These hints make my game go much smoother, and I hope they can help you too! If anyone else has any hints for Gothic 1, feel free to post them.You begin the game without any water mage spell and AK. This weapon requires 70 STR, and does 85 damage, and is well worth the challenge of getting it early in the game. If you belong to the Sect Camp or New Camp however, you'll get beaten up for attacking an Ore Baron, and may need some clever maneuvering to pick up Scar's Sword before you get knocked down. There is an NPC here called Scar, which has the best one-handed weapon you'll be seeing in the entire game, and you can get it in the first chapter! If you become a shadow and beat up Scar (which should be much easier with Silas' Axe) you won't even get in trouble with the other Ore Barons. You shouldn't get in trouble for beating him up, but picking up his weapon off the floor, or wearing his weapon in front of him might attract attention from his guards.Ĥ) Weapons Continued - after you join a camp, you'll be visiting the Ore Barons in the Old Camp. You can also beat up Lares for his axe, which requires just 5 more STR than Silas' Axe, and does a whopping 65 damage. This weapon makes most fights MUCH easier, and makes clearing out forests in Chapter 1 a breeze, leading to easier leveling. You won't get in trouble for beating up Silas either, seeing as you're in the New Camp. If you beat up Silas (may require some reloads) you can take his weapon 'Silas' Axe.' This is a beast of a weapon that does 55 damage and only requires 40 STR. After you get your strength up to 40, and your one-handed skill up to the first level you can make a trip to the New Camp and visit an NPC called Silas, who is located in the bar on the lake. Pick up this weapon first using the crude swords you make from the raw steel, as it's nice to have a 20 damage weapon you can use without putting any LP into STR. Fisk sells a sword that does 20 damage, and only requires 10 STR. Best part, you don't get in trouble for picking these chests for some reason, meaning free ore!ģ) Weapons - right at the start of the game you only have 10 STR. The smithy in the sect camp has a similar chest as well, with even more raw steel in it which you can turn into swords, ensuring that you'll be totally set for money through most of the first couple Chapters. This will set you up with 600 ore, and enough to get the diggers pants for 500 ore (you can get this ore back from Fisk once you buy the pants too). This gives you 20 crude swords, worth 1000 ore! This is more than enough to get all the ore from Dexter, Fisk, and Cavalorn (and all their lock picks). Using the smithy, you can turn all of these into crude swords (use raw steel at furnace 20 times, then anvil, then bucket, then grindstone). At that smithy, there is a locked chest that is easily picked which contains 20 raw steel. Requires the least amount of running around.Ģ) Money - first thing I always do in a game is go to the smithy in the outer ring of the Old Camp. The best order to do quests in is Old Camp 1st, then New Camp, then Sect Camp. Be sure to explore every camp very well in order to get all the quests done. Enjoy!ġ) Leveling - between all the quests in the 3 camps in Chapter 1, you should be around lvl 8-9 when you finally join a camp.

I started playing this game when it came out, and it's easily my favorite RPG of all time because of the amazing gameplay, unique features, and warm fuzzy feelings I get when I boot it up :D I know a TON about this game because of all the running around I did in it when I was younger, so I wanted to share by biggest tips here in this forum, so hopefully someone can get some use out of them.

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