Like any sandbox game,Core Keepercan yank you in and keep you for hours. But just because you can spend your days and nights here, that doesn’t mean progress has to be difficult. Without the right tips, there can be an unfortunate learning curve that can stall you in the early stages.
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There are a few things to focus on in the infancy of your Core Keeper playthrough that will make transitioning to the rest of the game an easier experience that’s still fun. So, consider theseuseful tipsbefore you set off to explore this vast, pixelated world.
10Always Eat Before You Fight
Food is OP
Core Keeper places a heavy emphasis on cooking. When you eat, you get a general stamina boost alongside other helpful buffs. All of it depends on the type of meal you make and the ingredients you use. No matter what you have, you want to cook before you go out to battle a boss.
These buffs can make any fight that much easier. Play around with different ingredients tosee what meals you come up with. A good tip is to store some of your favorites in a chest built specifically for food so you know what to make more of in the future.
9Find the First Boss ASAP
Glurch is Tricky to Locate
Before you’re able to truly explore the map, you need to face down the first boss. Unfortunately, Glurch isn’t the easiest to find. Your best bet is to dig out in different directions. Stay close to the Core as he’ll always spawn near it. You’ll know you’re close when the camera starts to shake.
You can do this near the start, even if you aren’t actually prepared to fight. At least when you’re ready, you won’t waste time just trying to find him. Once you slay Glurch, then you’ll finally enjoy all that Core Keeper has to offer.
8Build an Early Crop Farm
Stocking for the Future
Clear some space around the Core and build up a farm early on in the game. As we mentioned before, food is vital. So, you’ll want to start growing some crops before diving too deep into the game. In fact, if you can find a spot close to water, consider starting up a farm there. It makes it quicker to keep your watering can full.
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Start off strong to give your farm a chance to flourish year-round.
Food doesn’t rot away either. So, you can grow plenty of crops and keep them for a rainy day, or you can always sell any excess to merchants to score more coins. Either way will benefit you in the long run.
7Retrieve Your Items After Death
Death Isn’t the End for Your Gear
Whenever you die in Core Keeper, you spawn a tombstone on that spot. Thankfully, there’s a marker wherever your tombstone is, so you’re able to head to it as soon as possible. Once you get to it, beat it until it gives you what you had in your inventory when you died. It’s a great way to get back on your track after death.
But if you worry about reaching your tombstone in the meantime without your items, note that anything in your first row will stay with you. So, keep key items in your hot bar so that they’ll readily available even if you don’t survive.
6Fight Smarter, Not Harder
Fighting Comes in Different Shades
There’s plenty of fun in taking down enemies in Core Keeper, but an important tip to keep in mind is that you don’t always have to deal with enemies the same way. Maybe you’re busy mining or farming. Or maybe you just don’t have the skills, gear or time to battle. If that’s the case, take down your enemies a different way.
Whip out the shovel and dig yourself a nice series of holes between you and the enemy. This will keep them safely away while you finish up your chores. Here’s where ranged weapons come in handy too so you can deal with them without them swarming you. Or if all else fails, it’s time to bring out the pickaxe and simply remove the spawn tiles for these enemies.
5Create a Mob Farm
Steady Supply of Drops
Speaking of dealing with enemies smarter, when you want to farm certain ones to collect their drops, you don’t always have to set out and track them down. you may build a nice containment area surrounded with a fence and set up spawning tiles inside.
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These enemies will come out, but thanks to the fence, they won’t go anywhere. Now you have yourself a solid enemy farm where you may shoot with your ranged weapon and take them down, scooping up their drops whenever you need them.
4Protect the Animals
They Go Down Too Easily
Our next tip for Core Keeper brings us back to the importance of food. Animals offer key ingredients for many meals, so you’ll need to take down some of the animals at some point.Animals, however, don’t respawn. Enemies or the environment can kill them, so you want to keep them safe until you can breed more.
Surround them with a fence if need be as this will keep them contained and other enemies out of the way without you stressing too much over them. When you’re ready to set up your permanent base in a particular biome, you can eventually craft animal cages for transportation. Move them away from the meadows and build them something more secure to move them to.
3Mine Copper Immediately
The More, the Better
Copper is one of the most important starting materials in Core Keeper. With it, you’ll be able to upgrade your gear and weapons. And you’ll use a lot of it, which is why you want to mine as much as possible in the beginning.
Here’s where it pays off if you have amining backgroundfor your character. It makes this process more seamless, but any character can realistically handle it. Once you have an entire copper armor set, you should be able to handle your first boss encounter.
2Tidy Everything Up
A Clean Area is a Functional Area
Expanding to different biomes will happen naturally in Core Keeper. But if you want not only to set up your base, but also bring in merchants and other NPCs, you need to clean up. By which we mean dealing with the abundance of enemies all around.
You can do this at the beginning during your search for Glurch. Cleaning up the surrounding space during this time will give you plenty of space to deal with this first boss too as he likes to hop around a lot, and you don’t want him moving toward your base. Having a wide breadth is always useful.
1Utilize Your Armor Templates
Always Adapt to Changing Situations
You graciously have three armor templates to use,so use them. You can design different setups to handle various situations. Perhaps you want to play around with both ranged and close-combat styles? Build armor to suit that and keep them in the different templates.
Fighting is a necessity in Core Keeper, so knowing when to adapt is key to your survival. you’re able to bind these templates if needed. This will allow you to swap out on the fly, a helpful feature whenever you’re knee-deep in combat.
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Trapped in a cave with no way out, the only real option is to convert the monster-infested depths into a comfy home. Build a house, garden, fish, scavenge, and mine to get better tools, and beat on monsters to maybe eventually escape the sprawling subterranean map.
