Welcome to the brutal, unforgiving, yet incredibly rewarding world of Renown. This guide is your new best friend, designed to get you from a naked, confused person punching a tree to a fortified, steel wielding warrior. Consider this your complete Renown beginner guide; we’ll cover everything from surviving your first ten minutes and building a raid resistant starter base to understanding the combat, crafting your first set of steel gear, and figuring out what the heck a “server wipe” is. No fluff, just the essential info you need to stop dying and start dominating.
The TL;DR Cheat Sheet
For those who want the info and want it now, here’s the game plan:
- Run! Get away from the spawn area the second you load in.
- Punch a Tree, Punch a Rock: Get enough wood and stone to craft a Stone Axe and Stone Pickaxe.
- Claim Your Land: Craft and place your Banner in a hidden, defensible spot. This is your life.
- Build a 2×1 “Noob Cube”: Create a small, efficient starter base with an airlock.
- Upgrade to Stone: Use the mallet to upgrade your wood base to stone ASAP.
- Path to Steel: Build a Workbench, Forge, and Furnace. Your main goal is to unlock steel crafting.
- Learn to Fight: Master the basics of blocking, parrying, and the all powerful “Active Parry” to survive group fights.
- Know the Wipe: Understand that all progress resets periodically. Speed is everything.
What is in our Renown Beginner Guide
The First Hour: From Zero to Hero-ish
You’ve just spawned in. You have no clothes, no tools, and probably someone with a giant axe running straight at you. Don’t panic. Or, well, panic a little, but do it while running.
Ditch the Spawn Zone, Like, Yesterday
The spawn areas in Renown are basically a free for all deathmatch. Experienced players hang around here to farm easy kills on newcomers. Your first sixty seconds should be a full blown sprint into the nearest forest or rocky area. Your goal isn’t to fight; it’s to disappear.
The Classic Punch a Tree Routine
Once you’ve found a relatively quiet spot, it’s time to gather your first resources. You’ll need wood and stone. Yes, you have to punch them with your bare hands at first. It’s slow and painful, but it’s a rite of passage. Craft a Stone Axe and Stone Pickaxe the moment you have enough materials. These tools will dramatically speed up your gathering and get you out of the super vulnerable phase faster.
The Banner is Your Everything
Before you even think about building a wall, you need to craft and place your Banner. This is the single most important item in the early game. The Banner claims a chunk of land for you, preventing other players from building there. More importantly, it’s your respawn point. If it gets destroyed, you lose your claim and your home. Place it somewhere smart tucked away in a corner, not in the open.
Your First Fortress: A Humble Abode
Your first base won’t be a massive castle, but it can be a tough nut to crack. The goal is survival, not style.
Defensive Building for Dummies
Forget aesthetics. Your base needs to be functional and annoying to raid. Two key concepts will save you a lot of grief:
- Airlocks: This is a tiny room with two doors. You open the outer door, step inside, close it, and then open the inner door. This stops people from just barging in behind you. Always build an airlock.
- Honeycombing: This just means adding extra layers of walls around your core. It makes raiding more expensive for the attacker.
The “Noob Cube” Blueprint
The best starter base is a simple 2×1 (two foundations long, one foundation wide). It’s cheap, quick to build, and big enough for all your initial crafting stations and storage. Build it tall (at least two stories) and place your Banner on the second floor. This forces raiders to go through more walls to get to your most important item.
Stone is Your Friend
Wood is temporary. As soon as you have a decent supply of stone, craft a Mallet and start upgrading your base. Right click with the mallet on your building pieces to upgrade them. Start with the foundations and the core walls where you keep your loot and Banner.
The Progression Path: Getting Geared
Now that you have a (somewhat) safe place to call home, it’s time to start crafting better gear.
Your Workshop Essentials
You’ll need a few key crafting stations to get started: a Workbench, a Campfire that upgrades into a Forge, and eventually, a Furnace. Don’t worry about perfect placement just yet, but remember that these stations upgrade in place, so give them a little breathing room.
The Glorious Road to Steel
Steel is a game changer. It unlocks better weapons, armor, and tools. Getting there is your primary objective. Here’s the short version:
- Build a Furnace.
- Gather a ton of Iron Ore and Coal.
- Smelt the Iron Ore into Iron Ingots.
- Upgrade your Furnace to Tier 3 (this requires 600 Iron Ingots total and an Iron Mallet).
- Smelt Iron Ore with Coal in your T3 Furnace to create Steel Ingots.
It’s a grind, but the first time you craft a steel sword, you’ll feel like a king.
The Art of Combat: How Not to Die Instantly
The combat in Renown is skill based. You will be bad at first. Everyone is. The key is to learn the dance.
Block, Parry, Attack, Repeat
The combat revolves around a few core actions:
- Attacking: You can swing your weapon from different angles. Use this to get around enemy blocks.
- Blocking: Holding the block button will defend you, but you need to aim it in the direction of the attack.
- Parrying: This is a timed block. If you block right as an attack is about to hit you, you’ll perform a parry, briefly stunning your opponent and opening them up for a quick counter attack (a riposte).
The 1vX Savior: Active Parry
You’re going to get jumped by multiple people. It’s inevitable. Your secret weapon is the Active Parry. After you successfully parry an enemy and start your counter attack, your weapon will automatically block any other incoming attacks for a short duration. It even gives you stamina back! So when you’re facing a mob, don’t just wildly swing. Focus on getting one good parry, and use that counter attack to give yourself a shield. It’s less “300” and more “very angry, stabby ballerina.”
Beyond the Walls: Risking It for the Biscuit
The real fun in Renown happens outside your base. That’s where you find the best loot and the best fights.
Points of Interest (POIs)
The map has pre-built locations like castles and ruins. These places are packed with high-tier loot but are usually guarded by tough NPCs and crawling with other players. Don’t just charge in. Scout it out first. Sometimes the best strategy is to let two other groups fight it out and then swoop in to pick up the scraps.
Raiding for Beginners
Eventually, you’ll want to crack open someone else’s base. Raiding is a core part of the game. You can use explosives (petards) to blow open doors or even build siege equipment like catapults. For your first raid, find a small, sad looking wooden base. It’s good practice and will teach you the basics without risking too much.
Understanding the Wipe Cycle
This is a critical piece of meta knowledge. To keep the game fresh, servers have a “wipe cycle.” This means that every so often (it varies by server), all progress is completely reset. Everyone starts over from scratch. The “real” game is the race that begins on wipe day. This is why speed and efficiency are so important. Don’t get too attached to your castle; its destruction is part of the game’s design. The fun is in the building and the conquering, not the forever owning.
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