Getting started
Your first steps in Nitya: movement, equipment, work, services and staying alive.
Make a character
Choose a world, create your character and enter Nitya. Nitya and Nitya Peaceful keep separate characters, belongings and economies. There are no classes: the same character can gather, craft, farm and fight. Clothing and held equipment determine how you look.
Start by finding the public workshop, market and temple on your town chart. Signs point toward landmarks. Banks, auctions, property rentals and boat passage require the appropriate nearby NPC.
Move and interact
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| WASD / arrows / click ground | Walk. Dirt and paved roads are slightly faster than grass. |
| Shift while moving or clicking | Run, using stamina. Running and swimming train Athletics; ordinary walking does not. |
| Click an object or NPC | Approach and perform its default interaction. |
| Right-click | Open the available actions. The × button closes the menu. |
| R + click | Select an attack target and chase it. Crime safety still applies. |
| Space / Hit | Spend a ready combat swing. |
| F + click | Gather from a suitable target. |
| Z | Loot the topmost eligible item at your feet. |
| I / K / C / M | Inventory, skills, crafting and map. |
| Escape | Close open menus and windows. |
On mobile, use the D-pad and hold-action buttons. Touch a target to open its context menu. Chat sits at the lower left; the Menu button at the lower right opens the game windows. Settings lets you adjust controls, sound, zoom and HUD positioning.
Try your first job
- Check Skills → Progression for work your current level allows.
- Get the tool and materials you need. A hatchet cuts starter trees; a small rod lets you fish.
- Finish the work. Moving or losing required access can interrupt an activity; starting repeatedly does not award practice.
- Open Crafting to see the next useful product. Select the ingredient stacks you want to spend and use a suitable station.
- Keep useful materials, sell eligible products to a local trader or store valuables at the bank.
Watch your resources
Health keeps you alive. Mana supports work and inspection. Stamina is always shown as a percentage and is spent on running, swimming and certain athletic actions. Food uses two fullness slots and provides benefits that fade over time.
The usual carrying limit is 120 kg. Worn items and the contents of bags count. A backpack organizes items; it does not remove their weight. Carts help with larger loads.
Stay safe
Leave crime safety on until you understand lawful targets. Watch the weather and the indoors/outdoors indicator: very cold weather can hurt you outside. Avoid long swims until your Athletics improves. Put valuable gold in the local bank before risky travel.
If you die, respawn near the temple. Your skills remain, but carried gold and possibly your inventory drop. Your map records the death location. Read combat, crime and death before venturing into dangerous areas.