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✧ Getting Started
Welcome New Players
Age of Ymir Getting Started
Age of Ymir · Getting Started

Welcome New Players

Meet Mom, one of the friendly custom characters designed exclusively for Age of Ymir to guide new players. Alongside her fluffy and loyal cat, Piper, and the mysterious Galapago (Shorty), she ensures newcomers feel welcome and have all the help they need to start their journey. Mom resides in Aurelia and is one of the first characters you'll meet when creating a new character, provided you don't skip the tutorial. Occasionally, you'll also find her during seasonal events, such as Summer Island festivities.
Complete Mom's tutorialMeet Shorty your guide

Getting Started

Mom: You can visit Mom in Fashionsta Village in Aurelia, or easily locate her by using the
Orb Teleporter Warper: via Special Areas > Home.
Note: Alternatively, you may use the AoY Guide AoY Scroll to warp home directly.

AoY Mom Sitting

This guide will introduce you to Mom's tutorial, alongside 🐧 Shorty! A helpful in-game NPC that assists beginners up to level 71 and provide essential information about Age of Ymir. Shorty offers convenient services, including warps to important NPCs and 10-minute buffs to help kickstart your adventure!

Waking up from a Dream

✧ Tutorial Overview

The "Wake up from a Dream" tutorial introduces you to essential game mechanics including movement, NPCs, equipment, combat, stats, skills, and class selection. Follow Mom's guidance through 14 steps to learn the basics of Age of Ymir.

