Se:StendhalManual

Introduktion

Vad är Stendhal?

Söker du efter äventyr? Vill du slåss för rikedomar? Utväckla dig stjälv och din sociala ställning? Träffa nytt folk? Vill du vara en del av en helt ny värld?

Stendhal är ett fullt fungerande mulitiplayer online spel (MMORPG) utväcklat med hjälp av Arianne's spel utväcklingskitt.

Stendhal har en helt ny expanderande värld där du kan utforska städer, byggnader, fält och grottor. Du kommer möta NPCs (Icke spelbara karaktär) få uppgifter och uppdrag som ger dig värdefull erfarenhet och kalla hårda pengar. Din karaktär kommer utväcklas och växa, och med varje ny nivå blir du starkare och bättre. Med pengarna du förvärvar kan du köpa nya saker och färbättra din utrustning och dina vapen. Och din blodtörstighet kan du tillfredställa genom att söka och frigöra världen från elaka monster.

Stendhal är helt platformsoberoende, skrivet i Java 1.5 och Java2D miljön.

Så vad väntar du på?! En helt ny värld väntar...

Varför spela Stendhal?

1. Stendhal är helt gratis!
2. Stendhal har öppen källkod och genom att spela hjälper du oss att förbättra det.
3. Stendhal har en liten nerladdning.
4. Stendhal har en trevlig gemenskap.

Stendhals mål

Stendhals mål är att få dig ha roligt.

Stendhal har en värld i constant utveckling, med massvis av intressanta uppdrag att utföra, tusentals vänner att möta, och det bästa med det är att det aldrig tar slut.

Vad behövs för att spela stendhal?

Stendhal är ett Java spel och funkar på alla platformar som klarar av att köra Java JRE, och det inkluderar:

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS

Så du behöver [Java 1.5] för att köra det. Just nu fungerar inte Stendhal med GCJ, så om du är en utvecklare med erfarenhet i GCJ, så kanske du vill hjälpa med att porta Stendhal till SDLjava.

Att utföra först

Ladda ner spelet

Du kan köra det direkt genom att använda Java Webbstart detta inebär att du inte behöver ladda ner nått stjälv. Klicka bara på webbstart länken och om java är installerat på ditt system kommer spelet att starta. Du kan också ladda ner den kompilerade java versionen till din dator från http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1111

Det bästa är dock att använda Java Webbstart eftersom du får updateringar automatiskt.

(Notera: Java webbstart kommer skapa en katalog på din dator som innehåller en del viktiga filer som behövs för att spelet ska kunna köra. De här filerna är små och diskreta, så oroa dig inte för dem)

Skapa Konto

För att skapa ett konto måste du gå till Registrerings Sidan och fylla i fälten för att slutföra formuläret.

Eller registrera dig direkt från spelet genom att trycka på 'Create an Account' fyll i fälten och tryck på 'Create account'.

Ditt konto kommer vara klart direkt i båda fallen.

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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 or by running the stendhal-0.XX.jar file that is in the stendhal download package.

(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)

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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.

Game screen

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1. Minimap
   The minimap shows the actual position of the player with a cross. Minimap only shows the actual zone non walkable areas.
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 here the text to talk to other players and npcs. You can also write here commands. There is a basic help writting /help
4. Dialogs log
   Here it is stored all the messages recieved. It is a must if you want to have a conversation.
5. Player's inventory
   You must equip items as weapons, armors, legs, helmets and boots to obtain advantages.
6. Settings window
   Contains buttons to reopen the minimap, the player inventory and the player bag.
7. Game area
   All the game play happens here.

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.

Alternatively you can move by doing double click on an empty place of the game area.

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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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 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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Managing Inventory

You can manage your inventory by dressing items, dropping them to floor or by storing them on your backpack. On all the 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.

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 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 :)

Finding persons

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

 /who

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

You can find where a player is by querying server using /where player name

 /where miguel

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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An example of a conversation with Xin Blanca could be:

 <miguel> hi
 <Xin Blanca> Greetings! How may I help you?
 <miguel> help
 <Xin Blanca> I buy and sell several items, ask me for my offer
 <miguel> sell
 <Xin Blanca> Sorry, I don't buy sell
 <miguel> offer
 <Xin Blanca> I sell wooden_shield,knife,club,leather_legs,dress,small_axe,leather_helmet, I buy studded_shield,short_sword,sword,
 <miguel> buy leather_legs
 <Xin Blanca> leather_legs costs 30. Do you want to buy?
 <miguel> yes
 <Xin Blanca> Congratulations! Here is your leather_legs!
 <miguel> Bye
 <Xin Blanca> Bye.

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.

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.

Sheep

Once you have bought a sheep it will follow you wherever you go. It's your job to protect and feed it.

The icon shown in the upper-right corner of the sheep will show you what it is thinking.

• A yellow man means it is currently following you.

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• An hamburger means it would like to eat. Your sheep will go to the nearest foodsource.

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• Little feet means it is just wandering around. This sheep isn't owned by anyone (anymore).

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Sheep like to eat fruits. Those fruits can be found on the many bushes in Stendhal. A bush can carry up to five fruits. Over time these will grow back. So if your sheep has eaten all of it, it's time to move to the next bush.

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Right Click on your sheep and choose Look to see how fat it has become. The fatter the sheep, the more you will get for it when you sell it.

Sheeps aren't very intelligent. So if your sheep get stuck or it isn't near you just write sheep and it will start moving to your position. You can verify the sheep's position by writing /where sheep.

Unfortunately once you own a sheep you can't leave the zone without your sheep being near you. So make sure it is near before trying to leave. If you are in a hurry you can leave your sheep.

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 right 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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To see how much experience is needed to change level, checkout the tables at the bottom of this manual.

Level Tables

For your own interest here are the level progession tables:

Level	Experience
0	0
1	64
2	128
3	384
4	768
5	1408
6	2432
7	3712
8	5504
9	7808
10	10624
11	14080
12	18176
13	22912
14	28544
15	35072
16	42368
17	50816
18	60160
19	70656
20	82176
21	95104
22	109184
23	124544
24	141440
25	159616
26	179456
27	200704
28	223744
29	248448
30	274816
31	303104
32	333184
33	365184
34	399232
35	435200
36	473472
37	513792
38	556288
39	601216
40	648448
41	697984
42	750080
43	804736
44	861952
45	921856
46	984448
47	1049728
48	1117952
49	1188992
50	1262976
51	1340032
52	1420160
53	1503360
54	1589760
55	1679488
56	1772416
57	1868800
58	1968512
59	2071808
60	2178560
61	2289024
62	2403200
63	2520960
64	2642560
65	2768000
66	2897408
67	3030784
68	3168128
69	3309568
70	3455232
71	3604992
72	3759104
73	3917568
74	4080384
75	4247680
76	4419456
77	4595712
78	4776704
79	4962432
80	5152768
81	5348096
82	5548160
83	5753216
84	5963136
85	6178304
86	6398464
87	6623744
88	6854400
89	7090176
90	7331456
91	7577984
92	7830144
93	8087808
94	8350976
95	8619904
96	8894464
97	9174784
98	9460992
99	9752960