108 Tips and Tricks for New World

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This is the 108 Tips and Tricks for New World. You will find many tips here you probably didn’t think of yet. These tips are based off of Fusion Thunder’s “100 New World Tips and Tricks - Learn All The Tips in New World” YouTube video. Many people on Reddit were asking for a written version of all his tips, so here it is. We’ve included screenshot from his video as well. Be sure to follow the link in this introduction and give him a like as he was the one who did the hard work to put these together in the first place.

108 Tips for New World - #1-21

1. To avoid paying taxes, craft your food and potions at your campfire.
2. When opening a vial of Azoth, have a bag with the perk “Azoth Attuned” on it so that you gain 3.5% more azoth. Save them up then used them when this bag is equipped. If you stack multiple of these bags, the perk will increase.
3. Equip water in an character inventory usable slot. Using this consumable will help heal you, and its completely free.
4. When you stun your target, if you hit them again it will break the stun. Therefore, make sure after you stun a target, get behind your target and perform a heavy attack to guarantee a critical hit.
5. Flagging for PvP will increase your experience gained by a small percentage. Toggle this on if you enjoy PvP and also want to benefit from the increase.
6. If you want to see all the perks in the game, go to the Trading Post, and press “Select Perks” at the top of the UI. This will show you all possible perks in New World.
7. The first house you buy in New World is 50% off. Use this discount wisely! You may decide to save up to buy a more expensive house to make the most of this discount. The cooldown for more expensive houses is shorter than less expensive houses.
8. For easy money in New World, go to a trading post, select “All Settlements” in the top right corner, then navigate to Raw Resources. Find which resource you want to sell. You will see all the prices for this resource and you can see which locations it is cheap or expensive. If you travel to the cheap regions and buy the materials, then travel to the more expensive regions and sell the materials, you should be able to make easy profits.
9. If you cancel your dodge animation, you can actually run faster than normal. Perform a dodge cancel by running, then dodging and immediately pressing your “swap weapons” keybind. This will cancel the animation and allow your character to keep running without their normal stagger-step after recovering from a roll or dodge.
10. Make sure you are in light armor threshold if you want to roll in New World, otherwise you will complete more of a dodge animation that is less efficient. This is also helpful to catch up to your enemies in PvP scenarios.
11. Any items you equip are excluded from your character weight. If you are near max weight and need a little more breathing room, equip your heaviest armor and consumable stacks to lower your weight limit in inventory. Use these potions to momentarily increase your max weight in New World.
12. If you want to start collecting specific ingredients for a recipe in crafting in New World, you can pin the recipe. Go to the station in your settlement that creates the item you want to craft, then click “Pin Recipe”. This recipe will now show up on your UI and show you which materials you are missing until you can craft it.
13. The lighter your weight in New World, the less Azoth it will cost you to fast travel. If you need to travel somewhere and do not need to bring your heavy inventory items with you, try storing them in a storage shed before fast travelling to save on Azoth.
14. You can see all ingredients that are usable to craft certain items. Go to a crafting station for the item you want to craft, then where the ingredients are selectable, you can uncheck “Owned Items”. This will show a full list of all the ingredients you can use for this craft.
15. In most settlements, you can gather water for free using the Well in town, or gather honey for free as well. You can also gather milk by milking a cow in several settlements too. Use these cooldowns whenever they are available.
16. Always level your gathering skills as you go. You will always be most efficient when you are gathering while doing other tasks. This especially goes for skinning, as if you have already killed an animal, you may as well skin them while you are there.
17. If somehow you are short on repair parts, you can go to the trading post and buy the cheapest gear you can find, just to salvage them for parts.
18. You earn some, very small amounts, of gold when salvaging an item. Its always better to salvage than to drop and item.
19. The musket has a skill you can select that will increase your movement speed. This will help you get around much faster if you have it equipped while travelling. “Hustle” in the musket trapper tree will grant you 10% increased movement speed for 3 seconds after dodging.
20. The bow also has a skill you can select that will increase your movement speed. This will help you get around much faster if you have it equipped while travelling. “Dodge and Weave” in the bow Skirmisher tree will grant you 10% increased haste for 2 seconds after dodging.
21. You can sort your inventory by gear score to easily see which weapons and armors have the best gear score first. This will speed up time when you are looking at new equipment drops to see if they are good upgrades.

