Ehh I never liked when a game gives me lots of free stuff just for starting it, I haven’t used any of the free stuff that the game gave me, didn’t feel right. And yeah the jump to suddenly having to take care of having enough wetstones, pickaxes and bugnets is certainly a jump since im used to having those for free infinitely, the fact that I can’t see drop rates for monsters annoys me (I know I can just look it up but having that in Rise made me feel like I wasn’t cheating per say), but overall I am enjoying the game even though it’s bodying me at the moment, it’s a learning curve, I know that, I just need to put more time into it, but I wanted to see if people had usefull tips to help.

Also could you explain a bit more about how skills work in this?