Guide:Basic Spirit System




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This guide features information on one of the possible ways to claim victory for your faction in the world of Rend.

In this guide, I'm going to be teaching you the basic mechanics of the Spirit System of Rend.

Utilizing the Spirit System is one of the many ways you can claim victory for your faction in Rend, and it's process overall can be seen as a sort of Scientific Victory like you would see in a game like Civilization.

Before you start on the path to a spiritual victory there is one very important tool you have to create and protect with your life.

Spirit Siphon


The Spirit Siphon is your bread and butter for anything related to Spirits and could be an even more important tool than your own weapons, pickaxes, and axes.

Before you are able to craft one of these however you will need to ensure your faction has a Mystic Table built:

Mystic Table


To craft one of these spirit siphons you need what's called Spirit Stone Fragments, along with other basic materials.

To obtain these spirit stones, you'll need to do a lot of mining. Currently in the game it's the only known way to obtain them, and they act as a rare harvest drop from both ore nodes and basic rocks.

After you obtain one of these you'll need to wait until nightfall. The target you'll be seeking out does not appear in the light of day.

This target is called a Spirit. Spirits appear randomly around the map and can be easily spotted since they generate a light source that you cannot miss.

Spirits




When you find one of these, be sure to have your spirit siphon handy and begin your approach.

To harvest the spirit's soul with your siphon, walk up to it and hold the Left Mouse Button.

After you gather from it, you will see a bar below your spirit siphon start to fill up. This bar indicates how many souls you can carry in the siphon before it's completely full.

When ready, return to base and prepare for the next steps.

Now there's a couple things you can do with the souls you've just harvested.

The first and probably less important thing you can do with these souls is deliver your spirit siphon to a mystic table for use in Research.

Mystic Table Research


This would enable you to research things like enchanting supplies, a spirit trough, the taming ritual, and more.

Which could be used to advance your faction in other ways and ensure a victory by other means.

Home Tree


Now the second and major way of using souls would be to deliver them to your faction's tree.

This tree is your faction's direct link to the home tree, and when you deposit souls into it via Right-Clicking with your spirit siphon out.

Base Tree




You will see results on your home tree via the etchings beginning to light up like so:

Home Tree Etchings


As you can see, it goes up very slowly, but if your etchings manage to reach the top of the tree, everyone in the faction will Ascend and instantly win the game. You will be deemed worthy by the creator and be taken to be by his/her side.

Be sure to not only focus on this type of progression but on gear and other research items as well. If your faction's base tree goes down, your faction will be wiped off the map and instantly lose the game for the remaining duration of it.

Hopefully this guide has answered your questions about one of the many ways to win the game for your faction.

Please stay tuned for the Advanced Guide and as always when new information becomes available this guide will be updated. Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful day!