Beginner Tips and Guides | Here Be Monsters
When you first begin the game in Here Be Monsters, most beginners can be quite overwhelmed with all of the tasks available. This beginner’s tips guide will help you break into the game and avoid any irreparable mistakes. Please share this guide with your friends who are new to the game if you have found it helpful! If you have found this guide helpful, please share these tips with your friends and check out the rest of our Here Be Monsters guides! Thank you.
Picking and Setting Your Homestead
Early in the game you will be asked to setup your homestead anywhere in the world. This part is important that you should never set it up close to London. At the time of writing this beginner Here Be Monsters guide, you can travel to and from London at any time for free. This means that the farther your homestead from London the better. Some good choices for your homestead location include America, South America, or Asia near india. Never ever setup camp near London.
Adding Friends as Your Buddies
Friends and the social aspect of Here Be Monsters is extremely important in the game. You should aim to invite and add as many players as your buddies as possible. At the beginning of the game camp out near the new player area to add all of them as your buddies. There are a couple of benefits for having a big friend list. The first is that you can instantly teleport to any of your buddy homestead for free. This means that you can travel to any part of the world as long as you have a friend who has setup camp there.
The second is that friends can gift each other useful items in the game. A big friend roster in Here Be Monsters can improve your chances of receiving the gifts from other players. Lastly, the Here Be Monsters buddies can visit each other’s homestead and “fertilize” the crops. The fertilized crops can produce 3 times more crops at the time of writing this guide. Thus, add everyone that comes into your path!
Save Your Creeping Trees in Homestead
Do not ever kill your creeping trees in your Homestead. By saving the stump, your creeping trees can regrow and produce creeping ooze for you. The creeping ooze is used to craft various potions. The creeping trees look like weird purple trees in your home base. Never ever clear the stump, because they will then never be able to regrow back. Save your trees like they are endangered species. (Which they are). They are mutant trees corrupted through the stariums.
Grind for Levels Early in the Game
Before you start stressing yourself out by constantly running out of energy or backpack spaces, do yourself a favor by grinding some initial levels when you first start. You can take a look at our Here Be Monsters leveling and coin making guide for some tips. However, in a nutshell is that you should travel from map to map from London, and forage everything that is in your path. With all the fruits that you can get, you will be able to expand your land and backpacks in no time.
This level grinding will help to make your quest process way easier later on in the game. With additional backpack spaces, you can afford to carry many more flowers, trees, and other loots throughout the game. Spend some time to grind for mines too because cut garnets will be your primary source of coin income especially through the beginning and mid game.
Understanding Your Backpack
Your backpack will be with you throughout your time in the world of Here Be Monsters. In this game, the majority of the time quantity > quality. Many of the items can be easily obtained, thus you can make the most out of your backspace if these items can be stacked with one another. For example, you would rather be able to hold 50 or more of a single item rather than a butterfly or 1 worm. Always sell as much junk items as you can in your backpack. At lower levels and low backpace spaces, you will find that you are always trying to make room to carry more items. So, again, try to grind a couple levels before you start your journey into the world.
Learn to Use the Almanac
The Almanac is one of the most important item in the game. The Almanac is the bible which shows you how and where almost everything is. Learn to use the almanac to go through the different categories as well as using the search function. The Here Be Monsters Almanac carries a wealth of information that will be useful throughout your entire life in the game.
Time Potions Tips
Do not be afraid to use your time potions if you want to speed up the production of items. However, try not to use them over crops or animal produces because it could be a waste of your precious time potions. The best use of time potion is to free up your various crafting workshops including the workshop, windmill, campfire, and the laboratory. You can obtain additional time potion timer through the wishing well in London. Although the coin cost may seem steep when you first start the game, your ability to earn more coins always increase as you level up further into the game.
Mining for Coins
Early in the game, one of the best methods to generate more coins is through mining in various parts of the world. You can use our Here Be Monsters Mine Map to help you find the mine locations.
Here Be Monsters Guide Index by Gamelytic
Mine Location and Map
Level Up and Coin Earning Guide
Traps
Beginner Tips and Guides
Fishing
Experience Table Per Level