Necesse: A Guide for Beginners

What you need to know

Starting out in Necesse can feel a bit overwhelming, but understanding the basics of world creation, early exploration, and cave mining will set you up for success. By adjusting world settings to your comfort level, gathering proper equipment, and preparing for your first boss, you can smoothly transition into the mid-game.

Step by step

1. Set up your world by choosing adventure or casual mode, and consider turning off raid spawns, hunger, and survival mode if you are just starting out.
2. Begin your game by grabbing the leather dashers from the display inside the starting house and equipping them to your trinket slot so you can press shift to move faster.
3. Explore the starting island to gather resources from trees, loot chests, and check out the local wildlife.
4. Craft a pickaxe and head into the forest caves to mine stone and ores like copper, iron, and gold.
5. Prepare for your first boss, the Evil's Protector, by gathering class-specific gear and weapons such as gold armor, the iron greatsword, or spider equipment.
6. Use a mysterious portal—found in chests or dropped by cave mobs—to summon and defeat the boss, then use the resulting demonic workshop to craft advanced armor and tools.

Tips

• Use your shift key and leather dashers only when needed, as the speed boost has a cooldown.
• Identify copper by brown-red splotches on stone, iron by light brown cuts, and gold by yellow dots.
• Defeat cavelings in caves to receive a hefty amount of gold or top-tier ore.
• Build stone or wood walls to block off dangerous spider nests in caves if you want to avoid fighting giant man-eating spiders.
• Watch out for the Evil's Protector's shadow when he returns to the ground, as his landing attack deals 50 damage.