Beginner's Guide

So, you've made the decision to dive into the Lifeweb, have you? Bad call, many would say as playing this game will be nothing but suffering an overwhelming majority of the time (especially for beginners) but the more you learn, the more of a chance you got to stay alive longer and as everyone knows, having a pulse translates to more fun.. Most of the time. I will not guide you through the process on just HOW you begin playing Lifeweb as a courtesy to both the community and to Hydrated as one of the multiple rows of excuses they've made to being absolute dickheads & closet faggots about sharing information to new people is to prevent overpopulation.

First up is the mandatory explanation to you that this game is NOT fair in any way, shape or form. You will die, you will get fucked over by one or more people that have much more experience & tools & skills than you, you will be confused a grand majority of the time, you will be incredibly frustrated and you're most likely going to be raped and/or dissected into a thousand pieces by an asshole SerpentADDLINK at some point. But fret not, the rounds reset into a clean slate every so often and there are typically 4 servers running at any given time which can translate into nigh infinite lives for you at any given time presuming that you're gonna take more than 5-10 minutes to die. I will structure this guide in such a manner that you will need to click certain text links in order to get the full grasp of what I'm saying but generally, I'm gonna try and keep as much as possible of it here.

When you first join a server, you will be prompted with a character creation screen. Here, you will be more or less forced to choose a variety of things for your character, varying from hair color to religion. Most of them don't matter too much except the "Vice"ADDLINK of your character. They are universally all bad in their own way but some are worse than others such as drug addictions, necrophilia or even pyrophobia, an irrational fear of fire in a universe where fire is pretty much the only light source you'll ever have in a pitch-black world. Some can really harshly cripple your ability to play the game so think long and hard about what you want to start out with.

Next task will be choosing your role. AKA class, AKA "Fate"ADDLINK. This choice will dictate on what your 'official' profession/job will be during that round. There are TONS of them in Lifeweb and they all got their important task & roles to fulfill, all that require you to tackle different challenges while also having a wide variety of baseline information. For a listing of them, I recommend going to:

http://en.lfwb.ru/index.php/Classes

As it will take ages before I can gather enough knowledge and create a proper, dedicated page for every single class on this wiki, that listing will have to do for now and personally, I would recommend this roster for you to start out with:

Squire

Servant

Bum

They all fly pretty low under the radar with little to no given tasks at any time which allows you to explore and learn the game at your own pace with only the occasional bloody beating / random murder.