The CONQUERCUBE wiki

I Welcome

CONQUERCUBE is a character MMO, seen from above like the role-playing games of the old days, that runs in the browser without installing anything. A whole world made of cubes, a server that decides everything that happens, and two rules that make it different from almost every game today: PvP is open and loot is full.

You control one single character. You raise it through two hundred levels, choose what to become among twenty-seven skills, explore two mirror worlds, go down into dungeons, mine, forge, trade. And in Cenerombra, the dark world, you fight against anyone: what you carry when you fall stays on your body, and whoever gets there first takes it.

The author

Dott. Manuel Stefanelli

CONQUERCUBE is a game by Dott. Manuel Stefanelli, who loves the games of the old days: those with open loot and open PvP, where leaving the city was a real risk, where the armor you wore could change hands and an encounter in the woods made your heart race.

This game was born from that passion, rebuilt with a modern engine: cube graphics crafted down to the last shadow, a sky calculated like the real one, an economy where coins are made by the players.

Instagram: @dottmanuel1981

II The short start and the controls

You create the account, choose name, appearance and city, then you enter with the character. At the account's first birth the short start begins automatically. The server saves the step: logging out and back in you resume where you left off. It is not a series of quests, it gives no rewards and it does not change the game's requirements.

Account access and recovery

The account name has 3 to 32 characters: letters without accents, numbers, dot, hyphen and underscore. The password must have at least 6 characters. After five wrong passwords the account stays locked for fifteen minutes.

To create the account press «Create Account» at the entrance: a dedicated page opens with account name, password and recovery email, which is required. The message to activate it reaches the email at once, with a link valid for forty-eight hours: open it and confirm. If you do not activate it the account stays, but password recovery does not work. The email can be changed from the Account card or from «Recovery email» below the entrance buttons.

Password recovery uses only the confirmed email; the recovery link lasts fifteen minutes and can be used once. The password is reset from the login screen.

After logging out the character stays in the world for thirty seconds and can be attacked. Logging back in waits until the previous session has really left: closing the window does not make it vanish at once.

What you have at birth

Nothing else: weapon, armor, bandages, potions and work tools are bought from the city vendors, and the short start walks you through it before your first fight. Pickaxe, Skinning Knife and Hatchet are items like the others: when you die they end up in the corpse, they can be traded, dropped on the ground (and they disappear after sixty seconds like any item), put in the bank, sold to the Market and deleted with the bin. They last a very long time, 30,000 strokes, but cannot be repaired: at the last stroke they break and disappear. They are bought for very few coins from the «Work Tools» vendor (Tool Vendor), next to the Totem in the center of every city.

The controls

The slot keeps a shortcut, not a copy of the item. Drag a weapon from the backpack into a free slot: selecting it equips it automatically. The item stays in the backpack or in the equipment and the server checks that you own it. The Configure the bars gear lets you choose known actions, items and spells; the Autocast bar holds the spells allowed and configured on the character.

The steps of the short start

The two switches in the Account card

Open Account in the header: in the «In-game guide» box there are two switches, «Dynamic hints» and «Tutorial (short start)». They are two separate choices: you can keep the hints on even without doing the short start. Turning the hints off hides the green bars; turning them back on restores them when you get close to things.

The tutorial starts automatically only at the account's first birth. Turning it off keeps the save; turning it back on from the Account card restarts from the first step. A finished tutorial stays off until you choose to turn it back on. None of these choices gives items or experience. The hints preference is saved on the account; the tutorial progress is saved with the character.

Read all the dynamic hints

III The two worlds

Fioralba and Cenerombra are two copies of the same land: one great continent, with the same rivers, the same mountains, the same places and the same ten cities in twin positions. What changes is the light, the colours, the water and above all the rules. Each world is a server of its own.

One single continent

Each world is a real spherical planet, as big as the Earth at a 1:300 scale: a radius of 21.2 km and 5,667 km² of surface. The land is one single continent of 1,644 km², 29% of the planet. At the two poles the polar lands remain, separated from the continent by the sea; climate, seasons and weather follow the latitude as always.

