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When you first play the game, it will take some time to load. Now, if your a girl, you will look pretty bare. To change your apperance, click yourself or push esc, go to "Appearance..." and then avatar. you can do the same if your male, too. Now, when it is fully loaded, you will see 3 benches and statue of a "pharaoh", as you will. Click it and it will provide helpful tips. Moving on, or down the path in your case, you will see more of these pharaoh statue's. Your first main goal is to complete the citizenship task.
Basic materal list:
Mud, Sand, Slate, Grass and Straw. Mud can be gatherd by walking on Muddy areas, as you probally guessed. When you walk on a muddy area, a green "icon" will appear in the top right corner of the screen. Click it and it will tell you "Gather how much mud?" Then type how much you want in the box(default is 1) and push ok. Sand is gatherd on grassy areas, with almost the same way of gathering as mud, although the icon is yellow. Slate is a sort of tricky material to gather, it can only be gatherd by the shore line. When you try gathering it, you will see an orange icon, click it and it will automatically gather one, this is because it isn't a easy gained material. Grass is almost the same as slate, exept the icon is blue. Straw is made by drying grass, ether in a drying rack, flax hammock or dropping it on the ground for awhile. while the drying rack offers protection for your grass, it is also faster. And the flax hammock is even faster, and provides the same protection.
Moving on,
going down the path you will see a road sign, click on the arrow that is horazontal. It will tell you what is in that direction. Also down there are two collums, and another statue. This will tell you about the utilitys. Pushing F4 will display a arrow, it points north. Changing camera can also be useful. F5, F6, F7 and F8 change the view, pushing F8 makes it to an overhead view, for long distant travel. Along down the road, there will be more sand spots and a road sign, and a statue to display how to get sand.
Carrying on down the road you will see a road sign, statue and probally buildings other players of left, and a last road sign saying "Slate". A short distance south of that, there will be a statue and another road sign. you will see some trees, you can gather wood from these by clicking on it, and chosing "Gather wood from this *tree name*" Where it says "This tree produces atleast X wood" is how much wood it will produce. You will also see a thorn plant, you can gather thorns from it in a similar fashion. Thorns are needed later on in the game but should be gatherd, as you will need them for buildings. carrying along down your path, you should see another road sign and a statue, telling you about thorns. Also, another road sign and statue telling you about schools. You can lern skills at schools for a price. You can lern Brick rack construction, Carpentry, Large project mgmt(management) and stone blade fabrication.
First skills
Brick racks let you make bricks, it cost 4 wood to pay for the tuition. You can build a brick by clicking yourself or pushing esc, Chosing projects and then Brick rack. Carpentry allows construction of a wood plane, witch converts wood into boards. A payment of 1 stone blade is required. You can get this by clicking youself and chosing special, then forge a stone blade. You will need the skill Stone blade fabrication to make stone blades. You start with a skill of 0/7, when this increases, you will become more sucessful. Large project management you shouldn't need on the island, so it is advised not to learn it, as it is very costly. Bricks can be made on a brick rack, using 3 mud, 2 straw and 1 sand, the whole process takes around 30 seconds.
First camp
Now you can start a little "camp". you will need about 5 brick racks, a wood plane and a chest. Chests hold an extra 500 bulk and weight, and keeps your items secure. The ideal place to build a camp is near water, trees, sand, mud and grass. When you feal redy to move on, go to the School of Art and Music, witch is north west from the first school you went to. Here you can learn: Clothwork, Flax processing and Ferry construction. Clothwork requires a tuition of 10 rotten flax, Flax processing requires 10 flax, and last of all, ferry construction. Witch requires a tuition of 4 "tar." You can also ask for some supplys, do so. now you have some flax seeds. Head back to your camp.
Flax
When you have some flax seeds, you should be curious with what to do to them. You grow them, and this is how you do it. you first of all go onto grass, then click yourself or push esc, then chose "Plant..." Then your flax seeds. When you plant them, it will look like a mud patch, after awhile it should turn into a green plant ontop of a mud patch. If you want to produce more seeds, when the weeds come(they look yellow), leave them. after about 20 seconds, it should give you the option to pick them. After, you should have 1 more seed. you can keep doing this until the flax dies. If you want the flax it's self, on the other hand, you should weed it(when it appears yellow), you will need to do this twice. Then you can harvest for the flax. Rotting flax needs the Flax processing
skill. You can rot flax by going near water, clicking yourself or pushing esc, chosing special and then rot flax in water.