New Worldalready has a reputation for the lack of travel options available, but one way to mitigate the lack of mounts, ships, or flying machines is to build a Camp and use that as a character’s spawning point. Camps inNew Worldare also useful places to rest, craft, or cook. However, what exactly a player can do at a Camp they build depends on the level of camp they can construct.
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So much of the leveling inNew World, whether it’s for weapons, armor, or crafting skills,happens without the aid of a trainer or a quest chain. That’s not the case when it comes to Camp upgrades. There are quests associated with other crafting or harvesting skill levels, but these aren’t required to continue to progress.
Fortunately, the quests to upgrade the Camp are of a PvE nature and can often be completed solo. The protocol for upgrading a Camp in Aeternum isn’t just dependent on completing certain quests but needs to be unlocked before a character can even get started.
3Unlocking The Camp Skill
New players have to finish a questgiven by an NPC in the nearby settlement, and they might be one of four different people depending on which of the four starting areas on which they were shipwrecked. This could be one of four locations;First Light,Everfall,Monarch’s Bluffs, orWindsward, and the quest is available in some form in all of these locations.
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It’s easy to find this NPC. They’re near the center of town, have “Survivalist” in their title, and act like Jeremiah Johnson with a bad attitude. Their quest will include harvesting some kind of resource, likely meat or basic travel rations, or killing problem animals for the good of the settlement. Once completed, they’ll give the character the ability to build a basicTier One Camp.
2Upgrading The Camp
This process is repeated as thecharacter progresses and visits new settlements. Each settlement inNew Worldhas a corresponding level, and that level correlates with the level of a character and the type of Camp they can build.
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The early settlements, which cover the levels between 1 to 15, have quests that can take the player’s Camp skill toTier I. After this point, it’s a specific NPC in a certain town rather than one conveniently located in each city of the same level, so players often have to travel to get there, which is the point.
1Why Upgrade?
Camps can be used for spawn points after death and to do some basic crafting even at the lowest level, so not all players will find it necessary to upgradedepending on the type of gamethey’ve chosen to play. However, for characters that spend more time traveling, taking part in PvP activity in isolated areas, or prefer to remain outside settlements to gather resources, upgrading a Camp is worth the time.
An upgraded Camp means a character can make more complicated tools, weapons, and food without the need to go to town and use a Workshop or a Kitchen. That means more time to get to what’s really important, which means more hunting, killing, and gathering.