The continent is varied: a wall of mountains along the whole east coast, a snowy plateau in the north-east, the ochre plateau with its deserts and mesas, the jungles and swamps of the south, the woods and plains of the centre, and the red patches of the volcanic lands, with real lava, in both worlds. Where the mountains meet the sea the coast is a cliff. Wandering around you often come across something: castles, towers, graveyards, camps, ruins, mazes, rock inlets and the dungeon gates (The places of the world).

Rivers, streams, lakes and bridges

• The great rivers have shallow banks and a deep middle: along the banks you walk in the water, in the middle you swim.
• Streams are a veil of water a few centimetres deep running down from the hills: you cross them on foot and also in the saddle, with your following creatures.
• Bridges carry the paths from one bank to the other. You climb the ramp to the head of the bridge, and where there is water below the parapet keeps you on the deck. The deck stands high above the water: you pass underneath by swimming or wading. If you click on the bridge from the bank, the character goes round to the ramp and climbs up, without jumping into the water.
• The lakes: the Middle Lake in the centre of the continent, with its island, and the lakes among the southern swamps. In Cenerombra, on the island of the Middle Lake, stands Morgana’s Castle, reached by the Bridge of Laments, 1,764 metres long.
• Gorges are narrow passes between two mountain masses, with rock walls on the sides: the floor rises gently and you cross them on foot and on horseback.

The five portals

The five permanent portals connect Fioralba and Cenerombra. Enter and remain inside for 5 seconds: crossing costs 1000 gold coins from your backpack. The coins are burned. These portals require you to dismount; orange- or red-named characters cannot use them to return to Fioralba. Your character and backpack travel to the other world, but banks remain separate. Followers stay in the world you leave; figurines travel in your backpack. These conditions apply to permanent portals; rune travel has its own rules.

The new world: everyone starts again from zero

With the continent the world started again from zero. Every player character, except those of the game masters, is reborn as if just created: the account, the name, the looks and the birth city stay, while level, experience, attributes, skills, spells, backpack, bank, equipment and creatures start over. Whatever lay on the old geography (dug cubes, items on the ground, corpses and graves) is gone too.

At the first login the character appears in Fioralba, on the square of the Resurrection Totem of their birth city, with the empty Spellbook and 1,000 coins in the bank, like anyone born today (what you have at birth). A notice explains it just once: «The world is new: your character starts again from zero…».

Water and swimming

• On foot you walk in the water as long as it reaches your shoulders (80% of the character’s height: a little over three metres). Beyond that, in the sea, in the lakes and in the middle of the rivers, you swim on the surface. While swimming you cannot fight or cast spells: reach dry land first.
• In the saddle you only pass where the water is a veil a few centimetres deep, that is on the streams; in real water the mount stops on the bank. Tamed creatures following you stop on the bank too. Ghosts walk on the surface of the water: they run at three times normal speed without using stamina.
• Swimming while moving uses stamina: 4 per second × the load × (1 − the skill). The load is ×1 when empty, ×1.5 at half, ×2 full, ×3 overloaded; the skill is 0.6% per point of Swimming plus 0.06% per point of Strength and Dexterity, at most 85%. Standing still afloat, stamina comes back; at zero you stay still afloat until it rises again.
• With the «▼ Dive» and «▲ Surface» buttons you go down and up one meter at a time (holding them down you keep going). Underwater stamina stays still and oxygen counts: 20 seconds in all, plus 0.8 per point of Swimming and 0.1 per point of Strength and Dexterity; it drops by 2 per second × the load × (1 − the skill), still or moving, and afloat it refills in about 4 seconds.
• At zero oxygen you drown: you lose 5% of your maximum health per second, and nothing blocks it, until you return to the surface.
• Whoever dies in the water leaves the corpse on the bottom for 60 seconds (to take your things back you must dive) and becomes a ghost on the surface of the water at the same spot.

