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 ## Contributing
 
-See [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+See [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for general code style and PR guidelines.
+
+If you are a first-time contributor looking for features to implement or bugs to fix, see the issues tagged with 'candidate' [in the Mindustry-Suggestions repostiory](https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry-Suggestions/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Acandidate).
 
 ## Building