’s simple skill system. The more you do a particular activity, the more points you bank to spend on related perks. You choose a starting class, which offers bonuses — I decided to be a cook, which automatically gave me a cooking pot and some mushrooms.

One of the craft options when you interact with the Copper Workbench will be a basic fishing pole. You can use this in the bubble spots in water to fish by putting it in your active item slot and interacting with the tool while facing the water.

Image via Pugstorm Note: The only additional condition for successfully farming monsters is for you not to be on the same screen while the monsters are spawning.

Standard type character is strongly recommended over hardcore, for all players. It is also recommended that new players start in a normal mode world. Hard mode currently doubles the health and damage of all enemies and bosses, for little to pelo pay-off.

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’s multiplayer (up to eight people), similarly facilitates a lot of collaboration and strategizing. But the game is far from derivative. It weaves tried-and-true survival sim elements into a tight play loop where the game is the grind in a way that feels meditative without being too repetitive.

Once you find Glurch, you'll want to try to clean up the area near this massive monster. Pick up any slime tiles on the ground and kill any enemies in the area. Then, move in toward Glurch and start dealing damage.

Screenshot by Bonus Action To feed cows and other animals in Core Keeper, move a crop to your active item slot so that you’re holding it. Once your character is holding a crop, the animals will approach. They’ll keep eating until you run out of crops or switch them out of your active slot.

, any equipped armor will take some durability damage. Any items you had in your inventory (but not on your Hotbar) will be collected in a tombstone marking where you died.

It all shapes up into a very inviting experience that teases dense design layers down the road. Even in early access, Core Keeper Gameplay these feel like the raw materials of a multiplayer survival sim that will draw an enduring audience. I can’t wait to see how it keeps growing.

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The Basic Workbench gives you access to a bunch of important items for setting up your base. Here are the key items you'll need in your first couple of hours:

There are also 24 new armor pieces and 20+ decorative objects to enhance your base. The addition of new plants, food types, and fishes expands resource gathering and crafting options.

Chest is the only paintable item storage, as space efficiently as any later on. Adjacent workbenches pull directly from them.