Basic Knowledge

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This topic covers the most basic things you, a new player in Wurm Online, should know about.

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Movement

To move in the world of Wurm, simply use the WASD-keys on your keyboard. To look around, leftclick and hold in the 3D-view, and move your mouse. To center the view, press C on your keyboard.
Steep slopes require you to climb. To climb a surface, rightclick on the ground and select Climb. If you carry a lot of items, your stamina will drop like a stone while climbing. And you can not climb trees, sorry.

Important Hotkeys

The F-keys on your keyboard holds important access to things in Wurm.

F1 : Brings up the console, for debugging and generic information.
F2 : Skills. In this dialog you keep track of your body, religion, and skills. New skills are added as you learn them (i.e: Hot Cooking). Increament of skills in this game takes time.
F3 : Probably the most important hotkey in the game. This brings up the Inventory, where you keep all your items.
F12 : Quit the game. You are presented to a Yes/No-dialog before you can quit the game.

Equipping & Inventory

To equip an item (you can only hold one at a time), simply doubleclick an item in the inventory. You can work with items within the inventory, there is no need to drop them on the ground. As an example, you activate/equip the carving knife, and rightclick on a log in your inventory, to create new items out of it. Note: If you carry too much, your walkspeed is slowed down.
Remember you can also use your bodyparts for certain things, like molding clay, by activating one of your hands by expanding the Body-category and doubleclick a hand, and then rightclicking the clay in your inventory, to work with it.

Interaction

Rightclick on objects, tiles, people, anything, to interact with it. A popupmenu appears saying "Requesting..." which means it fetches data from the server about the specific object you are trying to interact with. When it's done (which is fairly quickly), you are given several options in the menu of what to do with the object. There are different options for different objects. You get more options depending on what item you have active. For example, you are presented with another option called "Cut down" if you have the Small Axe active and rightclick a tree.
(Cutting down trees does not work with herrings!).

The Bars

• Green : Stamina/Energy
  
• Blue : Thirst
  
• Orange : Hunger
  
  

Refilling the bars

Stamina : Rest. The less thirst and hunger you have, the faster it regenerates. If you are low on stamina, you can not walk as fast as normal, and not climb very far.
Thirst : Rightclick water and select Taste to see if it's alright. If it is, rightclick the water again and select Drink.
Hunger : Forage for food by rightclicking on grass and select Nature > Forage. This type of food can only be eaten when your character is starving. You are going to need to cook the food in order to eat it when you are hungry. This will be explained later.

Chat

In the lower left corner (by default), you have the chat-dialog. This is were you talk in Local, Kingdom, and private messages.
The people shown in your local chat are the players within about 1 kilometer radius from your position. Both darklighters and whitelighters can talk here. As a new player, you talk in the Jenn-Kellon kingdom chat, where only whitelighters can talk.
To talk with only one player, use the /tell-command, like this for example: /tell Zyndrome Hello, you are awesome!
To close a private conversation or kingdom-chat, click the small X in the upper right corner of the dialog. Local chat can not be closed.

--Zyndrome 07:07, 21 August 2005 (CDT)