Starting the Tutorial

  • Step 1. Create a Character: After clicking Play, select Wake up from a Dream to start the tutorial.
Wake up from a Dream
  • Step 2. Talk to Mom: You'll wake up late for your adventurer journey. Mom asks you to gather essentials before heading out.
  • You were supposed to be up one hour ago to become an adventurer but, unfortunately, you overslept.
  • The world will now introduce you about how to move your character in the game.
  • Click somewhere with the left-click of your mouse to move the character.
Talking to Mom
  • Step 3. Treasure Chest: You will see a treasure chest located beside Mom, click on it to retrieve
    your trusty AoY Guide Novice Main Gauche [3] (opens in a new tab) and AoY Guide Novice Guard (opens in a new tab).
  • Walk towards where Mom is. She will ask you to hurry up and get your things from the chest.
  • The world will now introduce you to NPCs. As an example, click at the chest NPC to gather your trusty dagger!
Open a Chest
Open the Closet
  • Step 5. Follow Mom to the Potions Crate: Mom will now ask you to equip your dagger and suit. After doing so, she will remind you to gather your potions and First Aid Boxes (these are very useful during early progression). Follow her and click on the potions crate to obtain AoY Guide Novice Potions (opens in a new tab) and the AoY Guide First Aid Box.
  • After reaching the potions crate, you will receive Novice Potions and First Aid Boxes.
  • The world will now teach you about how to add/bind items, skills, or any other equipment to the hotkeys.
  • You can do this by dragging and dropping any usable skills, equippable equipment, or usable consumable to the 4 rows of hotkeys visible on your screen.
  • If for some reason you don't have them, press F12 on your keyboard to display one or more rows of hotkeys.
  • If you just have one visible, more presses of F12 add up to 3 rows of hotkeys. A fifth press will make them all disappear.
  • There is an extra line of 4 rows of hotkeys that can be swapped to when needed by pressing ALT+F.
  • You can also change the shortcuts by pressing ESC -> BM/Shortcut Settings at any time.
  • You can now try to bind the potions to F1, the top left slot of your first hotkey bar.
Retrieve the Crate
  • Step 6. Find Mom in the Kitchen: Mom will now wait for you downstairs. After leaving the room, you will see displayed a bunch of arrows on the ground. Mom is at the kitchen and since the house may look big for a new player, you need to know where to go.
Walk to the Kitchen
  • Step 7. Talk to Mom in the Kitchen: After finding Mom, talk to her. She will tell you that you can't rely on her to wake you up every morning. She will also tell you that the basement is a mess and needs to be taken care. She would send Piper but he already had his meal.
  • Follow the arrows and go to the basement. You will now learn about combat.
  • To enter combat simply left click on an enemy to begin hitting it with your weapon.
  • You can use /nc to toggle auto-attack on and off.
Listen to Mom
  • Step 8. Head downstairs to the Basement: Follow the arrows and go to the basement. You will now learn about combat.
  • After killing a monster, you will level up. The world will now teach you about stat points.
  • Stat points are points that increase the potential of your character. You can read more about them here.
  • You can add stat points by opening the Status Window (ALT+A), or click at the icon that appeared at the bottom right of your screen, and click on the arrow next to your stats to increase them.
  • Continue killing monsters.
  • The world will now introduce you to the @arealoot command.
  • As you can see, killing monsters make them drop items. Since it's an hassle to grab them all the time, you can use a command called @arealoot to pick them for you. They will be sent directly into your inventory.
  • You can type @arealoot in your chat bar to turn it on and off.
  • If you're curious about other commands that the server has to offer, type @commands in the chat and check what more there is available.
Combat Training
  • Step 9. Continue killing Monsters: You will notice that you have gained now job levels and the world will now introduce you to Job Levels.
  • Job Levels are points that can be added to skills to gain and level them.
  • You can add your job points by opening the Skills Window (ALT+S), or click at the icon that appeared at the bottom left of your screen, and click on the arrow next to the skill you want to get or level up.
  • When you're ready to confirm the addition, click apply.
Applying Skill Points
  • Step 10. Return to the Kitchen: Once you're done with your skills, return upstairs, to the kitchen, and speak to Mom. She will thank you for what you've done and welcome you to a conversation while you /sit and listen to her words.
  • The world will now introduce you to the /sit command.
  • You can press Insert or type /sit in the chat to sit you character.
  • While sitting, your HP & SP regen will increase twice faster than opposed to sanding up.
Living Room Intro
  • Step 11. Pick out a Weapons Manual: Mom will now talk about your father. About his past as a Weapons Instructor and how his collection of training weapons and notes are still at the basement. She wants you to pick one before you set out but before that she will give you pocket money for some future supplies.
  • Follow the arrows and go to the basement.
  • At the marked place, pick a weapon from the Weapon's Manual.
  • The world will now introduce you to the Class System.
  • The class system is what makes each class unique after most of them starting as a Novice (most because Summoner is a special and single case since it the only class available to the Doram race).
  • Each class has a specific set of weapon(s) that can equip and one of them in their Training Version can be tried here before advancing further into the game.
  • Since those weapons are special, you will be temporarily converted to the respective class while they're equipped.
  • Along with each training weapon you also get access to the level 1 of some skills (you can click at the name of the weapon in blue to check the ones you get to try) that the correspondent class has to give an idea of how each works and a brief explanation of the class before giving the final confirmation that you want to try it.
  • Don't worry, no choice is final here, you can try all of them by talking again to the Weapon's Manual.
  • There is also a Training Dummy to check and test them to your left.
Weapon Manual Selection
  • Step 12. Confirm Weapon Choice with Mom: After picking the weapon of the class you want to advance, go upstairs and talk to Mom. She will ask you again if that's your final decision or not. If you're happy with your decision, choose: "Yes, I have!". Mom will then share a story about your father and a distant realm called 'Age of Ymir', inspired by the great adventures of Path of Exile - a world where warriors could enhance their equipment with powerful enchantments. She will give you an Enchant Tome that your father left for you.
Confirm Weapon Manual
  • The Enchant Tome contains energized inscriptions written by Ymir. When used, it can give you 4 kinds of guaranteed Low Grade Enchant Scrolls (1~5x each kind) on equal chance. These enchantments will help you improve your equipment on your journey ahead. After receiving the Enchant Tome, Mom will congratulate you on your decision and tell you it's time to head over to the Job Master to start your journey. She will mark his location with arrows on the floor - just follow them and you should have no trouble finding him. You can now head over to the Job Master and start your journey. Or explore Mom's house a bit more. Maybe you can find a helpful companion that you can use as a new player.
Enchant Tome Item
  • Step 13. Meet the Black Shadow Figure (Shorty): At the south exit portal, there lies a shadowy figure with a quest sign. This is an important NPC (Shorty disgused as a Shadow Figure), to talk to as soon as you've completed Mom's final task around the house. Shorty is a dynamic NPC designed to accompany new players on Age of Ymir up to level 71, providing useful in-game information, buffs, and guidance. You can summon Shorty via the AoY Scroll. Buffs: Shorty offers 10-minute buffs including Increased Agility, Blessing, Assumptio, and more. Guidance: Players can learn essential gameplay mechanics, such as stats, skills, and navigation. Interactive Help: Players can summon Shorty anytime using the Help Me Shorty item to access tips, warps to NPCs, or buffs.
Black Shadow (Shorty)
  • Step 14. Job Changing to 1st Class: You can now head over to the Job Master and start your journey. Follow the arrows to the right (south exit) and enter the Main Office, the Hub of Age of Ymir. Talk to the Job Master and he will detect that you have a Training Weapon with you.
  • The Job Master is an NPC that exists here to help players that don't want to waste their time doing the quests to change classes/job He will question if you want to continue your journey as the job related to the weapon you picked (there is no turning back after this). If you decide that you now wish to be something different, simply say it and don't be shy, he will understand it. During the conversation you will also notice that you have received a neat Ring of Experience and Beginner Mark [1].
  • The Ring of Experience and Beginner Mark [1] are temporary items that when equipped provides you extra experience from monsters that you kill while you're below level 100. The world will now congratulate you for changing class and the Eden Group will announce that they're recruiting new members. The NPC doing that should be at the right of the Job Master.
Job Change with Master

Advancing Your Job

Job Master Job Master Rewards

Visit the Job Master in the Main Office to advance your class. Upon confirmation, you'll receive valuable starter items to boost your progression.

ItemEffectNotes
Beginner Mark [1]Beginner Mark [1]+1% EXP and Item Drop RateTemporary item (below level 100)
Ring of ExperienceRing of Experience+1% EXP from Brute monstersTemporary item (below level 100)

Quick Access: Use the command (@main) to warp to the Main Office directly where the Job Master is located.

