Loftia Beginner Guide: Your First Days in Loftia City

Evidence status: Official facts from Qloud Games (Steam page, loftia.gg FAQ, patch notes) plus clearly labelled launch-week player reports. Last checked: November 9, 2026 (Early Access, after Patch Notes #1).

What kind of game is Loftia?

Loftia is a cozy, solarpunk life-sim MMO by the Australian studio Qloud Games. It entered Early Access on November 3, 2026 on Steam and the Epic Games Store for Windows and Apple-silicon Macs. You build a home on your own floating island, farm with sustainable methods, salvage and refine scrap, cook, fish, decorate, adopt pets, and contribute to shared World Projects with every other player on your server.

The Early Access build covers the main storyline across four chapters and three regions: Loftia City, the Hanging Gardens, and Gridfall. The developer targets roughly one year of Early Access before 1.0. See the map and regions overview for what each area offers.

What should you do in your first hour?

The opening is guided. Follow the quest tracker rather than wandering, because early quests hand out the stations and tools everything else depends on.

1. Create your Loftian. Character creation is not gender-locked, and you can change your look later as you unlock outfits.
2. Follow Pebble. The chinchilla mascot leads the opening tour of Loftia City. Players report quest names such as A Fresh Start, The First Sprout, and the City Tour.
3. Learn farming with Hazel. She sells seeds and teaches you to plant, water, and harvest. Your island gets a Shipping Bin that turns crops into Dew, the everyday currency.
4. Salvage with Milo. Milo’s questline teaches the hammer, raw materials, and the Refining Station.
5. Help Ryder and Cliff. Ryder’s first Adventure and Cliff’s glider inspection open up travel. The glider and traversal guide walks through that chain.

How does energy work, and why does it matter so much?

Almost every productive action draws charges from your Battery: hammering scrap, refining, crafting, cooking, and placing furniture. You recharge at an energy station, starting with the Solar Panel on your island. Running dry is the most common early-game stall.

• Recharge before long trips, not after you arrive.
• Upgrade the Battery early. Launch-week guides report the Lv.2 recipe as your current Battery, 10 Scrap Wire, and 2 Mushroom Leather.
• Ask Amani at the Permits Office about placing more energy stations.

Patch Notes #1 (November 6) added an automatic fix for Battery capacity that showed lower than the battery you owned. Full details are in the energy and battery guide.

How do you earn money early?

Loftia uses Dew for most purchases (seeds, recipes, clothing, permits) and Bloom for some building pieces and decorations. Players report that cooking cheap ingredients into dishes before shipping them earns more than shipping the raw crops. The Dew and Bloom money guide explains both currencies and what they buy.

What do new players commonly get wrong?

• Hoarding without storage. Carry limits apply per material type. Process raw materials at the Refining Station so they take less room and are ready for recipes.
• Ignoring permits. Building Permits raise how many beds and stations fit on your island. Without them, your farm cannot grow.
• Treating launch numbers as final. Early Access values change with patches. This wiki marks the version on each page; check the patch notes tracker before relying on an exact number.
• Thinking you must group up. Group play is optional. World Projects and Adventures welcome solo contributions.

Where should you go next?

• Farming guide: planters, seeds, watering, and community farms.
• Crafting and refining: stations, refined materials, and the first recipes.
• Proficiencies and perks: the nine skill lines and how to spend points.
• NPC directory: who sells what and who gives which quests.
• Known issues and fixes: if you are stuck on a loading screen or quest.

Sources and verification

• Official: Loftia on Steam (Early Access FAQ, regions and chapters). Checked November 9, 2026.
• Official: loftia.gg FAQ and What’s in Early Access. Checked November 9, 2026.
• Official: Patch Notes #1, Steam announcement, November 6, 2026.
• Press: TheGamer energy and battery guide, November 3, 2026 (Battery Lv.2 recipe). Treated as a launch-week report.
• Community: quest names reported by several player-written walkthroughs. Verify names in your quest log.