Start your journey to Sandland today with these helpful tips

The world of Sandland, as you may have guessed from the title, is made of sand, and in large quantities. But that wasn’t always the case. The version of the world we see at the start of the game is the result of a massive environmental disaster that has left its land barren and its inhabitants starving for water.

Created by the late Akira Toriyama (“Dragon Ball”) and developed by the talented team at ILCA (One Piece Odyssey), Sandland tells the story of humans and demons coming together to save their destroyed world. This is where you come into play.

As the evil Prince Beelzebub, you, along with his friends Sheriff Rao and the Demon Thief, embark on an adventure in search of a “Legendary Spring,” a spring that may hold the key to restoring water to the region. Along the way you will encounter wild wildlife, fierce mercenaries, challenging soldiers and giant scorpions, to name a few. You’ll also meet lots of friendly faces who would be happy to help you on your trip.

Oh, and there’s a tank. Your own armored chariot will be a key component of your adventure in this action role-playing game, as you’ll learn how to upgrade it, improve its various components, and learn how to master vehicular combat if you have any hope of saving the world.

To get you started Sandland, we’ve put together a few starting tips to help you get your adventure on the right track. We hope these starters get you started on this epic adventure, from understanding where to spend skill points to your city’s population to revealing what’s going on with all those water supply points.

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Invest in Sheriff Rao early

A big aspect of SandlandThe early game involves a lot of battles with your tank. Spending skill points on Sheriff Rao can help make many of these encounters much easier, as his active skills all help deal damage, while his passive skills serve as buffs to those skills. He can also help land a few blows in close combat with his tonfa attack.

One of our favorites was his Vehicular Warfare ability paired with VW: Upgrade. This is incredibly useful as it creates an additional mini tank that can help draw fire and deal damage. In many cases you are often outnumbered and surrounded, so this comes in handy. We also liked poison gas, which can confuse and incapacitate enemies – very useful in giving you a target (or a breather) against some of the most difficult enemies.

Level up the thief when he is ready to loot

Completing main quests and side quests will give you nearly the required amount of components and credits to upgrade your vehicles early on, while the game eases you into the mechanics. Later, when you really need to spend some more time in the game’s world, you’ll find that you have to make the most of every scrap you can find – this is where Thief is at its strongest.

While his active skills can help a little in combat – like Boom Box – it is his passive skills like Zeni Ahoy and Pilfering Pro that can help the most when money and increased drop rates from defeated enemies are needed. These passive abilities can result in more loot and your pockets being fuller when it comes to purchasing components from vendors around the world.

Don’t skip the water supply points

As you will soon find out, the world of Sandland is huge and when you’re done with it, you’ll end up exploring almost every inch of it. You’ll also find that your quests require a fair amount of backtracking.

To save time, it is highly recommended that you take every opportunity to activate water supply points that you come across on the way to these objectives. Not only will you refill your life and water gauges, but many of these supply points will also unlock as fast travel locations – which can be very useful in saving you time if your quest requires you to check back with your quest giver for your reward.

Build your city

One of the smartest moves you can make is to improve your city early on so that you have a solid foundation to build on later in the game. The main way to upgrade your city is to persuade NPCs to move in and open shops frequently. The NPC recruitment quests and the shops they run will help you obtain materials or weapons needed for vehicle upgrades.

Once the stores are set up, then make it a habit to check in with the store owners as they may have some requests that you need to attend to. Completing these quests will improve the Shop Seller’s inventory with useful and valuable items that will help you in the game.

Talk to dealers and salespeople often

To create new vehicles or improve their components, you need to craft. Lots of tinkering. This process requires different types of materials and components, which you can obtain either by exploring the wasteland or by purchasing them from vendors such as those at the Junkers Market (or later in your city if you have upgraded it a bit). are found.

Both peddlers and traders will have their inventory updated throughout the game. So if you are missing Raptor Alloy or a frame component to build a new vehicle, these are the people you want to contact. Some are even open to trading materials such as ore for scrap components. In short: talk to everyone. You never know what they will offer – at a certain price, of course.

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We hope these tips help you on your early journey into the epic adventure of AtNd country. You can pick it up today for Xbox Series X|S here in the Xbox Store.