AoY Job Master

Joining the Eden Group

Eden Group Mark Eden Group Headquarters

To visit the Eden Group Mark Eden Group Headquarters, simply locate an Eden Teleport Officer. Alternatively, you may use the command (@goeden) to warp to the headquarters directly!

✧ Talk to Secretary Lime Evenor (moc_para01 27, 35) to register and select "Join the Eden Group." You can type anything as she will not actually check your spelling. She will give you the following starter items:

Eden Secretary Evenor
ItemQuantityDescription
Lv 10 Blessing ScrollLv 10 Blessing Scroll15Provides Blessing buff (ATK +10%)
Lv 10 Increase Agility ScrollLv 10 Increase Agility Scroll15Provides Increase Agility buff (AGI +10)
Yellow Butterfly WingYellow Butterfly Wing5Teleportation item for quick travel
Eden Group MarkEden Group Mark1Access item for Eden Group services and quests

Choosing Your Path

  • During all points of the tutorial, you may choose to warp to important locations via any of the beginner portals and or Age of Ymir airship.
  • You are encouraged to complete the Training Grounds tutorial which afterwards leads to the Criatura Academy north of Izlude, the satellite city.
  • Explore Weapon Manual Weapon Manuals in the Criatura Academy to try class-specific training weapons. Each weapon temporarily transforms you into the related class with sample skills. Test different options and finalize your decision with respective instructors inside of the academy.

Your First Instance

Poring Village

Shorty: The AoY Guide

Quest Icon
This quest or instance can be repeated.
This quest or instance has a 30 minutes cooldown period.

Shorty is a dynamic NPC designed to accompany new players on Age of Ymir up to level 71, providing useful in-game information, buffs, and guidance.

  • Shadow Figure: At the south exit portal, there lies a shadowy figure with a quest sign. This is an important NPC (Shorty disgused as a Shadow Figure), to talk to as soon as you've completed Mom's tasks around the house.
Shadow Figure

AoY Guide AoY Guide: You can summon Shorty via the AoY Guide Help Me Shorty (opens in a new tab) item.
Note: Alternatively, you may use the AoY Guide AoY Scroll to summon Shorty.

AoY Guide

Features of Shorty

AoY Guide Shorty's Services

Shorty is your personal guide up to level 71, providing essential buffs, guidance, and navigation assistance throughout your early journey.

FeatureDescription
Buffs

Shorty offers 10-minute buffs including:

  • Increased Agility (AGI +10)
  • Blessing (ATK +10%)
  • Assumptio (DEF +50%)
  • And more helpful buffs for new players
GuidanceLearn essential gameplay mechanics, such as stats, skills, and navigation tips.
Interactive HelpSummon Shorty anytime using the Help Me Shorty Help Me Shorty item to access tips, warps to NPCs, or buffs.

Beginner Costume Quest

✧ Important Notice

Completing the Beginner Costume Quest will end Shorty's guidance. After this quest, Shorty will permanently depart and no longer assist you in the Age of Ymir. Be sure you're ready to proceed before finalizing the quest!

Costume Galapago Cap Quest Details

Level Requirement: At level 31, players can take Shorty to Payon's Inn to meet Salty and complete a quest.

Rewards: Upon quest completion, players receive the Costume Galapago Cap Galapago Cap Costume (opens in a new tab) and EXP rewards.

✧ Important Note: Shorty will depart permanently after reaching level 71 or upon selecting the “Break Up” option.

First Aid Box

The First Aid Box First Aid Box system ensures players are well-supported every step of their journey. Boxes are awarded every 5 levels starting from level 5 to 95, providing a total of 19 boxes. These contain progressively better rewards, all of which are character-bound, ensuring fairness and progression integrity.

Available Items

ItemDescription
Blue PotionRestores SP for beginners
Freshly Squeezed MilkBasic healing item
Fly WingAllows instant teleportation
MagnifierIdentifies unidentified items
Concentration PotionBoosts attack speed
Awakening PotionFurther increases attack speed
Berserk PotionGrants the highest attack speed boost
Potion BoxesContains 20 potions each (Red, Orange, Yellow, or White)

Rewards Table

LevelBlue PotionMilkFly WingMagnifierCon. PotionAwk. PotionBerserk PotionOrange BoxYellow BoxWhite Box
5102050151-----
101540100151-----
152060150102-----
201580200102-----
252010025053-----
302512030053-----
35--300-321---
40--300-221---
45--300-231---
9545-300----202020

Important Notes

✧ Box Contents

Each Event Crate Box Event Potion Box contains 20 potions of the respective type:

  • Event Red Potions Red Potion - Basic healing
  • Event Orange Potions Orange Potion - Moderate healing
  • Event Yellow Potions Yellow Potion - Strong healing
  • Event White Potions White Potion - Maximum healing

✧ Character-Bound Items: All items received from First Aid Boxes are bound to the character and cannot be traded or dropped. This ensures both old and new players receive progressively better rewards and helpful resources at each milestone level!