can refill it with fruits and cooked meat. If depleeted, you died immediately.
You can toggle on/off the HUD by pressing shift + u.
Shortcuts:
The four leafs under your status bars are the quick access shortcuts.
Drag items from your inventory to place them in the shortcuts.
Press number keys to equip the items in your hand.
Note that when your inventory is full, if you collect items they will go directly in the shortcuts.
Controls:
To find a complete list of key check this page of the wiki (maybe dated)[tugwiki.com][/previewimg]
Keyboard:
The game is currently using querty keyboard layout by default. To change this press Alt+Shift.
Move: w,a,s,d.
Run: hold Shift.
Toggle Crouch: Ctrl.
Jump: Space
Inventory: E
Mouse:
The left button is the only way for you to grab and interact with anything in the world. It represents your left hand in the game.
The right button gives you the ability to use the item or the tool you took from your inventory.
For example: you’ve found some fruits. Go in the inventory menu by pressing E and right click on the fruit you want to “equip” it in your hand.
The fruit in hand left click to eat one, if you have some more, click again to consume an other, ect…
If you want to drop an item on the ground, drag it from your inventory or equip it and press the left mouse button.
Shift and the middle mouse button changes the scale of the square you have when you target a surface with a tool. All blocks in the game are composed of small squares; the maximum size for a block is of 2 by 2 small squares. So, if you scroll down or up instead of putting a big block of 2 by 2 you can put a smaller one.
It affects everything you touch, so if you are mining you can speed up the job by increasing the size of the block to extract but at the cost of an increased loss of your tools durability.
Two screenshots showing the two differents sizes:
First steps in the game
You have to make the difference between the componants actually availiable to you and the one you may acquire later. I’ve added some screenshots to help you to start.
Firstly, try to find small wood by searching young trees or roots. You will get wood with a Y form, the wood handle, wich is the basic wood for tools.
Here a Wood handle:
Here an example of roots and sapplings:
After that, search for some plants or fruits, in general they are in some bushes or trees. When you break them you will gain some vines and fruits.Vines are necessary for crafting tools and weapons but we will deal about tools first.
An example of a vine:
Don’t forget to eat some fruits to refill you energy bar. Each time you eat a fruit, you gain its seeds. Of course you can plant them when you will be able to craft a crude Hoe or they will be used in the recipe of the health potion.
Here are some gourds, you can eat or use them later in the recipe for potions:
Some pumpkins, they are a good way to refill your energy:
Now we have to do the most difficult, to find stones. At the beginning you can only gather rocks wich lays on the ground. If you equip a Hammer rock (some rocks like this one have a durability bar, you can use them as a basic tool), you will be able to break Axe/Hammer/Pick rocks sources and large rocks.
Boulder needs a crude hammer or a hammer.
When you hover a rock with the cursor you can see its name, wich usually represent what kind of rock you will find if you break it.
To craft you’re first crude tool, take a Hammer rock, take a Vine, a Wood handle.
Hold G to craft the item.
Here are some pictures about the process of crafting a crude hammer. The other recipes are in the next sections of the guide.
Be ware ! This game is about discovery so don’t give up too fast when you try to find new recipes.
Now repeat the same process with an Axe rock to craft a Crude axe.
You will be able to chopp down trees and get Chopped Wood.
With 2 Hammer rocks and 3 Chopped Wod you will be able to craft a fire.
Don’t forget to hunt goats to get some meat.
Be carefull and good luck out there Seedling !
[ Spoiler ] Crafting Stations
Crafting Stations:
Here is a list of the crafting stations currently availiable.
Fire:
You need 2 Hammer rocks and 3 Chopped Wood.
Fire pit:
Same as the basic fire but you need a Flat rock.
Crude Workbench:
You use it in few recipes and give you the ability to dismantle tools and weapons.
You need 4 Wood Branches, 3 Chopped Wood and 4 Vines.
Pumpkin Cauldron:
You need a Pumkin shell, 3 Wood shafts and 2 Vines.
Stone Furnace:
You need a Leather bellows (check advanced materials to find the recipe), 4 Hardened wood, 6 cobblestones, 1 coal.
Sandcast Mold:
You need a Crude workbench, a Hammer in your hand, 4 Hardened wood and 3 Sand clump ( you can use sand and white sand).
Stone anvil:
You need a Flat rock, 4 Hardened wood and a hammer in hand.
The Ancien Wood/ Stone table:
You can’t craft and lift them. They can be found in your actual map if you search a little. The Ancien Wood table emits a strange continuous sound. They can replace some of the other crafting stations, however nothing can replace the Stone furnace, the Sandcast mold and the Stone anvil.
