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Dimraeth walkthrough: the first main quests

The opening main quests run in a straight line: clear the Lost Caverns and kill the droop, finish Learning to Build for Faustas in the Sanctum, take the waygate to Earlwood, then do The Time Tardy Scout for Alaric: search three spots in the farmlands, find the elf scout in the Wildwood, win a wolf fight, and report back. Rahaner’s training quest right after hands you free gathering tools.

Build menu open on the Production tab beside farm plots, with the quest tracker reading The Time Tardy Scout, Find and speak to Alaric in the Guild Hall — The build menu on Production, with mills, a stone quarry, a water well and crop plots; the quest tracker reads The Time Tardy Scout: Find and speak to Alaric in the Guild Hall.

Quest names match the quest tracker and the achievement list. If a character’s name in your dialogue box looks different, check the Dimraeth NPCs page.

Lost Caverns tutorial, the droop
Learning to Build for Faustas, in the Sanctum
Sanctum Waygate to Earlwood
The Time Tardy Scout for Alaric
Report back Alaric, then Rahaner

1. The Lost Caverns and the droop

Walk the tutorial cave
Everything up to the cave exit is linear. Campfires on the way refill your potions and respawn enemies. The movement and block prompts are on Dimraeth controls.
Kill the monstrous droop
The cave ends in a slime boss, the monstrous droop (its achievement is Blob Slayer). It jumps, fires a ranged attack, does a double combo and brings small adds, with a second phase that adds more. Some of its attacks do no damage, and its attacks can be parried. Other early bosses are on Dimraeth bosses.

2. Learning to Build (Faustas, in the Sanctum)

Outside the cave a projection of the wizard Faustas is waiting. He tried to bring you to his tower, but the backlash from a ritual of Sylbos’s that he had just broken caught his spell, and it dropped you in the Sanctum.

A camp of tents on a cliff above water, villagers around a table, and a quest prompt reading New Lessons, Speak to the wizard — A camp of tents on a cliff, with the quest prompt New Lessons: Speak to the wizard.

Exhaust his dialogue and the quest starts: build your first dwelling and learn the basics of cooking. The Sanctum is your base for the rest of the game, so read the Dimraeth Sanctum before you clear every last object.

Objective: dismantle the camp
Faustas asks you to dismantle the wreckage around the area. Press B for build mode, hover a piece and press Space to dismantle it.
Objective: select the tent and place it
The tent is in the build menu under Furniture. A developer has said a tent placed with a campfire can trap you in a small area on later loads; the workaround is on Dimraeth bugs and fixes.
Objective: build a campfire and cook a droop core
The result is a Roasted droop core. The next tip is about eating, and it comes with a warning: “If you don’t, your maximum health, concentration, and stamina will decrease.” Food, water and the rest of the recipes are on Dimraeth crafting and cooking.
Objective: return to Faustas
Faustas now remembers a waygate that leads away from the Sanctum. Head north. Finishing the quest unlocks the blueprints for your workbench, alchemy station and storage chest. You will not have the planks and nails for them yet; where to find Pinewood Planks before you own a workbench is on Dimraeth planks.

3. The Sanctum Waygate to Earlwood

Talk to Faustas at the gate
Talk to Faustas again near the Sanctum Waygate to unlock teleporting to Earlwood. He asks you to go on to Earlwood and later come to his tower beyond the Wildwood. From here on you can fast travel to any waygate you have discovered, including back to the Sanctum. A later hotfix changed when waygates exist: “Waygates spawn at world load instead of Sanctum entry”. The rest of that hotfix is on the patch notes page.
Earlwood: the guild hall
The new main quest is The Time Tardy Scout, and its first objective, as the screenshot above shows, is to find and speak to Alaric in the Guild Hall. On the way in you pass the blacksmith Manga and an enchanter (spelled Tasine Feather or Tamson Fairweather depending on the recording). Talk to Alaric, then Rahaner, and pick up quest board work before leaving, but read the warning about accepting board quests too early in the Dimraeth beginner guide.
Alaric: a free spell and a missing scout
Alaric gives you a new spell for your class, free to learn and use, offered as a spare spellbook. Then the job: one of his scouts has not checked in, and he is careless with time. Alaric also tells you the road to Faustas’s tower is cut off because the bridge is broken. How to learn the spellbook is on Dimraeth spells.

4. The Time Tardy Scout

A character fighting three hound-like beasts in a sunlit meadow, one enemy glowing white — A character fighting three hound-like beasts in a sunlit meadow, one of them glowing white.

Objective: search three spots in the farmlands
Search the first spot, then the second, then the third. Go north out of Earlwood into the farmlands, and watch for goblins that explode. The regions are placed on the Dimraeth map.
What each spot tells you
Each search ends in a note. One finds only fields consumed by goblin hunger; another finds a waygate. The waygate spot is a high lookout over the farmlands that also raises max encumbrance. Activate that waygate. A large goblin also roams near a mill in this area.
Objective: search the Wildwood for the lost scout
Keep heading north through the crossroads toward the next waygate and you meet the elf on the way (his name is read as El Dorian, Eldderon or Eldorian). He warns that the Fang are faster and smarter than normal wolves, then heads back to the village.
Beat the wolf at the waygate
At the waygate you get a relatively easy wolf fight. Kill it and the waygate becomes a fast travel point.
Teleport to the guild hall and report to Alaric
Alaric has the scout’s report and a warning: goblin activity is rising in the deep forest, with signs of corruption. Completing the quest earns the achievement Help a Lost Elf (Complete Time Tardy Scout Quest).

5. Rahaner’s tools

Talk to Rahaner in the guild hall next. He gives you a woodcutting axe, a pickaxe and gloves for free, and wants five wood and five stone. To complete the training quest you may need to put one point into your attributes and one into your skill tree. Equip the tools in the gathering slots. If you were about to spend stone and pinewood crafting those tools at the workbench, wait for this instead. Spending the points is explained on Dimraeth leveling.

Spend one attribute pointTrain at a campsite or with Rahaner

Spend one skill pointIn the tree; see the Dimraeth skill tree

Collect the axe, pickaxe and glovesThen gather five wood and five stone

What comes next

If your tracker reads A First Adventure, Find the lost child in the forest, the map spot and the Dryad fight are on how to find the lost child in the forest. Side quests that will not finish are covered by name on Dimraeth stuck quests. The later main quests and the achievements for completing them are below, in achievement-list order, which may not be story order.

Main quest	Achievement for completing it
Village in Crisis	Village Hero
The Corrupted Treant	Timber!
The Broken Bridge	River Crosser
Bread and Blood	Blood and Bread
Hoard King's Fall	Death of a Tyrant
Opening the Throne Path	Corrupted Exploration
Crown of Thorns	Heavy is the Crown

The achievement list also names a quest called The First Steps (A New Start).

Maintaining the Defenses had a turn-in bug, fixed in a hotfix, so update the game if it will not turn in. The same hotfix “Fixes side quests to not be abandonable”. Other open issues are on Dimraeth bugs and fixes, and the share of players holding each quest achievement is on Dimraeth achievements.