I have no idea how to get the Soul Fragments for the necklace that lets you keep your inventory. From what I can tell, you need to have iron armor (?) and wander around at night until you find a ghost, but it doesn't seem to be possible to interact with him.
A member registered Feb 24, 2022
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Controls: WASD left-click right-click tab space
1. Flint Tools
Run around and collect bushes, black rocks (flint), and very tall green plants (papyrus, which is by the water.) Craft the Flint Pickaxe & Flint Axe. Plant papyrus (needs water. do it or you'll need to wait later), cut trees (you need lots of wood), and mine rocks (you need both flint and stone). Farm papyrus, build a workbench & furnace & oven (you get more crafting recipes beside said buildings). You'll need food, so build a Flint Sword & Shovel. Kill cows & cut grass for wheat seeds (to plant wheat seeds, right click on grass with the shovel & then right click with seeds)
You're probably having inventory problems, so besides replanting all your seeds, papyrus, saplings, and flowers, you can also stick your items in the cooking slots of the furnace and oven for more inventory space.
2. Farming
You need to farm papyrus, wheat, and trees (saplings). Papyrus and wheat both need to be planted beside water. For papyrus and wheat, you can hold down left and right click while holding papyrus/seeds to collect & replant crops at the same time.
3. Furnace & Oven
Use the Furnace and Oven as shown. [If the images aren't showing: in the furnace, there's a fuel slot & 3 item slots for smelting. For the oven, there's a fuel slot. Use one and only one of the four slots to cook.] For the furnace, you should ensure that the items smelting are of the same stack size. For the oven, do not try to use more than one smelting slot at a time. Add the fuel in last. They will both burn fuel even if there is nothing to cook, so never add more fuel than necessary. 2 planks can smelt 1 item, 1 log smelts 1 item. Maybe I should've used coal... (the rocks in the bottom floor of the map contain the most coal)
3. Cave
Assuming you're well fed, build a loom, and take just enough papyrus for you to make a rope. Get a few stone walls, and don't use wooden ones since you probably need the wood. Use coal and sticks to make torches. Place the rope on one of the holes in the ground, and descend, sword and pickaxe in hand. Collect iron and kill or fence off enemies with your walls. Skeletons are dangerous, zombies are not. Get iron tools and armor as you go down to the bottom of the map.
4. Last Cave
In this area, you'll need to kill a bunch of demons until you find the Death Crown Scroll, which you need to use to gain the recipe to make the Death Crown. Some enemies, I got mine from a zombie- drop a Death Stone. Get gold ingots and this stone to craft the Death Crown, which - don't wear it - can be placed on a black pedestal in some black structure on the surface to spawn the final boss of the game. Anyhow, get ready to get spawnkilled a bunch by this boss.
Tips
Use coal to smelt. Consequently this means you'll be using stone walls instead of wood walls. Use both a lot, since your weapons are weak.
Never ever make leather armor. Cows seem to be finite, backpack first.
When fighting the final boss, ensure your inventory has only weapons. Since you'll probably die a lot.
When farming, while holding your seeds, hold left and right click to harvest & replant simultaneously.
Flatlands is a fun game with some discouraging features. It takes just a few worlds to learn the game.
also the game keeps setting resolution to 640x480
- farming
- limited amount of papyrus; forget to farm it & be doomed to farm cloth from zombies forever
- no indication to farm wheat. i think i ate all the animals in my only playable save.
- wheat seeds explode when not planted beside water
- finite unbreedable animals. my good save is now cowless after just 2 backpacks
- tools are really slow in this game. a lot of time was spent waiting to cut down trees & collect wheat.
- combat
- flint sword takes full stanima bar to kill cow
- enemies are spawning faster than I can kill them
- the fire staff sadly doesn't have splash
- I am fighting my battles with doors and walls rather than a sword
- boss
- he can shoot through walls, but not furniture (!)
- he spawnkills you, follows you through floors, and has very little indication for when he takes damage
- inventory
- hotbar is very small
- switching between bags is crucial and awkward
- you have to place items in your hotbar before you can use them.
- caves
- right click to use rope to ascend / descend floors. however, if you hold right click...
- spikes don't do anything
- silly furnace & oven mechanics.
- both use fuel even if there's nothing to cook/smelt (!)
- oven is playing hard to get (to understand) & it doesn't tell you how to make bread
- for anyone who doesn't know, oven can be used like this (resolution reduced)
