Savage Lands (Legacy)

Savage Lands is a gritty, brutal, first-person open-world fantasy survival game in which players have only one goal: Stay Alive. Explore a world where days and nights are spent slaughtering vicious creatures, gathering scarce resources, building shelter and crafting powerful weapons needed to survive. Every decision counts, because one mistake can lead to an unfortunate encounter with death's cold embrace.

==Setting Up== In Savage Lands you are provided with a myriad of configuration options to allow for a smooth gameplay experience ranging from keybindings to your audio and visual settings. If the default control scheme does not work for you, then remember that you can change any of the key bindings to suit your needs including the sensitivity of your mouse movement. It is also recommended to configure the game's audio and video options based on your computer's hardware.

==Server Information== Savage Lands allows for both offline and online play if you so choose. Characters you created, including their full inventory, are not restricted to one world. They can join any world you choose, either in multiplayer or offline single player. Creating your own multiplayer game can be done either through hosting from within the game menu or setting up a dedicated server.

Hosting
 * Currently the maximum amount of players within a hosted session is limited to 8. If you decide to host your own game then you will be greeted by a pop up box asking if you would like to set your world to Friendly (players are unable to attack other players) or Hostile (player vs player combat is enabled), and you can change that to either option each time you host a world. Upon loading into your hosted game, you can change your Host Options to add a required password to enter, set it so that only your friends may join, or even just leave it open for anyone to join which is its default setting.

Dedicated
 * A dedicated server can be setup which will allow for more players to join, with the default set to 16.
 * Instructions for installing a dedicated server can be found here and on the Steam forums.
 * Note: Currently a dedicated server requires another account to own the game. Changes are planned and this requirement will no longer be needed once implemented.

==Getting Started== You have been exiled from your people, and you have now run aground upon the mysterious Sundered Isle. With nothing but a Journal and your wits, you will have to survive this new and hostile environment. Within the vicinity of your crashed boat, you will be able to find several very useful and basic items such as Basic Clothing, a Crude Stone Hatchet, and some Cloth Shreds. The resources that you find along the beaches will only get you so far, you will need to cut down trees and mine rocks in order to create gear that will protect you from the savagery of the island.

==Hunting and Gathering== In order to survive you will need food to prevent starvation. Cooking meat from the animals of the island is a great source of food, and if it is a deer that is your target then it is recommended to use a Long Bow to take it down from afar. It is possible to sneak up on them as well, but it would require cunning to not alert the deer to your presence. To minimize the sound of your footsteps you can by default hold CTRL, but also be wary of any plants in your way, as deer can pick up on even the slightest bit of sound.

==System Requirements==