Guide on how to start your Torn Life (Day 0 Guide)
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Thread created on 06:26:51 - 21/03/20 (6 years ago)|Last replied 14:48:26 - 02/06/26 (3 months ago)

Torn is a place where you can rise in the ranks to become a mafia boss. Before you get there you need to start on day 0. Learning the basics and the things you should do as soon as you join so you can start your torn life as a pro newb rather than a mega newb.
Firstly I will introduce you to the basics of how Torn works.
Everyone has a bar on their left (not visible on phone) that will tell you your status. The information bar tells you your current status and the status of your current passive actions and Booster status.-------
The middle bar is your current information. Your username which is hyperlinked and will lead you to your profile, your level, how many points you currently have with a hyperlinked [use] button that leads you to the point upgrade store and your merits with a [use] that leads to the merit upgrades.
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Energy is used for training, reviving and attacking other players. Your energy cap will go up if you become a donator.
Nerve is used for committing crimes and breaking people out of jail. Your nerve cap will go up with more crime xp.
Happy gets used up when you use the gym but gives you a boost at the gym so you train more efficiently. A better house = higher happiness cap. The more happy you have, the more you gain per train.
Life is your HP bar. You can increase your life by leveling up. This is needed for battles.
Chains are a series of attacks that come one after another that is performed with a faction. The higher the chain, the more respect you get for your faction. The more respect you get the more your faction can unlock and upgrade so your faction and you benefit as a whole.
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The mail icon is where you will receive mails or mass newsletter updates from your faction, company or traders.
The (!) leads to your current events and will light up green when you have a new one.
After 2500 your oldest events get deleted automatically so make sure you save any events you don't wan't to lose.
The medal icon leads to the honours, merits and medals page.
There are several honours you can achieve which will give you a bar on your profile where your name gets shown and also gives you a merit you can use to upgrade basic things in your game such as reducing the time it takes to finish an education course, increase your crit rate, nerve, life etc.
The right combo and amount you should use on each depends on your preference and also is up to debate between the more experienced players so tread carefully and ask around for a few opinions before deciding.
The one thing that is universally agreed upon is putting at least 7 merits on education length reduction until you have finished all your education.
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This is the “Areas” of Torn.
Home leads you to home where you can see all your statistics, your current property, your current equipped items etc.
Items leads to your inventory.
City leads to the city which includes a lot of other stuff like the marketplace, real estate agents etc.
Job leads to your job page or if you haven’t got a job, it leads you to the job listing to find out.
Gym is where you train your battle statistics. This is where you should spend most of your torn life in.
Properties is where you can buy properties off of the NPCs, see your own properties and monitor them.
Education is a passive thing that gives you benefits and increases your working statistics. Courses take a while so you should monitor this to go into a new one as soon as your other one ends.
Crimes is where you go to use your nerve.
Missions are unlocked at level 5 not counting the intro mission. These give you points that you can use to buy stuff. Only buy books or weapon mods (and piggy bank).
Newspaper has; comics, job listings, personal listing to find a spouse, comics, updates etc. you should explore it and keep an eye out for updates.
Jail is where you go if you get caught doing a crime you didn’t have the xp for, you can bust or bail out players who are lower than you in level.
Hospital is where you go if you get hit/lose or some other events happen.
Casino is where you go to gamble. Be careful since you can lose big.
Forums is where you got to find guides on how to play the game better, faction and company advertisements and trading posts to sell stuff to traders.
Hall of fame is where you can see how you progress in the game relative to other players as well as where you can go to find nice hitting targets below your level.
My faction/faction is where you go to see your paction page and use meds/join walls/join factions etc.
Recruit Citizens page is where you go to add people to the pyramid scheme.
Under that is competitions/events which happen now and then.
Friends and enemies can be added if you go to a player’s profile and press the +/-. People use this for easy access for targets they want to hit or people they trade with.
---Now that you know the basics you need to know the daily routine you should take.Time to get to business.
Start off by going to education and taking your first course.
These courses take up to a month or more to complete so the sooner you start the better.
It is a consensus between the more experienced players that starting off with Sport science is the best.
This course gives you passive gym benefits so that you gain more per train.
An alternative start is biology > intravenous therapy before doing sport sci. This is so you can unlock the ability to use blood bags which are cheaper than morphine with more benefits like the ability to hospatlize yourself.
Each unit will cost you money (unless you own a certain stocks block) and time but will give you working stats and perks.
After sport science it’s up to you which path you want to take.
I'd suggest looking through each course to see the benefits they bring before deciding.
Your game play will dictate what you choose next so you should look into what each does to know where it might lead you.
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These are some guides you can look through if you want to read more about education:
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#!p=treads&f=61&t=15973034&b=0&a=0
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#/p=threads&f=61&t=15928500&b=0&a=0&start=0&to=16177687
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Next up: Get a basic level job.
https://www.torn.com/forums.php#!p=threads&f=61&t=15908903&b=0&a=0
This is the answer to all the basic jobs.
https://www.torn.com/joblist.php#!p=main
Get the grocer or the army job to begin with.
When you hit level 3 you can join player run companies.
Best way to decide which one you wish to join is by looking through the wiki
https://wiki.torn.com/wiki/Companies
and seeing what perks each company provides.