· The cities

Each world has ten cities built as in Ultima Online: closed shops with a door, a sign and the vendor inside, scattered houses, squares, fountains, streams and rivers with bridges. Each has its own plan, its own style and its own materials, and stands in the spot of the continent that suits it: on a plain by the river, in the woods, on a mesa, in the desert, in a mountain inlet, among the lava, on canals, on a hill, on a lake, on a promontory. The twin in Cenerombra has the same plan, the same materials and the same style, but darker and grimmer.

The shops, as in Ultima Online

Every city has the same fifteen shops: Bank, Market, Jeweler's Shop, Mint, Mage Tower, Blacksmith, Refinery, Sawmill, Bowyer, Wool Mill, Tailor, Hideworker, Tannery, Barber and Stat / Skill Redistribution. They are closed one-storey buildings, grouped by district: the Bank and the Market on the Totem square, metals, wood, textiles and magic in their own districts. The Mage Tower has two floors.

• The door. Every shop and every house has its own door, different according to the building. Double-click the door, from close by (within 4 metres) and on the same floor: if it is closed it opens, if it is open it closes. The door is the same for everyone: if you open it, it is open for everyone. It closes by itself after 20 seconds, if nobody is standing on the threshold. A closed door is a wall: it stops steps, sight, arrows and spells. Monsters do not open doors; ghosts do, so they can leave the shop where they died.
• The roof that opens. When you go inside, the roof and everything above your head disappear, as in Ultima Online: you see the room you are in, the counter and the vendor. If you climb to the first floor of the Mage Tower you see the first floor and no longer the ceiling; going back down the ground floor returns. When you go out the roof comes back. It works for every building: shops, houses, castles, towers. Outside, when a wall or a tree stands between you and the camera, there is the circle of transparency.
• The sign. Next to the door of every shop there is a sign: click it and a card tells you what place it is. Houses have no sign.
• You buy and work only inside. As in Ultima Online the vendor stands behind the counter and the trade tools (the anvil, the loom, the alembic and the others) stand in the workshop: to buy and to work you have to go in. From outside, through the wall, you neither buy nor work. The Scribe’s Desk is on the first floor of the Mage Tower: to inscribe you climb the stairs.
• The Bank stands on the Totem square in every city, with its door on the square. The Work Tools vendor (over the head: Tool Vendor) is the only one outdoors: he stands near the Totem, in the centre of the city.

The scattered houses

Every city has twelve scattered houses, built on ten different models (three with two floors), in the style of the city: the cottage, the long house, the L-shaped house, the one with a porch, the tower house, the courtyard house with a well, the villa, the house with a vegetable garden. They have doors like the shops, and you can go in and look around. One day they can be bought: for now they have no owner.

Water, walls and lights

• In six cities (Valchiara, Pietrabianca, Riva Dorata, Altavia, Vigne Alte and Capoventi) shallow streams flow, crossed on foot and on horseback, with footbridges on the main streets. In four (Fioralba, Solferrato, Campolieto and Lago Sereno) there is a deep river, canals or a lake: there you cross on the bridges, because you cannot wade across. Fountains and shallow ponds stand in the squares and gardens.
• Solferrato and Capoventi have walls, with towers and gates on the roads out.
• At night the cities light up with a lighting plan: lamps on both sides of the doors, a lamp under the signs, lanterns along the streets, the squares and the walls, never a torch in the middle of the road. In Cenerombra the lights are cold and gloomy.

Where you are born

A new character is born on the square of the Resurrection Totem of their city, in a free spot near the Totem. The Totem stands in the centre of every city: that is where you come back to life after death (Death and resurrection).

The vendors

Every shop has its vendor, and over the vendor’s head the trade is written in English, the same in both languages of the game, so there is no mistaking it. To buy you go in, click the vendor and choose from the showcase. Each one sells the basic goods of the trade, the same in Fioralba and in Cenerombra:

• Stock is limited, as in Ultima Online. The table shows the quantities in force right now, the same in every city of both worlds. The game master decides them, item by item, from the GM panel (Vendors and shops): they apply to every vendor of that kind. The vendor’s showcase also tells how many pieces are left. No one buys more than what is left.
• Vendors restock in cycles, as in Ultima Online: at every cycle everything they sell comes back full, even what was sold only in part. There is one cycle for the whole game: it applies to every vendor of every city, in Fioralba and in Cenerombra, and they all come back full at the same moment. Right now a cycle lasts an hour; the game master decides it. The showcase tells when the next restock comes. Each city has its own stock: if a counter is empty, try another one.
• If the game master sets an item to 0, that vendor no longer sells it: it disappears from the showcase in every city of both worlds. If no vendor sells it any more, the warning tells you to look for it at the Market.
• You pay first with the coins in your backpack, then with those in the bank. The price is chosen by the Game Master for each world: at the start twice the reference value, less for copper, iron, agapite, verite and valorite weapons, armour and shields (The city vendors).
• Vendors buy nothing. To sell there are the Market orders, between players; gold enters the world from monsters and chests.

IV The biomes

The lands of each world are divided into fourteen biomes, from the beaches to the snowy peaks. The biome decides the ground under your feet, the trees and the woods you chop, the beasts and monsters that live there, the places that rise there and the dungeon gates.

Trees never too thick

Even the thickest jungle always lets you through: between two trees there are at least five meters, between a tree and a bush three and a half. No forest blocks the character. Felled trees grow back.

The woods

Ash and yew are the common woods. The fine woods grow in few biomes, mixed with the other trees: yew in the cold forests and in the mountains, heartwood in the ancient woods, bloodwood in the jungle and in the swamps, frostwood in the tundra and on the peaks. The finer the wood, the better the bow. In every season the fine woods stay recognizable: the trunk keeps the color of its wood.

Beasts and monsters

In Fioralba, outside hostile sites, the biome beasts live: deer, wolves, boars, bears and others. They do not attack first and defend themselves when attacked. Hunt them for hides and experience, and tame the more peaceful ones. Monsters roam their biomes in small groups, guard the places of the continent and the dungeons, and attack on sight (The monsters and their brains). Each biome has its own. With GM mode active, monsters do not choose the game-master as a target on their own; they can retaliate when attacked. With GM mode inactive, the normal rules apply.

Cenerombra

In the dark world the biomes are the same but change their face: the ground is ash, the trees are dark and twisted, the water is blood, in some areas a ghostly fog comes down, and lava flows in the mountains too.

V The sky, the seasons and the shadows

The sky of CONQUERCUBE is the real one. The day lasts twenty-four hours, the date is today's, the sun and the moon are where they are on the Earth at this moment. Nobody can make time run faster: neither the players nor the Game Masters.

The sun, with Kepler's laws

The world turns around the sun on an elliptical orbit, like the Earth: in January it is closer, in July farther away. Its axis is tilted by 23.44 degrees, and it is this tilt that makes the seasons. The game calculates the true position of the sun at every moment with the formulas of astronomy: Kepler's second law, the eccentricity of the orbit, the equation of time that makes true noon arrive a few minutes earlier or later.

The world's time is the solar time of the place where you are, that of a sundial: no time zones, no daylight saving time. Going east the sun rises earlier, going west it rises later; on horseback, riding west, you can even chase the sunset.

The shadows

Every shadow in the game comes from the real sun: at dawn it is long and points west, at noon it is short, at sunset it lengthens again towards the east. In winter the sun stays low and the shadows are long all day; in summer it climbs high. At night the light comes from the moon, and it changes with its phase.

The moon

The moon goes around the world like the real one: about twenty-nine and a half days from one new moon to the next, an orbit tilted by just over five degrees, the nodes turning in eighteen and a half years. There are full moon nights, when you can see far, and moonless nights, truly dark.

The seasons

The seasons are the astronomical ones: northern spring begins at the March equinox, summer at the June solstice. In the south it is the opposite: when it is winter in the north, it is summer in the south. At the top of the screen the game shows the date and the season of the spot where you are. At the equator the day lasts twelve hours all year round; going up towards the poles the summer days lengthen up to the midnight sun and the winter ones shorten down to the polar night.

