Stendhal Beginner's Guide
New players guide
Good starting steps:
- Kill rats to get money (Hint: double-click body, double-click to take coins).
- a) Try asking for armor at the bank.
- b) Otherwise, buy a sheep (-30 coins) and walk your sheep near red berries (takes 5-10 min). Sell fat sheep (+150 coins) to Sato.
- Buy "dagger" in armory (possibly buy "wooden shield" from Xin)
- 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? R.I.P.)
- Buy "old scythe" (armory), then explore farm (east/right-wards) to get lots of food.
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. Try attacking a gnome (farm areas). At about lvl5 try kobold (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 armor (in tavern back room) before trying the free places: chest in mud, tasks/quests (pants for free), stuff on the ground left by other players, or dungeon monster drops, or asking older players (in bank/trade room).
- 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?")