Flint

Finding flint to get started on Rise to Elysium can be a challenge. The primary source for flint is gravel.

In RTE, gravel is a surface material, like sand or mud, though you may need to do some exploring to find a beach made of gravel.

If you are building near /warp build, over time resources close to the warp will get used up, and you will need to explore further and further away to find gravel.

Exploring the mouths of caves and tunnels may lead you to pockets of gravel, though since you need a pick to dig coal, it is not possible to deeply light up caves when you are just starting out.

Gravel can also be found in pockets underground, and it is possible to dig straight down and sometimes hit a pocket of it, but there is no easy way to get to this hidden gravel since it is under layers of rock that -- catch-22 -- you need a flint pick to dig through or collect. You can dig with your bare hands to try to look for gravel underground, but digging through stone this way is slow, and any stone removed this way will just disappear.