Getting Started in ER there's a few things to note.
- Spawn is pretty safe
- Dirt and other soft blocks drift into piles, you can walk up slopes of soft materials, but building out of them is tricky.
- When you die, your corpse will spawn with all your stuff in it. Nothing but being buried with a shovel (three wacks) or falling out of the world will destroy them.
- To get started with the challenges / quest like nature of the pack, just fight a monster.