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22. Regeneration potions have shorter cooldowns than healing potions. They do not share a cooldown. You may want to drink one of each to get your health up even quicker.
23. Don’t worry about constantly repairing your gear. If you repair it just when its broken, that is all you need. You will not lose any stats unless it is completely broken. This way, if you get an upgraded piece along the way, you will not have wasted repair parts on the old item.
24. You can eat raw meat to regain health, just like water. Put raw meat in a consumable slot if you need an extra heal.
25. You can dodge three times if you wait just a second or two after your first dodge. If you do not wait, you will only get two dodges before your stamina runs out.
26. You can sell your items in chat instead of on the trading post. You can do this by going into inventory and Alt-Click the item you want to sell. This will link the item in the chat box so you can try to find a buyer quicker and avoid the trading post tax.
27. Every day you have 3 quest slots from your faction rep in town. Make sure you complete these faction quests to you can increase your reputation with your faction each day and earn those valuable faction tokens. These will also give great EXP.
28. In early stages of the game, Constitution scales extremely well. You may decide that you want to just level your constitution stat while you try out all the different weapons you come across until you find the one you like.
29. Purchase your first house in a region where you know you will be spending a lot of time in. This region is usually one where you expect to farm a lot of resources or has a very active trading post. Everfall and Windsward seem to be popular choices. Windsward is amazing for hemp - make sure you check this out!
30. While you are leveling, make sure you check out your faction rep’s armory. You can buy gear from your faction that is usually much better than what you find out in the wild. If you are staying on top of your faction missions, you should be able to easily afford this gear.
31. The higher gear score you have equipped, the more likely higher gear score will drop from chests and monsters. Always try to have your highest gear score items equipped so the game knows to drop you higher items. You only need to equip the highest gear score once, then you can swap it back to the gear you want. As long as you equip it once, New World will know your max gear score is higher.
32. You can buy seals from your faction leader that will change the stats of your gear. You can buy one of these seals and bring it to a crafting station. Then you can apply the seal to items to ensure your armor or weapon has your desired stat.
33. If you have a ton of extra gold in New World, you can pick up town board quests that require item turn ins, then run to the trading post and buy those items for cheap and immediately turn them in for fast XP.
34. Monsters will see you farther away if you are within 10 levels of them. If you are more than 10 levels above a monster, it will be less likely to aggro to you until you get closer.
35. Respecing your attribute points is free up until level 20. You can respec as many times as you’d like with no penalty. After level 20’s initial respec cost, each level will cost 12 gold more than the last to respec.
36. You can also respec your weapon points any time before weapon level 10. After weapon level 10, it will cost Azoth to respec your weapon points.
37. Hold left alt to look around with the camera while you are running.
38. Every time you level up your gathering skills, your luck in that skill will increase as well. you will gain 0.01% luck for each level. Therefore, at level 200 mining, you will have a permanent 2% mining luck bonus. Make sure you utilize trophies and food buffs to increase your gathering luck as well.
39. Leveling up a gathering skill will also give you a nice boost of character XP as well. Not only do you gain XP for every piece you gather, you get a bonus when hitting a new gathering skill level.
40. Each territory town has a faction supply cart or chest. If your faction owns a region and you are in the settlement, make sure you locate the faction supply cart for some free goodies.
41. There are over 400 achievements in New World. Some achievements give you titles. You can change your title by opening your Character Bio screen, and click “Change Title”. You will be able to choose from any titles you have already unlocked.

108 Tips for New World - #42-61

42. Always make sure you have a food buff when you are out in the wild questing or farming. Having a food buff is the only way to passively heal your character. Food is very cheap and easy to make, and usually it lasts for 20-30 minutes to passively heal you.
43. You can transfer items between regions for a small gold fee instantly as long as your faction owns the regions you want to transfer between. To do this, open your storage shed from inside one of the settlements your faction owns, use the dropdown menu to pick your storage location. If you pick one of the locations that your faction owns, you can withdraw or deposit from it from where you are.
44. If you don’t want the chat to show up, you can hide it. Press enter, click the settings cog wheel at the bottom right of the chat box, and click “Muted” on each of the channels you want muted. You can do this to all channels if you don’t want to see the chat at all. You can use this menu to change other aspects of the chat as well like the text size and opacity, or how long it takes for a message to fade away.
