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# Your first steps
What to do in your first hour on Cobblemon AU.
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Every visit starts in the Hub lobby. From there you can grab a starter, pick up a free kit, and head to Survival to build your first base.
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## 🐾 1. Get started
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### Choose your starter
Press **M** when you first join to open the starter screen and pick your partner.
If you already caught or were given a Pokémon before choosing, put it in a PC so your party is empty, then press **M** again.
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### Claim the Starter kit
Type `/kits` on the Hub and choose **Starter**. You'll get:
* a stone axe, pickaxe and shovel
* a **golden hoe** (this is your land claim tool)
* 32 torches
* 20 Poké Balls
You can claim it again every 30 days.
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### Head to Survival
Type `/survival` to go to the main world. Use `/rtp` to be dropped somewhere random in the wild, then find a spot you like.
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### Claim your land and set a home
Hold the golden hoe and mark two opposite corners of your base to claim it. Then stand inside and type `/home set ` so you can always get back with `/home tp `.
There's more detail in the [FAQ](/cobblemon-au-docs/getting-started/faq.md) under "Claiming land and homes".
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✅ Once your base is claimed and your home is set, you're ready to explore.
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***
## 🏙️ 2. Find your way around the Hub
Type `/warps` for a menu of every location, or use the shortcuts below.
| 📍 Location | 🔎 What it's for | ⌨️ Shortcut |
| ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- |
| 🏥 **Pokémon Center** | Heal your team | `/pokecenter` |
| 🛒 **PokéMart** | Buy and sell supplies. Mega Rings, Z-Rings, Dynamax Bands and Tera Orbs are in the Cobblemon Supplies store at the back | `/pokemart` |
| 📜 **Quests** | Daily and weekly quests for money and crate keys | `/quest_hub` |
| 🎁 **Crates** | Open the crate keys you earn | `/crates` |
| 🎰 **Gacha Machines** | Spend Relic Coins on capsules | `/gacha` |
| 💪 **EV Training Tower** | Train your Pokémon's EVs | `/ev_tower` |
| 🏆 **Hall of Fame** | See who holds each region's Champion title | `/hall_of_fame` |
| 🌿 **Safari Zone** | Catch Pokémon with Safari Balls | `/safari` |
| 🏪 **Player Market** | Rent a plot and run your own shop | `/market` |
| ⚔️ **Gyms** | Challenge the gyms of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh | `/gyms` |
You can get back to the lobby at any time with `/hub`.
***
## ❤️ 3. Keep your team healthy
* Heal for free at the **Pokémon Center** (`/pokecenter`).
* Craft or buy a **Healing Machine** for your base. The recipe is 3 Copper Ingots, 4 Iron Ingots, 1 Redstone Dust and 1 Max Revive.
* Some ranks get `/pokeheal`, which heals your whole party anywhere.
***
## 📖 4. What to do next
* ⚔️ Take on the gyms with `/gyms`. Beat 4 gyms in one region to unlock the End.
* 📜 Pick up a daily quest with `/quest`.
* 🗳️ Vote with `/vote` for free crate keys every day.
* 📕 Claim Pokédex rewards as you catch more species with `/dexrewards`.
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💡 Stuck? Check the [FAQ](/cobblemon-au-docs/getting-started/faq.md) or ask in our [Discord](https://discord.gg/G48XBcSNk4).
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