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Here are some basic Game Mechanics of ArcheAge.

Table of Contents

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• Beginner Tips
• What is Overachieving?
• How to Salvage Items
• Banks
• Auction House
• Labor Points
• Remodeling Armor & Weapon
• Social
• Other Interesting Features

Beginner Tips

ArcheAge is a game full of depth and excitement. There is so much to do and so much to see. Here are some tips for beginners to help understand the core mechanics of ArcheAge and help pull away some of the confusion from things like piracy and PvP.

1. You will receive your glider (used for flight), mount (which you will raise yourself), rowboat for crossing water, and various other tools around level 10 through the starting quests.
2. The starting quests are a major giant tutorial, pay attention at each step. Even things that involve killing monsters and seem like a fedex quest usually turn into something better.
3. The game is only as hard as you make it, if you're having trouble doing something, find something new. That's the best part of a sandbox, you're not tied down to one specific area.
4. The glider quest is easy to miss, so do every quest in every starting area. It's so super important your first time to learn everything and get all the tools you need to succeed in the world of ArcheAge.
5. Trading is ultimately on of the only things you can't avoid because you need Gilda Stars to build anything.
6. Mirage Island should be one of the first places you learn how to get to after you have a grasp on the game, it's where all of the plans for most of the major items are sold.
7. If you plant anything in the open, it can be stolen or destroyed by other players.
8. You have two days of protection on public planting areas.
9. You can obtain a Scarecrow through Blue Salt Brotherhood trade route quests. If you have Patron status, you can plant them yourself. You can have one large and one small.
10. Everything costs labor points, be sure to manage your labor points well.
11. Patron status increases the rate you earn labor points, making you much more effective at building and doing things within the world.
12. If you're confused on what there is to do in the world, you can trade to earn gold or Gilda Stars, build a house and decorate it, farm crops to sell on trade routes or use in crafting, grow animals to ride, explore the ocean, piracy on the ocean, crafting in general, PvP sieges, open world PvP, and lots more stuff but that's the big ones.
13. Thunderstruck wood is literally… wood struck by thunder. Plant trees out on the islands to make it easier to obtain.
14. Like many eastern sandbox games, there is a prison. If you kill enough players of your own faction or harvest enough crops that aren't yours and enough crime points (5) are established from the blood trails or footprints, when you die you'll go to court where the community can judge you (most likely put you in jail).
15. Infamy and crime are two different resources. Infamy gets you kicked out of your own faction, at which point you become a pirate and will respawn on pirate island. Infamy stays with you forever,
16. During a jail sentence you can sit in jail or escape, but if you escape you'll get a debuff that greatly limits what you can do. Which is fine! Because you can just use that time to travel somewhere.
17. To escape just dig and break creates to get the tower key, then glide away from prison. The maximum sentence right now is 20 hours, but for most things it'll be an hour or two.
18. You need 3000 infamy points to become a pirate at which point you'll become a pirate, at which point you can travel to pirate island and the pirates will be allied with you. Your old faction will disown you and you will be kill on sight for all players. The pirate life lets you kill anyone without punishment and it takes a long time to redeem yourself. It's kind of the ultimate endgame, after you've done everything else. You can stop being a pirate by working hard to redeem yourself.
19. Vehicles exist in the game and the car can carry multiple trade packs, this is why it goes so slow.
20. Buying into patron status, like in Defiance, will make your life so much easier in the game. The rewards are endless.
21. There is so much crazy depth to the game, don't ever feel bad reaching out in faction chat for help. You're going to echo about 20394823 other people, but it's okay, because everyone is at the same point you are.
22. PvP works like this - if your in faction controlled area, you're safe from other factions from attacking you. If you're in enemy territory, you can't attack anyone unless they attack you first, and only you can attack them, your allies can't (until or unless its changed). Oceans, islands, non-faction controlled area, the pvp continent, etc. are all open PvP.
23. Building things takes a lot of time and effort. Do not put a construction plot down until you're ready to build and mind how many resources and labor points it'll need. If you can't do it within 3 days, it will be destroyed.
24. Labor points regenerate a lot faster for Patrons. If you're F2P, you'll have to be online for them to regenerate. Patrons have their LP regenerate not only faster, but while offline too.
25. Finally, resources: Gold is earned from quests and trade routes, Gilda Stars is earned from trade routes, and honor points are from PvP in a PvP zone, sea, or anywhere that allows you to attack the opposing faction. Crime and infamy is gained from PvPing your own faction or stealing. Honor can also be gained from quests.

Overachieving

Overachieving is when you go beyond what the quest requires you to do. In most MMOs, if the quest asks you to kill 5 spiders, you'll only get xp for killing 5 spiders. In Archeage, you can keep killing those spiders and get up to 50% more XP than if you had just killed 5 spiders.

Pay attention to the status beside the quest name. It changes from in progress to complete to extra progression to overachieve. That is when you should stop as you won't get any more xp from the quest. However, you will still get kill xp from killing the mob.

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Salvaging Items

What are these question marks in my bags?

The question marks are gear and reward items. Right click on them to open them. It costs about 2 to 5 Labor points to open them.

How do I salvage gear that I can't use?

To salvage items, you need to buy evenstones from merchants. Right click and then left click the item that you want to salvage. Remember to check the items first, in case it's something you want!

Banks

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Warehouses or Banks, are very useful NPCs. They allow you to store any item that can go in your bags.

Warehouses can be found on the map by their icon - a lockbox. They are also often found in hubs with portals to Mirage Island and Auction House nearby.