The world changes with the season: the crowns turn yellow and fall, the trees blossom, the snow settles on the meadows, on the roofs and on the conifers, and whoever walks leaves footprints. Lakes and rivers freeze and you can walk on them, and near the poles the sea is covered with pack ice, which withdraws in summer. If the ice melts beneath you, the game takes you to the nearest land or solid ice, on foot and mounted; only if there is nothing solid around do you find yourself swimming. Before that, when the ice is about to give way, it creaks and a warning tells you. In Cenerombra the snow is grey with ash, the frost is reddish and the sea of blood freezes into a dark crust.

The weather

The weather follows a formula calculated from the date, area by area, and it is the same for all players: rain in spring and autumn, summer storms, snow where it is cold, the desert almost always dry, the tropics with their rainy season, fog in the morning and on the mountains. You see clouds, drops, flakes, lightning, puddles. The weather is only looks: it does not change the rules of the game.

The torch

At night and underground the torch gives light; it is made at the Mage Tower (sulfurous ash, logs and a few coins, no skill needed). It goes in its slot of the character sheet and is lit and put out with a double-click on the slot. Lit, it gives light around for about ten meters and you see the little flame on your back; put out, it gives no light and is not visible on you.

A torch lasts 30 minutes of light, and time runs only while it is lit: putting it out stops the consumption. When the 30 minutes are over the torch disappears and the slot stays empty: you put in another one. It weighs 0.6 kg. The alternative is the Night Sight spell, which lets you see at night as in daylight.

The world map is the solar system

Opening the world map you see the planet in its space: the sun, the elliptical orbit, the moon going around it, the tilt of the axis that brings one pole towards the sun in summer and takes it away in winter. All with the same calculations as the sky you walk under. With W A S D you move the view, with the wheel you zoom in, with the left button you rotate.

VI Levels, attributes and skills

The character rises up to level 200. At every level it gets 3 attribute points and 5 skill points to put wherever it wants. Rising is slow, as in the games of the old days, and the points are not enough for everything: you have to choose what to be.

When you level up health, mana and stamina are refilled, and the character lights up with a sound: those standing near you see and hear it too. It happens at the instant the experience is enough, whatever gave it to you.

Experience from monsters

• A monster gives all its experience as long as your level does not exceed it by more than 24 levels; beyond that, −2.5% for each extra level, never below 10%. Hunting monsters that are too weak pays little.
• Killed summoned creatures give neither experience nor loot: they vanish. Not even a tamed creature (someone's) gives experience.
• A monster brought down by your follower counts as killed by you: experience and loot are yours (or your party's).
• Monsters that the Game Master made stronger or weaker give the experience of their new level; the loot stays that of the original monster, unless the Game Master gave it its own bag in the creation sheet. Those commanded by the Game Master give experience to nobody.
• In a party experience is split among the living members within 50 meters: see parties.

The three attributes

Each attribute has a cap, which potions and jewels can exceed a little. In the character card you see the values, the cap and the points still to spend.

The twenty-seven skills

Each skill reaches 100 (a little more with jewels). With 5 points per level, at level 200 you have 1,000 points: ten full skills out of twenty-seven. Whoever wants to be a great mage will not also be the best blacksmith, and whoever wants to mint coins gives up something else.

Changing your mind

Points are spent from the character card. In every city there is the shop to redistribute attributes and skills: you can rebuild the character without starting over.

Jewels

Rings and amulets raise a skill, necklaces an attribute. Rings, amulets and necklaces can also be of defense, of magic resistance, of fire and of duration. Six levels, from I to VI, and they are the only way to take a skill beyond 100. They are not crafted: they are found only in the loot of chests and monsters. You wear one per slot: a necklace, an amulet and a ring.

Two jewels of the same skill or the same effect add up, up to the cap.

How to recognize them

The shape tells the type: the ring is a band with the gem in its setting, the amulet an octagonal medallion, the necklace a little chain with a pendant. The level is read from the metal and the gem: I copper and quartz, II iron and emerald, III gold and sapphire, IV agapite and amethyst, V black rock and ruby, VI mithril and diamond; from IV the gem has a heart that shines, brighter going up. The family from the little stones on the sides: red for combat, blue for magic, green for crafts. The new families also have a symbol in relief: glowing ember flames for fire, an hourglass with violet sand for duration, a small silver shield for defense, a small shield with a blue rune for magic resistance, the goldsmith's lens for Jewelcrafting, a green drop of poison for Poisoning.

