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 the Account Register Site and fill in the fields to complete the form.

Your account will be ready immediately.

Downloading the game

You can run it directly using Java Webstart (this means you do not need to download anything, just click the webstart link and if Java is installed on your system the game will start) or you can download the compiled java program to your computer at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1111

The best way is to use the Java Webstart as you will get updates automatically.

(Note: Java webstart will create a folder on your machine which will contain some necessary files for the game to run successfully. These files are small and inobtrusive so please do not worry about it)

Controls and Game settings

To control stendhal you need to use both a mouse and keyboard.

Starting the game

To launch Stendhal use Java webstart (Tip: Create a shortcut to this link on your machine so you dont have to come to the site everytime you want to play, you can just double click your shortcut) or by running the stendhal-0.XX.jar file that is in the stendhal download package.

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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.

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

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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.

Basic controls

Move

Use the keyboard arrows to move around 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.

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.

Signs in the game may help you to determine when areas exist.

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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 a 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 or to pick them up to put them into your hand, use the left click and drag.

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 it.

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Exit

Press ESC to exit. You will be prompted again to either really quit or return to the game.

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Open Game Dialog log

In case you have closed the game dialog (the area 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.

Player comunication

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 :)

Gameplay

Characters

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

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

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Items

Items such as armour and weapons can be found in the Stendhal world, or bought for hard earned cash. (Hint: Explore the tavern, I've heard a shady character goes there to sell his stuff... though it might be stolen!)

Items increase your Attack or Defence values accordingly. They must be equipped by dragging them onto a particular section of the player in the Top right GUI. This little representation of your player allows you to visualise what they are wearing/using.

NOTE: You can only equip one sword and one shield!

The following items are currently available:

• A shield ( DEF 14 )
• A sword ( ATK 14 )
• A club ( ATK 7 )
• A leather armor ( DEF 3 )

In the Current version of Stendhal 0.3 the money IS your experience points. If you purchase a sword your experience will fall and level ups will become harder. This will change soon.

World of Stendhal

Explore it! :)

NPCs (Non Player Characters) And Learning About Quests

All around the world of Stendhal are numerous NPCs all waiting to give you some tips on avaliable quests.

All NPCs respond to saying hi and usually to quest. Some may have different things to say so try asking them multiple times. NPCs also respond to help.

The system is designed to be as real to chatting as possible so just try chatting to them and see what what happens!

For example: you may say "do you know of any quests?" and the NPC will find the quest in the sentence and respond accordingly.

Outfit

Outfit helps you to feel the real role playing experience.
You can choose your outfit by mixing a set of different styles of bodies, heads, hairs and clothes.

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To bring up the dialog Right Click your character and choose Set Outfit. Click OK when you are done.

You can also choose not to wear clothes at all :)
If you just close the window nothing will be changed.

Combat

Combat is an important way of increasing your level. You only get experience by killing. You can't improve your skills by training like in other games.

To attack a creature simply left click on it and choose Attack. You will see that a red box appears almost immediately around it. This indicates an attack is being carried out. You need to be next to the target in order to actually hit them though!

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Your attack will continue until:

• you stop it using "Stop attack" action
• you press ESC
• you change zone (area)
• your target is dead

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

• a cloud means you failed to hit the target.
  

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• a shield means you hit the target but that you were unable to damage it.
  

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• a blood drop means you hit the target and damaged it. Also you will see a red number pop out of the target indicating the amount of damage actually done.
  

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If you kill your target you will see a blue number pop out which is the experience reward you have gained.

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Levels

Your character has a level attribute that expresses how strong that character is.
Levels are the only way of comparing your character against others.

With each kill or quest completed you are rewarded experience points (XP). If you get enough XP you will level up and gain a development point (a development point is a point to add to your skill in a number of different fields. This is the way in which you make your character stronger and better).

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You can spend development points on:

• +1 ATK level (your attack skill)
• +1 DEF level (your defense skill)
• +10 HP points (your hit points, i.e. the amount of damage you can take before you die)

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Once you have spent your point you can't undo your decision, so choose carefully. This allows you to properly choose the direction of skill your character will follow.

