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
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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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 your own colony
Founding a colony with the colony sign. · 9 min
The region server
Listing your land in the game and getting its own realm page. · 9 min
There are nearly two hundred more on our YouTube channel, including a walk-through for almost every station and every release since 2019.