BeginnersGuide
From Arianne
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Learn how to play
How to control your character and other commands are explained in the Stendhal Manual.
You will enter in Semos Guard House, so
- Speak to Hayunn Naratha in the room where you start
- Say hi to get his attention then answer his questions (usually yes or no answers)
- More useful information is given in the purple tutorial boxes, read them carefully.
In general you should remember the following things:
- Say hi to characters with blue names. Keep the conversation going with yes and blue-marked words. Sometimes yes or no is the only usable answer.
- Read all texts carefully (because they might not be repeated)
- Carmen can heal you for free
Initial strategy
Get some money:
- Kill rats to get money (Hint: double-click body, double-click to take coins).
- buy a sheep (-30 money) and walk your sheep near red berries (takes 5-10 min). Sell fat sheep (+150 money for weight 100 sheep) to Sato.
Get some basic equipment:
- Look in the charity chest south of the Inn in Semos for free armor.
- Buy dagger (25 money) from Xin Blanca (Semos tavern).
- Get studded shield from Hayunn Naratha by returning to him 3 times.
Get some xp:
- Collect food and fight in Semos dungeon to level up. With each level you can explore further and still run home alive.
- Ask NPCs (blue names) for quest or task.
- Do the monster quest for Mayor Sakhs, it is repeatable once a day. Ask Starkad (south of Semos) about how to find creatures.
Tips:
- Being poisoned swaps left/right and up/down cursor keys.
- At about level 5 try kobold (north of semos, in the mines).
- Bring a friend to go deeper in the Semos dungeon.
- Areas where you are protected from being attacked by other players are marked green on minimap.
Things to avoid:
- Dying, because dying means you lose stuff, EXP points and skills. (Or for a new player with no EXP yet: put all stuff in bank and explore. Die=coming back home.)
- Don't buy armor (in tavern back room) before trying the free places: charity chest (in Semos mud), talking and doing tasks/quests (legs, shield for free), getting it from corpses in Semos dungeon.
- Don't waste money in the "wishing well" lottery (until you become rich). Dice gambling is more rewarding at low levels - check the list of prizes on the walls by the gambling table in Semos Tavern.
- Don't attack players with white names - that disqualifies you from free healing (for a while)
- Don't go too far from Semos. Other players and stronger creatures can kill you.
Later game strategies
Always carry:
- potions (buy from Carmen (if you are rich) or Dr Feelgood (Ados zoo) at better prices)
- a home scroll (buy them from Haizen's hut north of Ados rock) to get you out of emergencies
- antidotes (kill deer to get these) if you often get poisoned
Hunt creatures with useful items:
- kill orc chief, gnomes, and others that drop potions or minor potions.
- Get ham from "big" animals like lion, bear, boar.
- Two-legged monsters give armor/weapons. Try attacking a gnome (farm areas).
Make money:
- Ham can be traded for items with older players, or used to make food (Semos bakery)
- Buy old scythe (blacksmith), then explore farm (east/right-wards) to get lots of food that you can sell
- Sell armor in tavern, gnome village, etc. Check the NPC List for some details.
Get XP:
- Visit Ados city (east) to do quests
Tips:
- Having a good shield is most important, then a good armor, then cloak. The def is weighted to favour in this order.
