One Hour One Life – Beginners Guide

Basic guide for new players how to do basic tasks around the village and pull their weight.

Basic Guide to Being Useful

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Introduction

The goal of this guide is to give players very basic knowledge about how they can be helpful in the village. I assume you know the controls and you spawn in a village with most amenities built, as it is usually the case.

Level 0 – Staying Alive

You can’t be helpful when you’re dead! So make sure to pay attention to your food, get your yums and avoid taking long trips in the wild, especially in areas where wolves, bears and snakes live.

Level 1 – Bring Me Some Stuff

Many times people will be focused on their main task and you can help them out by fetching some items they need. Best if you ask them yourself but there are some things that usually are okay to do:

• Bringing sticks to the blacksmith area (they can cut them into fuel for their furnaces)
• Bringing sticks to the kitchen area (they can cut them into fuel)
• Bringing bowls full of berries or berry-carrot mix to the kitchen (they will be made into pies)
• Bringing bowls with grain to the kitchen (they will be made into pies)
• Bringing firewood into nursery. Many times people just cut trees and leave firewood laying there, so you may scout some just laying nearby the village. Just don’t try to bring ALL the firewood since that’s a job for someone with a cart, but if you bring a couple of units no one will hold it against you

Just make sure to ask if it’s okay if you bring stuff and put them somewhere on the side so it doesn’t disrupt the ongoing process.

Level 2 – Take Care of the Plants

There’s always work to do on the farm, especially with berry bushes.

If any plant is dry then it needs watering with a bowl of water. You can fill the bowl from one of the buckets with water and if bucket is empty you can fill it in the well or cistern. If wells and cisterns are dry, ask someone for help.

If berry bushes are languishing then they need to be filled with bowl of fertile soil. If there’s no fertile soil nearby you can search for compost (usually somewhere at the edges of the farm), grab it with basket and then put it on the ground with right-click, that will produce fertile soil.

Once berry bushes are watered and fed with soil they will grow nicely and since they are needed for many things you will help a lot if you keep them growing well.

Level 3 – Pie Duty

Time to make some pies! I assume your kitchen is built and there’s just no one running it.

First thing needed to make a pie is wheat grain. Go to your wheat farm and gather wheat with sharp rock. Then put it on the ground and hit it with a big stick, it will produce grain and straw. You can pick up grain with a bowl.

Then you need to grind the grain with a round rock and add water to it. Then put the dough on a plate. Two things worth to note here; one is that if you let dough stay it will grow and be useless for pies, and second is that one bowl of dough is enough for 4 pie crusts so you can prepare 4 plates beforehand.

Now we need some toppings. Get a bowl and go to your farm. There are three products that can form a topping: berries, carrot and raw rabbit. You can put any of those or any combination of those onto a bowl, so: berries, berries with carrots, berries with rabbit, carrots, carrots with rabbit and just rabbit. This is important because every unique food you eat grants you yums, so you can make variety of pies. Anyway, gather your topping choice into a bowl, then crush it with sharp rock and put it onto the crust.

Now the pie is almost ready, you just need to bake it! Prepare a couple of raw pies and get yourself some kindling and long straight shaft. Put kindling into the oven and light the long straight shaft – you can light it from the fire in nursery which is usually next to the kitchen. Use fire on the stick to light the furnace and… wait. The furnace will light but you need to wait until it cools down. Once the fire dies, put the pies into the oven and voila, you have baked a pie!

Of course there’s much more to cooking than that, but pies are something that’s relatively easy to make and provides a lot of options for yums, and hey, if nobody else is manning the kitchen then they can’t really complain, right?

Level 4 – Compost Duty

So, remember how you whacked that wheat and you got straw and grain? Well, it turns out you can make compost out of straw! Compost is really important because it provides big amounts of fertile soil which will be useful to make berry bushes grow, as I mentioned in Level 2 section.

Once you get your straw you need berry-carrot mix to make it into a compost – take a bowl, fill it with berries and then add a carrot. Then smash with with sharp rock and spill it onto the straw with a right click. Now you have dry compost. After you water it you get wet compost.

Now to finish making compost you need a shovel and a piece of dung (poop). Dung is made by sheep feeding them berry-carrot mix. There’s a high chance that there’s already a bucket of dung laying around, or some pieces of dung laying around the sheep enclosure, grab a shovel and put that dung onto the compost. Now it’s ready!

Well, almost. It needs some time for composing, but that’s where your duty ends. One ready pile of compost can be gathered from 5 times (with a basket), and each time it produces 4 fertile soil, therefore one full pile of compost is about 20 pieces of fertile soil, so if you make a bunch of those you can be sure your village has a nice storage for the future.

Level 5 – Can You Teach Me…?

You could argue that this chapter should be first, because many people are simply taught things by other players, but that depends on other players good will and uses up their time and the point of this guide is to give you basic tools to be useful when your knowledge of the game is low.

However, many players ARE happy to teach you stuff so if opportunities allow you can just go to any player that is doing something and ask them if they can teach you. That way you can continue their work once they die and you will increase your knowledge about the game. Kitchen stuff and blacksmith stuff should be your go-to, but there is also hunting, building, woodworking and others.

Thank you for reading this little guide and good luck.