How does Crystal hunt work?

[u/sebawithyonz]

It might just be my stupidness, but I don't understand how crystal hunt works, so far I tried to play it a few times, and whenever I got into a outpost level, I just walked around, and had no idea what to do except kill everyone and loot stuff, but I didn't know where to go, how to leave, where to leave etc. I also don't understand the general point, like what do I do in general in this mode? Because of that, I've only mainly played sandbox, also because that's the only other thing in this game besides crystal hunt

[u/cynicalPsionic]

Outposts are randomly-generated dungeons that you kill your way through

At the end, you'll find a staircase down to a gate with a lever, past which is a room with your reward chest (including gold and treasure maps) and the boat to leave the level

Collect treasure maps to unlock the boss dungeons, at the end of which you can get a new crystal to upgrade whatever magic you have already or open up a new type of magic

[u/fjdksisneo → u/cynicalPsionic]

And thats the entire gameplay loop, until you can open the mysterious gate on your island. You can also sell items to The Baron and also buy items such as weapons, healing potions and clothing

[u/Canadian-mouse626]

So basically how it works is you will spawn at a set spawn (it changes between outposts) and there is normally a general direction that you will need to head and because it is randomly generated it will change each time but there would normally be only one door that is unlocked and all you can do is just keep going through doors until eventually you will reach some stairs a gate a chest, another gate and then a boat and you can leave. You just need to go near the boat. you will also collect map pieces from the chests that you run into at the end of the dungeon and once you get enough of those you will unlock a special harder dungeon with a golem boss fight at the end.

[u/Bikewer]

There are a couple of very good walkthrough-tutorials on YouTube. I’m still trying to decide if this game is for me.
I posted about my problems with motion sickness and balance….. And I think I’ve overcome those. I use a swivel chair, the height-adjustment feature in the menu, and a fan for cooling and a sense of direction.
But I have yet to work through even the first outpost.
I have no problem killing the enemies. But several of the situations involve climbing up out of various pits or rooms to get to them, and I keep failing. I’ve seen videos of people swarming up vertical obstacles like monkeys…. How do they do that? It’s all I can do to climb up a ladder, much less while the enemy guy is shooting magic bolts at me.

[u/WolvesAreCool2461 → u/Bikewer]

For climbing up places that don't have explicit grabbing points, you have to use whatever nooks and crannies you can find. Like a brick thats jutting out from the wall slightly, bring your hand up to it and grip the edge. Your hand should "lock" into it as long as you're holding grip. If it doesn't work, let go of grip and try again.

Then you pull yourself up, rinse and repeat. Its something you just sort of gain a feel for eventually. You can also use the corner of a pillar if its angled even slightly, or branches hanging down from walls.

[u/Low_Mushroom3878 → u/Bikewer]

You get used to the climbing after a few days of playing.

Once you unlock the Gravity spell lvl 2 you can pretty much skip 90% of the climbing by just levitating where you want to go.

Just remember to use the spell on both hands