For New Players

[Shaun]

Welcome to BoD!

As soon as you finish creating your character you will be thrown into the game, on a road in the north west part of Karakura town. At this time, you may choose to take the tutorial, but if you want to explore first you can take the tutorial later with the Rusty Shackleford NPC outside the hospital. From where you start, the hospital is directly north and a little to the left and is a great starting point.

In this game you level up by Training on Reiatsu, Attack, and Defense crystals. Later on in the game you may also level up from killing mobs once you have become strong enough, but for now you will want to focus on the crystals... Once you reach Reiatsu Power 500 in your stats you will gain the ability to see spirits, opening up multiple pathways to you. You will need to do this for all races, excluding the human races mentioned in the Human Guide. Quincies, despite being humans, must have the required Reiatsu Power 500 to become a quincy.

To become a shinigami (later vaizard), bounto, or hollow (later arrancar), you will need to go out into the world and die to either a hollow or a shinigami npc. You can easily find hollows up north from the hospital (also where the portal to Hueco Mundo is).

Once you have died, you will have 3 options:

1. Fled Body - Select this to become a soul, allowing you to go on to become a shinigami or bounto. If you become earthbound, you can speak to a shinigami npc to be transported to the Soul Society. Once there you can go left past the bottom of the lake in Rukongai to find Rantao's house to become a bounto, or head north along the path to become a shinigami in the Sereiteii. Please note you will be at least level 45 to get by Jidanbo (you can train in the bar on north west side of Rukongai).

2. Was Consumed - Select this option to become a hollow, and you will be taken to Hueco Mundo and have the option to take the hollow tutorial. It is very straightforward.

3. Ran For Dear Life - Select this option if you decided you rather just stay a human. Head to the mid-east side of the map to find Urahara's shop to pursue these endeavors. Or if you want to become a quincy, seek out Ryuken by taking the elevator in the hospital to the Executive Floor. You will have the option of taking a tutorial for quincy.

Some Points of Interest on Earth:

Hospital - Located in the north west, above where the player spawns on a new character. Safe place to train and you go here to become a quincy.

Vaizard House - To the right of the hospital along the river. Go here to take the vaizard test.

Urahara's Shop - Located in the mid east of the map, past a parking lot and some buildings. Go here to become Inoue or Sado, or to take passage to the Soul Society.

Clothing/Haircutter - Take the road above the hospital to the right to find these. Go here to buy new clothes or a new haircut.

Guildmaster/General Store - Go right from the hospital, past the Vaizard House, until the river turns south and follow it down and the buildings should be right there. Go here to make/upgrade a guild, or to shop at the General Store.

Hueco Mundo Portal - North from the hospital along the mountains.