Stendhal Beginner's Guide
New players guide
Good starting steps:
- Kill rats to get money (Hint: double-click body, double-click to take coins).
- Buy a sheep (-30 coins), walk sheep near red berries (takes 5-10 min).
- Sell sheep (+150 coins), buy "hand axe" (cheaper&better than Xin's stuff!) and "scythe", then explore farm (east/right-wards) to train how to "Pick" and "Harvest" food-stuff.
- Bring food and go fight in the town dungeon and nearby areas to level up. Each level allows you to explore further away and come back to town alive (Found Orc? Run! Many orcs? RIP.)
Don't get bored with rats -- instead bring a friend and go deeper in the dungeon! Poisoning swaps left/right and up/down cursor keys.
Two-legged monsters give armor/weapons. A gnome (that runs like a rat) is easy to kill. At about lvl5 try kobold and other two-legged monsters in town dungeon.
Things to avoid:
- Dying, because dying means you loose stuff. (Or leave your stuff at the bank, then run around and dying = coming back home! You still loose EXP points though.)
- Don't buy from Xin (in tavern back room) before trying the free places: chest in the mud (in lower right corner of the town area), tasks/quests (pants for free), stuff on the ground left by other players, or dungeon monster drops.
- Dont waste money in the "whishing well" lottery (until you become rich)
- Don't attack other players (with white names), it'll prevent you from free healing (for a "while?")
- Beginners quests are a waste of time & coins (as of 0.68.1)