45. Make sure you get an upgraded bag early to increase your weight limit of your inventory! You can easily make a bag by spending your first 1,000 faction tokens on a Minor Rune of Holding. Then take the rune to the outfitting station where you can craft a bag. For all the bags you can craft and their ingredients needed, follow here.
46. To quickly self-cast on yourself with a heal for example, hold left control then cast your spell.
47. Turn on “Show Extra Ability Cooldowns” in the Gameplay section of the settings so that your active cooldowns are displayed in the center of your screen just under your character. This is an excellent way to easily keep track of your cooldowns close to where your eyes will typically be set.
48. You can to a barrel-roll while laying down in New World. While laying down, hold shift and the “A” or the “D” key - depending on which direction you want to roll to.
49. When completing the daily mission faction quests, do those ones in the highest level region you can. The extra XP you get for the daily quest will scale higher in the higher level zones in New World.
50. Headshots guarantee a critical hit in New World, dealing extra damage. Hitting your opponent from behind also guarantees a critical hit. If you don’t get an orange text indicator on your hit, you missed it and hit somewhere else on their body.
51. If you use Ice Gauntlet and use the Ice Block ability, eat food right before you ice block. This will make you impervious to damage while also healing you for the entire duration of your ice block.
52. To transfer your items very quickly into or out of your storage shed, simply click the small arrow beside each category of goods. If you click the category at the top right of the UI, you can keep clicking as each time a category moves into or out of your storage shed, the new category will replace the exact position as the one before it. So you can just spam-click the top most arrow to quickly deposit all of the categories.
53. The first 50 constitution points you earn in your stat attributes will give you a 20% boost to all health consumables you take. This is a huge increase and can really come in handy in both PvE and PvP in New World.
54. To see if someone is flagged for PvP in New World, aim your cursor at them from far away. If there icon is red, it means they are flagged for PvP.
55. If you accidently fall off a cliff, you can open the menu and use the “unstuck” feature. This will teleport you nearby and usually will put you back to the top of the cliff where you came from.
56. When you are finding the blue lore pages all around New World, simply press “T” instead of the normal “E” interact button. This will immediately clear them, count your XP, and add them to your journal, without needing to actually open and close the note. Of course, if you enjoy reading all the New World Lore, go ahead and open them normally and enjoy the read. Make sure you are always picking these up as the more you get, the more XP you will earn.
57. To simplify auto-run in New World, you can go into the settings under “Gameplay” and turn on the “Auto-Traverse” setting. This will make it so that whenever you run into an obstacle, your character will attempt to hop over the obstacle and keep running, if it is possible. Other settings you should look into listed here.
58. If you are not using a shield, you will not gain the stats of the shield. Therefore, if you aren’t a Sword & Sword spec, make sure your take off your shield. Having a shield equipped counts against your overall weight but adds no benefit to defense or stats. Taking the shield off will help you achieve light armor weight in New World.
59. When heading to dungeons with a party, think about using armor and weapons that have the luck perk. If you have the luck perk, you will have added chances of finding rare items from chests and monsters. This is especially good in a dungeon or elite area.
60. If you have too many resources and are reaching your weight limit in your storage sheds, consider selling them on the market. Resources usually sell relatively quickly and therefore are easy to unload or pick up again later. Selling some to gain gold may be a better short term plan if you are not using them and are just too full.
61. Running in heavy armor means you cannot dodge-roll, you can only “side-step”. If you normally use heavy armor, you can take off all or some of your pieces until you get to the light armor threshold. This will allow you to run faster by dodge-rolling forward when you need to traverse through a long journey. Remember though if you encounter a fight you may need to put your armor back on.

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62. Fast travel is cheaper if you are traveling to regions that your faction controls. Considering focusing on tasks specifically in the regions that your faction controls to maximize your efficiency of travel, as well as tax cuts or other perks, especially if your company is the governing body.
63. Keep vials of azoth that you collect while leveling. You can a cap of 1,000 Azoth, and you could reach that cap as some point while leveling. You want to save vials for when you are doing end game crafting and adding perks, as you will need a lot more Azoth.
64. If you run out of arrows or cartridge ammo in New World and do not have the supplies to craft more, you can always buy some at your faction rep. These only cost 5 tokens per purchase.
