VisualGuideToInstallingStendhalStep8

Step 8. Install and run Stendhal client as localhost

Note: if you have already the client installed to connect to the public server, you can use it if it is the same version. However, this time you have to connect to localhost server and create a new account there.

To run the client:

Go to arianne website and download Stendhal client binary: Stendhal-0.67

unzip the 3 client binary *.jar files:

• stendhal-0.67.jar
• stendhal-data-0.67.jar
• stendhal-data-sounds-0.67.jar (this last one is not strictly necessary to play the game, just to hear sounds)

inside a new created folder: C:\stendhal

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Double-click the stendhal-0.67.jar file in the client and create a new account:

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Warning: Not on the default server but on the localhost server:

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And the same everytime you connect to the game: choose the localhost server.

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Done!

• The good news: You have installed your own local server and is up and running. You can connect with the client and play: you have the whole world of Stendhal only for you. You can be an admin:

First create a file called "admins.list" This is a plain text file, with each name on a separate line. The name must be EXACT, or it will not work. Then go to the directory where you extracted stendhal-server-X.XX.zip, and browse to data/conf (create it if it isn't already there). Add admins.list there.

• The bad news: You cannot change the 'fabric' of the game (maps, NPCs...). You need to recompile Stendhal from source to do those things.

Compiling the Stendhal server (and client) is another history... That I will relate other day... Ok, right now... Go to building Stendhal on Windows XP®.

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