15 things I wish I knew BEFORE I started BELLWRIGHT | Beginner Tips and Tricks for your settlement!

[@Warmaster13thcrusade]

Subbed up girl. I am a older gamer and i thank you for the help. Thumbs up for 50+ gamers in the chat! lol!

[@Grubnar]

THANK YOU! Some of these tips are priceless! The game so often will tell you to do something ... without even hinting at HOW you do it. I love this game so far, it is like SKYRIM and VALHEIM had a baby ... but I hate how much I have needed to look things up on the internet. Most information should be accessible IN GAME!

[@JTY209]

There's a bug on the small game traps. If it's broken, you can just disassemble it, and it will be fully repaired in your inventory. Then, just place it back on the ground.

[@rixxy9204]

It's not a bug, hopefully. I don't feel like rebuilding these things anyway

[@yukothegreat6160]

I found this out last night by accident.

[@PopePlatinumBeats]

thanks...this was a pain always building new traps

[@spacequack5470]

@@rixxy9204 Its obviously a bug. Use your brain

[@rixxy9204]

@@spacequack5470 you need anger management. I stopped playing this game months ago because it's boring.

[@Romdryl]

Soooo helpful. Thanks for being direct, clear and helpful with these tips! Talk about refreshing. Makes me actually want to play the game now.

[@ProvokeMe64]

Good tutorial, very clear. Nice to hear someone do a video with a nice clear voice. It's a rarity lately. Good job.

[@Korimenthor]

If you're playing this game the way it's meant to be played. You're using your books on npcs and yourself and any npc that you use a book on you can later exile them from your colony and get even more renowned back than you hired them for in the first place. The more skill ups they have, the more renowned you get back.

[@ddshealthy]

Time to check this one out again, tried it when it was first early access. Thanks!

[@raxacoricofallapatorius8484]

my 2 cents on storage: I generally end up with 20 storage camps maxed with resources. Camp boxes are useless. When you unlock Tier 2, the sheer amount of resources you need to build is staggering. Before I build the village hall, I store up 100+ logs, 200+wood planks,wood, thatch, and have generally 50+ rope,cord, etc.

[@Tenakee64]

I really like this game. We got it yesterday and already have 20 hours in it. Well worth it. Lots of fun. And thank you for this tips and tricks video. Will help me on my next build. As far as changes, I agree that "Deer Hunting", IMO, is very poor and also, no antlers have dropped yet on any deer we've killed in order to complete a quest. I also think there should be a hot button to change from bow to shield as changing it during battle is very cumbersome.

[@WhyteDevile]

The concern of many is Snail Games having a many years history of 'hooking' gaming consumers on a 'potential' basis, then just ignoring game development production towards not completing said game development for a complete out of early access product. I'm on the fence. The most recent is Last Oasis with a 50-60 approval rating for that reason.

[@mattgeden4775]

As the game stands right now, I would say it is worth the $26 I paid for it. Fun game with a lot of potential, 3 patches/updates already since release which is a good sign. Hopefully they see this through.

[@the_dorkness]

Totally valid concern! I like the game enough in its current state for it to be worth my time right now so if i get 30 hours out of it I'll be happy

[@banihajer]

only sad thing here is this game doesnt have the same combat as last oasis

[@lennonlikejohn5549]

Worth the money I paid. Period. If it was 60 I’d feel robbed.. but I’m about to have more hours then dollars and having much fun

[@WhyteDevile]

@@the_dorkness I totally get it. I've been around a bit. I levy this thoughtfulness over years of what other such games have provided in the past. Survival games. It was interesting for me to look back; 1300 hours in Wurm, 1100 hours in Empyrion, 960 Hours in Ark, 670 hours in Valheim, 130 Hours in Kingdom Come, 54 hours in Sons of the Forest, 50 hours in The Forest, for some.

[@BisonWilliam]

Thanks SO much for the video! It helped me a bunch. I am totally on board with the crouch idea. I would also like to see a change with the scrap problem. You need so much of it to advance, but you can't unlock a way to make it without having it. I started my village just to the East, across the road from your village because I thought it would be closer to the mining area, but the biggest reason was the proximity to the water source. Reeds become so important and the lake to the southeast was the best I could find.

[@the_dorkness]

yes! the first fast travel sign i've built in all of my new saves is one right next to that water, easy access to reeds and a merchant to buy one strap a day!

