New World: Aeternum News

New World fast travel locations - how to fast travel

If you're fed up with traipsing around the New World map on foot, especially as the new MMO game has eschewed mounts entirely, then you need all the New World fast travel locations to get around efficiently.

You can fast travel from any settlement in the region, but you need to pay up in Azoth in order to make the journey. The amount of Azoth that you'll have to fork over depends on the distance of your travel as well as your encumbrance level. The price can be reduced somewhat, with discounts for the faction that controls the region. If you're just beginning your journey in Aeternum, here's how to choose a faction in New World, as well as tips for getting started with our New World beginner's guide.

Fast travel is relatively simple; just travel to a settlement and open the map to select a settlement you want to travel to and click 'fast travel'. Another nifty, free way to fast travel is by checking into an inn - you can easily return to the inn by selecting it on the map and choosing 'recall to inn'. However, there is a cooldown on this ability, so don't get caught out. Now you know how to fast travel in New World, here are all the New World fast travel locations.

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New World fiber: the best hemp location and how to get linen

Want to know how to get hemp in New World to get fiber and linen? Hemp is a valuable one to gather, and not just for increasing your gathering levels. Hemp can be woven into linen to level up your weaving skill, and the linen can then be used to make clothes and armour. This is a skill you'll use early on, so if you're new to the MMO game, why not check out our New World beginner's guide for some tips to get you started.

Gathering skills are an important part of the game, and you should start leveling them early -you can find out more about this in our New World leveling guide. While you could theoretically go harvest herbs and farm plants to increase your harvesting skill easily, hemp gives you a great amount of early harvesting level experience. You need to increase your harvesting skill significantly to be able to harvest some of the more unusual flora, so it's well worth investing in this skill as soon as possible.

While you could aimlessly wander around the world trying to find the best place to go and gather these tall violet plants, there is one farming location that yields a significant amount of this precious crop. This guide will show you the best New World hemp location.

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New World's bots are hogging the best fishing spots

Where there's an MMO, there are usually bots. They're typically used to make busy work like mining or foraging a lot easier, though many find it pretty frustrating as it makes it harder for them to grind certain spots for items legitimately. New World is indeed an MMORPG, so, as the way of the world decrees, the bots have shown up, almost like a rite of passage.

Players have been taking to the game's subreddit over the past few days to query the odd behaviour of the adventurers they've been coming across in Aeternum (thanks, Icy Veins). Some posts show fishing spots packed with adventurers cycling through their set animations, whereas others reveal some mining for rocks that haven't even spawned yet. Yup, it certainly looks like there are oodles of bots in New World right now.

At the time of writing, most of the bots are busy doing your typical busy work like fishing and mining rocks. You'll notice a few giveaways like the simple names of the characters like "iron1", "iron2", and "iron3", or the fact you can nudge them about without much reaction as their programming evidently doesn't really account for it.

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Jeff Bezos on New World: "After many failures and setbacks in gaming we have a success"

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has praised the success of its recently released MMO New World, which is getting a lot of praise despite players having some major launch issues with the game. However, Bezos has harsh words for previous Amazon games such as Crucible - labelling them "failures and setbacks".

Amazon Game Studios' first MMO New World released earlier this week and has been an immediate success, breaking player count records all over the place but suffering as a result - players are still facing long queueing times, but fortunately Amazon promises to sort those out soon by adding extra servers. It's the complete opposite to Amazon's previous game Crucible, which was shut down for having too few players not long after launch.

Entrepreneur and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos took to Twitter to praise the team at Amazon Game Studios and New World's release, saying "after many failures and setbacks in gaming we have a success" and "so proud of the team for the persistence."

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Where to get New World gems and how to use them

Want to know where to find New World gems? When it comes to creating the best New World PvP builds or PvE builds, gems can boost your stats and make that build even stronger. For example, gems such as the carnelian are great for tank builds, while fire staff builds benefit significantly from an equipped ruby.

But finding them in the first place? That's the tricky bit. They don't turn up reliably - instead, New World gems occasionally appear as rare drops whenever you mine certain minerals in the world. Fortunately, there are ways to boost your chance to find gems, but without these luck-enhancing items, your search may well be fruitless. Thankfully, so long as you're prepared to go into expeditions, there is a different way to get New World gems.

This guide will explain where to find New World gems and what items you need to equip to increase your chances of finding them. We'll also go through how to refine gemstones and what each gem does when you equip them for your loadout.

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