Things what you need to know when you first started Medieval Dynasty.
Guide for Newbies
Early Days
At the beginning, you won’t have much money and things will seem expensive. This is how the game is when it first came out. Start by doing the first quest right away. This helps you get land and build a house, which gives you storage space. You’ll need this because once you have some tools and logs, you can’t carry much without storing things.
Tasks to Do
In the town where you start, there are some tasks to complete. Look for a man called Alwyn. If you do his tasks, you’ll get your first Bow. Keep doing his tasks and you can get a Longbow, which works better.
Dynasty points become important later in the game. So it’s a good idea to do any task marked with a “!” that gives you these points.
Seasonal Food
Spring Food
In spring, you can find Morels. These are good for quick food or to sell for early money. You can also find unripe berries. Don’t eat these as they’re poisonous, but you can sell them. If you don’t need money right away, it’s better to wait until summer to pick them.
Summer Food
In summer, pick berries. They’re good for quick food and drink while you’re moving around. One berry doesn’t do much, but if you spend a minute picking all you can find, it can fill you up well.
Fall Food
Fall has lots of mushrooms. Look carefully at them in your inventory to see if they’re safe to eat. By fall, you should be able to hunt and cook meat, so you might want to sell all mushrooms for money instead of eating them.
Winter Food
In winter, you can’t gather food. You’ll need to hunt for food or buy it at taverns.
Hunting
There’s a useful Hunting skill that makes animals show up as green (safe) or red (dangerous) around you. There’s also a Survival skill that makes plants you can gather show up as yellow. Both these skills are good to learn.
Hunting Tips
Most animals, except rabbits, can survive one arrow hit. Using a spear can help you track animals as they run away. You can see the spear by holding [Alt]. Make sure your spear is at least 66% strong, or it might break when you throw it.
Always carry a knife. You need it to get meat from animals you hunt.
Different Animals
Rabbits:
- Best hunted with a bow
- Hard to see in spring and summer
- Good for spear throwing practice
- Use Ctrl to sneak, but stop far away or they’ll run
Fox:
- Easier to see than rabbits
- Make squeaky noises
- Move around a lot, making them hard to hit
Deer:
- Try to hit the head with a spear while hiding
- They run away in a weird way if you hit other parts
Boar, Wisent, and Bear:
- These are dangerous
- Try to hit their heads with spears
- Carry lots of spears
Your Constitution
Healing
You heal when you sleep at night.
You can also heal with plantains, a green-leaf, brown-flowered plant found close to the ground. It can be hard to see. Keep a stock on hand, and the rest you come across can be used for early-game cash-flow.
Don’t eat raw meat, or poisonous mushrooms. They will give you food poisoning. If you contract food poisoning, St. John’s Wart can be consumed to help cure it. St.John’s Wart are small yellow flowers found all over. Keep a stock on hand, and the rest you come across can be used for early-game cash-flow.
Cooking
Once you’ve hunted and have some raw meat, you’ll need to cook it. You can cook meat at a campfire, your cooking fire inside your home, or the always-on fire in a Tavern, once you’ve advanced far enough to build one.
To light your campfire or cooking fire, first craft a torch. You will only be able to light a fire if you’ve got a torch in your inventory.
Skills & Tech Trees
Both Skills and Tech are advanced by doing things associated with them. Highlighting various areas of the trees will show you on the right what you need to do in order to advance.
The easiest way to increase farming early on, is to craft a hoe, plot some farmland, and cultivate it. Over and over, until you unlock the Barn building. After that, hoeing is a bit slow.
As of this writing (Early Access launch), farming is not yet well-balanced. A lot of farming requires manure, which cannot be easily acquired as early in the game as you start your farming, and need to level the tech tree for. I imagine this will be addressed as the game continues to be developed.
Marriage & Villagers
Marriage
In this game, you play as a man who can marry to have a child. This child will take over the village when you get old. To marry, you need to talk to women and make them like you. The more they like you, the better chance you have of marrying them. Some things you say will make them like you more, others will make them like you less.
If you say something good, you can keep talking up to two more times that day. If you say something bad, you have to wait until tomorrow to try again. It can take a whole year or more to get married, so start early and talk to women a little bit each day.
After you get married, your wife can heal you and help you change your skills.
Villagers
When your village is big enough, you can invite people to live there. Villagers need houses, wood, and food. You need to make sure you have these things ready.
Just like with marriage, you need to talk to villagers and make them like you before they’ll move in. Try to talk to them early, even before you’re ready for them to move. You can only have three good talks with someone each day.
When they like you enough, you can invite them to your village if you have enough points. Then you can give them a house and a job.
Make sure you put the right tools in the building where they work. For example, give axes to lumberjacks, and give farmers tools like hoes and scythes.
Hopefully this guide helped you!
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