[ Spoiler ] Advanced Materials
Some materials can’t be found on the map or on animals.
Here is a list of the materials and the tools or the workbenches you need to craft them.
Check the crafting stations section to find their recipes.
Leather Strips:
You need a kife in hand and an animal hide. Each animal hides gives you 4 leather strips.
Hardened Wood:
You need a Camp fire or a Fire pit and Chopped Wood. Or you can destroy an extinguished fire to get some Coal and Hardened Wood.
Hardened Wood Shaft:
Like the Hardened Wood, you use a fire place and now a Wood Shaft but you can’t gather this item anywhere else.
Hardened Wood Handle:
You need a Crude workbench and an Hardened wood shaft. Each wood shaft gives you 2 handles.
Wood Chips:
You need a Flat Rock and a Wood branch.
Bone powder:
You need a Flat rock and an Animal horn.
Tooth powder:
You need a Flat rock and one of the 4 teeth you can find in the land or loot on the lions.
Bronze Chuncks:
You need a crude workbench and a bronze item.
Pumpkin Shell:
You need a Crude workbench / a Flat rock/ a Ancien wood or stone table and a pumpkin. Crafting this item gives you a pumpkin shell and pumpkin seeds.
Gourd shell:
Like the pumpkin shell, you need a gourd and the same crafting stations. You also gain gourd seeds.
Leather belows:
You need a crude workbench, 2 Hardened wood, 2 Hardened wood handle and 2 Leather strips.
[ Spoiler ] Crude Tools and Weapons
You don’t need any workstation to craft them.
Here is a list of the basic tools and weapons you can craft:
Crude Hammer:
Needs a Hammer Rock, a Vine and a Wood Handle.
Crude Axe:
Need a Axe Rock, a Vine and a Wood Handle.
Crude Pick:
Needs a Pick Rock, a Vine and a Wood Handle.
Crude Knife (to cut animal hides and make leather strips):
Need a Spear Head and a Vine.
Crude Hoe (to prepare the soil to plant seeds):
Needs a Hammer Rock, a Vine and a Wood Shaft.
Crude Shovel ( to dig in dirt and sand, but this tool is actually bugging):
Needs a Axe Rock, a Vine and a Wood Shaft.
Spiked Cane:
Needs a Cane and a Thorny Vine (there are two types of thorny vines, both can be used).
Crude Sword:
Needs a Sword Rock, a Vine and a Wood handle.
Spiked Club:
Needs a Wood Branch, a Vine and pebbles.
Vine Club:
Need a Wood Branch, a Vine and a Thorny Vine.
Cactus club:
You need a Wood branch, 2 Vines and a Cactus chunk.
Wooden Spear:
Needs a Spear Head, a Vine and a Wood Shaft.
Bamboo Spear:
Needs a Spear Head, a Vine and a Bamboo Shaft.
[ Spoiler ] Farming
Except for bananas, everytime you eat a fruit or use a fruit in a craft you gain seeds.
We have 6 different seeds for the moment (september/october 2014).
To farm and be able to grow your own crops, you need to craft a Crude Hoe or a Bronze Hoe (check next sections to find the recipes).
When your Hoe is ready, find a place where the land is flat and with dirt or mossy dirt.
Be carefull, fertile soils looks like that:
If you have herbs/ clovers, take a tool like an axe and aim the plant to see it’s name above your status bars. At this moment you will be able to hit them without digging the soil.
When the area has been emptied of plants, aim the ground with the Hoe and dig the soil.
In fact you don’t dig but you shange the “texture” of the ground by furrows.
Now you can equipe your seeds and plant them in the soil.
Some fruits like Pumpkins takes more place to grow, so be carefull and check if you have enough place to plant them near other crops. Actually you need a 3 by 3 square to gros a pumpkin.
I will give the other crops in an other update.
In general, plants needs one day to grows (still need to check all plants).
A fresh Pumkin sprout in the soil:
[ Spoiler ] Alchemy
Implemented recently the alchemy is one of the elements that will lead to the magic system.
Don’t forget to put the pumpkin cauldron near a fire. The cauldron is ready to use when you can see bubbles on the blue liquid inside.
We have some usefull recipes. Powders, seeds and gourd flasks must be droped near the cauldron to craft potions.
Gourd flask:
You need a Gourd shell and a Vine.
Durability potion (to repair tools and weapons):
You need the pumpkin cauldron on a light fire, a gourd flask and wood chips.
Fuel potion:
You need the pumpkin cauldron on a light fire, a gourd flask and tooth powder.
Crude growth potion:
You need the cauldron on a fire, a gourd flask and bone powder.