Any item that can be stored in a bag can be stored in a warehouse. A warehouse by default has 50 slots but can be upgraded 10 slots at a time. Starting with the 1.2 patch, warehouse does not improve for gold, but instead via scrolls from Cash store.

Auction House

The Auction House system is the main way in which items change hands in ArcheAge. It allows players to post almost any non quest item for a price (Copper, Silver, Gold) of their choosing. However, all players can see these auctions and it can become very competitive.

Where do I find it?
Auctioneers can be located on the map by their icon- a bag surrounded by coins. They are also often found in hubs with portals to Mirage Island and Warehouse.

Buying
As mentioned almost anything can be bought or sold on the Auction House. To find what you want you can navigate either by searching the categories on the left hand side of the "Bid" menu or search more specifically by level requirement, item rarity or name. You can even combine the two. Once you have found an item that interests you, you can place a bid. If it's the highest at the end of the auction your item will be mailed to you. If not your cash will be refunded. If the seller has allowed it, you can even buy items immediately at a set price.

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Labor Points

Labor Force Points are necessary in gathering, cutting, mining, making etc. players will obtain exp while doing labor. The collected materials can be made all kinds of items in the game.

Labor Force Points Usage. You can build own house and vegetable field in all residential areas, you can grow alll kinds of plants and raise poultry in vegetable field. You can improve proficiency of gathering, cutting, mining and making while doing labor. In order to go to sea, you need to build a ship, of course, working it with your friends will save some building time and Labor Force.

Remodeling

Remodeling or reskining is when you fuse 2 items to keep the appearance of one and stats from the other.

What do I need to remodel my armor?

• The appearance item, the armor that has the skin that you want.
• The Stat item, the armor that has the stats that you want. (7 Fusion Alembics, 1 to turn the appearance item into an image, 6 to actually reskin it.)

How do I get Fusion Alembics?

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• Any Auctioneer
• Marketplace (45 gems each)

How do I turn the appearance item into an image?
To turn the appearance item into an image, simply right click on a Fusion Alembic and then click on the appearance item.

Where can I remodel my armor?
After that, look for a blacksmith. Press H and put the 3 items in the slots. Make sure to put the items in the correct slots. Then fuse them!

Social

Section 1. Family & E​xpedition Team

1. You can press Shift + V to make a family, it allows 8 players to join, it doesn't have level requirement. Families share houses, vegetable fields and manufacture platform.
2. A Expedition Team needs at least 5 players above level 5. When you have enough members, you can ask NPC Expedition Team Manager to create a Expedition Team after paying some money. Expedition Team can go to trade, hunting, force wars, siege wars etc. together.

Section 2. Honor and Negative ​Honor

1. Players can do Honor Quests/Battlefield or kill special monsters to obtain Honor Points
2. You can buy Honor items from NPC Honor Points Collector.
3. If someone engage in criminal activity, it will leave crime evidence on the ground. For example, if someone steals, it will leave ' Footprints', and if someone kills others, it will leaves 'Bloodstain'. Victims can use the evidence to prosecute the criminals.

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Section 3. Judge​ment

1. So criminals will get Negative Honor, with the increase of Negative Honor, Crime Points will increase too. If a criminal has more than 50 crime points, he will be punished when he dies. Criminal can admit his guilt or apply for a trial.
2. After applying a trial, it will call 5 jurors around the world(the chosen players are able to choose join or not join the trial.) When 5 jurors all are ready, the trial begins. The criminal can't leave the Hall of Judgement until it ends.
3. Jurors can decide whether a criminal is guilty or not according to crime information.
4. Jurors need to decide the punishment after hearing criminal's statement. (Decide the time that the criminal will stay in jail.)
5. Click here for details on the Justice System.

How to Qualify for Jury Duty

Other Interesting Features in ArcheAge

Section 1. Pe​ts

1. In ArcheAge, pets are necessary for every adventurer. Pets are divided into Rideable Pet and Combat Pet.
2. Rideable Pet will let you move faster.
3. Combat Pet will help you in battles.
4. Every pet has unique combat and passive skills.
5. All pets have their own equipments to increase their capacity.

How to get a Leomorph Mount
How to get a Snowlion Mount
How to get a Sabrefang Battle Pet

Section 2. Glide​r

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1. Glider can be made by manufacture platform, or obtained by killing special monsters.
2. There are many kinds of gliders, different gliders have different skills. You can imagine how useful it is in sea battles and siege wars.

Harani Glider Quest

Section 3. Nui Temple
Once a character dies, it will be moved to Nui Temple and revive there, players will lose some exp when character die. But don't worry, you can ask NPC to recover the exp by consuming some Labor Force Points.

Section 4. Free Attack & ​Apply For Duel

1. In neutral regions, players can press Ctrl + F to activate Free Attack Mode. If you activate this mode, be careful to the players who are from the same force as you, if you kill them, you will get Crime Points and become a criminal.
2. The players from the same force can apply for duel (PvP). Everyone can apply for duel with others at anytime, anywhere. But if you want to duel in neutral regions, just think twice before you do, because everyone is possible to be your enemy.

Section 5. Chan​ge the Display of Name
Press Ctrl + V to change target's name display, it will help you recognize monsters and hostile players.

Section 6. Space Transport Book
There is Space Transport Book at most of villages and cities, as long as players come close to the book, it will record the location automatically. Players can use the skill 'Weak Space Memory' to transport themself to the recorded location. Besides, they can buy Ghostdom Stone to summon Portal and transport them to the recorded village or city.

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