RuneScape: Dragonwilds / Ashenfall field guide
A better plan.
A longer adventure.
Build your first camp. Find the missing material. Prepare for the next dragon.
Start with the useful things
What are you trying to do?
Your first hour in Ashenfall
Build a useful camp, prepare food and water, and work towards your first mining upgrade.
Read the guide 02 / Tools & resourcesHow to get the Bone Pickaxe
The materials, leather chain and crafting station you need before mining copper and tin.
Read the guide 03 / Crafting progressionBuild a Furnace and start smelting
Separate station construction, ore inputs and processing fuel before your first metal run.
Read the guide 04 / ExplorationHow to unlock fast travel
Build Lodestones, budget Vault Cores and leave room for the return journey.
Read the guide 05 / SurvivalHow healing works now
Current food, health progression and poison rules, with obsolete Early Access advice called out.
Read the guide 06 / First dragonPrepare for General Velgar
A preparation guide for the Dragon Slayer encounter, updated for the health rework.
Read the guideLess backtracking / More exploring
Know what to bring back.
Choose the stations and tools you want. Add what you already own. Get one material list for the next gathering trip.
Open the material planner ↗Example / One campfire + one table
- Ash Logs
- 8
- Stone
- 4
Construction only. Fuel and shelter are extra.
Returning to Ashenfall
Old advice can send you backwards.
Agility, Windstep and safer traversal
Find the right skill tree and understand courses, shortcuts and Recall in 0.12.1.
Read the guide 08 / Version changesReturning for 1.0: what to check
Separate changes already in Early Access from the announced September 15 release.
Read the guideThe guides distinguish current developer notes from community recipe records. See how this edition was researched.