65. Different armor and weapons offer different perks. Some of these perks are specific to an ability. Try to use items that buff the abilities you actually use in your build. There is no point in having a perk on a weapon for an ability that you don’t even have unlocked as part of your build.
66. If you have a very valuable or important item in your inventory, you may want to lock it. Locking the item will make sure that you do not accidently salvage the item later and lose it forever. Open your inventory, hover your cursor over the item, hold “L” and left click it.
67. Upgrade your gathering tools in New World! Upgrading your tools will increase their gathering speed significantly. You can also add perks to your gathering tools to add additional luck, yield, or more.
68. If your armor or weapons have an open gem slot, make sure you craft some gems to use. They are super easy to make at the stonecutting table in town, and will be easy upgrades to your gear. If you ever find that you want to put a different gem in the item instead, you can always replace the existing gem with a new one. The old gem in this case will be destroyed.
69. Gems have 2 potential buffs in New World. The first buff listed on the gem is use if the gem is applied to your weapon. The second buff listed on the gem is applied if you add the gem to a piece or armor.
70. You can craft weapon coatings at the arcane repository (where you also craft potions). Make the most of a journey into a dungeon with a group by applying the corresponding weapon coating to your weapon at the beginning of the dungeon. This will give you extra damage to a specific type of enemy for a duration of time. Follow here to see the different weapon coatings you can make.
71. Each dungeon in New World requires a key to open. You an craft these keys at the same stonecutting table as your gems. Crafting these keys have a 1-day cooldown each. If you expect to farm dungeons often, make sure you are logging in each day and crafting a new key. You do not have to use the keys right away and you can stock up on them for several days, then use them all.
72. Cooking specific attribute foods will help increase your stats when you are about to face a typical challenge. You can make these foods to increase your strength, constitution, etc. for a period of time. You may decide to always have one of these buffs on, or you may decide to be more choosy about when you use them going into a war or a dungeon. For our Complete New World Cooking Guide follow here.
73. To craft tier 2, 3, 4, or 5 gear, the settlement must have the appropriate level crafting station equipped. If you want to cook tier 4 food for example, you need a tier 4 kitchen to exist in the settlement you are in. To check which tiers of crafting stations exist in a town in New World, go to the map and hover over the settlement > settlement details and it will show the current tier of each.
74. You can have ingredients for crafting in your storage shed, and you will still be able to craft using them. You do not need ingredients in your actual inventory. As long as the required ingredients for a craft are in the storage shed of the settlement you are currently in, New World will allow you to craft using them.
75. While leveling crafting skills, always try to use the lowest-tier ingredients. Most of the time, they are all you need to get the item you are trying to craft, or to earn the skill up you are looking for. New World will allow you to use higher tier ingredients for weaker crafts, but this is usually a mistake. Save your more rare, higher tier ingredients for higher tier crafts later in the game.
76. If you carry honing stones, they can significantly increase your damage for a short period of time. Craft these and carry them with you in case you find yourself in trouble and you need a massive damage boost quickly. You can craft honing stones at the forge.
77. When heading out to gather, make sure you craft some proficiency potions. These will increase the amount of resources you gather in any of the gathering professions for a given amount of time. We talk about these in the How to Make Mining Faster in New World post.
78. Turn on “Always Show Weapons” on the Gameplay section of settings. This will allow you to always see our secondary weapon on your UI. This means you can also track the cooldowns for the weapon you do not currently have in your main hand.
79. Some trees have multiple trunks and give much more wood than other options. Check these ones out when you are logging. Here is our Complete New World Logging Guide as well.
80. Keeping your refining and crafting skills at higher levels will upgrade the town project board to carry higher level quests, rewarding much more experience, but requiring higher tier turn ins. Our Town Project Guide is located here.
81. If you are reaching the max amount of repair parts you can carry, you can craft a repair kit instead. This will use some of your repair parts and turn it into a kit instead, which you can carry in inventory.

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82. Before starting a quest out in the wild, place a camp nearby. If you die in the area you are questing, you will have a close respawn point instead of going all the way back to the nearest settlement when dying.
83. If you want to know which city you would spawn in if you die, you can open you map and place a marker on the closest settlements by right-clicking the map. The marker will tell you how far away it is from you if you look at your compass at the top of your screen. Do this to two different settlements to see which one is closer.