[@Korimenthor]

If you disassemble something you only get half of your resources back, Sometimes when your Inventory. Is full, it will just put it in the nearest stockpile

[@ScottBot726]

Friendly tip about the skill book! You don’t actually have to r-click the book, just going to your attributes page will have the associated skill + button available if that book is in your inventory. Think the same would apply to companions but haven’t checked yet. Thanks for video! Love the “H” key tip

[@the_dorkness]

Thanks for the tip!

[@hattorijanco6402]

yeah just take all books to your inventory -> click N -> click on first villager -> atributes -> choose what to level up -> click R for next villager and continue. BTW really nice tips helps a lot to someone that placed first mining camp in the middle of the village and was furious that his vills dont mine any copper and tin xD

[@Korimenthor]

Also, you don't have to put books in the n PC inventory.You do it from your own and you can do it from anywhere on the map

[@highhillroland6918]

Good video. Nice clear voice, easy to understand.

[@monafaye6063]

Nice content. I’m loving the game. I wish I could sneak too. Some things I would polish access to the camp fire. I spend more time than is necessary to get my stews going. The mining nodes need to tell us when it won’t yield any more 😅. Been banging away on this Tin forever. 😂 40 hours in on day 50 and I’m not confident on the priority system and assignment of villagers. Doing a lot of science but it’s still fun. 🎉

[@rixxy9204]

_Always_ get multiple foods with you - it brings bonus Stamina. So eat some berries AND a meat, you'll get a *huge* boost in Stamina and health. This especially helps before a fight or a long trip.

[@the_dorkness]

definitely! I didn't realize how useful the stamina/health regen was when I first made this vid!

[@chaosz911]

Thank you for the tips. Just got the game tonight, so it will help with a good start 😃

[@Psynergi]

Holy moly this was SO helpful! I'd love more videos on tips and tricks for this game becouse it has a LOT of little intricasies that are lost on me. Like how do i make the best use of outposts or have goods from a faraway mining camp delivered to my main settlement.

[@MedleyOfGames]

I just got this game myself this week and started a series on my channel. Great tips video! Keep up the good work 👍

[@Lanthiren]

Nobody cares

[@marioalonzo1474]

​@@Lanthirenyou got zero likes on your only video...shh.

[@RaceMaster79]

You don’t need to „talk” to teach him. Just press N and tap on “population” tab where you have all your people.

[@PopePlatinumBeats]

level 2 raids is kicking my butt hard

[@miravlix]

The current version of the game is this odd transition from solo to Leader. You are not supposed to be hunting on your own, your supposed to build a community and have the NPC do the hunting, so it doesn't matter how hard it is to hunt and fight, your not supposed to solo the shit out of it. As you can see from what I wrote, my take is that we need better tools to handle the transition to leader/quester mode, at the moment a big tier 1 village is hell, tier 2 is insanity trying to organize a billion setting on a million different buildings, we don't need a better way to hunt deer solo, we need a better way to organize our village to hunt deer. (Done with the tier 2 hunting hut, but it can be hard to know if any game is in range.) Games is mostly solo or management, all the games that combine solo with management fail at making good management system, they just make a solo interface that gets madly overloaded when you have to organize 40 workers.

[@TheCrayButtons]

Thank you for this. You have saved my sanity :D

[@pantheon1164]

I'm liking the game so far, but getting tin is proving to be kind of a pain lol. Make a vid covering ores and maybe some more advanced crafting, like weapons? Thanks for the vid, after watching I feel like I got a better start.

[@Android811]

if you time a block perfectly, you should stun them for a second

[@Yzyxdolorza]

Thanks! I’m enjoying the game so far and taking my time to discover the game mechanics mostly on my own. I especially like the way you give a few tips without spoiling the fun of figuring stuff out. One of the things that has me stumped, though, is where to see my coin. After visiting the herbalist and selling some mushrooms I searched for my coin tally. I must be missing something important (and probably obvious.) Is there a guide to the interface somewhere?

[@the_dorkness]

Gold tally is all the way up top on the left by your health and stamina!

[@Dracomagekos]

Super helpful! Very challenging without some clues!

[@rafaoli02]

Loving this game, it is what medieval dinasty suposed to be

[@the_dorkness]

I tried MD on gamepass and the UI was too frustrating for me.

[@beka.kviralashvili]

hello, When I'm playing with friends and I'm the host, do all players have to build their own buildings and do researchs individually?

[@the_dorkness]

each player needs to build their own personal shack to sleep in, but every other building/research is shared!

