Stendhal Beginner's Guide

Learn how to play

• Say hi to characters with white names. Keep the conversation going with yes and blue-marked words. Sometimes yes or no is the only usable answer.
• Read all texts (because they won't come back)
• Carmen and Ilisa can heal you for free

• 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.

Other NPCs who teach you initial steps are:

• Ketteh Wehoh, in Semos village, teaches you how to talk with NPCs
• Monogenes, in Semos city, gives you a map of Semos
• Io Flotto in Semos temple, tells you how to /msg other players and more.

Initial strategy

1. Kill rats to get money (Hint: double-click body, double-click to take coins).
   • Look in the charity chest south of the Inn in Semos for free armor.
   • Otherwise, 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.
2. Buy "dagger" (25 money) from Xin Blanca (Semos tavern).
3. Get "studded shield" from Hayunn Naratha by returning to him 3 times.
4. Collect food and fight in Semos dungeon to level up. With each level you can explore further and still run home alive.
5. Buy "old scythe" (blacksmith), then explore farm (east/right-wards) to get lots of food.
6. Ask NPCs (blue names) for quest or task. Don't forget Mayor Sakhs, whose quest 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.
• Two-legged monsters give armor/weapons. Try attacking a gnome (farm areas).
• At about lvl 5 try kobold (north of semos, in the mines).
• Bring a friend to go deeper in the Semos dungeon.
• Protected areas 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 (pants, 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

• Make money by selling armor in tavern, gnome village, etc. Check the NPC List for some details.
• Visit Ados city (east) to do quests
• Potions:

• kill orc chief, gnomes, and others that drop potions
• buy from Carmen (if you are rich) or Dr Feelgood (Ados zoo) at better prices

• Ham:

• Get ham from "big" animals like lions, bears, boars.
• Ham can be traded for items with older players, or used to make food (Semos bakery)

• If buying or hunting for armor, remember that having a good shield is most important, then a good armor, then cloak. The def is weighted to favour in this order.
• Always carry a home scroll (buy them from Haizen's hut north of Ados rock) to get you out of emergencies
• Carry antidotes (kill deer to get these) if you often get poisoned

See also

Stendhal Manual

Stendhal FAQ

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