Like most other survival games on the market, Windrose starts out with your character having nothing to their name. In order to survive on your new deserted island, you need to scavenge resources around the beach and jungle to make a base and essential tools, gear, and items. While you won't have any issues with this for the first hour or so, you'll quickly run into an inventory space problem in Windrose.

The default inventory in Windrose is extremely limited, only giving you 16 slots of space (not including your character action panel). So, this begs the question: How do you increase your inventory space in Windrose?

How to get more inventory slots in Windrose

Your inventory space in Windrose is mostly tied to what "Accessories" you have equipped on your character. If you open the inventory screen, you can see the Accessories tab in the middle of the screen, right below your armor items.

The standard Workbench is one of the first base objects you'll build in Windrose. It serves as a basic way to craft some beginner supplies and can be a real lifesaver when it comes to healing yourself and building some extra fast travel points around the gigantic map. As you continue to progress in Windrose, you'll be able to build more and more niche Workbenches to craft specific items and gear.

However, as you'll quickly learn, each Workbench you build starts at level one and can be upgraded to higher levels to craft more advanced items. Windrose doesn't do a great job of explaining how these Workbench upgrades work, though, so let's see how you can get to level two and beyond.

Upgrading a Workbench in Windrose

If you go into a Workbench's menu by interacting with it, you can hover over any of the craftable items to see what level your Workbench needs to be to make that item. For example, a shovel at a standard Workbench only requires it to be level one, but Wooden Planks require a level two station, as you can see in the screenshot below.

There's no getting around it, Windrose's map is massive. Even after getting your first ship and doing 20 knots on the open seas, it still takes several minutes to reach most main story destinations. It's even worse when you have a fetch quest, as you might have to go somewhere and then head back to another location that requires valuable time to sail to. Luckily, Windrose does offer a fast travel system, allowing you to immediately traverse between two places.

However, the fast travel mechanic is limited and slightly confusing in Windrose, so allow us to break down what you need to do to make it work.

How fast travel works in Windrose

Within the first hour of Windrose, you'll be introduced to the fast travel system. If you search the shipwreck salvage on the beach where you washed up after the opening sequence, you'll find a Fast Travel Bell. This is the key item in constructing a Fast Travel Point, which is where you need to be to fast travel around the map.

Combat in Windrose focuses on two main weapons: swords and guns. During your travels, you'll stumble across different variations of these weapons, such as halberds, clubs, muskets, blunderbusses, etc., but your strategy with them remains largely the same throughout the game. While melee weapons require no additional items to use, guns are another story. You'll need both bullets and gunpowder to make your guns work in Windrose, and gunpowder is much more difficult to come by.

Gunpowder can be looted and crafted, but you'll find one of those methods is far simpler than the other. We'll explain more about how to get gunpowder in the guide below.

Where to get Gunpowder in Windrose

While gunpowder can be crafted, you'll have a much easier time looting it in the first several hours of Windrose. Crafting gunpowder requires advanced gear, a high level, and a large chunk of the map to be explored, so it's best to learn how to loot it for the early game.

In a pirate game like Windrose, your character's life revolves around your ship. It's the primary way you navigate the world, allows you to engage in naval combat for rare loot, and serves as a constant form of progression. However, at the start of Windrose, you're a captain who's left without a ship, forcing you to survive without one for some time.

As you might expect, the game's story involves you acquiring a ship, but it doesn't happen automatically. Find out more about how to get your first ship and start upgrading it in Windrose in the guide below.

How to get the first pirate ship in Windrose

Technically, you can actually get your first ship fairly early on in the main story. After you complete the tutorial mission, you'll find Dr. Galen, whom you met in the opening minutes of the game, at your base. He survived the boarding of your previous ship and found his way back to you in the hopes of getting a crew together to go after the pirates who shot you.

Windrose is a new pirate survival game that allows you to tackle the pirate world as a lone captain or with a crew of your friends in online co-op. Multiplayer is fully supported, but there are some rules and restrictions that you'll want to know about before you attempt to play with your friends.

Below, we'll go into everything you need to know about co-op multiplayer in Windrose.

Co-op multiplayer explained in Windrose

For starters, Windrose only supports online co-op, meaning that there is no option for local split-screen co-op. You can only invite players to a world if they join on a different PC and they're connected to the internet.

On the surface, Windrose might not look like an overly challenging survival game. You're a pirate who crash-lands on an unknown island, and all you have to deal with for the first several hours are dodo birds, boars, and some drowned zombie-type enemies. However, as you'll quickly learn, combat in Windrose can be extremely difficult, as enemies can deal massive amounts of damage to you in just a couple of hits.

To avoid seeing the death screen and having to run miles to retrieve your lost items, you want to ensure you're stocked up with as many healing items as possible. You can see a full breakdown of every way to heal in Windrose in the guide below.

Best ways to heal in Windrose

Unfortunately, at the start of Windrose, your options for healing items are pretty limited. In fact, the game doesn't give you any way to heal yourself for free off the bat, as you need to craft and loot ways to restore your HP for the most part.

There was a ton of content added with the Free Lanes update in Starfield, but one of the most intriguing new items is the Moon Jumper vehicle. Unlike the REV-8, the Moon Jumper is meant to be flown in the air, as it has a much higher boost threshold. It's truly enjoyable to drive, as you can soar above planets and moons and quickly get around to different POIs.

However, the Moon Jumper isn't something you can just buy from a Ship Service Technician or even through the Terran Armada DLC. Instead, you have to go out and manually search for the vehicle yourself in Starfield.

Moon Jumper location in Starfield

Unfortunately, there's no one specific answer as to where you can find your own Moon Jumper. Bethesda has made the vehicle a random encounter throughout the Settled Systems, making it difficult to find if you're not on the lookout for it.

The Terran Armada expansion in Starfield didn't just deliver a new questline to complete and enemies to fight. It also introduced some new crewmates to the game, allowing you to expand your crew and assign new members to your spaceship, outpost, or party. As with every other crewmate you could previously recruit in Starfield, all of the new options come with their own set of skills, unique dialogue, and backstories.

However, some of the new crewmates in the Terran Armada DLC aren't simply handed to you, so you'll have to go out into the Settled Systems and recruit them for yourself.

As a warning, there are slight spoilers for the Terran Armada story up ahead.

After a year and a half, there's finally another DLC expansion available in Starfield. The Terran Armada expansion costs $10 for all non-Premium Edition players, and it comes alongside the Free Lanes Update, which delivers a slew of additional content to the Settled Systems.

Of course, if you own the Terran Armada expansion, you likely want to hop straight into that after downloading the new update. Unfortunately, the expansion isn't automatically added to your mission log in Starfield, as you need to manually start the first quest before you're able to begin fighting the Terran Armada. Below, you can see exactly what you need to do to start the Terran Armada DLC.

How to start the Terran Armada expansion in Starfield

For starters, Starfield recommends players be level 50 or higher to start the Terran Armada DLC. While you can certainly stretch that level requirement and only be around level 35-40, you'll want to be fairly far along in the main story before attempting the expansion.