A pixel-art wanderer planning their journey at a map table beside the Long Road

The traveller's field notes

Wanderer Guides

Every system in the game, explained in plain language — from your first steps to Legendary smithing. Kept current with every balance change.

Start hereGather & craftPlan the long road
01

Starting out

Learn the road, its safe places and the orders your wanderer follows.

Wanderer's Rest castle and the first stretch of road

Getting Started

Your first steps out of Wanderer's Rest — moving, towns, and what the game does while you're away.

 The Wanderer movement-mode selection screen

Movement Modes

All eight travel modes — the standing orders that decide what your wanderer does every second.

 A Wanderer town with roads, water and services

Towns & Services

Safe zones, the store, buy-back, pack expansions, teleport scrolls and the 28 blacksmiths.
02

Combat

Understand encounters, prepare your build and recover when the road wins.

A roadside fight against creatures in Blackfen

Combat Basics

Attack, Strength and Defence, how fights resolve, monster levels, and combat focus.

 A dangerous Wanderer boss encounter

After a Defeat

What losing actually costs (position, never items), how revival anchors work, and the smart way back.
03

Equipment

Choose, protect and improve the gear that carries you east.

The Wanderer inventory and equipped armour

Equipment & Progression

The 26-tier gear ladder, equipment and tool slots, soft equip, locking and inventory management.

 A Wanderer equipment reward ready for improvement

Armor Tempering

Combine three identical pieces at the tempering bench and forge one of higher quality.
04

Gathering & crafting

Turn stone and timber into tools, equipment and progress.

Bronze pickaxeCopper ore

Mining

All 12 ores with levels and strike chances, the full pickaxe ladder, auto-mining and offline mining.

 A pixel-art blacksmith forging steel at an anvil

Smithing

Every bar recipe with real XP values, gear costs by slot, tools, and running the forge offline.

 Bronze woodcutter's axeCut logs

Woodcutting

The axe ladder, log income, where to cut safely, and the quiet-night offline order.

 Roadside Tonic potionEmpty bottle

Alchemy

All three healing potions with exact levels, heals and ingredient lists — and where the bottles come from.

Three more gathering trades (Stonecutting, Foraging, Fishing) and four crafting trades (Smelting, Sawmilling, Carpentry, Cooking) round out the eleven-profession roster. Each has a complete written page — every level, recipe and success roll — in the in-game Guides screen (menu → Guides), right where you're using them.

05

The long game

Prepare for distant regions, time away and goals measured in months.

The Long Road crossing several Wanderer regions

Exploration

Reading the road: regions, safe ground, landmarks, and how the world gets harder as you go east.

 A pixel-art wanderer resting while the road continues east

Offline Progress

What your wanderer actually does while the app is closed, and how to make the most of away time.

 The Hall of Wanderers progression rankings

Progression

The skill curve to 500, combat focus, coins and spending priorities, records and long-haul goals.

Looking for a specific place rather than a system? The World Atlas covers all 32 regions, with levels, towns, creatures and landmarks for each.

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