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Level Tables

For your own interest here are the level progession tables:

Level	Experience	HP
0	0	100
1	100	110
2	128	120
3	384	130
4	768	140
5	1408	150
6	2432	160
7	3712	170
8	5504	180
9	7808	190
10	10624	200
11	14080	210
12	18176	220
13	22912	230
14	28544	240
15	35072	250
16	42368	260
17	50816	270
18	60160	280
19	70656	290
20	82176	300
21	95104	310
22	109184	320
23	124544	330
24	141440	340
25	159616	350
26	179456	360
27	200704	370
28	223744	380
29	248448	390
30	274816	400
31	303104	410
32	333184	420
33	365184	430
34	399232	440
35	435200	450
36	473472	460
37	513792	470
38	556288	480
39	601216	490
40	648448	500
41	697984	510
42	750080	520
43	804736	530
44	861952	540
45	921856	550
46	984448	560
47	1049728	570
48	1117952	580
49	1188992	590
50	1262976	600
51	1340032	610
52	1420160	620
53	1503360	630
54	1589760	640
55	1679488	650
56	1772416	660
57	1868800	670
58	1968512	680
59	2071808	690
60	2178560	700
61	2289024	710
62	2403200	720
63	2520960	730
64	2642560	740
65	2768000	750
66	2897408	760
67	3030784	770
68	3168128	780
69	3309568	790
70	3455232	800
71	3604992	810
72	3759104	820
73	3917568	830
74	4080384	840
75	4247680	850
76	4419456	860
77	4595712	870
78	4776704	880
79	4962432	890
80	5152768	900
81	5348096	910
82	5548160	920
83	5753216	930
84	5963136	940
85	6178304	950
86	6398464	960
87	6623744	970
88	6854400	980
89	7090176	990
90	7331456	1000
91	7577984	1010
92	7830144	1020
93	8087808	1030
94	8350976	1040
95	8619904	1050
96	8894464	1060
97	9174784	1070
98	9460992	1080
99	9752960	1090

Monsters need to level up

Level	rat	cave rat	wolf	orc
0	0	0	0	0
1	20	10	5	2
2	25	12	7	3
3	76	38	21	10
4	153	76	42	21
5	281	140	78	40
6	486	243	135	69
7	742	371	206	106
8	1100	550	305	157
9	1561	780	433	223
10	2124	1062	590	303
11	2816	1408	782	402
12	3635	1817	1009	519
13	4582	2291	1272	654
14	5708	2854	1585	815
15	7014	3507	1948	1002
16	8473	4236	2353	1210
17	10163	5081	2823	1451
18	12032	6016	3342	1718
19	14131	7065	3925	2018
20	16435	8217	4565	2347
21	19020	9510	5283	2717
22	21836	10918	6065	3119
23	24908	12454	6919	3558
24	28288	14144	7857	4041
25	31923	15961	8867	4560
26	35891	17945	9969	5127
27	40140	20070	11150	5734
28	44748	22374	12430	6392
29	49689	24844	13802	7098
30	54963	27481	15267	7851
31	60620	30310	16839	8660
32	66636	33318	18510	9519
33	73036	36518	20288	10433
34	79846	39923	22179	11406
35	87040	43520	24177	12434
36	94694	47347	26304	13527
37	102758	51379	28544	14679
38	111257	55628	30904	15893
39	120243	60121	33400	17177
40	129689	64844	36024	18527
41	139596	69798	38776	19942
42	150016	75008	41671	21430
43	160947	80473	44707	22992
44	172390	86195	47886	24627
45	184371	92185	51214	26338
46	196889	98444	54691	28127
47	209945	104972	58318	29992
48	223590	111795	62108	31941
49	237798	118899	66055	33971
50	252595	126297	70165	36085
51	268006	134003	74446	38286
52	284032	142016	78897	40576
53	300672	150336	83520	42953
54	317952	158976	88320	45421
55	335897	167948	93304	47985
56	354483	177241	98467	50640
57	373760	186880	103822	53394
58	393702	196851	109361	56243
59	414361	207180	115100	59194
60	435712	217856	121031	62244
61	457804	228902	127168	65400
62	480640	240320	133511	68662
63	504192	252096	140053	72027
64	528512	264256	146808	75501
65	553600	276800	153777	79085
66	579481	289740	160967	82783
67	606156	303078	168376	86593
68	633625	316812	176007	90517
69	661913	330956	183864	94559
70	691046	345523	191957	98720
71	720998	360499	200277	102999
72	751820	375910	208839	107402
73	783513	391756	217642	111930
74	816076	408038	226688	116582
75	849536	424768	235982	121362
76	883891	441945	245525	126270
77	919142	459571	255317	131306
78	955340	477670	265372	136477
79	992486	496243	275690	141783
80	1030553	515276	286264	147221
81	1069619	534809	297116	152802
82	1109632	554816	308231	158518
83	1150643	575321	319623	164377
84	1192627	596313	331285	170375
85	1235660	617830	343239	176522
86	1279692	639846	355470	182813
87	1324748	662374	367985	189249
88	1370880	685440	380800	195840
89	1418035	709017	393898	202576
90	1466291	733145	407303	209470
91	1515596	757798	420999	216513
92	1566028	783014	435008	223718
93	1617561	808780	449322	231080
94	1670195	835097	463943	238599
95	1723980	861990	478883	246282
96	1778892	889446	494136	254127
97	1834956	917478	509710	262136
98	1892198	946099	525610	270314
99	1950592	975296	541831	278656