The sandbox MMORPG Fractured Online offers a huge world and has been well received by players so far. The game is attracting many new fans to the genre, who are now taking their first real steps. To go along with that, here are 10 things to help you get started.

What is Fractured Online? Fractured Online is a dynamic sandbox MMORPG where the world around you is constantly changing as players influence it, rebuild it, destroy it, or even build entirely new cities.

You can choose to play as a demon, a wildfolk, or a human, and thus also choose how you want to experience Fractured Online: Demons with a PvP focus, Wildfolk with PvE, and Humans somewhere in the middle. It should be noted that the demons are not yet available in Early Access.

Apart from the tutorial, Fractured Online leaves you alone for the time being, as it should be for a sandbox game. Before you don’t know what to do or get lost in the survival aspects of the MMORPG, here are 10 tips for beginners to help you get started in Fractured Online.

1. kill all the monsters in the tutorial

Take your time: As befits a sandbox game, you have maximum freedom in Fractured Online. This also means that the game doesn’t take you by the hand and you have to find something to do. This already starts in the tutorial.

There the MMORPG teaches you the first steps and for most people who have already played such a game, you won’t learn much new. But learning is already the keyword.

You should really kill every monster in the tutorial and not just complete the quests there. This will make your start in Fractured Online a lot easier.

What’s the point? In Fractured Online, Knowledge Points or learning points are a core aspect of the game. With them, you learn new skills and distribute attribute points that passively strengthen you.

If you simply complete the tutorial as part of the quests, you’ll enter the open world with a total of 450 of these learning points. However, if you kill all of the monster species in the tutorial until you are at 100% in the bestiary for each species, you will receive a lot of learning points and enter the open world with a whopping 3,000 points.

This means you can learn more and get a lot of passive bonuses right away, making it easier for you to start the game.

2. tame a horse as soon as possible

How does it work? Right after the tutorial you have the possibility to get a mount in Fractured Online. The first option is to use the horses that are already on the road near the starting area.

In order to tame a horse, you need to craft an animal net. To do this, quickly find 5 ropes that you can find from nearby enemies. Once you have the net, all you have to do is find a horse and throw the net at it.

It is possible that the horse will break free. In that case, you just have to try a little more often. Once you’ve done that, you’ll have the mount in your inventory and can just “use” it. Once the horse is added to your character, you can summon it at any time by pressing the “A” key.

What’s the point? A horse makes the game much easier, especially in the beginning. The world of Fractured Online is big and crossing it on the back of a mount is much faster than doing it on foot.

Besides, a mount is the first destination you can aim for when you leave the tutorial and don’t quite know what to do next.

Quite simply, a horse and a mount in general is a useful addition to your hero and should definitely be taken along.

3. always have 10 small stones with you

What’s the point? You will find small stones in many corners of the game. This seems a bit strange at first, but having these little stones with you is always worthwhile for you.

Because combined with a few branches, which you can really find everywhere, you can build a campfire with them. The campfire can be used for resting, which can pick you up again if your character is not doing so well at the moment.

Also, you can build small things at the campfire that you can use on the road. You should have bandages to heal yourself anyway. And when they are empty, you can always build a campfire with enough stones and make new ones.

Other things you should always have on hand: Besides stones, branches and bandages, you should always take some plants with you if you happen to walk by them. Especially the so-called “Bitterleaf” is important.

It can be mixed with various other plants to make a healing potion. Since Fractured Online doesn’t exactly take you by the hand and the battles, especially at the beginning, can be difficult, it’s always worth having the appropriate healing items and healing options with you.

4. really take everything with you

Really anything new is useful: After talking about things you should always have with you, we now come to things you should definitely pick up at least once. The reason for this is simple: it gives you new talents and skills.

Because every time you pick up an item in Fractured Online that you’ve never had in your inventory before, you’ll get a full 250 Knowledge Points, which you can then invest in strengthening your character.

So exploration pays off if you want to improve yourself in the long run. And especially at the beginning of the MMORPG, practically everything you collect is new. You can get a lot of valuable points right at the start.

Visit new places: Since the world of Fractured Online is large and open, it’s also worth visiting new places regularly. You will also receive experience when you visit a new area for the first time.

In addition, the new area will most likely have new items that you’ve never seen before. So that leads to a lot more knowledge points. So the exploration in Fractured Online is really worth it.

5. learn only the skills you really need

How do I find skills? Before you learn skills, the first thing you should consider is what kind of character you want to be. Your supply of learning points is limited and there are a lot of skills in Fractured Online.

But of course, you’ll have to unlock them first. To do this, you need to kill different enemy types frequently enough. In the bestiary, you can see what skills you can learn from each enemy in their entry.

Then you go out and kill these enemies long enough until you can learn the various skills yourself. Once that’s achieved, there’s a lot of joy, of course. But still, you shouldn’t just learn on the fly and rather pay attention to which skills you really need and require. By the way, once you have learned a spell, you can simply equip it at any campfire.

There is no easy way to reset points in Fractured Online. So if you want to play for a long time, it makes sense to save your valuable points right at the beginning or to use them elsewhere.

Focus on talents: Instead, you should make sure to improve your talents as well. There are currently 60 talents in the game, and you learn them with the same points that you learn skills with.

However, talents provide you with permanent, passive bonuses that can help you faster and more effectively than some skills would initially, especially at the beginning of Fractured Online.

So pay more attention to which talents could help you currently and which skill you might rather not learn for that. Later you will have enough points to master all talents and a good number of skills anyway.

