Your First Day

Your First Day

Command

/spawn

Where

Bucket Square, Pailhaven

Map

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Your first day on Bucketry is a short guided voyage. Follow it and you end the day with a home, a claim, a job, some money and your first rank.

1. Arrive in Pailhaven

You arrive in Bucket Square, the heart of Pailhaven, with a Castaway’s Sea Chest in your inventory. A few seconds later the Set Sail shore picker opens: choose the kind of land you want to live on (meadows, forest, coast, jungle, frost and more) and you are carried straight to a good building spot in the Claiming World. Close it if you would rather look around town first. Whenever you are ready, the Captain at the helm or /rtp opens the same picker, and /spawn always brings you back. When you first land, a one-click question asks how you found Bucketry. Answer it or press Skip.

2. Make camp on your own shore

• The Sea Chest holds the tools you saved from the wreck (a Salvager’s Cutlass, Wreck Pick, Driftwood Hatchet and Bilge Spade), 10 cooked cod and 16 torches. It only opens in the Claiming World, so it will not unpack in Pailhaven. Place it where you land and it sets up a small camp: the chest with your kit inside, a lit campfire, a lantern on a post, a bed and a sign. It also sets a home called camp and gives you a Camp Compass that always points back to it. If there is no room for the full camp, you get the chest by itself.
• A message in a bottle washes up near you at your first landfall. Pick it up and right-click it to read the note. If you miss it, it goes into your inventory after 5 minutes.
• The note starts a hunt for a small wreck 120 to 200 blocks away. An arrow and the distance on your action bar show the way. Only you can open its barrel, which holds $1,500, a refitted Wreck Pick and Driftwood Hatchet, 8 cooked cod and the Castaway’s Skiff. The wreck washes away 30 minutes after you open the barrel, or after 3 hours if you never get there. Anything still in the barrel goes into your inventory, or drops at your feet if your inventory is full.
• Salvage tools wear in. Your salvage tools are bound to you and stay with you when you die. Use them and each one wears in: the cutlass after 20 hostile mobs, the pick after 250 blocks mined, the hatchet after 120 blocks chopped and the spade after 150 blocks dug. Then right-click any anvil with it (Pailhaven’s Anvil Works has one) to refit it in iron. It keeps its enchantments. Salvage tools cannot be sold on the auction house.
• Ration Crates wash in for you on days 2 to 7. Right-click one for 6 cooked cod, 8 torches and 4 bone meal.
• Your first rank: once you have $5,000, you get a reminder with a Rank up to Wader button (at most 3 times, 10 minutes apart). Your first rank-up gets fireworks.

3. Meet Skerry

For your first week a gull named Skerry drops by now and then. Skerry cheers you on when you hit a milestone (your first landfall, claim, diamond or fish) and suggests things you have not tried yet, like the auction house, fishing or the Breaker’s Yard. Some tips come with a Show me button.

Skerry retires after 7 play days, or once you have tried 5 suggested features, and leaves you Skerry’s FeatherSkerry's FeatherA keepsake from the harbor gull.Right-click to call Skerry for a tip.Once every two hours. Right-click it for a fresh tip (once every 2 hours).

4. Follow First Day at Sea

Open /quests. The First Day at Sea chain starts on its own and pays you at every step.

Step	What to do	Reward
1. Set Sail	Type /rtp, pick a shore and make landfall	$500, 100 XP
2. Settle Here	Click [Settle here] on the landfall card	$750, 5 Coins, 150 XP
3. Stake Your Claim	Click [Claim this land] or type /claim	$1,000, 5 Coins, 150 XP
4. First Shelter	Place 30 blocks, a bed and a chest or barrel	$1,500, 10 Coins, 250 XP
5. Sign a Charter	Pick a trade in /jobs and earn your first pay	$1,500, 150 XP
6. Back to Harbor	Type /spawn	$2,000, 100 XP, a Tide Crate key
7. Make It Rank	Reach $5,000 and type /rankup	10 Coins, 200 XP

5. Set Sail: finding your spot

/rtp opens the travel menu. Pick the Claiming World to Set Sail. That is where homes and claims go; the resource worlds reset every week.

1. Pick a shore: Any shore, Meadows, Forest, Blossom, Coast, Arid, Jungle or Frost.
2. You land at least 150 blocks from anyone else’s claim, on reasonably flat ground.
3. A landfall card shows the ground, the nearest village and your neighbors. From it you can:
   • Settle here: sets a home called landfall and offers to claim the land. /home brings you back.
   • Sail nearby: try another spot 300 to 800 blocks away in the same region.
   • New voyage: same shore, anywhere on the map.
   • Change shore: go back to the shore list.

Sailing with friends

Playing with friends? Choose Sail with crew (or type /rtp crew) and invite them. Once they accept, anyone in the crew can /rtp and you all land together. Leave with /rtp crew leave.

If you die out there

For your first 3 hours of playtime, a death will not strand you. With no bed or home you wash ashore near your landfall, and /graves tp takes you to your grave for free. See Death and graves.

6. Claim it

Your first 3x3 land is free. Stand where you want to build and use /claim, or click the button on your landfall card. /land opens your Deed for friends, rules and more chunks. See Building & Land for the details.

Getting help on day one

• The Guide stands by the Quest Guide kiosk on Bucket Square (/spawn takes you there); his label reads Harbor Guide. Click him, or use /guide to read his answers.
• Mentors: veteran players (Wavebreaker rank and up) get a ping when you arrive and may offer to show you the ropes. Accept and you both get paid when you reach 2 hours of play: you get $10,000 and 50 Coins. More on the help page.
• This wiki: type /wiki <topic> in game, like /wiki claims, for a link to the right page.
• The Discord is the fastest way to reach staff: discord.gg/gX9Q5Sesn5.

Tip

Your claim and home belong in the Claiming World. Never build anything you want to keep in a resource world: they reset every Monday.