Soulmask guides
Guides grouped by the stage of play they help with, from the first bonfire to the Floating Island. Each states the patch it was checked against.
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Beginner guide for 1.0
What to do in your first Soulmask hours on Cloud Mist Forest in 1.0 - mode and difficulty, bonfire, first mask nodes, first three tribesmen and the first guardian.
Game modes compared - Survival, Tribe, Warrior, PVP and Casual
How Soulmask 1.0's five modes differ in tech costs, invasions, death drops, durability, tribe caps and Mimicry Ascension, and which mode fits a first save.
Levelling - Awareness level cap, EXP settings and tech points
How Soulmask levelling works in 1.0: Awareness level cap 60, which EXP multipliers exist, what possession levels, how to get more tech points from tablets, and PVP level caps.
Bronze, iron and steel - smelting recipes and furnaces
How to make bronze, iron and steel ingots in Soulmask 1.0: copper-tin ratio, carbon powder for iron, meteorite and coking coal for steel, and what each furnace costs.
Progression route: bronze, iron and steel by Awareness level
The Cloud Mist Forest route in Soulmask 1.0 from Awareness 1 to 60: which tech unlocks at each level, which guardian to fight between them, and the full material bill for your first steel ingot.
Tribe
How to recruit tribesmen in Soulmask and raise the tribesman limit
Deter a barbarian below 20% HP, keep them alive until Recognition reaches 500, then recruit. How the limit rises from 3 to 18 per player and 50 per tribe.
Best tribesmen in Soulmask: who to recruit first and which talents to keep
Which Soulmask tribesmen to recruit in 1.0: the first five jobs to fill, the titles worth keeping for each job and for fighters, tribe resistances by biome, and what the Training Ground cannot fix.
Tribesman quality, professions, talents and the Training Ground
Which profession sets a tribesman's high proficiency caps, how quality, titles and defects work, and how the 1.0 Training Ground teaches talents and weapon masteries.
Tribesmen not working - jobs, roles and fixes
How 1.0 tribe roles, work stations and yards keep Soulmask tribesmen busy, the seven states that stop work, and fixes for stuck, idle or sleeping tribesmen.
Masks and combat
Masks guide - Mimicry, mask level, Ascension and Red Crystals
How Soulmask masks work in 1.0 - switching masks, mask nodes and level 10 skills, Yellow Crystals for Mimicry, Mimicry Ascension, Restrictive Modules and Red Crystals.
Mask reference
All 19 face masks: source, Mimicry mode and level-10 skill.
World and bosses
Guardian bosses - summon items, order and levels
How to summon Soulmask temple guardians in 1.0 - Worship Containers, Fierce, Berserk and Doom tiers, summon levels, a boss order for both maps, and the two Central Core fights.
How to beat every Soulmask guardian: gear, weapons and counters
Fight plans for all eight Soulmask temple guardians and both Central Cores in 1.0: the gear tier, weapon, mask, resistances and tribesmen each fight needs, and the attacks that kill most players.
Shifting Sands guide - start, regions, World Portals and map-locked items
How to start the Shifting Sands DLC map, what a World Portal copies between saves, which items only work on one map, the regions in order, ore locations and sandstorm protection.
Ships guide - building a flying ship in Shifting Sands
Soulmask ship hulls from Thatch Boat to Shark-class Flying Ship with their recipes, how to get anti-gravity engines, power crystals, weapons, crew seats, linking and Workshop blueprints.
Resource locations - copper, tin, iron, clay, obsidian and more
Where to find copper, tin, iron, coal, clay, salt, sulfur, obsidian, meteorite, crystal and cotton on the Soulmask Cloud Mist Forest map, plus alpacas and early base spots.
Taming guide - alpaca, llama, jaguar, elephant and Shifting Sands mounts
How to tame mounts and farm animals in Soulmask 1.0: which trap each animal needs, raising young, saddles, breeding pens, animal caps, and the new Shifting Sands mounts.
Boss reference
Guardian summon tiers, tribal priests and ruin guardians on both maps.
Achievements
All 121 Steam achievements with objectives and unlock rates.
Servers and updates
Co-op and dedicated server guide - tribes, ports and settings
How Soulmask co-op, tribes and private servers work in 1.0: host rules, tribe ranks, dedicated server install, launch parameters, ports, save paths and the most useful settings.
Patch notes since 1.0 - what changed for players
Every Soulmask update from the 1.0 launch to patch #25 on 12 November 2026, with the gameplay changes that alter tribesmen, masks, bosses, ships, modes and servers.
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