Whether you’re new to Medieval Dynasty or simply looking to get a smoother start, this comprehensive beginner guide offers 10 tips (plus a few bonus ones) that will elevate your early gameplay and help you master everything from survival to settlement management. Let’s dive in.
Tip 1: Master Basic Survival
Survival starts with understanding your key binds. Familiarize yourself with the controls for inventory, interacting, sprinting, and the crafting wheel. You begin the game with some food, and for water, you can safely drink from any lake.
To sleep through night hours, you’ll need to rest next to a campfire or inside a house. Early tooltips will appear during gameplay — read them! They often cover important mechanics that may otherwise be missed.
Tip 2: Understand the Quest Types
There are three types of quests:
- Chapter Quests: These act as the main tutorial and unlock key progression features. Start by finding the Castellan.
- Story Quests: These revolve around key characters and include delivery-style objectives. They’re optional but provide lore and exploration.
- Side Quests: Offered by villagers, these help raise your dynasty reputation and often reward you with food, tools, or materials.
Tip 3: Leveling and Skill Points
There are six core skills in Medieval Dynasty:
- Extraction – Chop trees, mine ores, dig clay
- Hunting – Hunt animals, craft/use traps
- Farming – Plow, fertilize, sow, harvest, and manage pens
- Production – Craft tools, cook food, sew clothing
- Survival – Gather berries, reeds, and fish
- Diplomacy – Sell goods, flirt, complete quests, trade animals
Each skill has its own skill tree with 10 levels and four tiers. You must place at least one skill point in each tier to access the next.
Tip 4: Learn the Technology System
Technology Points (Tech Points) unlock new buildings, crafting schematics, and recipes. There are four categories:
- Building: Earned through construction and logging
- Survival: Earned through hunting, gathering, fishing
- Farming: Earned through crop management and animal care
- Production: Earned through crafting in workshops, smithies, taverns, etc.
You’ll need both enough Tech Points and coins to unlock new items.
Tip 5: Hone Your Hunting Skills
Hunting is key to food, fur, feathers, and leather. The best early weapon? The wooden spear, crafted from one log. These can be thrown and are effective on most early game wildlife.
Tips for hunting:
- Crouch to sneak up on skittish animals
- Bring multiple spears – they break easily
- Avoid bears and wisent early on; they require stronger gear
- Always carry a knife for skinning
- Use animal traps to passively catch game like rabbits
Bonus Tip – Pay the King’s Tax (or Subscribe)
The valley belongs to a king, and rumor has it he expects a tribute of one like or one subscription per helpful tip. Seems fair.
Tip 6: Stealing (Sometimes) Pays Off
You can steal items lying around villages, and if no one is watching, there are no consequences. But if a villager sees you, you’ll lose dynasty reputation. Enough theft can get you exiled — which means game over.
Tip 7: Seasons Matter
Each season lasts three in-game days by default, but this can be customized from 1 to 30 days.
Seasonal highlights:
- Spring: Pay taxes, collect mushrooms, gather unripe berries
- Summer: Harvest ripe berries
- Autumn: Find rarer mushrooms
- Winter: Easier to collect sticks and stones due to less vegetation
Crops are also seasonal — some can only be planted or harvested during specific times.
Tip 8: Understand Farming
Farming is resource-heavy but rewarding. To get started:
- Use the crafting wheel to place a field (start small: 4×4)
- Use a hoe to plow
- Use a simple bag to apply fertilizer
- Plow again, then seed using the same bag
Check your bag for what seeds can be planted in which season — anything marked with a yellow “X” is out of season. Crops take one to two seasons to mature.
Tip 9: Recruit and Manage Villagers
Villagers provide automation and labor. To recruit:
- Approach campfire NPCs and ask them to join
- They need housing, food, water, and firewood
Assign roles via the management tab. To function, they need:
- A workplace (e.g., Woodshed)
- Tools (placed in their workplace or resource storage)
- Adequate rest and resources, or they’ll leave if morale hits -100%
Tip 10: Bandits
After your first year, Bandits appear in the world. They don’t raid villages, but may set up camps along roads and attack if you’re spotted.
They’re dangerous, especially archers. But if you defeat them, you’ll often find high-value loot like weapons, food, or tools.
Prefer a peaceful playthrough? Disable Bandits in custom game settings.
Final Bonus Tip: Customize Your Game Pace
Adjust season length, damage difficulty, survival needs, and more via game settings. Don’t be afraid to play at your own speed.
Conclusion
From farming and feasting to fending off bandits, Medieval Dynasty is a deep and rewarding experience that’s made more enjoyable when you understand its systems. Hopefully, these tips help set you on a prosperous path.
Looking for more guides? Check out the tutorial playlist or farming deep dives next. Thanks for reading — and happy dynasty building!
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