As a newbie your work stats won't be great though, so you should just join whatever job you can and build up your work stats so you can aim higher.
The forums has a company recruitment thread where you can post your work stats,
or you can go through the job listings page in the newspaper and mail directors in companies with 7 stars or under to see if they will take you and give you free trains.
Sweet shops are your best bet. You most likely won't get payed however once your company reaches a certain star amount you will be able to exchange job points for perks.
For example, in a sweet shop you will be able to exchange 15 job points for an energy can which you can then sell for a profit to build up your networth from early on.
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Next do the introduction missions.
These will run you through the basics on how to attack.
With your mission points you should also purchase a piggy bank.
This is a one time vault. It has no limit however once you break it open, it will disappear
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When you are done with that go toand train
each time.
How to judge what to train when?
Each gym has a different “point” or gain for each of their things.
The gym point is the gym's focus. If you train the stat the gym likes the most you will gain more per train for training that stat over training any other stat.
The more your stats rise the more you gain per train up until 50mil each stat. This is called a stat cap. At this point happy affects you less
The best training method is to focus on that one training aspect that the gym boosts the most.
So for example; when you unlock your second gym focus on training defence because it is 2.8 while the rest are 2.4.
(Thanks Hank for the charts xd)
(ADVANCED STRATEGIES)
The best training method is to- purchase a donator pack which makes your energy capacity 150 and you get 5 E per 10 minutes rather than per 15 minutes. (This costs IRL money or 25 mil in game money)
- take xanax 2-3 times a day (Each Xan costs roughly 840k so this might not be realistic at this early stage but consider using it later on.) each Xan gives you 250 energy (this goes above your energy cap). It will give you -30% battle stats until it wears off and if you take too many you will become addicted and need to go to rehab in Switzerland which is only unlocked at level 15 so consider waiting until then to start actively taking Xanax. (if your addiction is too high you will be kicked out of your education course and out of your user run company)
- Only rehab at -4% addiction and only rehab up to the second last bar.
- Buy a refill with 25 points. This is will refill your energy to the cap and will give you extra energy once per day to train more.
Amount is based on your booster’s limit and efficiency.
My recommendation is stacking to 900e and using 5 edvd. Joining a 10* adult novelty company is ideal.
This is what they call a "Happy Jump"
The best method to training is simply being active.
Torn is an idle game but it is also one that if you want to do really well in you got to put the time in.
This can be checking in on Torn every 3-4 hours to use up your Nerve and Energy or it can be more if you want.
A good quote about Torn is that it's a marathon not a sprint.
---Next up; Use your Nerve
Starting out you should only do the search for cash ones.
The more crimes you do, the higher your crime XP will be. If you commit a crime your xp is too low for you will be jailed and lose more crime xp. Stick to the lower nerve crimes until your natural nerve upgrades to a 20 then start selling/stealing.
Aim for stealing jacket crimes which has 0 chance of getting you jailed and therefore is a 'safe' crime
How to earn money at the start:
Go to Bits ‘n’ Bob and buy 100 beer or 100 single red roses (although i'm not too sure whats the most profitable after beer). Sell those to a trader or on the item market. Every day.
Beers restock every 15 minutes and they go fast so you better be vigilant
---https://www.torn.com/forums.php#/p=threads&f=61&t=16034448&b=0&a=0Important tool/links/guides
Baldr’s guide is the best guide for newbies. Use it and read it. It will help you out a lot.
His guide goes into a lot more detail than mine and has a list of targets you can use to level up.
http://tornempire.boards.net/thread/10/kitmans-guide-level-15-days
How to level up.
Or just, keep on hitting users and "leaving" them. Mission targets are good for this.
the higher the level, the faster you level up.
Getting to level 15 is important. At level 15 you unlock the ability to fly which is where you can start earning money for real.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/doctorn-for-torn/kfdghhdnlfeencnfpbpddbceglaamobk
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/doctorn/
Doctorn. The greatest tool in Torn.
https://tornstats.com/index.php
A good way to monitor your growth.
https://doctorn.rocks/travel-hub/
For when you reach level 15.
GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!
I have also made a discord where you can ask older and more experienced users questions as well as create yourself a community that will make playing torn a lot more fun:
https://discord.gg/JfANMfnLast edited by Roxy on 01:32:21 - 02/04/20 (6 years ago)
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Posted on 10:18:37 - 21/03/20 (6 years ago)Post link copied to clipboard Copy post linkVery good with the basic info for newbies, maybe include that the top bar on mobile can be scrolled (left-right) to access the different options, I know a few ppl who didnt realise this at first and ppl kept refering them to places they couldnt find
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Posted on 02:11:00 - 22/03/20 (6 years ago)Post link copied to clipboard Copy post linkI don't like learning very much, but I would come back to learn here
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Posted on 23:24:36 - 28/03/20 (6 years ago)Post link copied to clipboard Copy post linkfundamental info, straight to the point. Good guide
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Posted on 04:59:56 - 29/03/20 (6 years ago)Post link copied to clipboard Copy post linkExcellent guide Roxy

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Posted on 08:47:00 - 01/04/20 (6 years ago)Post link copied to clipboard Copy post linkThis was helpful asf thanks sir
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If you like it contact me on discord.
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Posted on 15:35:33 - 30/04/20 (6 years ago)Post link copied to clipboard Copy post linkHelpful
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