Beginner Guide: Your First Hours in the Labyrinth - The Veil Wiki
A complete first-day walkthrough covering character creation, the stylist, the main questline, early silver, and surviving your first nights.
Overview
The Veil is a horde-based PvE and PvP MMORPG on Roblox, built by BlackstarDW Studios and inspired by Maze Runner, Made in Abyss, and Terraria's Calamity Mod. You wake in a town beside an enormous labyrinth that grows hostile after dark. This beginner guide walks your first hours in order: create your slot, reroll a race, buy the greatsword, clear the early questline, and farm your first silver so the first night becomes a payday instead of a panic.
Watch the Full Beginner Walkthrough
Prefer to see the route before you run it? This detailed beginner guide video covers progression, the maze, classes, and more in eleven minutes, matching the steps below. Pair it with our progression guide once the basics click.
First Hour: Step by Step
Your opening hour sets the pace for everything after it. Follow these steps in order and you will enter your first night with a real weapon, a working quest log, and enough silver to enchant.
Create Your Slot and Meet the Stylist
Spawn in, finish the short tutorial, and find the Stylist NPC in the starter town. You get free race rerolls from daily rewards and codes like RELEASE, so check our race tier list before you lock anything in.
Follow the Main Questline
The main quest is your tutorial by proxy: it sends you to kill thirty monsters, then to the blacksmith. Monster spawns drop hard during the day, so push quest objectives into nightfall when spawn rates spike.
Buy the Greatsword
The blacksmith sells a greatsword that is currently the best weapon for new players. It costs around one hundred silver, which one Scorch Basin trinket loop covers easily.
Enchant and Enter the Deep Maze
Bring a gem, not a tome, to the blacksmith's enchant step. With a ruby or sapphire weapon you can start hunting rare spawns like Ancient Bones at night.
Systems You Must Understand Early
Four systems decide whether your early days feel smooth. Learn them before you chase builds or bosses, because every later system builds on them.
None of these systems punish you permanently, which is rare for the genre. There is no permadeath: death just resets your run and returns you to town to try again.
Day-Night Cycle
Daytime is for quests, shopping, and trinket runs. Night multiplies monster spawns, locks the labyrinth down, and drains sanity, so plan which phase each goal belongs to.
Sanity
Sanity sits under your health bar and drains in the dark maze. Low sanity opens you to extra danger, so campfires and potions are consumables you should always own.
Silver Economy
Silver pays for weapons, enchanting, and class quests. Trinkets and spare equipment sell at the merchant, and our silver farming guide shows a repeatable route that needs zero combat.
Offerings & Sins
Offerings come from bounties and helping NPCs, and they gate class unlocks like the Crusader. Fail those tasks and you earn Sins instead, the opposite currency.
Your First-Day Checklist
Tick these off in order during your first session. Each row is small, but together they unlock classes, enchanting, and comfortable nights in the maze.
Costs shift with patches, and the blacksmith's quest fee already dropped from two hundred silver to one hundred within days of launch. Treat the numbers below as current as of the September update.
| Goal | Where | Cost / Need |
|---|---|---|
| Reroll race | Stylist NPC, starter town | Free rerolls from dailies and codes |
| Greatsword | Blacksmith | ≈100 silver |
| Kill-30 quest | Anywhere in the maze | Night spawning recommended |
| Enchant weapon | Blacksmith | 1 gem + 100-200 silver |
| Offerings x30 | Bounties and NPC rescues | Class unlock step |
| First silver loop | Scorch Basin upper rooms | Trinkets + merchant |
Common Beginner Mistakes
The most expensive mistake is rerolling races blindly until your free stock is gone. Rerolls drip in slowly from dailies, and the tier list shifts with patches, so bank them until you know your build. The second mistake is fighting at night unprepared: spawn rates spike after dark, and running out of sanity deep in the maze turns a farming trip into a long walk home.
Third, new players waste early silver on gear upgrades before unlocking enchanting, then stall at the blacksmith quest with empty pockets. One Scorch Basin loop funds both. Finally, ignore the bestiary at your peril: rare spawns like Ancient Bones and secret bosses are listed there with hints, and quests expect you to use it.
Where to Go After Day One
Once your weapon is enchanted and your quest log is clear, choose a direction. Class unlock quests through the church and trainer gate new kits, the race system rewards patient rerolling, and the deeper maze holds secret bosses with legendary drops.
For a curated path through the mid game, follow our how-to-progress guide, and check the codes page before every session so launch-window rewards never expire unused.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is The Veil good for beginners?
Yes, with preparation. Combat is weave-based rather than parry-based, which most players find more forgiving, and death carries no permadeath penalty. The challenge is navigation and planning, not punishment.
What is the best early weapon?
The blacksmith's greatsword. It outdamages starter weapons for roughly one hundred silver, and the Lost Recipe Book quest later grants a free regeneration weapon that carries you further.
How do I get free race rerolls?
Daily login rewards grant rerolls, and codes add more on top. Redeem RELEASE for six rerolls and a party hat, and VERITYBOMB for three rerolls, then use them at the Stylist.
Why do no monsters spawn during the day?
Daytime spawns drop to almost zero by design. Quest steps that require kills, like the thirty-monster objective, are fastest at night when spawn rates multiply.
How many players per server?
Servers cap at sixteen players. You will share the town and quest hubs with others, but the maze is large enough that you can farm alone when you want to.
Is The Veil pay to win?
There is a Robux shop, including a five-Robux starter pack and PvE bundles with rare weapons, which reviewers criticized. Core progression through quests, farming, and free codes works without spending.
What should I do after the tutorial?
Buy the greatsword, run one Scorch Basin silver loop, enchant a gem onto your weapon, and push the main questline into its first boss. Each step unlocks the next naturally.