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New World Aeternum Season 9 (7 Quality Of Life Tips): How Can They Improve Your Gameplay?

Posted: Aug 18, 2025 Views: 19

New World Aeternum is perhaps one of the most enjoyable MMORPGs in recent years. It boasts a mystical and captivating immersion similar to The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, and its combat is simple yet enjoyable.

Aside from its often-criticized server issues, it has recently received widespread acclaim from the community. Season 9 has attracted both new players and returning veterans, and knowing a few tips can help you get up to speed quickly.

New World Aeternum Season 9 (7 Quality Of Life Tips): How Can They Improve Your Gameplay?

1. Getting Around

New World Aeternum's map is vast. Before you acquired a mount, you had to run from one quest point to another, and the travel time was often frustrating. While the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, the map design doesn't make it easy to traverse obstacles.

The best way to save time is actually to walk, as moving on roads or paths increases your movement speed by 15% (this bonus also applies to using a mount). This movement speed bonus disappears after a short delay if you leave the path, initiate combat, or use any skills.

2. Mounts

New players must reach level 20 to unlock the mount quest (My Kingdom for a Horse) and obtain their first mount. Completing this quest as early as possible is crucial, as using a mount significantly speeds up your quests and can save you hours on the main quest.

You can further improve your mount's speed by training it, such as by participating in rallies and circuits. Rallies require players to complete checkpoints in sequence, each with a time limit. Circuits, on the other hand, offer a single destination and a free-to-plan route. Completing all quests will bring your riding skill to level 91.

If you're not into horse racing, you can also upgrade your mount by feeding it food, but this method is slow and will waste your New World Aeternum coins if you don't have the ingredients.

3. Inns And Houses

If you're just beginning your journey in New World Aeternum, you'll initially be limited to owning only one house. Once you reach level 15, you'll have a chance to acquire a house, but your chances depend on whether you've earned territory reputation points in your current region.

Inns and houses are important not only for providing a place to rest and store your belongings, but more importantly, after you link your house and inn, you can teleport back to the main settlement for free every 15 minutes, significantly reducing your travel time.

In addition, if your guild controls the settlement, you'll receive a discount when unlocking properties in that region, saving you some New World Aeternum coins.

4. Trade Skills Bonus XP

New World Aeternum has 19 trade skills, which are somewhat similar to the life professions in World of Warcraft. They are divided into 5 gathering skills, 5 refining skills, 7 crafting skills, and 2 temporary skills.

Gathering Skills:

  • Mining
  • Skinning
  • Logging
  • Harvesting
  • Fishing

Refining Skills:

  • Smelting
  • Tanning
  • Stonecutting
  • Weaving
  • Woodworking

Crafting Skills:

  • Armoring
  • Weaponsmithing
  • Jewelcrafting
  • Engineering
  • Alchemy
  • Cooking
  • Furnishing

Temporary Skills:

  • Riding
  • Music

Many players may think that training these skills is a waste of time and therefore avoid them. However, there is a quick way to increase your skills by submitting items earned from training trade skills. After submitting these items, you'll receive a significant amount of Trade Skill XP.

If you have enough New World Aeternum coins, you can trade these items directly at the merchant. You can even max out your trade skills without actually mining for ore.

5. Equipment Hotkeys

In New World Aeternum, different Trade Skills require different equipment. When you spot good ore on the road, you have to stop and change your equipment, which is both cumbersome and time-consuming.

You can set a hotkey to change your equipment quickly, allowing you to respond to different situations fast. The same applies in combat: if your opponent attacks you with fire, and you've prepared equipment with high fire resistance, you'll have an advantage. This feature only works with a keyboard and mouse; it doesn't work with a controller.

6. Chat Commands

You can use the chat box to chat with friends and teammates, exchange information, or initiate a trade, but the chat box is much more than that. Knowing some chat box commands may improve your quality of life:

Chat channel switching commands:

  • /g: Region channel
  • /p: Team channel
  • /f: Faction channel
  • /w <player name>: Private chat channel (use Tab key to autocomplete the player name or channel name)
  • /r: Reply to a private message

Social and Interactive Commands

  • /invite <player name>: Invite a player to join the current team.
  • /dnd: Enables Do Not Disturb mode, blocking private chats and group invites (type /normal again to disable).
  • /hi [message]: Sends a greeting or announcement to everyone in your friends list.
  • /i <player name>: Blocks messages from a specific player.

Functional Commands:

  • /unstuck: Forces your character to be teleported to a nearby safe location when stuck on a scene or terrain (cooldown: 5 minutes).
  • /camp: Quickly places a camp. This cannot be used in fortresses or landmarks, and only one camp can be active at a time.

7. Make Use Tools

To maintain gameplay quality, New World Aeternum's features aren't perfect. If you need information about where to farm or what equipment to use, you can use tools created by other players to find this information.

These are some tips to help you quickly improve your experience in New World Aeternum Season 9. Some of this information may not be new to you, but any helpful information is appreciated.

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