[@AlexBaffo]

Another tip is bring a K-way and a large umbrella cause in this game rain every time !!!!

[@JonathanMWhite-tx4ym]

I'd like to see the progression re-worked so that I don't require the level of weaponry and armor to take on the horde which comes once I build the belltower -- which I'm building so that I can recruit an apprentice I need to acquire the higher level gear. It feels like a mob of peasants going up against an army.

[@JonathanMWhite-tx4ym]

Also, not having to go town to town to find where which apprentice I need is located would be helpful.

[@Monsenh]

I've been hearing bad things about the developers, but this game looks really fun, so im gonna pick it up 😊

[@the_dorkness]

yeah, i totally understand everyone's concerns but since this isn't a live service game like Last Oasis, i can enjoy this for what it is without them needing to continue supporting it in the long term! I've had a ton of fun and feel like i've gotten my money's worth so far!

[@youngtone804]

Ill have check out

[@Livenow23]

Great video

[@scottcher]

Great work. Earned a sub from me. Good info and nice presentation style.

[@Kysen]

Thanks for the video, very helpful :)

[@1finbomb1]

Thank you for those tips.

[@MomusAlreadyDead]

How can your villagers change bait in a traps or change a trap then it will broke? tnx

[@GwentheShieldmaiden]

Great video with helpful tips! Thank you!

[@clubjrgaming2610]

Okay hardcore gamers, question. How to make an ai set a trap. After They made it ? Still Can not see how that Should work !! Gj and good tips in here thx for sharing 😊

[@SEIGE381]

trappers camp

[@MrZoS0]

Great tips!

[@rahdigga8690]

I like this game ty for this

[@pierrelamy7324]

Thanks, very helpful!

[@MichaelAcosta]

Thanks for the video! I’m stuck on the quest having the NPC set a trap in the woods. There’s no specific command to give them and when I put the small trap in their inventory, it disappears? I didn’t see any indicator that they used it or what?

[@the_dorkness]

You should be the one placing the trap. Right click in on it in your inventory to place it and bait with a berry or mushroom. The text of the quest is misleading. You can't have Lobomir place traps

[@danielrobertson2154]

Is there a reason that seasons last a random amount of days? For instance winter and summer being between 3 and 5 days apart with winter sometim3s ending the same day as it begins

[@the_dorkness]

the winter scales to get more difficult the longer you play, so the first winter is only about a day long, then the next winter is 2 days, and so on. I think it's a nice balance to get more difficult as you learn to overcome the hardships of longer winters.

[@Oakenlix]

I think you can crouch by holding RMB with a bow

[@the_dorkness]

I wanna be even sneakier than that though!

[@omega91006]

Reading books don't need to give to your companion as long as you have the book in your personal inventory.

[@the_dorkness]

Oh good to know, thanks!

[@omega91006]

@@the_dorkness the only thing I have not figured out was that when you could read one. Even if you have the book you want to read, you couldn't read it unless it had a "+" sign on it. For example, I have like 8 books e different skills and attributes on me. I could ONLY read the book if there was a + on that skill ...

[@the_dorkness]

@omega91006 it might be because they're for later levels! You should be able to read any of the apprentice books right away, but journeyman, master, etc. books can't be read until you're at a specific level.

[@tammywilliams2035]

how do you stock up on items when it doesnt stack ?

[@the_dorkness]

items stack in storage units like the chests and stockpiles

[@youngtone804]

Well I can’t seem to find it on Xbox

[@kellyrayx119]

Anyone know what npc sells the knowledge books ?

[@catrionasloanei6847]

That is one of the worst spots you could build early game you make it harder for yourself to get early game metals etc the copper is quite a distance away from that camp location you started.

[@rickyhart4715]

Press H to save your fingers and wrists... or use a controller and lean back in your chair and save your back and neck as well, lol.😂

[@trinityprentice8221]

the combat is similar to mount and blades combat mechanics

[@garyrutherford6321]

When is this game coming out were can I get it😊

[@ATopdog007]

Its on steam and it is out as an early development

[@zachwilliams7180]

Im playing singleplayer like 5 before my brothers buy the game , restart the game and play coop from start , first day almost forget to sleep at night 😂😂😂

[@the_dorkness]

honestly, unless i need my health regenerated, sometimes i just stay up all night crafting/hunting!

[@MrMysticmatt]

close to the road means more raids tho.

