If you’re a brand new player thinking about playing Black Desert Mobile, then you’ve come to the right place. In this post we’ll go over your first days as a new BDM player. A lot of this information is covered more deeply in other posts, so we’ll have additional links if you’re looking for more information.

Black Desert Mobile is releasing world wide on December 11th. On December 9th, you should be able to install the game and make your first character. When doing this, you will be able to choose your Family Name, which is the main name that people will see. BDM is currently in a soft launch period, this means people in specific countries can currently play on a server. When the game goes to global launch, more servers will be added and you will be able to play with people starting fresh characters.

One of the first posts you will want to read is our New Players Tips and Tricks post. Some of these will make sense, some won’t. Just read them, play a while, then come back and read them again. The game’s quests are pretty linear, just play through the quests, explore, build your camp, etc. There’s always ways to improve and new things to try.

As a new player (especially if you are F2P), you will probably want to start with the Witch or Ranger class. These are good farming classes which we will cover a little bit later.

Pets are important. If you’re F2P, save your Black Pearls to get a Pet. If you’re going to pay, buy a Pet.

Make sure to join a Guild as soon as you can. Find a guild that aligns with your play style. Once you join a guild, you have a 24 hour cool down before you can participate with the guild. If you leave, you get a 24 hour cool down there too. So you could potentially have a 48 hour cool down of not being able to do guild activities. Try not to guild hop.

At a certain point, you will unlock Auto Battle (farming). This allows you to battle without having to do everything yourself. A lot of people will run an emulator on their computer when not playing and have it run Auto Battle all the time. Your other option is to use Black Spirit Mode which can also play the game when you’re not playing.

As you’re working on your camp, you will need to hire Workers. Make sure you only hire green or blue workers that have Vitality at the beginning of the game.

You’ll want to make sure you find and tame horses and then breed them. This will make better tiered horses that can carry more weight. That’s right, you can store items on your horse. This is pretty important.

At this point you should have a pretty good grasp of the game. Be sure to keep checking our New Players section for new posts as we are constantly adding more content. Also make sure you review our New Player Tips and Tricks a few times, we keep that updated and it’s good to review in case something just clicks.