Arcane101 Beginner Guide: What to Do First and What to Redeem in Your First Session

Quick answer

Pick a school of magic, build your deck, then work through the earliest objectives: finish your first quest, clear the Forest, own a mount and hatch a pet. Once the tutorial is finished, you can already redeem codes at the main menu for free Race Rerolls.

• Earliest objectives: First Lesson (finish your first quest), Bramble Breaker (clear the Forest), Saddled Up (own a mount), Companion (hatch a pet).
• Two prerequisites for codes: join the Lucky's Pals Roblox group and complete the tutorial.
• The 'Enter a code' box sits in the main hub menu, under the Update Logs button — codes give Race Rerolls.

Arcane101 is a co-op card RPG for 1–5 players by Lucky's Pals, inspired by Wizard101: you pick one of 8 schools of magic, build the deck you'll duel with from 150+ spells, and fight your way across 8 lands — solo or with up to four other players. Your first session has a clear shape, and it already includes a free reward: codes that give Race Rerolls.

Your first steps

The official description frames the start of the game as three things: choose your school, build your deck, then progress through the lands. The game's milestone badges confirm what those early objectives look like in practice:

Checklist

• Choose your school of magic

  The first decision the game hands you — one of 8 schools.

• Build your deck

  Named directly alongside choosing your school in the official description; your deck is what you take into the game's card duels.

• Finish your first quest

  The First Lesson badge is awarded for finishing your first quest.

• Clear the Forest

  The Bramble Breaker badge is awarded when you clear the Forest.

• Own a mount and hatch a pet

  Saddled Up (own a mount) and Companion (hatch a pet) round out the earliest milestone objectives.

Losing early duels is part of the design — the official description says it plainly: 'Every defeat teaches you something.'

Redeem your first codes

Codes are the free reward you can unlock in your first session: they give Race Rerolls. Two prerequisites come first, and both are part of the documented redemption flow:

• Join the Lucky's Pals Roblox group before anything else — the official description ties code redemption to the group.
• Complete the tutorial. This one is a hard gate: the redemption screen does nothing until the tutorial is finished.

With that done:

1. Return to the Main Menu — tap M.
2. Find the 'Enter a code' box in the hub menu. It sits below the PLAY / Universe Hub / Appearance / Update Logs menu buttons, directly under Update Logs.
3. Paste your code into the box and click Redeem to collect your Race Rerolls.

What you get: a race reroll randomly changes your character's magical lineage, granting a fresh combination of unique traits, cosmetic variations and passive stat bonuses. If the lineage you start with doesn't suit you, rerolls are how you draw a new one (races, race rerolls).

Which code should you type? The list of working codes is time-sensitive, so older lists go stale. Codes released for Arcane101 so far include RELEASE, THX4LIKES and STOPRELEASINGBUGSPLS — our codes page keeps the current working list and what each one pays out. The official description also points players to the developer's Discord server for a list of codes and patch notes.

Between fights: pets, mounts, trading and the AFK World

The loop isn't only battles. Between fights, Arcane101 lets you raise a pet, ride a mount, trade with other players, or rest in the AFK World — and two of those tie straight into the earliest badges: Saddled Up for owning a mount and Companion for hatching a pet. We cover each activity separately in our pets, mounts and AFK World guides.

Where your first session leads

The Forest is only the start of the run. 11 bosses stand along the way across the game's lands, from Bramblehorn in the Forest to the Abyssal Warden at the bottom of the raid.

You don't need to see much of that in your first session. Get the tutorial finished, redeem your codes, complete the first quest and start pushing into the Forest — the rest of the road will still be there. When you're ready to plan past day one, the progression guide and combat guide pick up where this page stops.