
The Nodes you need to invest in are the following.

The full connection is Velia –> Costal Cave –> Coastal Cliffs –> Balenos River Mouth –> Wolf Hills –> Casta Farm –> Olvia. Nodes also won’t show up until you explore that area. Remember to open up the world map and right click on the node if you can’t find the node manager. The first node you need to invest in is Coast Cave just to the left of Velia. If you try to talk to a Node Manager on a node that isn’t connected, you will be direct to the previous node to invest and connect it.įor this example I am going to do a Velia –> Olvia connection. You always start your first node next to the city and find ways to connect to the next node and so on. Nodes cannot exist alone, they must be connected to one another and to a City. For town/cities nodes some people have reported better merchant prices, more quests etc but you may need to level it up quite a bit for it to work as people have reported no change in merchant prices with just a few levels.

There are also reports that leveling up the resources next to the node by putting in energy can increase the amount of drops that your worker can gather from that resource each time. This will just give you better drops if you are killing mobs under the node influence area. Something to note is that you can invest energy to level up a node. Just keep in mind that if you want to invest in it again you must visit the node manager in person again. You do not lose your contribution points when you uninvest in a node so feel free to uninvest them whenever you decided that you do not need that node anymore. Note that if a node is connected to two or more nodes, you must uninvest in the connected nodes first before you are allowed to uninvest. Investment must be done by person face to face with the manager but uninvesting it can be done remotely over the world map. Now that you have invested in this node, you can uninvest it as well whenever you like. Clicking on it will open up the Node map again and allow you to click on Contribution Invest to invest 2 contribution points (in this example) to the node. When you arrive at the Node Manager, press R to interact with it and you will get a conversation window with the Node Management button. You can then use either auto run or manually follow the direction lines to run to the node manager. What you want to do is press Esc to return to the world map and right click on that node This will draw a line from you to that node’s manager. Then on the top left it will say visit the Node Manager to invest and the amount of Contribution Points required for investment. The first thing you will notice when you click on any node in the map is that it will open up the area of the map specific to the node.

Potatoes are really good resources to gather first because they allow you to make Beer cheaply, which are what you can feed to your workers when they are exhausted and stopped working due to no stamina. This is the first node I pick because it has access to Potatos resources that I can send workers to gather. In Velia you should see your first node location just south of the city. Contribution points are never lost, you can invest and withdraw them freely without any penalty. For me I have 14 available contribution points out of a total of 48 earned. Once you are in Velia, check on the top left corner of your UI to see how many Contribution Points you have.Contribution XP are earned solely via questing and are used for node management and housing. You don’t really need to start worrying about nodes until you arrive in Velia, your first city.
