1. How to Start and Choose Your Starter Town in Albion Online

1. How to Start and Choose Your Starter Town in Albion Online

Lymhurst

Albion Online starts on a small tutorial island, designed to introduce the core mechanics: gathering, crafting, and combat. You’ll learn how to collect basic resources such as wood, stone, ore, fiber, and hide, and then use them to craft tools and beginner weapons. You’ll also fight a few low-tier mobs to understand Albion’s ability-based combat system.

At the end of the tutorial, you must choose a starter town. This decision is important for your first hours in Albion, because it determines where you’ll begin your journey on the Royal Continent. Each starter town connects to a nearby Royal City, which later becomes your base for trading, crafting, and PvP activities:

• Forest Cross → Lymhurst
• Highland Cross → Martlock
• Mountain Cross → Fort Sterling
• Steppe Cross → Bridgewatch
• Swamp Cross → Thetford

Don’t worry too much about making the “perfect” choice. Banks are not connected between cities, so if you move, you’ll need to carry or sell your items, but you can always relocate later. The key difference is that each Royal City offers unique refining and crafting bonuses and has access to specific biomes that determine what resources you can gather nearby.

Once you arrive in your starter town, you’ll receive a few beginner quests that help you craft tools, gather resources, and earn silver. After completing them, Albion leaves the rest up to you: there are no main quests. Instead, you’ll set your own goals, whether that’s farming mobs, specializing in gathering, or diving straight into PvP.