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How to Get Started in Travian!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Travian!

Once you're in the game you'll see places to click all over the place. Relax. Let's go through them briefly.

At the very top of your screen you'll see several buttons. From left to right they are:

Your resource field	Your Village	Map	Statistics	Reports and In-game Messaging (IGM)

As a new player you have 7 days of newbie protection. This means that no one can attack you for one full week.If you want to know exactly when it expires click on the In-Game Messaging button and look at the date and time of the welcome message. Your 7 day protection period will end exactly 7 days after this date and time. During this time you do not need to worry about protecting yourself so you should concentrate on building your resources up.

Under the buttons you'll see the different kinds of resources:

- Wood

- Clay

- Iron

- Crop

- Crop usage

Below each resource you will see a number like this: 800/800 - Showing you have 800 resources and can hold a maximum of 800 resources. The first number will increase by the amount of resources per hour you are producing and decrease as you use resources by building, and the second number will increase (carrying capacity) as you build Granaries and Warehouses.

The (Crop usage) tells you how much food you are using per hour / how much food you produce per hour. Every unit, resource (except food), and building (except walls and low-level crannies) uses a certain amount of food/hour. Don't build too many troops (units) or upgrade buildings too many times without upgrading your crop fields, in the beginning. If you build too many units and you don't have enough production, your crop will go negative, and your troops will starve. The only way to get more crop from there to upgrade, would be to raid another player, or trade with another player. If you do run out of crop, or if a project would endanger crop levels, you will get the message "Dearth of crop".

You can begin the game by clicking on the button that brings up the resource fields. You should see 4 brown clay pits, 4 green woodchoppers, 4 grey iron mines, 6 yellow crop fields and your village in the centre. Your net production is listed on the right. Clicking on a hexagon will bring up that resource, here it tells you how much your production will increase and the cost of upgrading.

You can only upgrade 1 resource hexagon at a time (if you're a Roman you can also build a building during this time, other tribes cannot). It's a good idea to not only keep your production levels around the same (i.e. between iron, clay, etc.) but also amongst resource fields (i.e. having 3 level 2 fields and 1 level 1 one, rather than one level 4 and 3 level 0, at least for now).

The game itself provides a brief overview of what each building does here.

They also have a FAQ here or here

As we stated earlier you cannot be attacked yet, so building defensive or aggressive buildings, or even a warehouse, or granary is a waste of resources. I recommend you spend this first week building up your resource production.

A Step by Step Example

Let's try increasing your crop production and see what happens: First, find a crop field and click it.You will see the current production for this field (per hour) and what production will be after you increase this field. Below this you will see what resources it costs to increase this field, how much crop the new field will use per hour and how long it will take to upgrade this field.And below this you will see either a green link signifying that you have enough resources to upgrade or a message explaining why you cannot upgrade at this time. Click [[the green link and Travian will start upgrading your field. That's all there is to it!

Welcome aboard, check out the forums, read our FAQ's, search around the game, and visit us in the chat room, there's often people in there.]]