[@the_dorkness]

i made a second save to put my camp smack in the middle of a field, as far away from roads as possible, and there's more bandit pathing directly thru my camp than when i placed next to a road. so i guess it depends. besides, more raids just means more straps early game!

[@MrMysticmatt]

@@the_dorkness fair enough.

[@marcuzzo211]

thx

[@hereweare9011]

The devs of this game have abandoned three previous early access games like this one. You've been warned.

[@ClanHawkins]

The Dev or the publisher?

[@Korimenthor]

There is a lot of misinformation in this video

[@magnumx70]

Yeah Will see in one year I'm tired of early access

[@TheJosephoenix]

#1... don't play this game?

[@Starwind73]

Haters will hate, Players will play. Game completely worth it money in current state and if Snail keep develop and improve it that will be just a bonus.

[@Loxworth]

@@Starwind73 Snail only published this game. It's Donkey Crew that developed it and unfortunately their track record isn't looking very good. Despite that though I still bought Bellwright and can't stop playing it 😂

[@kushking949]

lmao u mad u cant buy it. best game I ever played

[@grizzah7904]

#1... play this game

[@Deltasoldier89]

Omg... Can everyone shut up about Last Oasis already? It didnt Garner enough attention. Basically no one gave a damn about it. They released Ark Ascended and its being supported and this game already has a few updates since release. Its $26 and you can get 60+ hours of game play EASY, its relatively bug free in the gameplay loop is incredibly satisfying. its worth it. This game deserves support and Yes Snail has some making up to do and they have a bad track record but if this proves to be a financial success then they woukd be stupid NOT to continue developing it. Support the game and let go of the past. I want to see this one succeed and crying like a toddler who didn't get the toy they wanted and are throwing the new toy at the wall because of it. Its not helpful

[@the_dorkness]

Yeah, it's interesting how many people are upset about Lost Oasis when the devs straight up said that people stopped playing it and they couldn't afford to keep supporting it. In the article I found, they laid it out like "we can either close the company or move on to a new game" Luckily Bellwright isn't a live service game, so once it's done we'll have it forever

[@TheGolferguy71]

I dunno what people are talking about. I have 244 hours in Last Oasis and had a great time with it. People wanted even more, but there was no way for them to control the Chinese once they got the zergs going, so it was a "dead man walking" at that point. People that played it loved it (and there were a lot for a while), they're just upset because they wanted it to last longer.

[@MizzurWalrus]

@@the_dorknessthe majority of the community left because the majority changes werent being made with the pvp experience in mind even though last oasis is a primarily pvp focused game. The changes continued to degrade the experience to the point that most people would agree the early “seasons” (season 1/2) were the best experience for the game, until the servers started to burn per the lore of the game and the constant migration made the majority of players burn out. Season 3 split the playerbase into seperate servers based on clan size to try and address some of the complaints about mega-clans but ultimately failed to do what people wanted and only succeeded in splitting the already dwindling playerbase. season 4 was an attempt to return to season 2 but didnt have many meaningful content updates, the final nail in the coffin was s5 which was entirely pve focused and had an overhaul of the research/technology system which many people didnt like, along with an overhaul of the quality system which was unbalanced to the point of being able to one-hit people in pvp. The community for the game is currently recovering as one of the community members, BryantheHacker made unofficial mods for the game, was hired by DC and recently released official modkit support for the game. Currently a fresh wave of love for the game now because of that. tldr community didnt abandon last oasis completely and if you like bellwright’s melee combat come check the game out, theres not a lot of us left but we all love the game

[@bigl161985]

Last oasis 😂😂😂😂 naw jokes aside I'm watching to see how fun this is!!

[@shaake6887]

Last oasis had 40k players on launch and was ruined by these devs. This game is good, and has everything I asked for in Last Oasis. Which I spent 2500 hours playing.

[@vikingconquest77]

How do you keep the NPC from burning food?

[@the_dorkness]

that's the neat part, you don't! but seriously, unles you have a recruit doing cooking exclusively, you're gonna end up with some burnt mushrooms and meat. you can still eat them and feed them to ur settlers, but later on you can also you the burnt food to make fertilizer so it's not a total waste!

[@Faine44]

The job priority coding sucks. I do 90% of my own crafting. They need to sneak steal Rimworld's priority coding and implement it.

[@the_dorkness]

I've noticed if I only give each recruit a handful of jobs and put 'zero' for the remainder, they stay on task better. Hopefully, things will get a lil smoother as we move through the EA period.