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@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ A discord bot made for Question of the Day in Oceanland!
 Assuming you have [Rust](https://rust-lang.org) installed, a simple `cargo run` should build fishy and its dependancies.
 
 ### Usage
-The command syntax is simply `fishy TOKEN`, where TOKEN is the token for the bot you're running.
+Firstly, you need to create a database file. Make an empty file and run `fishy create path/to/database`
+
+After that, the command syntax is `fishy path/to/database TOKEN`, where TOKEN is the token for the bot you're running.