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==Introduction==

Welcome to the new player's guide! Here we will attempt to give you a running start at playing Project:Gorgon (abbreviated to PG) while showing you how and where to find things on the wiki. A few things to keep in mind, Project:Gorgon is a game under development and because of that changes will occur (fast and often at times). Don't be alarmed if something doesn't work! Just send a bug report and continue playing. Things are improving all the time and every reported bug helps.

Project: Gorgon (PG) is a game that will give you the tools that you need, give advice, and tell you where to go or what you need to do to complete whatever task you have in mind. It will not hold your hand though. It leaves it to the player to find the tool, the quest/advice giver, and whatever else the player might need. So then, players should keep in mind that most NPC talk is laced with hints and will be useful for something. So be prepared to go backtracking and searching the wiki if you are a habitual text window closer! (Hint: We all do it.) 

Next! If PG gives a warning about a boss or skill or whatever it may be: '''Believe it.''' The warnings are there for a reason and may cause permanent changes to the player's character that '''''cannot''''' be reversed. That being said...
Exploration is a major theme in PG; discover new places, new skills, new enemies, and new people. PG aims to give plenty of content for players to explore and enjoy at all stages of the game. We ask players to be considerate to others that may not know or not have discovered as much in the game. Everyone wants to have the thrill of discovering something new, so please try not to shout out spoilers if possible. If you do wish to answer a question, or ask a question that contains spoilers in chat, please use triple brackets around the text like this: [[[spoiler text in chat]]]
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'''Useful links for players:'''<br>
[[http://wiki.projectgorgon.com/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Main Page]]<br>
[[https://forum.projectgorgon.com/ Project Gorgon Forums]]<br>
[[https://forum.projectgorgon.com/blog.php/ Developer blog]]<br>
[[Game updates|Latest Game Update Notes]]<br>
[[https://discord.gg/av5VUsBUJ6 Discord Link]]
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'''Good luck, and now to the good stuff!''' 

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==Extras==

*Make sure to pick up all harvestables like mushrooms even if they don't seem useful yet. Leveling [[Foraging]] will unlock '''Seek Objective''' at level 5 which is an ability that will orient your character to face in the direction where your currently active quest objective is! (think "tracking" in good ol' EverQuest).

*Picking mushrooms does in fact NOT raise the '''[[Foraging]]''' skill, only the '''[[Mycology]]''' skill.

*When exiting the the east side of Serbule Keep village you may notice a circle patch of low level mushrooms to the right of you, they respawn often and usually contain enough mushrooms to get 16-18.

*If you desire to raise your '''[[Fishing]]''' skill the best place to start is the moat around '''[[Serbule]]'''. Start with '''Crabs''' until you reach the level required for '''Clown Fish''', from there it is mostly collecting a mixture of '''Crab''', '''Clown Fish''' and '''Grapefish'''. '''Perch''' and '''Eel''' are very rare to find and are not optimal for leveling.

*Empty bottles:[[File:Item-icon-bottle.png]] To fill an empty bottle with water you can either activate a water well (eg. in Serbule) or similar object, but you can also simply stand in a body of water outdoors and right click an empty bottle.

*The road east of [[Serbule]] is where most Pigs spawn. They are easy to kill and always drop Pork Shoulder. Since Pork Shoulder is the main ingredient for bacon, it is extremely important for raising '''Joeh''''s Favor fast.
*A player quote for first time visiters to the island, and when you first get to [[Serbule]].
{{quote|When you first start out, three things to remember if you want to enjoy PG:
1. Explore everywhere (and take the time to read the NPC's responses!)
2. Remember death isn't a penalty, it's a skill. And getting dying to level 10 is helpful!
3. Have fun - try something different! And when you get stumped, /wiki <subject> (preferably in a spot you won't get attacked by a wandering monster)

When you first get off the island, my biggest advice would be to curry favor with Marna. She is able to sell useful items needed for other NPC's quests, she's the only early source for disease cures, and she gives storage (others like Joeh also give storage but Marna lets you store anything). Plus it's fairly easy to work up her favor - you can give her skins (if you've gotten a skinning knife) but you may want to save those for tanning and leatherworking. It's actually pretty easy to start growing potatoes and onions (though onions do take fertilizer so may want to stay with just potatoes), cook them into an easy vegetarian dish, and give those to Marna.

It's also worth buying the following items to get some useful skills and bonuses: Autopsy kit Mushroom Jack), skinning knife (either from Kleave in the later zone Eltibule, as a reward from one of Ivyn's quests, or the easiest way is from another player), handsaw (Therese), butcher knife (another player). Autopsy kit lets you gain skill in pathology, skinning knife lets you skin animals you kill, handsaw lets you gather wood, and butcher knife lets you butcher corpses (but you can only skin or butcher a corpse, not both).|sign=Boric|source=[http://projectgorgon.com/forum/community-questions-answers/2513-suggestions-to-answer-the-question-i-just-got-off-the-island-what-next#13960 Boric]}}

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