Cubeworld Alpha- Getting Started (Part One)

When you first start Cubeworld, you’re going to need to make some selections before you try out the game at all.  Don’t worry too much about making sure you’ve got everything perfectly as you like initially- you can always redo as many times as you like and delete or ignore your previous starts.

The first part of the game is character creation.  You will be shown a display of a blond human man on a large white pedestal.  The camera is looking at him from an angle, and you can rotate it around the figure by right-clicking with your mouse and dragging to view from pretty much any aboveground direction you like.

This is the base form of a character.  From here, you can make choices that will define the character you intend to use from the game.  You have five selections to make, one palette, and at the bottom-center of the game screen is a small white window with a black border.

The first choice you get to make is race.  Currently there are seven options available: The human, elf, dwarf, orc, goblin, undead, lizard, and frog.  Your selection of race currently has no effect on your capabilities in the game- it’s purely cosmetic.

Your second option is to have your character be male or female.  For many of the races this is purely a change to the face shape, though it has a few other effects on dwarves, undead, and orcs.  None of these changes are anything but cosmetic either.

Class is the next thing you must decide about the character, and is the only thing on this list that is not a cosmetic debate.  Which class you choose defines the abilities and attacks you gain access to as you play the game, and will alter your playstyle between two basic forms- melee and ranged combat.

The Warrior class is the ‘heavy’ melee class, operating with slower weapon swings and higher damage, with high HP and equipment that grants large defense bonuses.  Two-handed weapon, dual-wielding, and one-handed weapon plus shield are all options for how a Warrior can fight, and lend themselves to different assignments of ability points.  Berserker warriors attack faster the more they attack, doing well with two weapons or one large weapon, and Guardian warriors have increased health and do better at blocking, letting them work best with a weapon and shield or in a less focused fashion with a single two-handed weapon.