Stendhal/manual/Controls and Game Settings

Starting the game

To launch Stendhal use Java webstart or by running the stendhal-0.XX.jar file that is in the stendhal download package.

Click on the Login to Stendhal button and enter your account information.
Be sure to choose the server where you created your account (the name will be the same as the site you went to to create the account in the first place. The default option is probably correct) and finally click on Login to Server.

A progress bar will appear and soon you will be connected to the world.

If the server is down (not online) you will get an error message explaining this. In this case either try again later or create a new account on another server.

Game screen

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1. Minimap
   The minimap shows the position of the player with a cross. It shows walkable and non walkable areas. Areas where you are protected from player attack are shown in green.
2. Player's bag
   This is the bag where you can store up to twelve items. If the bag closes and you want to open it again, click on settings Windows(6) and click on player inventory.
3. Chat line
   You write the text to talk to other players and npcs here. You can also write commands here. Type /help for basic help with commands.
4. Dialogs log
   Here is where all the messages received in the current session are stored (game messages and player messages). It is very useful for conversational purposes.
5. Player's character window
   You can equip items such as weapons, armor, legs, helmets, boots and rings to obtain their benefits.
6. Settings window
   Contains buttons to open or close the minimap, the player inventory and the player bag.
7. Game area
   All the gameplay happens here.

Basic controls

Move

Use the keyboard arrows to move around on the Map.

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You must hold down the direction keys to make the character to move. Your character will collide with elements that exists on the world, like other players and walls.

Alternatively you can move by double clicking on an empty place of the game area. Double click in the mini map for longer routes. If you collide with a creature, you must reset your route by double clicking your destination again.

You also collide with map borders. When you reach a map border your screen won't move any further and two things might happen:

• if an area exists next to the area you are in, you will move from your current area to the new area (you will be transfered to the new zone).
• if no area exists nothing will happen and you will simply collide and stop.

Movement-lock trick

If you make the graphics window lose the focus while keeping an arrow key pressed, your character will keep going in that direction.

When your character collides with an object or changes zones it will stop, but you can resume its movement in the locked direction by pressing an arrow key of a different direction.

The movement-lock is released only when you press the arrow key of the locked direction of movement.

Passing Through Doors

You can simply pass through the doorway by using the keyboard arrows. In the case that there is someone standing in front of the doorway and blocking it you still can pass through the door if you can get next to the door diagonally: just right click on the door and choose use.

Moving With An Animal

If you have an animal following you such as a sheep, to change zones the animal MUST be within visible distance from your charater. To find out where your animal is, type /where <name of animal> ... for example /where sheep

Face

When attacking someone or talking to someone it is nice to face them. To do this press Ctrl and a directional arrow to face in that direction. It is just an eye candy action as it has no effect on the game rules.

Moving Items

During the game you will find or buy items such as swords and shields. To move these items around the world, use the left click and drag to the place you want them to be. You need to be next to the item. To drop a smaller amount of a stackable item use the /drop command. Say you have 2000 money and want to give 100 money away: /drop 100 money. You can drop only one item from a stack if you hold down Ctrl while you drag and drop it.

Managing Inventory

You can manage your inventory by equiping items, dropping them to floor or by storing them in your backpack or chest. In all cases the procedure is the same: click on the item and drop it to the desired position.

Keep in mind that you must be near an item to equip it and that you can't drop it further than 8 positions from you.

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Drag and drop the item in inventory slot you want.

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And you have equipped it.

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You can only equip an armor to your body slot, only boots to your feet slot, and so on. Your hands can hold not only shields and swords but also other items like vegetables and scrolls if it is free.

Other actions

Click the right mouse button over objects to see a contextual menu (which will include actions that can be performed on the object) and use the left mouse button to choose an action from the menu You can click outside the area of the menu to abort.

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Open Game Dialog log

In case you have closed the game dialog (the window where all the text and game information appears) you can open it again with Ctrl+L (hold Control Key and L key)

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

Use Shift+UP arrow or Shift+DOWN arrow (hold Shift and press arrows) to put in your dialog text bar the last written sentence. Each time you press the up arrow (while still holding the shift key) you go further back in the history of your previously written sentences. When you use the down arrow instead you can go forward. That way you don't have to write again previously used sentences, for example, when you sell items.

Exit game

Press ESC to exit. You will be prompted again to either really quit or return to the game. Alternatively you can simply close the window. In any case, your information about your inventory stuff and position in the game is automatically saved before you quit the game.

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Player communication

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

Alternatively you can write:

 /tell playername chat Content 

This allows you to write to a single character privately. For example:

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

In order to ease the communication you can write to the lasted player you msged using //

 // Really man!, go and rate it.

You can also write any of the administrators that are in game to request support by writting /support

 /support I keep getting an out of memory exception, so the game crashes, can I avoid this?

Finding persons

You can discover who is online by using the command /who.

 /who

This will show a list of the players that are online now with their levels.

You can find out a players position by querying server using /where player name

 /where miguel

Getting help

You can get help about the previous commands by using the command /help.

 /help

This will return a list of the commands that are available to the player with a brief explanation of their usage and parameters.