Beginner's guide

How to start playing Makhes

From your first stick to choosing a class at level 5: the path for newcomers, plus every key in the game.

First steps

1. Create your account, choose your character's face and skin tone, and enter Makhes.
2. You start with just a stick and a pair of pants, both already equipped. Walk with WASD or the arrow keys and hold Space to attack whatever is in front of you.
3. Follow the Old Road east to Dário's Village and hunt rats and lambs. Click a monster (or use Tab) to target it.
4. Pick up loot with Z or by clicking: loot bags hold gold, trophies and, now and then, a card. The village creatures drop Adventurer clothes.
5. Up to level 4 you are an Adventurer: no class and no skills. From level 2 on you already earn points for the skill tree (K key).
6. At level 5, go to Vandória and talk to Helena, the class master: she gives you the starter weapon of the class you choose.
7. Stop by Flora, the apothecary at the fair, and take some potions: Q drinks the health potion and F the mana potion.
8. Spend your points in the tree (K), equip what monsters drop (I) and take hunting contracts from the NPCs on each map.
9. Lost? Press F1: the Adventurer's Guide tells you what to do now, where to hunt at your level and what you still need to get stronger.

Keys and controls

The level route

1. Levels 1 to 4: arrive by the Old Road at Dário's Village and help Dário the watchman with the first jobs.
2. Level 5: choose your class. In Vandória, Gunnar the blacksmith refines equipment and the hunting contracts pay for the monsters of each map.
3. Levels 2 to 10: train in the village's fields, Rabbit Meadow, Scarecrow Farm and Goblin Woods, which end at the door of the Marsh.
4. Levels 9 to 17: cross the Swamp, rest in Juncália, go down the three floors of the Temple of Mire and defeat Bufo, King of the Mire.
5. Levels 16 to 24: head to the Coast, pass through Castaway Reef and defeat Draven, the Drowned Captain, in the Captain's Grotto.
6. Levels 25 to 32: set out west from Vandória, cross the Desert and face Khet-Ra at the bottom of the Pyramid.
7. Levels 32 to 40: go north through the Ice Lands up to Isvara's Palace, home of Isvara, Lady of the Ice.
8. Levels 39 to 50: head east, through the Forgotten Graveyard and the Catacombs, until you defeat Morvan, the Necromancer, in the crypt.
9. Every hour on the hour, talk to Teodoro in the Vandória plaza and enter the Ancestral Dungeon: any level can go down the five rooms to the Ancestral Scourge.
10. Level 50: each class gains its endgame skills, through quests, and your level keeps rising with no cap. The fair road, southwest of Vandória, leads to the Scorched Lands.
11. Levels 50 to 60: cross the Ash Outpost, the Ember Fields and the Caldera and defeat Ignar, Lord of the Forge.
12. Levels 60 to 70: with Ignar defeated, the southern trail from the Ash Outpost leads to the Ancestral Jungle, up to Ixtal, atop the Ziggurat.
13. Levels 70 to 80: with Ixtal defeated, follow the river from the Ruins of Ixtal down to the Sunken City and face the Drowned King.
14. Level 70 onward: buy the Hunter's Mirror from the Traveler in Vandória and walk through Bossnia, among the echoes of the great bosses, up to the Sovereign's Throne.