Initial Gameplay | Cube World Cube World Guide
Last update: 26 September 2019
Once you create your character, you will always be starting in Forest. There is no exceptions to that and it will always be this specific climatic zone.
In your inventory, you will have the basic kind of weapon for your class and five health potions. The focus in the game is on the party gameplay so, it is best for you to find a group of friends to play as a team.
Regardless of if you are playing solo or with a friend, open the map by pressing the "M" key and you will see the city icon and several crossed swords in the blacked out areas.
The city should be the first stop you make. Go there and you will definitely find several Heartflowers to collect, several campfires and some enemies to kill.
While pushing forward, you should be especially careful and pay attention to everything because, if you want to survive, you need to learn spotting the items that are worth collecting.
Heartflower is a red heart-shaped flower. It is indispensable because you will be creating health potions with it, and these will help you win many battles.
Throughout your journey, you are bound to encounter places with campfires in them. At the campfire, you can roast your food and craft health potions. (more about this in the "Crafting" chapter) .
The fight is an important aspect of the game. You will definitely stumble across an enemy to kill straight away. Take a careful look at the enemy to assess the danger level (more about this in the "Enemy Types" chapter).
If you play solo, you should not attack the orange or red enemies because, regardless of the number of the health potions in your inventory, your fight will end really soon. With you dead. If you are in a group with your friends, or, there is a friendly NPC nearby, you can dare a fight with an enemy that strong.
Before you attack, though, open your skill tree and select your subclass (more about this in the "Skill Tree" and "Classes" chapters). Do this at the beginning of the game because if you achieve higher levels and spend some of your points, changing your class is going to cost you some money.
In your first battle, only the basic and the Special attacks (more about this in the "Classes" chapter) and Dodge are available. You pull out the latter to avoid the enemy attacks by rolling to the side. To use it, you need to press the mouse roll.
If you are a warrior, ranger or rogue, you will be generating mana to perform the special attack by perform the basic attack. The Mage is the only class whose mana regenerates automatically and can use the special attack right at the onset.
If you die or something went wrong, press the "R" key. You will respawn in the nearest Respawn Point. After you die, you lose nothing and you will be able to resume your journey.
After you win a fight then, depending on the enemy, you wil be able to collect what was left behind.
When you reach the city, you should make your first stop at the equipment shop. This is where you can buy the bottle that is necessary to prepare the health potion, as well as other useful items. Apart from the shop, you can find a few pets to tame here (more about this in the "Taming") chapter) shops with armor, Crafting workbenches (more about this in the "Crafting" chapter), a workbench to improve items on a shop for box identification and NPCs to adapt at.
Adapting - it is the ability to improve your equipment to a form suitable for your power level. It requires Platinum Coins.
Item Improvement - consists in incorporating special stones into the weapons and armors to endow them with special abilities. To perform this, you need to have a Stone whose power level matches with that of the item that you want to improve. Such stones are dropped by bosses. Additionally, you need to be standing next to a Customization Bench that should be located in the city, next to the blacksmith's.
Identification- consists in opening the boxes named "Leftovers + x", where the "X" is a random power level. This means that, after you identify the box, you can receive a random item of the power signified by the "X". Such boxes are dropped by every mob in the game.
Additionally, pay attention to whether the NPCs have clouds above their heads or not. If they do, a conversation with them will result in the placing interesting locations on your map. You also should pay attention to the font color that the location's name is written in. These signify what sort of enemy you can expect to encounter there.
When you acquaint yourself with everything, you can push forward. Your priority is the crossed swords above the map. When you reach the closest one, it will turn out that it is and event site. There, you will have a quest to perform. In the current version, the only quest is to kill the boss (more about this in the "Enemy Types" chapter).
If you play solo, you can only win with a boss if its name comes in white. Unfortunately, you chances are low against this type of quests because the bosses are tough and even five-member parties can have problems completing it.
The boss usually, (if not always), is hidden deep into the event site and you will have to defeat many of its minions before you can actually fight it.
There are several types of bosses and there is no one uniform method to defeat them. The easiest one that works in most cases is that the person attacked by the boss needs to avoid its attacks at all times, and the remaining members of the party launch their attacks. It pays off to have the summoned pets (more about it in the "Taming" chapter) because they also attack and may distract the boss.
You also need to be vigilant because, if you die, you will receive no experience points, if your party kills the boss, and you do not manage to strike a blow.
As a reward for killing the boss, there are interesting items, and lots of experience.
The game, in itself, has no plot nor ending. Armed with the knowledge contained in this guide, push forward and gain strength.