The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

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Submitted by: David K.

Early Survival in Sandbox:
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Written by FireManeDavy.

Are you struggling to survive in the sandbox on higher difficulties? Do 
you need a general template to have a decent start because you are 
completely new? Then, I hope this guide will help!

-=First Thing Is First!=-
Once you get out of the tutorial area, you’ll need to prioritize a couple of 
things, you need a weapon and protection. As soon as you can, craft An oaken 
shield and an improvised axe.

You’ll find in the sandbox, they’re a lot of enemies roaming around and they 
do call for reinforcements more often. Bash with your shield to knock enemies 
over to help you control the space. You can jump and attack to do an uppercut 
that knocks them over and partially charge your attacks to do some more 
damage. The oaken shield at the time of this writing has a cheap build cost 
and is pretty resilient to give you some basic protection.

-=Find Iron and Coal=-
Mine a stack of iron and coal (it’ll amount to about 30 each). You’ll need 
the coal to build a small hearth that’ll help you in securing your encampment. 
A stack of each will give you a bit more than enough to build it and won’t 
take you too much time either. Save your stone too.

-=Gather Food=-
A lot of the early-game stuff will need hide scraps. You can get this by 
killing the boars & wolves. Boars, wolves, and snack rats will drop meat too. 
Gather mushrooms as well as cranberries to ensure you have food for all of 
the game’s main buffs (Early bird in the morning, Renewed for Lunch, and 
Productive for the Night) – the recipes that call for these buffs will need 
cranberries, mushrooms, and meat. Eat them at the right time to get the buff. 
The strongest of these is early bird and second breakfast (2 helpings of 
breakfast).

-=Set Up Camp Near Resources=-
Find an area, preferably near cranberries in an RNG building to set up a 
camp. Your inventory space is limited, so keep that in mind when you’re 
picking up items early in the game. An optimal starting base location will 
be in the Westgate, next to an elven quarter tile. It will also be one 
that is near or has some cranberry plots. Once you fortify your base with 
stone walls at the entrances, set down your bedroll, build a furnace, smelt 
iron ingots, and build the forge. Build a chest to dump items you don’t 
need. I like to separate a food chest and an everything-else chest at the 
start. I highly recommend prioritizing the repair smithy before other 
weapons.

-=Get More Resources=-
Get enough iron, coal, cloth, and hide scraps to make some new weapons 
and gear. Build the hammer and carry the stone on you to discover new 
recipes. When you have the Iron Hills chest, gauntlets, and a good shield 
head into the elven areas to gather some elven wood (gathered by chopping 
down trees in elven rooms). Make yourself a bow and some arrows by 
building the workbench. You do not have to wait to have armor before 
going into the elven areas, but, I would recommend it.

-=Do Not Be Afraid to Be Nomadic=-
Don’t stay attached to one location too much. Sandbox is vast and until 
you can fast travel, you’ll often find yourself far from your base. 
Bring the materials with you to build a campfire, a repair smithy, and 
some basic food to sleep to prevent the exhaustion/ tired buff from 
eating your stamina bars.

You Might Have to Travel Through Harder Areas to Get to Where You Need 
to Go

If this is the case (it should be rare), sneak around or kite enemies 
to fight one by one. Or hit them from a high spot with your bow. Use 
the game’s Abakh buffs to help you a little more if you do find yourself 
in situations where you have to fight through harder areas. Some armors 
help you with certain things. Such as the new Blue Mountains gloves that 
make you fire arrows faster. Pay attention to armor descriptions.

These tips together should get you a decent start almost every time in 
the sandbox. Refer to my other guide, “A Quick Guide to Sandbox” if you 
need help with navigating sandbox mode.

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