DawnCraft Classes Guide: Every Class, Skill and Knowledge Unlock

DawnCraft has 8 Classes, which you’ll pick from a Classes screen the first time you join a world. Each Class sets your max Health and Stamina, and hands you one to three Epic Fight skills along with a starting kit, like the Tank’s Shield and Wooden Morningstar or the Roamer’s Bow and 64 Arrows.

The Class is only where things start though, as most skills in DawnCraft are bought from Guard Villagers with Emeralds, and blocks like the Anvil and Enchanting Table are locked behind Knowledge. You’ll need to unlock that Knowledge through villager quests and the Guild Master’s main quest before those blocks will work for you.

How Classes Work in DawnCraft

A Class in DawnCraft is picked once, from the Classes screen that opens as soon as you spawn in. The screen shows the Attributes, Items and Skills for each one, and there’s nothing to level up afterwards, as everything the Class gives you arrives at the start.

Health is set directly, so a Tank will start with 30 Health (15 hearts) whereas an Astrologer or Ronin starts on 16, which is 8 hearts. Stamina is set the same way and it’s the one bar used for dodging, guarding and paragliding, since Epic Fight and the Paraglider share it in this pack.

Both numbers are able to be raised later on. The Guild Master’s first quest pays out 4 Spirit Orbs, and 4 Spirit Orbs offered at a Goddess Statue will buy either a Heart Container or a Stamina Vessel, which is how you’ll push a low Stamina Class like the Tank up over time.

All 8 DawnCraft Classes

Every Class starts with Roll as its dodge except the Lancer, which gets Step instead. The Health, Stamina, Skills and gear for each one are in the table, with vanilla’s 20 Health as the baseline to compare them against.

The Warrior is the closest thing DawnCraft has to a default Class, with a little more Health than vanilla and the second highest Stamina after the Roamer. It starts with a Leather Chestplate, a Stone Sword and Roll and nothing else, so it’s the Class that relies most on buying skills from Guards early on.

The Berserker starts with a Stone Greatsword and three skills, which ties it with the Ronin for the most of any Class. Berserker (the skill) will add attack damage and attack speed for every 1% of Health you’re missing, and Forbidden Strength lets you keep attacking by spending Health once your Stamina runs out.

It’s the only way to get the Berserker skill as well, since none of the Guard Villagers sell it. The two skills work together, as Forbidden Strength drains the Health that Berserker then turns into extra damage, so this Class wants to be fighting at low Health.

The Tank has 30 Health, the most of any Class, but only 18 Stamina, which is the least. It spawns with a Chainmail Chestplate, a Shield in the offhand and a Wooden Morningstar, and Endurance, which gives stun resistance when you’re hit while preparing an attack, paid for with Stamina.

The Lancer is the only Class that doesn’t start with Roll, getting Step instead, which is a short slide that evades all incoming attacks. Its second skill is Revelation, where blocking, parrying and dodging build up stacks until you’re able to unleash a stunning counter attack. It comes with a Rusted Kettle Hat and a Stone Ranseur.

The Roamer is the ranged Class, starting with a Bow, a Quiver, 64 Arrows and 10 Bread instead of the usual 6. It has the most Stamina in the pack at 42 but only 17 Health, and Emergency Escape lets you cancel your attacks with a dodge and dodge even when you’re out of Stamina.

The Astrologer is the magic Class, spawning in the Wandering Magician Hood and Robe with an Ironbound Tome, which is a spell book from Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks. It’s the most fragile of the eight with 16 Health and 20 Stamina, but it starts with Ender Step, a fast teleport away from danger that makes you immune to physical attacks while it happens.

The Brawler fights with a Glove in each hand and has 24 Health, the second highest after the Tank, with 28 Stamina. Its skill is Hyper Vitality, which lets you use Stamina to fire off your weapon’s innate skill, and it starts in a Chainmail Chestplate the same as the Tank does.

The Ronin carries an Uchigatana and wears the Shōkin Kasegi Hat, on only 16 Health and 28 Stamina. It starts with Parrying, where timing your guard means it uses no Stamina and lets you block ranged attacks, and Technician, which gives Stamina back whenever you dodge right before an attack lands.

Which DawnCraft Class to Pick

For a first run the Tank or Warrior will be the easiest, as DawnCraft’s Pillager camps and early bosses hit hard and extra Health gives you room to learn Epic Fight’s dodge timing. The Tank’s low Stamina is the catch, since every dodge and guard comes out of 18, so it’s worth putting the first Stamina Vessels into Stamina rather than Hearts.

The Roamer and Astrologer are better picked once you know the pack. They have the lowest Health of the eight Classes at 17 and 16, and both of them fight from range, which means getting caught by a group of Pillagers with 8 hearts will go badly.

Remember, the Class only decides your first few hours. Any skill a Class starts with, apart from Berserker, can also be bought from a Guard Villager, so a Warrior is able to pick up Parrying or Ender Step later on and end up playing much like a Ronin or an Astrologer.

Learning Skills From Guard Villagers

Guard Villagers with an exclamation mark over their heads will teach skills for Emeralds. Each one offers a single skill picked at random from the pack’s list, so you’ll need to visit a few villages to find a specific one, and paying hands you a Skill Book which is right-clicked to learn it.

Skills then go into their slots in the Skill Editor, opened with K. There’s a Dodge slot, a Guard slot, a Mobility slot, an Identity slot and 3 Passive slots, so only one Dodge skill will be active at a time whereas passives can be stacked three deep.

Skills From Guard Quests

Some Guards give a quest instead of a lesson, taking a piece of Paper and marking a location on your map with a waypoint. These are the only way to get four of the skills, as no Guard sells Death Harvest, Meteor Slam, Dual Greatswords or Demolition Leap for Emeralds.

Knowledge: Unlocking Crafting Stations

Knowledge is DawnCraft’s lock on crafting stations and a few tools. Right-clicking a Loom, Anvil or Enchanting Table without it just gives the message “You don’t know how to use” that block, and each one needs its own Knowledge unlocked through a villager quest before it’ll work.

Villagers with a quest mark sell the simpler unlocks for Emeralds, usually 10 to 15, though a Fisherman might ask 18. The bigger stations, the Anvil, Enchanting Table, Smithing Table, Smoker and Blast Furnace, only come from the Guild Master’s main quest, a couple at a time as you beat each boss.

The Cleric’s quest is the odd one out, as he wants 3 of the village’s own Guards killed without anyone seeing, and he’ll stop talking to you if your reputation drops too low. The Create unlock covers parts like Cogwheels, Shafts, Water Wheels, the Hand Crank and the Wrench, so a Create build has to wait until Knight Rober is dead.

The Guild Master’s Main Quest

The Guild Master works out of the Guild House that generates in villages, and his first quest is to kill 10 Pillagers, which pays out the 4 Spirit Orbs for a Goddess Statue. After that he’ll send you after the Eye holders in order: the Goblin King, the Corrupted Ogre, Knight Rober, the Nine Tails, the Skeleton Lord, the Sentinel Knight and finally the Fire Giant.

Each Eye you hand back unlocks more of your base. The Lost Eye from the Corrupted Ogre unlocks the Smoker and Blast Furnace, the Rogue Eye from Knight Rober unlocks the Anvil and Create’s kinetic parts, and the Exotic Eye from the Nine Tails unlocks the Enchanting Table and Smithing Table.

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