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
Initial strategy
- 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.
- Buy "dagger" (25 money) from Xin Blanca (Semos tavern).
- Get "studded shield" from Hayunn Naratha by returning to him 3 times.
- Collect food and fight in Semos dungeon to level up. With each level you can explore further and still run home alive.
- Buy "old scythe" (blacksmith), then explore farm (east/right-wards) to get lots of food.
- Ask 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 lvl5 try kobold (north of semos, in the mines).
- Bring a friend to go deeper in the Semos dungeon.
Things to avoid:
- Dying, because dying means you lose stuff, EXP points and skills. (Or for a new plyer with no EXP yet: put all stuff in bank and explore. Dye=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.
- 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.
- 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 (Samos bakery)
- Kill veteran kobold to get a shield (It's told that a shield +10 gives more DEF than armor +10?)
- 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