Manual

Wilderness
Many of your quests will take you into the hostile wilderness between
settlements. There you will find hundreds of hostile monsters, passive
critters, and the occasional wandering NPC. Roads link the settlements and
zones, and it is generally safe to travel along them. However, keep in mind
that some monsters step onto a road from time to time while wandering.
Many quest locations and quest-related monsters can only be found deep
in the wilderness, so you will often have to leave the relative safety of the
road to complete quests and explore. Many resources, which are vital for
trade skills, can also be found only in the wilderness. Be careful when
traveling off the beaten path. Try to walk around monsters that are clearly
stronger than you, or group with other players. Traveling in numbers is
often safer than traveling alone.
Interacting with the Environment
As you explore the world, you will come across many objects that you can
interact with. If an object can be manipulated, then when you mouse over
it, your cursor will change to a different icon to reflect the action you can
perform on it.
ENVIRONMENTAL QUEST OBJECTS
Some quest-related objects in the world need to be clicked to activate
them. If you need to drop seeds into a fissure at the bottom of the lake
to add new life to the lakebed, then your mouse cursor will change to
a wheel when you mouse over the fissure. If you need to uproot
timberling buds before they grow into mad timberling elementals,
then your cursor will become a wheel when you mouse over the buds.
These environmental objects will only be interactive if you have the
quest in question. If you do not have the quest related to that object,
then you will not get a wheel when you mouse over the object, and
you will be unable to manipulate the object at all.
RESOURCE NODES
Many materials useful for trade skills exist in their raw forms
throughout the game world. Ore for the mining skill and herbs for the
herbalism skill are the two most common resource nodes in the world.
If you have the appropriate skill level, right-clicking on these nodes
should open up a loot window with the raw resources inside. To pick
up the resources, click on them to place them in an empty bag slot.
Some resource nodes can be looted multiple times before they
disappear. Others can only be looted once. However, all resource
nodes will replenish after a lengthy period of time, so you can always
return to harvest or mine a node again.
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