Dinkum: 10 Beginner Tips

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Dinkum is a farming simulator game developed and published by James Bendon, that made waves on Steam on its release in July 2022. The special thing about this game is that it takes its inspiration from farms based in Australia.

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The character's desire to leave behind a place with no passion and fulfilment takes you to a location where you have to start off by building tents and entertaining visitors. Slowly, you'll progress towards building a town and having a permanent residence for people to settle down in.

As an Early Access game, things can and will change before its official release. We will update this article if there are any such changes.

In the beginning, it feels like you're stuck with a certain camera angle, as you can only shift your view from normal to building view. However, you can actually move your camera around as much as you wish — it's just a little tedious.

In other games, you'd hold Shift to run faster, but since there's no such mechanic in this game, you can simply hold shift and move your mouse around to change your camera position. You can change it both vertically and horizontally, even though the vertical one is a bit counter-intuitive.

There are two types of Inventory in Dinkum — one where you can access items quickly by scrolling your mouse wheel or pressing the respective numbers on your keyboard, and one which you can open upon pressing Tab. You can store a ton of items in the latter, but the former is more restricted.

The quick inventory only has eight slots by default, hence, you will have to choose the items you want to put in this one. Ideally, you'd want to put tools, weapons, a campfire, a sleeping bag, eatables, etc. in this