Four guides · One connected journey
Your first Bronze,
step by step.
Go from finding ore to crafting something useful. Choose the step you need, or follow the whole path.
Find and mine Copper and Tin →
A practical first mining trip: pickaxe prerequisites, deposit recognition and where to look.
Step 2Set up a Smelter, kiln and Forge →
Turn your first ore haul into a working Bronze workshop, with separate construction and processing requirements.
Step 3How to make Bronze →
Use refined Copper and Tin at the Forge, budget your bars and inspect the separate batch recipe.
Step 4Use your first Bronze: mining or farming? →
Choose a practical next task, compare recorded tool requirements and start using a Cultivator.
Gathering essentials
Find the materials behind your next equipment choice. Each guide links gathering advice to the published item records.
How to gather Wood and Corewood →
Choose the right trees, keep the two materials distinct, and follow Corewood into Bronze-era tools.
Resource gatheringHow to gather Leather Scraps and Deer Hide →
Match the animal to the material, then follow each resource into the right Bronze equipment record.
Resource gatheringHow to gather Feathers for arrows →
Find a practical bird-hunting approach and trace Feathers into the verified Bronzehead Arrow recipe.
Resource gathering sources reviewed 2026-09-08. Source builds are unknown; local records retain their recorded build.
Your first boss: Eikthyr
Prepare, summon and fight, then use the rewards to begin your mining journey.
Prepare for Eikthyr: gear, food and a final checklist →
Get ready for the first boss, with a practical loadout check and links to gathering guides.
First-boss preparationHow to summon and fight Eikthyr →
Find the altar, offer the right trophies and recognize the three reported attack patterns.
First-boss preparationAfter Eikthyr: the Antler Pickaxe and your next trip →
Separate the trophy reward from the crafting material, then connect the first boss to Copper and Tin.
First-boss preparation sources reviewed 2026-09-08. Source builds are unknown; local records retain their recorded build.
Guidance with visible limits
These guides synthesize published gameplay sources. Sources were reviewed on 2026-09-08; we have not play-tested this route in the current build. Older footage stays labeled, and the source ledger explains which claims come from guides and which come from game-file records.