Mammoth's NeoSteam Blog: "Neo Community" Event (Week 3) Winner!

Thank you, NS Team!

It is with great pleasure for me to announce that Mammoth's NeoSteam Blog is a winner of the Official NeoSteam "Neo Community" Event (for Week 3)!

Below is a picture of the Official NeoSteam Website Announcing my blog as one of two winners that won the NeoSteam "Neo Community" event for week 3:

This is the full list of the prizes I received for this momentous occasion:
A prize box containing:

• A nice, rare (since upgraded to +4) "Sylphid" sword:

• 5 Pieces of Silver Serillone
• 5 Pieces of Silver Seril Stones
• A 3 day Master of Battle (I had another one on its last day at the time)
• 100 Water of Life (+2000 HP, has the added benefit of allowing me to use my main potions at the same time)
• 50 High Enriched Feed (Restores my pet's feed guage to 100%)
• AND also recieved 500,000 Gold (that I immediately put into the warehouse :P)

I shall make a small special image or logo of this momentous occasion and put it on the sidebar at a later date.

In the meantime, I shall be endevouring to continue submitting my opinions, guides and news from the world of NeoSteam, and will soon be unveiling the first sections of the NS-FLD in the next few days. Be sure to keep an eye out for it :)

Thanks for reading and have an exteremely nice Steam day!

Mammoth's News Summary: A Milestone, and a busy day...

It's been a busy day with my Rogwell characters...

Heres a quick summary of what I've been up to today:

Mammoth reached his first major milestone - level 31 while leveling in rear land - a prestigous occasion because now he can use his +5 S1 Scythe (with -5 level requirement and a 20% attack speed bonus), and can now kill the more experience giving monsters in the factory :P.

Also my God Caller ManaAngel has also been busy in Rear Land - starting at level 13, she now is level 24, has a level 31 saber, and is looking forward to her +3 S1 level 36 staff when she gets there :P.

At the top of the post, the screenshot taken while I was leveling with ManaAngel, shows off the powers (and melding ability) of summons (which makes God Callers so popular.)

Mammoth's NeoSteam Screenshots: #1: "Cloning"

"I let you clone me and all I got was a measly 206 gold?!?"

Coming Soon: The Mammoth's NeoSteam Blog's "NeoSteam Fansite Link Depository (NS-FLD)"

In the spirit of a united NeoSteam community, as well as offering my opinions and guides, I shall be building a collection of links to other various NeoSteam fansites, blogs, forums, etc. and bringing them to a single list of links contained on a certain post. The link to the NS-FLD shall appear in the next couple of days, and will be linked in the right hand sidebar.

Please note that due to the current "Neo Community" event (Due to end June 20th), I shall not be adding any specific links to the NS-FLD until after that date, with the exception of official/corporate sites and any sites offically announced as Neo Community winners.

Until then, I shall be collecting links and storing them until a later date. Depending on personal commitments due to take place in the next couple of weeks, I shall try to strive to update the NS-FLD at least once a week. If you would like to submit a site over to the NS-FLD, I shall be posting ways of being able to do so in the next couple of days.

Thanks for reading and have a Steam day!

NeoSteam Guide: Methods of Transport: The Steamrider (Rogwell) Part 1

At level 20, and after completing a certain level 20 quest, you will gain a new method of transportation - the Steamrider!


After completing the quest you will gain a basic "Mass Produced Steamrider". This Steamrider has no special features, but can be driven around, making you move slightly faster. Using the Steamrider will slowly drain your NeoSteam tank and can only be used outside of a town.

The good news is that it can be upgraded. By talking to one of the "Craft" NPCs at the manufacturing area of a town, for 150,000 gold, you can upgrade it to a "Mine Rider".

A Mine Rider is a specialised level 20 steamrider that allows you to mine certain minerals, such as the crystals outside of Ganedine Town in Rogwell (near the coordinates 54322, 10091 as shown in the picture above). Talking to the NPC near a mining spot will allow you to find out where the other minable areas are.


Coming Soon: Part 2 covers how to use the mined materials, as well as a list of locations of minable resources.

NeoSteam Guide: Mammoth's NeoSteam Tips (v1.0)

Here are a few tips I learned while playing NeoSteam (up to the 2nd Of June). As I have created Rogwell characters, some of the locations mentioned in these tips may be different for Elerd players. Some of these tips may also be inaccurate as some need reconfirmation. If anyone can tell me these locations or assist me with confirmations, I will give credit to them here. Leave me a comment with any information if you can assist me, but please note that comments are moderated and may not appear until I review them every Sunday.

