You can use right click - equip to wear armor and jewelry (when you get it). If you have pairs (boots, gloves, sleeves, rings, etc) you can right click on the stack in your inventory, choose equip, and both will equip.
== Healing ==
After combat (with mobs or the terrain) you probably have some wounds. Open your character window. In the center, if it shows a picture of you and what you are wearing, click the drawing of the person on in the upper left corner (still inside the picture box). This will bring up the wounds view, showing a skeleton. If you are healthy, no wounds, the outline around the skeleton will be clear. If you have wounds, it will be shaded in, according to how badly wounded you are. Double click on a shaded part to see what wounds you have and how severe they are.
To heal a wound, you can:
1) Bind it by using [[cotton]] on it, if you have any. [[Rags]] work as well. These will sometimes lower the damage when they are applied, and will continue to help reduce the damage in small increments until the wound is healed.
2) Use a [[healing cover]] on it. Healing covers won't give you a nice initial reduction in damage like cotton and rags will, but they will reduce the damage in larger increments. There are several levels of potency. Be sure to read up on them before making and using them.
3) Use [[farmer's salve]] on it. Farmer's salve only works on bruises and burns.
4) Get a priest to heal you.
== Running for Cover ==
4) Water is a good place to lose most aggro. Some swim though (like bears) and water doesn't work as well on them.
5) Always carry water with you. Yeah, I know, you are a noob and you don't have a [[jar ]] or [[waterskin]]. Do your best to stay hydrated.
6) Travel light. If you forage, eat the berries and nuts as you go. Pelts aren't worth much, leave them alone - they'll add weight. Don't pick up meat, either, unless you have a bowl or two to cook it in. Furs aren't worth much, either, unless you are building a bed. Hides may be useful, if you have a place to keep them. Make healing covers when you can, too - hopefully you will be able to run from aggro fast enough to use them.