Horizon’s Gate – Beginners Tips

Useful Tips for Beginners

A general tip would be to look at everything. While some are lore, there’s quite a number of them that will explain how the thing work like an anvil or a crafting kit.

If you feel lost, just know that the game doesn’t hold much of your hand when it comes to direction, so it expects you to explore on your own pace. If you eventually find an encounter you find too hard, you can always mark the spot on your map and come back later.

For character building, it’s best to put points into 3-4 main stats rather than spreading them too thin. Each main class is designed to do one specific job well, so when choosing your second class, pick something that fills in what your main class is missing. For example, you could add ranged attacks to a melee character, choose abilities that help you move around better, or select skills that don’t use MP so you have options when your magic runs out.

It can be tricky to find monster encounters that an early game party can handle. Stay near the capitals and build up wealth by selling trade goods. Pick up some monster den guild quests when you have a full landing party who has weapons. As you gain XP, it’s probably a good idea to build up a healer (Sage, Warden).

Don’t worry about building your party optimally. Having a general theme for each character is a good idea, but spreading out within that theme is fine since you can usually use up all your stars on things that benefit your build even if it’s a class you won’t be using abilities from at all.

Recruiting in Vanilla

• Humans: Anywhere
• Scurio: Anywhere, mostly the Great Sea
• Rasmen: Anywhere, typically more common moving away from the Great Sea
• Fareem: Ash Port, often Bette Sands, rarely Port Midos, Luss, Ahlvarza
• Falpa: Fantlin, sometimes Bellerique
• Ferren: Condra, very rarely Bilibas
• Wilderi: Runewald
• Aphest: Bilibas, uncommonly Bellerique and Runewald, rarely Redens and Condra
• Buralk: Bagu’s Rest, Ralkhome
• Zyla: Gonhaldr, rarely Port Midos, Wraele, Ash Port
• Crub: Crubtown
• Diecast: NG+ (Commodore only)

Unique NPCs:

• Reeve (Starting character)
• Hagger (After buying your first ship)
• Goss (Recruited at Bette Sands)

How to Make Money

1. (Blue) Unlock these passages.
2. Buy goods along the red path. Optional ports in yellow.
3. Sell everything at Bellrique.
4. Repeat!

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How to Unlock the Postgame Options

Edit the file %appdata%\BoatTactics\config.ini (enter that path in your favorite file browser or text editor). If you don’t see AppData you need to show hidden files on your folder browser (View > Show > Hidden items).

Update the Lines:

extraRacesUnlocked=True;
extraOptionsUnlocked=True;

Extra Options Include:

• RUIN mode unlock
• Bonus XP multiplier
• Timed hits mode
• Skip tutorial option

Extra Races Include:

• Diecast
• Crub
• Bulrak

Port List

Port Otype

• Scurio
• Rasmen
• Human

Port Alphe

• Scurio
• Rasmen
• Human

Bette Sands

• Fareem
• Rasmen
• Scurio

Bagu’s Rest

• Buralk
• Rasmen
• Buralk

Ash Port

• Fareem
• Fareem
• Human

Searth

• Scurio
• Rasmen
• Human
• Buralk

Granserf

• Human
• Scurio

Runewald

• Wilderi
• Scurio
• Human

Nordock

• Human
• Scurio

Dolor

• Human
• Scurio

Jascias

• Human
• Scurio
• Scurio

Ravitus

• Scurio
• Rasmen
• Scurio

Ralkhome

• Buralk
• Buralk
• Buralk

Trabenton

• Scurio
• Scurio
• Scurio

Condra

• Ferren
• Human
• Scurio

Eyrerock

• Rasmen
• Rasmen

Luss

• Fareem

Fivili

• Scurio
• Human

Dunning-Mars

• Rasmen
• Rasmen

Bilibas

• Aphest
• Human

Tsavor

• Rasmen

Fantlin

• Falpa
• Rasmen
• Human

Wraele

• Scurio
• SpinyLizard (Zyla)
• Human

Chrysol Farms

• Rasmen
• Human
• Scurio

Towerwall

• Scurio
• Scurio

Dominio (Inaccessible)

• Falpa
• Falpa

Gonhaldr

• Spinylizard (Zyla)
• Rasmen

Solport

• Human
• Rasmen

Redens

• Human
• Rasmen

Crubtown

• Crub

Bellrique

• Aphest
• Falpa

Port Midos

• Rasmen
• Human