Welcome to Elderfield Character Creation — Options, Difficulty and Limits

Welcome to Elderfield character creation is a compact set of appearance choices rather than a deep background system. The documented options are hairstyles, outfit colour, skin colour and body type, and the store page sums it up as customising your home and character. What players most often ask for is not more sliders but a clearer preview, and that request is visible in the game's own Steam discussions.

The Documented Options

A Steam thread asking for more gender-specific characters describes the creator as offering hairstyles, outfit colour, skin colour and similar choices. Launch-day footage adds the controls themselves: you can toggle through face types, set hair colour, shirt colour and pants colour, and rotate the character to check the result. The same footage notes one limitation directly — shoes are not editable.

Option	Confirmed in
Hairstyles	Steam discussion listing the creator's options
Outfit (shirt and pants) colour	Launch-day footage and the discussion thread
Skin colour	Steam discussion listing the creator's options
Body type	Steam discussion listing the creator's options
Face type	Launch-day footage
Rotate character	Launch-day footage

The most common complaint is usability rather than range. The locked thread asking for more specific characters also asks for examples next to the captions and objects to choosing options by poking a small-scale figure, which tells you the preview is small and unlabelled in the current build.

Difficulty and the Tutorial Toggle

Before play you pick a difficulty, and launch-day footage states the setting can be decreased later from the player's bed. The Steam page describes the two ends: cozy difficulty for a laid-back life of harvest and discovery, and the Old Gods route for players who want a challenge. The same opening flow asks whether to enable the intro cutscene and tutorial, so both are optional.

Opening choice	Documented detail
Cozy difficulty	Framed by the store page as a laid-back experience
Old Gods difficulty	Framed as the option for players who want a challenge
Changing later	Difficulty can be decreased from the player's bed
Intro cutscene	Can be enabled or skipped before play
Tutorial	Can be enabled or skipped before play

• Cozy difficulty: framed by the store page as a more laid-back experience.
• Old Gods difficulty: framed as the option for players who crave a challenge.
• Difficulty can be decreased later from the player's bed.
• Intro cutscene and tutorial can be toggled before play starts.

What Is Still Unconfirmed

Exact gender handling, any way to reopen the creator after the opening, and the precise list of body types are not documented yet. The Steam page also does not publish a preset or slider count, so descriptions you find elsewhere should be verified in-game.

• Gender handling: not documented yet.
• Reopening the creator: no mirror, wardrobe or barber is described.
• Body types: the exact list is not published.
• Preset or slider counts: not published on the store page.
• Post-launch appearance edits: no official method listed.

For who you will be building relationships with after creation, see the romance page, and for the gifts that move those relationships, see gifts.