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Pax Deidoesn’t completely leave you astray when you first join the sandbox world. Picking up rocks and crafting your first few items should be a piece of cake. What comes next may require more attention. There are many different areas of the game to learn, from multiplayer, to different types of crafting, and survival.
These are all the basic beginner tips players need to understand in order to be successful in their journey. Once the ball gets rolling and you get the gist of how everything works, you’ll be able to work towards better things like armor and a large, fortified base.
Pax Dei is under Early Access. Information in this article is subject to change.
How To Set Up A Base
The first thing the game will ask of you is to create a hammer so that you may place a plot down. Plots are places only you can build in. You are allowed two plots at first. You canpress B to claim a plot of land.
AConstruction Hammercan be crafted by hand bypressing TAB and selecting Craft. The hammer requires one Gneiss and two Sapwood. With the hammer in hand, you canright-click to open up the construction menu. This is where you can begin building your base.
How To Create A Party
Creating a party is as easy as walking up to someone and selecting Invite To Party. When you walk up to people, there is a small drop-down menu under their name.Hover over the person’s body to look at this menu.
Use the mouse scroll to select between each option. The second option is to Invite To Party.To accept a party invite, you have to open your Notifications window. You can do so by pressing N.
Your party will never break unless you remove yourselffrom it. If you log out, you will still be in the party, you will just be inactive.
How To Emote
You may have had another player wave at you or lay down. There are a small amount of emotes currently in the game that allow you to have a little more fun when socializing. To open the emote menu, you have tohold down B on the keyboard.
Holding down B will open up a scroll wheel of accessible emotes.
How Does Crafting Work?
You can craft by hand, but the items you can craft by doing so are limited.By hand, your crafting is limited. You can craft small things such as arrows, a spear, and an axe. What you want to make first is a Basic Carpenters Workbench. This will craft basic things such as decorative pieces and chests.
Craft a Basic Carpenters Workbench by opening the build menuwith your Construction Hammer and selecting “Crafting”.
You will also want aWood Chopping Block, which is found in the same menu. The Wood Chopping Block lets you build complex wood pieces required to craft all manner of things in the game.
Press TAB and select Skills to view your current skill levels.
How To Upgrade Your Skills
As you scroll through recipes, you will notice some are labeled Easy, Trivial, and Moderate. If you try to craft more challenging recipes and theprocess fails, you lose some of your materialsand have to try again. It’s better toonly craft easier recipesat the start, which in turnlevels up your craftingfor that category.
For example, when you use the Wood Chopping Block, you are upgrading your Carpentry skill. Themore challenging the recipe is,themore experience you getwhen you craft it.
If you want to unlock new recipes, you will have to work on leveling up your skillfor that category.
Can People Use Your Things?
Any player can walk into your plot of land and use any of your crafting machines. Players can also enter your house and explore it. Other players cannot access your chests. When you place a chest down,it is automatically set to Private.
Chests can beset to Private, Public, or Clan. These permissions can be adjusted by going into each chest and using thedrop-down menu above the chest inventory.
How To Heal
You canheal yourselfbyconsuming food. Eating food not only heals you buttemporarily increases your max health and max stamina. Different foods increase these stats at different amounts.
Theeasiest thing to acquireat the beginning of the gameare berries.
For something better than berries, you will have to enter the woods andkill some animals. There are badgers, wolves, foxes, and deer that drop meat.With a Campfire, you cancook Grilled Meat Chunks, which heals and increases stats more than raw berries.
How Does Combat Work?
Whether you have a shield or not, you canblock by using right-click. Different items grant spells and special attacks. With a shield equipped, you canShield Bash using CTRL + Mouse 1. Shield Bashing doesincreased damageand will allow you to defeat smaller enemies easily.
With a spear,you unlock the special attack Jab. This allows you to do a jumping attack and once again inflicts increased damage. There is no dodging and rolling, so you will have to rely on mobility and blocking during combat. Additionally, there areno special moves such as parrying, only blocking, spells or heavy attacks, and regular attacks.
How To Navigate The Map
Once you open the map you will find a lot of different icons and no way of knowing what they are for. For starters, the tall rectangular icons are Petra Dei. These are where new players spawn from. You can walk up to anew Petra Deiandset it as your home spawn.
A very important iconon the mapis the excavation areas. Theseareasindicate ore. You may find Impure Iron Deposits and more in these locations. If you do not, that is because someone mined them all already and they have to respawn again.
On your map, you will also see what looks like ruins or tall beams. Theseruins are locations for dungeons and a challenge. Zebian soldiers are found in ruins, undead enemies equipped with spells, weapons, and more. You will want to be very prepared and leveled up before venturing into the ruins.
Map Icons
Meaning
Player home spawn points known as Petra Dei. (Can be reset at different Petra Dei)
Ruins with enemies and loot.
Excavation sites with potential ore deposits.
Respawn points.
You canset waypoints on the mapby opening the map and pressing CTRL + Mouse Button. When not in the map, you canpress ‘G’ to let wind show you where you need togo to get to your waypoint.
What Happens When You Die?
When you die in Pax Dei, you drop everythingin your inventory and everything your character is wearing. You will have to walk all the way back to the spot where you died in order to retrieve everything.
The developers didn’t leave us high and dry, though.You can summon your corpse closer to you. Corpse summoning still requires you to be close to the area of death, so you have to make the trek regardless. If there happens to be a lot of enemies near your corpse, you can stay far enough away from them where they won’t aggro, and then summon your corpse closer.
Party members can also summon your body closer for you. All you have to do is utilize the same scroll wheel, but instead of selecting Summon Corpse, you select Summon Corpse (Party).
