Player guide
Returning Player Checklist
A quick route back into Hearthroot after time away, from collecting finished work to choosing the next useful goal.
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- Updated
- 2026-07-13
- Type
- Player guide
Overview
Do not restart every system at once. Collect what finished while you were away, clear immediate Journal rewards, then choose one bottleneck to improve for the next session.
First Five Minutes
- Collect your active gathering or crafting session before starting another character session.
- Harvest ready farm plots and collect completed Homestead station jobs; these run separately from character skill timers.
- Open the Journal and claim completed Story quests, Daily quests, and the account-wide Daily reward.
- Check Inventory and shared Storage before producing more of an item that is already consuming stack space.
- Check your current Map location before gathering because location controls available actions and gathering caps.
Choose One Direction
- Progression: follow the next Story quest and use its requirements as your short-term target.
- Equipment: search the wiki for your current material tier, then trace the recipe and input sources.
- Homestead: keep plots and stations working while your character gathers, crafts, or fights.
- Economy: sell surplus to a Merchant for certainty or compare player Market orders for a better price.
- New character: remember that Homestead, Storage, gold, tokens, and Daily systems are shared, while skills, silver, inventory, and equipment belong to each character.