LogFAQs > #950007442

You generally want to start with a home base. Preferably a distance off the ground. Set up a room for crafting stations, another for chests, and then start making rooms for NPCs. 8x6 tends to work. Put in a door, walls, table, chair, and a light source. NPCs will begin to move in and you can buy items from them.

Check both ends of your map. You'll find the Angler floating around near or on the ocean. Once you have some decent basic weapons and a pickaxe make your way underground. Always have torches, rope and/or wooden platforms on you. You'll come across many abandoned bases with stations, furniture and chests full of goodies.

Look out for gripping claws so you can wall jump, and a mirror for teleportation. You'll always teleport to the original spawn point on the surface unless you make a new spawn point and right click a bed in your base.

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