You are the champion, out in the world. Click the world to take control of the mouse; Esc frees it for menus. Mouse look · W A S D walk · Left-click swing at what's under the crosshair — trees and rocks get harvested, enemies get hit · E or Right-click interact: open one of your buildings, tame a weakened beast (below 40%), pick up loot, repair · 1 2 3 4 cast abilities where you look · V switch between first-person and third-person (over-the-shoulder) view · M big map. What you harvest goes straight into your stockpile.

Goal: destroy every enemy Command Center (or be the last team standing). Lose all your buildings and you're out.

Your people: workers harvest on their own, favouring whatever you're short of (toggle with the Workers button up top). Trained troops fall in behind you; F rallies the army to you, G sends it home to guard. Look at one of your buildings and press E to train units, run refineries (set them to ↻ repeat) and research.

Economy loop: raw materials (wood, stone, fiber, food, ores, crystal, essence) → refineries make planks, bricks, ingots, steel, glass, alloy and mech parts → those unlock and build stronger structures and gear.

Building: B opens the palette (your cursor is freed to pick). The blueprint floats where you look, up to 8 tiles in front of you, snapping to the grid and flush against existing structures. Left-click places it, R rotates gates, Shift keeps the tool so you can walk along laying wall after wall. Idle workers help build.

Your halls: the Command Center and every 3×3 building (Barracks, Smelter, Research Lab, Taming Pen…) is a real building with a doorway on its south side. Walk in — you and your allies pass through the door, enemies don't. Farms are open fields you can cross.

Growing stronger: level up with kills, buildings, taming and missions. Spend skill points in the Hero sheet (H) on abilities or the Might / Vitality / Focus tracks. Craft gear at the Workbench, Blacksmith and Arcane Forge, then equip it in the Hero sheet.

Taming: fight a wild creature down below 40% health, then look at it and press E. Taming burns food. Build a Taming Pen or Beast Stable for capacity. Tamed haulers gather, fighters fight, siege beasts smash walls.

Finding things: objectives show as coloured beams of light on the horizon; click one in the Objectives list (or anywhere on the minimap) to set a white waypoint beam. M enlarges the map.

Caves are dark tunnels in mountains with the richest iron, crystal and essence — and the nastiest guardians. Missions (right panel) spawn across the map: caches, cave delves, boss hunts, ruins and infestations pay out legendary weapons, Titanite and Voidshards.

Combat: slash beats light armour, pierce shreds beasts, magic melts heavy plate, siege wrecks structures. Towers are your friends. T tech tree, H hero sheet, Enter chat.