1: When playing a Mage try to cast the first magic spell as far away from the target as possible. You can get a few magic spells in by the time your target gets close enough to you to attack you.

2: If you have a lot of SP, but not enough TP, remember you can train at the Skill Trainers on the outskirts of each town at any time. You will get 300 TP every 5 minutes, as long as you don't move. This is particularly useful for Mages. Remember that you will get booted out of your skill training if you idle for a long time, so be sure to check up on your character and restart the skill training once in a while.

3: You can reset your skills and get back your TP and SP by going to the Skill Master NPC in Gretycos Castle. You can (unconfirmed) only do this up to a maximum of 10 times.

4: Animators, Artifact Makers, Engineers and Smiths can combine/hammer socketed weapons and armor - simply scroll further down the combine/hammering manufacturing machine lists to find them.

5: If you are strapped for cash after level 16, you can save money at low levels by upgrading your existing job specific weapons/armor to +4 with Bronze serillone/ Seril Stone (if the item level requirement is under or equal to level 16) at the manufacturing machine in town. The total defense/attack bonus will be nearly the same as the base stats of level 21 equipment at the armor/weapon selling NPCs, allowing you to save up for the weapon/armor at level 31.

Remember that serillone/Seril Stones have a chance to fail and your weapon/armor may lose some or all of its + bonuses.

Afterwards, you can forge 15 Bronze serillone/Seril Stones into Silver serillone/Seril Stones at a refining machine in town. These improved items remove the level restriction, allowing you to upgrade any item. These items also allow you to upgrade past +4.

If you go further, find the lootable-only Gold serillone/Seril Stones. These stones have the abilities of Silver serillone/Seril Stones, but if the upgrade fails your weapon only loses -2 of its + bonuses.

6: Check the market at the warehouse often for powerful items - you may find find a powerful weapon or armor with decent stats going very cheaply.

7: Remember you can trade between characters on the same account through the warehouse. The only items that cannot be traded are quest items (marked with a Q), or any item that cannot be put into the warehouse.

8: Never forget the power of parties! Although the amount of experience gained from each mob is less than soloing the mobs yourself, you can get through a lot more mobs in the same amount of time. The benefits outweigh the disadvantages in this regard, as you can gain a lot of levels this way.

Parties are particuarly useful in quests that pit you against hard boss mobs (the first being the "Protect the Terawhale" quest.) Unless you are at a very high level, on your own you will find yourself easily defeated (or severely struggling) if you fight alone against these hardened monsters. However, in a party, you can overwhelm an enemy. As long as you are in the party and present at the spot where the fellow party member dealt the final blow, you will get quest credit for the member's kill.

My first impressions of NeoSteam

I'm beginning to like this game already...

This is one interesting game, ever since I first made my first character, Mammoth (a Rogwell Luife Weapon Master) I knew I'd begin to like NeoSteam. I won't go into too much detail, since I've only played for about 2 weeks (2 days after the opening of NeoSteam's Open Beta Test (OBT).

Although while it was bit daunting at first, I managed to get the hang of it. After about two days of figuring out the translation (it is a bit rough at the moment, but I have a feeling that will change) I got into the swing of things. Later on, I also made another 2 characters, ManaAngel, a female Elf God Caller (Mage), and Manadalis, an male Pom Animator (Craftor)



The world is immense, and having two different areas you can level to 15 in the Republic of Rogwell make leveling early was interesting. I went to the Ganedine area because I was getting bored leveling in Cog Beach near Deeren Town, plus I forgot about many of the quests that started in Ganedine :D .

The only thing that slowed me down was trying to find the NPCs for new quests. I didn't realise the usefulness of the Quest Office NPCs since it told me where the general area for the quests NPCs were. Fortunately I managed to find the majority of the quests up to level 20 (which is my current level), with many thanks to the Quest Office NPCs. I also like the PM messages the quest NPCs gave me when they had a new quest or quest update to offer me, since searching for them can be a hassle sometimes.

In all my opinion is that NeoSteam is shaping up to be a good MMORPG. Many good things lie ahead for NeoSteam once most of its underlying teething problems (such as the translation) are solved...

Coming soon: a detailed look one of NeoSteam's most ancient residents - the Terawhale.