84. Always check for quest givers in front of dungeons. Many times you will be able to pick up additional quests to increase your XP and rewards for completing a dungeon. There may also be additional quests for the dungeon in the nearest settlement. Sometimes your faction mission rep will also give you dungeon quests.
85. Using the sword and shield, you can hold block, then perform light attacks. You can actually continuously hold right click while using the left click to attack. After your two light attacks, if you are still holding right click, your character will automatically go back to blocking again. You would not have to re-click the right button.
86. If you realize you have way too many mobs following you and you want to get right of the aggro, you can climb up and onto a ledge. After some time, they will de-aggro. It’s not a super fast process, but it can get you out of a bind if you would have otherwise died.
87. If you want to craft potions while out in the wild, place a camp down by a river or pond. You can gather all the water you need right in the body of water, then craft all the potions you need at the camp. This may save you a trip to town. If you don’t have the other ingredients, you can easily collect bulrush or briar from around the water as well/
88. To maximize your gathering trips, carry encumbrance potions. These can be key in bringing back long hauls of wood or ore particularly. Drinking an encumbrance potion will increase your weight limit for a short period of time. We walk through all of the encumbrance potions in this post.
89. You can change your faction in New World. Open your character screen, navigate to Bio, and at the bottom left corner there is a “Change Faction” button. You will only be able to change your faction if you have already left your Company. You can also only change your faction every 120 days. You will also not be able to change to the most dominant faction in the area.
90. Try to never deplete your stamina. Stamina will take longer to regeneration if it has been fully depleted. Therefore, when dodge-rolling, try to always have at least 51 stamina before your next dodge.
91. To restore your health near a camp site, walk up to the camp and press “T” to rest. This will help regenerate your health back to max if you are out of consumables.
92. Respawning at your camp will not activate your PvP timer.
93. If you are using heavy armor and a hatchet, you can use the Berserk ability to help you run faster. This can be an alternative to a dodge-roll, and will get you to your destination faster.
94. You can reduce the cooldown for your house recall by spending Azoth. This can sometimes be more affordable than fast travelling.
95. As we discussed in this post about ways to make gold early in New World, some regions have a tier 3 crafting station by default right when the game launches. If you can make your way up here early, you can craft tier 3 items without needing the settlement to have been upgraded.
96. If you successfully dodge, you will not take any damage. Use this to your advantage and perform dodges while in combat. Quick Pro Tip: It’s also much more fun than spamming attack over and over!
97. Always pick storage upgrades from territory standing cards. These are bar-none the best card there is. Learn more about our opinions on the best and worst territory standing cards to choose.
98. You can mix and match your armor types to achieve your desired equipment load threshold. For example, you do not need to wear all light armor just to achieve the light weight status. You may throw in one or two medium armor pieces and still be under the threshold!
99. You can cancel your fishing animation by right-clicking. So if you have caught a fish and your character is still pulling it out of the water, just right click at this moment. It will set you back up and ready for the next cast a little bit faster.
100. Some recipes are only available in loot boxes. If you have found a recipe and it sits in your inventory, you can salvage the recipe and your character will learn it.
101. Always take all the missions in town when you are going out on a quest hunt. You might as well complete as many quests as you can that are all very closely related geographically.
102. If you log out within a settlement or town, you will gain rested XP while you are offline. You will not gain rested XP otherwise. To check your rested XP, go into your character attributes and you will see a faded bar past your XP bar. Hover over it to see the details.
103. Territory standing cards suffer from diminishing returns. Therefore, the more of the same card you choose, the less of an effective increase you will get each time. This is applicable to most cards, but not the storage card for example.
104. Elite zones, or open dungeons, are exceptionally good for Weapon XP. If you want to level up your weapons quickly, go to these areas with a group and kill monsters.
105. Fishing Hotspots will increase the chance for better and rarer fish to be caught. Always try to fish around hotpots to get the most out of fishing. Learn more about fishing in our Complete New World Fishing Guide.
106. If someone is late to a corrupted portal event, they can be the one to close the portal and they will still get XP for it.
107. If you prone in bushes or grass, it is much harder for PvP enemies to see you. Your name tag will not show up when you are prone in grass.
108. You can skip the New World tutorial by pressing escape and going into Game Menu and clicking “Skip To New World”. You may want to do this after you have already talked to the captain and received your sword and shield.