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Your first day

The short version of day 1. Join at play.ancients.gg (Java 1.21.11 or Bedrock) and accept the resource pack.

Do these first

  1. Finish the tutorial. Don't /skip it: skipping gives up its rewards.
  2. Enchant your pickaxe at the Wormhole. Put all your Ancient Energy on the pickaxe and drop it in. Your starting pickaxe already has max Efficiency, so max Super Breaker first, then take Fracture. All of your first energy goes on the pickaxe.
  3. Join a gang. Use the recruit board at spawn or /recruit. Gang upgrades give up to 20% increased energy, XP and ore.
  4. Go mine. /mines, then the best mine your level allows: coal at 1, iron at 10, lapis at 30 with a stone pickaxe.

Leave the mining tree on Auto. Respecs are free, so nothing is locked in.

While you mine

  • When your pickaxe is full of energy it stops mining. /extract (/e) and keep mining. Go back to enchant once you have saved enough for a few enchants.
  • Ore sells itself and pays Money Notes. Bank them with /claim in a safe zone.
  • At level 20 a vault door opens in the ore wall for 60 seconds. Always go in. Nothing can hurt you inside.

At level 30

The level cap on day 1 is 30. It goes up every day at 11 AM Pacific (/levelcap).

  • Buy a base with /cell for $100,000. Mining pays no Drachma and kills pay no Tribute until you own one. See the Siege guide.
  • Buy a stone pickaxe in /shop for $350. Keep using the wooden one until the stone one has a few enchants.
  • Keep mining at the cap. It pays 50% increased Ancient Energy.
  • Run an Expedition with /expedition. You keep your inventory if you die there.
  • Clear /daily.

How new players lose their stuff

  • The mines are full loot and PvP is on. Die there and you drop everything except pickaxes and satchels.
  • Energy on your pickaxe drops when you die. Enchant or /extract before you carry a full pickaxe around.
  • /extract is free in a safe zone and taxed 5% to 20% outside one.
  • Money Notes are items until you bank them. Don't sit in a mine on a stack of notes.
  • Don't hit players near guards. If a guard kills you, your drops are gone for good.

Free stuff

  • /daily: seven First Week login rewards.
  • /referral <name>, if a friend invited you. Do it in your first 10 minutes.
  • /link, then /claim in Discord, for a free Starter Pack while the giveaway runs.
  • /vote, the free track in /pass, and /kit.

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