But especially at the beginning you should consider, because many talents make your life in Fractured Online easier than some skills do.

6. do not focus on equipment

Skills bring more: Equipment is not the way to get stronger in Fractured Online. In fact, skills and talents are more likely to make you better. So a new bow will most likely not give you the desired effect you’re hoping for.

In general, equipment is not nearly as important to start with in Fractured Online as it is in other MMORPGs. Especially if you are playing a wizard, your equipment is simply irrelevant at the beginning.

An exception to this, however, is a warrior character. Here you should rather make sure that you take an iron weapon with you as soon as possible. Through this you make significantly more damage. But even it is not everything.

Equipment becomes very strong only in the set: Later in the game you can wear different sets of armor. These then make a clear difference to the standard equipment. These sea effects are sometimes enormously strong and tailored to your own play style.

If you have the opportunity to equip a complete set, you should usually always do so. The effects you get will make your character many times stronger than normal equipment does.

In addition, you can still enchant your equipment, which will also give you more advantages.

7. mana problems? This is how you can fight them

Why are you low on mana? Mana is a perennial problem in Fractured Online. You will use much more of it than you would like. Also, the resource regenerates very slowly naturally.

To counteract this, there are two tools you can tackle at the beginning of the game. They don’t completely relieve your mana consumption, especially as a mage it’s a bit more complicated, but they make it much easier to manage the resource.

First of all, make sure you don’t use permanently active skills that consume mana. There are a few of those. You can activate them and they will remain active until you deactivate them.

Some of them are useful, but it’s still a good idea to play without them at first, since they eat up your mana and make managing the resource unnecessarily harder than it needs to be.

Attributes do little but help: The quickest way to get a better handle on your mana is to spend 4 points on the Focused 1 talent. This talent passively improves your mana regeneration and really makes a big difference at first.

However, in the later stages of the game, it is not as important, as the talent then brings comparatively less than other methods. But if you’re just starting out, you should definitely take the talent with you.

Enchantments for mana are the salvation: Enchantments, or enchantments, are the last solution you’ll encounter, but they also bring the most. At an enchantment table, you’ll be able to enchant your pieces of equipment, giving them powerful bonuses.

One of these bonuses you can choose is mana regeneration. If you have this enchantment on all four pieces of equipment, it will improve the regeneration of your mana by a whopping 10 points. With this, you should generally have no problems managing your mana.

To perform this enchantment, you will need some materials. The materials you need depend on the enchantment you want to cast on the item. You can simply place the desired item in the middle slot on your enchantment table and then select a desired enchantment on the right side.

There you will see what materials you need to apply it. Then press “Enchant” once you’ve collected everything, and you’re done.

8. kill all the rabbits

You need gold for almost everything: Gold is one of the most important currencies in Fractured Online. You need gold to build your house, trade between players, and even craft items that are a bit better than standard equipment.

As a result, you’ll probably be constantly in need of more money than you actually have. Simple grinding and monster killing is one way to counteract this.

However, you can also take advantage of the market itself. Since in Fractured Online it refers to each city individually, you can earn a lot of gold by buying things in one city, moving them far away to another, and selling them there again at a higher price. However, this always depends on a bit of luck.

Rabbit’s paws bring not only luck, but also gold: A strange way to get ahead of your gold trouble is to actually kill all the rabbits you find. This is because they can drop valuable rabbit paws.

While these are needed to perform some enchantments and crafts, they also bring in a nice sum of gold when you sell them to other players for that very reason. Besides, rabbits really do run around all the time, everywhere.

So chasing the hopping bunnies is a useful pastime that can earn you quite a bit of gold at the beginning of the MMORPG.

9. item management saves you a lot of time

How do the warehouses work in Fractured Online? Your inventory in Fractured Online isn’t exactly large. So it’s important to use space sparingly. Also, in some areas you’ll lose what you have with you when you die.

So it makes sense to make use of all the warehouses in Fractured Online. While you have a separate warehouse for normal items in each city that you can use, there is a separate warehouse for currencies and materials.

You can use this from anywhere there is a warehouse, and it is shared across all cities.

Gold is everywhere: This is useful mainly because it makes it easier for you to trade. If you can use your gold in any town, it makes it easier to trade items from town to town without having to carry all your gold with you.

So in Fractured Online, you have the advantage of being able to access your currency anywhere, while at the same time using for your normal items all the space that a warehouse provides in each town.

10. roads make you faster

There is no fast travel: The world of Fractured Online is simply huge. However, there are no fast travel options in the MMORPG as long as you are on the same planet.

This means that you can expect long walking distances in some cases, but you can also make them easier for yourself in other ways than just using the mounts. The roads are essential for this, because they are not only a nice goodie in the world of Fractured Online.

If you run on the road, you will be faster. If you run with a mount on roads, even much more. Besides the roads, there are also the harbors, which you can find on the water.

You can use them to travel from port to port for a little gold, but you can’t reach some places inland with them. So off you go on the road.

This is how the roads work: There are two different types of roads in Fractured Online. As long as you move on them, you will run faster than if you do not. You should pay particular attention to the paved roads, because here you’ll move a full 30% faster than normal.

The normal roads, the “dirt roads”, make you 15% faster. In general, it’s worth it to always be on the roads and to travel on them.

These were 10 tips for you, which will make your start in the sandbox MMORPG Fractured Online easier. Do you have any other tips to help you find your way around the game? Did one point in particular help you?

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