StendhalManual

Introduction

What is Stendhal?

Are you looking for adventure? Want to fight for riches? Develop yourself and your social standing? Meet new people? Do you want to be part of a brave new world?

Stendhal is a full fledged multiplayer online adventures game (MMORPG) developed using the Arianne game development system.

Stendhal features a new, rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves and dungeons. You will meet NPCs and acquire tasks and quests for valuable experience and cold hard cash. Your character will develop and grow and with each new level up become stronger and better. With the money you acquire you can buy new items and improve your armour and weapons. And for the blood thirsty of your; satisfy your killing desires by roaming the world in search of evil monsters!

Stendhal is totally platform independent, written using Java 1.5 and the Java2D environment.

So what are you waiting for?! A whole new world awaits...

Setting up the game

Creating a account

To create an account you must go to Account Register Site and fill the fields to complete the form.

Automatically you obtain an account to play Stendhal.

Downloading the game

You can run it using Java Webstart or you can download to your computer at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arianne/stendhal-0.12.zip?download

The prefered way is using Java Webstart as you will get updates automatically.

Customizating a character

TODO

Controls and Game settings

To control stendhal you need to use mouse and keyboard.

Starting the game

Launch Stendhal by using Java webstart or by running stendhal-0.XX.jar file.

Click on Login to Stendhal button and fill the data.
Be sure to choose the server where you created your account and finally click on Login to Server.
A progress bar will appear and soon you will be connected to world game.

If the server is not online you will get a error message explaining that, so you either try later or create a new account on another server.

Basic controls

Move

Use arrows to move around the Map.

You must press the arrow long enough for the character to move. Your character will collide with elements that exists on the world, like other players and walls.

You also collides with map borders. When you reach a map border your screen won't move further and then can happen two things:

• if an area exists to move from this zone to the new area, you will be traslated to the new area.
• if no area exists nothing will happen and simply you will collide.

Signs may help you determining this.

Face

When attacking someone or talking to someone it is a nice thing to face them, so press Ctrl and arrow to face in that direction. It is just a eye candy action as it has no effect on game rules.

Other actions

Use right mouse button over objects to see the contextual menu and use left mouse button to choose the action You can click outside to abort the contextual menu.

Exit

Press ESC to exit. You will be prompted again to either really quit or get back to game.

Open Game Dialog log

In case you closed the game dialog you can open it again with Ctrl+L

This dialog contains all the important events that happen in game so it is wise to have it visible.

Player comunication

To communicate with other players simply write. A chat bubble will appear under your character and a new line will appear on Game log dialog. This kind of communication is public and visible to every player in world, although you will see only text for players near you.

Alternatively you can write

 /tell player chat Content 

To write to a single character anything you want. For example:

 /tell miguel This game rules, really. I have rated it 10/10 :)

Gameplay

Characters

You can and must talk to other characters to get help and quest to complete.
There are several NPC on Stendhal. All of them reply to Hi, so greet them and ask them for help or quests.

Some of them will sell and buy sheeps, others heal you, and others are simply "useless"

World of Stendhal

Explore it! :)

Combat

Combat is a important way of getting new levels. You only get experience by killing, you can't train your skills like in other games.

To attack a creature simply left click on it and choose Attack. You will see that a red box appear almost inmediately around it. You need to be next to the target in order for attack to success. Your attack will continue until:

• you stop it using "Stop attack"
• you press ESC
• you change of zone
• your target is dead

Combat is round based, and each round last around 1.6 seconds. On each round the attack is resolve and the result is displayed in the right-bottom corner of the target:

• a cloud that means you failed to hit the target.
• a shield that means you hitted the target but that you were unable to damage it.
• a blood that means you hitted the target and damaged it. Also you will see a red number popping out of target, that the amount of damage done.

If you kill your target you will see a blue number popping out, that's your experience reward.

Levels

Your character has a level attribute that express how strong that character is.
Level is the only way of comparing your character against others.

With each kill or quest completed you are rewarded XP, if you get enought XP you will level up and gain a development point. You can spend development points on:

• +1 ATK level
• +1 DEF level
• +10 HP points

Once spent you can't undo your decission. This allow you to choose properly the path your character will follow.