How to start playing SL Colonies Roleplay
Getting the free HUD and meter, and registering through the HUD. · 9 min
Video guides
Learn the game by watching it
Short walk-throughs from the people who build SL Colonies Roleplay: getting started, crafting, farming and hunting, selling what you make, and founding a colony of your own.
New here? Watch How to start playing first — it takes you from the free HUD to your first steps in about ten minutes. Every crafting station also has its own walk-through on its page in Treasure.
Video guides
Getting started
From a brand-new avatar to playing, and what the HUD and meter are telling you.
The HUD, explained in four minutes
A quick tour of the HUD and meter before you go deeper. · 4 min
Every stat explained
Every bar and number on the HUD and meter, and what moves it. · 33 min
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Crafting and levelling
How a bench turns what you gather into something better, and how working a trade levels it.
How to craft
Crafting at a station, start to finish, in under three minutes. · 3 min
The crafting system, explained
How recipes, stations and trades fit together. · 10 min
Experience and the levelling station
Spending crafting experience to gain a level. · 5 min
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Farming and hunting
Working the land and the wild for the raw materials every trade depends on.
Farming: bare soil to harvest in one week
A field followed from bare ground to its first harvest. · 8 min
Field Care 101: soil care for Fine and Choice crops
Watering, liming, testing and mulching a growing field, what the soil kit reads, and how care grades the harvest. · 14 min
Farming in Second Life, part 1
A one-minute short, the first of four. · 1 min
Hunting deer, wolves and rats
The huntable animals, and what they give you. · 8 min
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Fishing
Casting, the fight, bait and live bait, rods and lines, and where the rare fish are each week.
Fishing 101: the whole fishing game
The fishing page and where the rare fish are, the fishing HUD, casting and the fight, bait, live bait and the bucket, the fish journal, and the rods and lines compared. · 31 min
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Trading and selling
Getting what you make to the players who want it.
Sell what you craft for real L$
Packing goods into crates and selling them on the Trading Post. · 29 min
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Colonies and land
Founding a colony of your own, and bringing your land into the game.
Start and run your own colony
The colony sign and the whole colony page: goals, jobs, shared stores, the treasury, members and honors. · 29 min
The region server
Listing your land in the game and getting its own realm page. · 9 min
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