Necesse: The 1.0 Ultimate FaQ and Guide

What you need to know

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of how to get started in Necesse, covering basic settings, quests, settlements, and multiplayer hosting. You will learn the progression path, how to manage settlers and avoid raids, and how classes and difficulty work.

Step by step

1. Open your settings to configure keybinds for automatically sorting chests and placing items into nearby chests. Adjust the "pause on focus loss" setting if you plan to take screenshots or run the game in the background.
2. Find the settlement flag in the world and place it down to activate the Elder's quests.
3. Craft a workstation to build farmland for growing seeds. Plant the initial seeds yourself so settlers can harvest and replant them for you.
4. Craft beds for your settlers using wool and logs at a carpenter's bench, which is made at a workstation.
5. Host a multiplayer world by going to the main menu, selecting play multiplayer, and choosing to host a world, or by using the pause menu while in a singleplayer game.
6. Join a friend's hosted world through Steam invites or the multiplayer join menu. If you experience lag or connection issues, change your Steam download region or disable any active VPNs.
7. Use chat commands to join the same team by typing /createteam and /setteam. To take over an abandoned settlement, join the owner's team and break and replace their settlement flag.

Tips

• Use the official wiki for more detailed information when needed, but remember the game progression is straightforward enough that you rarely need it open.
• Sell wheat grown by happy farmers to make money early on, or break underground pots and gold rooms. Later in the game, sell bone arrows from mob farms for very high returns.
• Keep settlers happy by providing varied, high-quality food, large rooms with diverse furniture, and individual rooms with tiled floors.
• Protect your base from raiders by gathering your settlers to fight them together, or disable raiders entirely in your world settings.
• Switch your combat build freely at any time by simply changing your weapons, headgear, and trinkets.