Speed potion:
You need the cauldron on a fire, a Gourd flask and an orange mushroom chunk.
Health potion:
You need a pumpkin cauldron on a fire, a gourd flask and a powder made with all the seeds you can find: apple, orange, cherry, melon, gourd and pumpkin.
[ Spoiler ] Mining, how to find your first ores.
Crudes tools are useful in the first minutes of the game. But quickly it will become a problem.
They have a low durability. As an example, to reach the required level to find copper and tin, i had to use around 12 crude picks !
This is quite difficult especially if you consider that you need to dig 30 blocks (the biggest size, 2/2) deep to reach copper and tin ores.
Mining is actually easy when you reach -30 under the ground. There are no veins, you just need to mine the cobblestone blocks and copper ore, tin ore and coal drops.
An other problem when mining, is the fact that quite often pick rocks, axe rocks or hammer rocks will drop with cobblestone. These rocks can block your way, so don’t forget to “clean” your tunnels or you will be quickly overwhelmed.
So as i said before, to find your first ores, craft a good stock of crude picks, if you’re short in tools, you can use hammer rocks or axe rocks instead. Don’t forget to craft torches to light your way in (check Furnitures, lights and miscanellous section).
Dig 30 blocks deep. And you will find the ores and some coal. Coal can be found if you use an axe on an extinguished fire or fire pit.
[ Spoiler ] Forging
You have now ores and some coal.
To forge tools and weapons you need a Stone furnace, a Sandcast mold and a crude workbench.
Check crafting stations section to find their recipes.
Once you have them, you will be able to craft a latten.
On the furnace put a copper ore, a tin ore and a coal to light the furnace. To light the furnace you can take it and put it again on the ground. Each times the furnace will be light.
When the latten is ready, you can start to craft a Bronze head for a tool or a weapon.
As an example we will make a Bronze hammer head.
Go to your Sandcast mold with a latten and a crude hammer.
Be ware the Sandcast need to be close to the furnace, to see if its position is allright, check the mold.
If you see some smoke, you placed it at the right location near the furnace.
Some pictures about the correct placement of the Sandcast mold:
Use the mold to craft a Bronze hammer head with a latten on it and a hammer next to it.
The crude hammer serves as a base for the mold. But you have to use a crude tool or weapon each time you want to craft a bronze head.
The Bronze hammer head done, go to your Crude workbench.
For the Bronze hammer, you need its bronze head, a leather strip and a hardened wood handle.
You’re Bronze hammer is ready !
[the next is coming soon]
[ Spoiler ] Bronze tools and weapons
Here is the list of all tools and weapons in bronze, the strongest material at the moment (september/october 2014). When you have the different parts, assemble them on a Crude workbench.
Bronze Hammer:
You need a Bronze hammer head, a leather strip and a hardened wood handle.
Bronze Axe:
You need a Bronze axe head, a leather strip and a hardened wood handle.
Bronze pick:
You need a Bronze pick head, a leather strip and a hardened wood handle.
Bronze hoe:
You need a Bronze hoe head, a leather strop and a hardened wood handle.
Bronze knife:
You need a Bronze knife head, a leather strip and a hardened wood handle.
Bronze shovel:
You need a Bronze shovel head, a leather strip and a hardened wood handle.
Bronze spear:
You need a Bronze spear head, a leather strip and a hardened wood handle.
Bronze sword:
You need a Bronze sword blade, a leather strip and a hardened wood handle.
Furnitures, lights and miscanellous
Furnitures are just cosmetic items. You can’t use the chest to store items or equip the leaf back pack.
However lights are necessary and they don’t loose durability.
Here is a list of all theses items.
Torch:
With a fire or a fire pit and a wood handle. Lights a little.
Large Torch:
Same as the torch but you use a wood branch instead. Lights better.
Vine Frence:
Has no protective effect, take 2 Wood shafts and 3 vines.
Crude Bed:
You need 2 Chopped woods, 2 wood shaft and 3 large leafs.
Crude chest:
You need
Leaf Bakcpack:
You need 2 large leafs, 1 vine and 2 wood handles.
Guide’s change log
10/4/2014 and 10/5/2014: The guide has been updated according to the lasts updates on TUG (2 months by now, i was a bit early). List of the new sections of the guide: Intro, Controls, uhd, first steps, crude/bronze items, materials, mining, forging, alchemy, farming, furnitures, lights and miscanellous.
Every items mentionned has its pictures. Added some screenshots to understand correctly how the game works.
12/4/2014: Changed the UHD in HUD (thanks to n13green), corrected some mistakes in the “First steps” section.