I’m just starting
Learn what to prioritise first without spoiling the later game.
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STEAM FULL RELEASE · PLAYER GUIDES
Welcome to Elderfield Guides
Start with the guide that matches where you are in the Steam Full Release — whether you are just beginning, following progression, finishing a task, reaching an area or learning a game system.
What do you need help with?
Pick the situation that sounds like yours and this page takes you to the guide that owns it. There is no site structure to learn first.
I don’t know where to go next
See the overall main route, the major unlocks and the paths that run beside it.
Contains progression spoilers
Want a personalised answer? Use the Progression Assistant →
I want it walked through step by step
Follow the main route one stage at a time, in order, with the paths that run beside it kept beside the numbered steps rather than inside them.
Contains progression spoilers
I’m stuck on a task
Find how to start it, what to do, why it may not be progressing and what it unlocks.
Contains task spoilers
I can’t reach a place
Find areas, what they require, where the entrances are and what matters once you arrive.
Contains area spoilers
Something isn’t working the way I expect
A task that never appears, an area that will not open, an item you cannot get, a shop that is missing stock, or something important you no longer have.
Contains task spoilers
I want to understand a game system
Farming, fishing, mining, crafting, ranching, relationships and combat — how each one works.
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Recommended Starting Points
Not everything on the site, and not ordered by when it was written — the two guides most readers should open first, chosen as an editorial starting pair.
NEW TO ELDERFIELD?
New to Elderfield? Start Here
Learn what to prioritise first, when the early systems begin to open, what you do not need to rush and how to avoid mixing advice written for the earlier build into the Steam release.
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NEED THE MAIN ROUTE?
Need the Main Route?
Follow the release from the early towns through the deeper areas, with the optional and parallel systems kept separate from the path that gates progress.
Contains progression spoilers
Not sure which step you are on? Use the Progression Assistant →
Tasks & Areas
The two things readers look for most: a task they cannot start or finish, and a place they cannot reach.
TASK HELP
Can’t start or finish a task?
Find the requirements that start it, its objectives, the points where it stalls, what it rewards and what it opens.
Contains task spoilers
AREA HELP
Not sure how to reach somewhere?
See the access route, what is still blocking the way, the tasks tied to a place, important items and what to do once you arrive.
Contains area spoilers
Follow Your Adventure
The release in order, as far as this build can confirm it. Each stage opens the progression guide at that point rather than repeating it here.
Stage 1 · Early
Early Game: Town 1 to Town 3
Your early priority is the town route. Speaking to Farmer Hans is the step that opens Town 2, and the towns carry you to the ordinary Catacombs entrance.
Stage 2 · Alongside
Parallel Progression: Ranch, Elderfield High and Farming
These run beside the main route from early on. None of them is a gate, and none of them has to be finished before the towns.
Stage 3 · Mid
Mid Game: Old Woods and Catacombs
Two areas open around the towns: Old Woods from the Town 2 stage, and the normal Catacombs entrance from Town 3.
Stage 4 · Deep
Deep Research Progression
The deep areas are far more dependent on specific quests and key items than the towns are. This is the one part of the route where the order is fixed.
Stage 5 · Late
Late Progression: Preparing for the Shrine
The last stretch is where the routes converge: the research arc, the Art Gallery and the Shrine all meet at the same door.
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Learn the Game Systems
Farming, fishing, mining, crafting, ranching, relationships and combat — how each system works, separate from the database that lists what is in it.
Open Systems Guides →Something Going Wrong?
A task that never appears, an area that will not open, an item you cannot get or a shop that does not stock what a guide promised.
Open Troubleshooting →Do You Want the Full Guide or a Quick Answer?
Two different jobs, kept apart on purpose: a guide explains, and a tool answers a question about your own situation.
Read a Guide
Best when you want the context: the route a step belongs to, why it matters and what it opens — read from start to finish.
Use a Tool
Best when you already have a specific situation and want a direct answer about it, rather than the whole system explained.
Just looking something up?
If you already know the item, weapon, fish, character or recipe you are searching for, the database is the shorter route.
Browse the Database →Playing the original Demo?
The Demo has its own guides
The Demo has different progression, tasks, items and locations, and its guides are archived under their own paths rather than mixed into these.
Enter Demo Guides →