How rare they are

A jewel can come out of every chest of the places of the world and of the dungeons, from the boss chest and from every monster. The level of the chest (or of the monster's band) is the maximum: a VI can come out of an F chest, but almost always something lower comes out. In Fioralba you do not go beyond III; from IV only in Cenerombra. Of the jewels found 3% are of defense, 3% of magic resistance, 5% of fire, 5% of duration; the rest are skill rings and amulets (56%) and attribute necklaces (28%).

They wear out

Jewels have durability, and they are fragile: half the plate of their tier.

At every blow that reaches you, from a weapon, an arrow or a spell, from a player or a monster, every jewel you wear rolls on its own and loses a point once in two, independently of the armor: the same blow can ruin the glove and the ring too. An armor piece loses a point once in seven, a jewel once in two: the jewel wears out about three and a half times faster, and it has half the durability. A parried or dodged blow does not touch it. Below half of its durability when new the jewel gives a smaller bonus, like everything (chapter XIV); fully worn out it breaks and disappears.

They can be repaired, but they yield less

The jeweler repairs them, with the Jewelcrafting skill, at the Jeweler's Shop, at the goldsmith's bench with the lens and the vise: the higher the skill, the more the repair succeeds. Each repair takes away forever 10% of the durability when new and 10% of the effect (the effect never below half from repairs); after nine repairs it can no longer be repaired, and you wear it until it breaks. From the sixth repair the maximum durability is below half of the original, and the jewel yields even less right after being repaired: the two drops multiply.

This is why a new jewel is always worth more than a repaired one, at the Market and on you: fighters are always hunting new jewels, and jewelers always have work.

VII Combat

With a click you choose the target, with a double-click you attack it, and the attack goes on until you press Esc. You strike while running, on horseback too; you shoot and cast while moving. Every blow can hit or miss, be dodged or parried, and armor, shield and defenses work against every blow.

Balance

Reach and weapons

Bows, crossbows and targeted spells hit up to 30 meters; melee reaches 2 meters, halberd and spear 3. Without the weapon's skill you rarely hit; with full skill almost always. Damage grows with the weapon's metal (from copper to mithril) and, for bows and crossbows, with the wood.

Dagger, kryss, spear, bows and crossbows use Dexterity instead of Strength.

Those that hit more enemies (greatsword, axe and quarterstaff up to two, halberd up to three): the blow goes to the chosen target and, in the same swing, to the nearest enemies who are attacking you within the weapon's reach. Each takes a full blow, with its own dodge and its own parry. Those not attacking you, companions and mounts are never hit; the weapon wears only once per swing.

The special weapon: the Vampiric Greatsword. It fights like the vermillion greatsword and 40% of the damage it deals comes back as health to the wielder. It is made at the Blacksmith with 30 vermillion ingots, 15 mithril ingots and 50,000 coins, and it needs Blacksmith at least 115: without Blacksmith jewels you cannot even try. If the work fails you lose half the ingots and all the coins.

The charged blow

As in Ultima Online, when attacking the blow charges up before it starts, with all weapons. With the target far away the character raises the weapon (or draws the bow, or aims the crossbow) and stays charged while running after it: as soon as the target is within reach, and in sight for bow and crossbow, the blow starts. Even the first blow with the target already close waits for the gesture: whoever is attacked sees the charge and can run away. Whoever has a charged blow has two crossed yellow swords on a red background above their head, visible to everyone. If the target vanishes (invisibility, Hiding) the charged blow is lost; when the attack is dropped (Esc, target dead or beyond 34 meters, another target) the weapon goes back to rest. Monsters charge their blows too. Spells keep their casting time.

Stamina

Stamina is the character's fatigue: one point for each point of Dexterity (never less than 10). You see it in the bar above the quick bar and in the character sheet. Casting spells costs no stamina, and on horseback running costs nothing: the beast does the work.

At zero: on foot you can only walk and cannot shoot while moving (you must stop to shoot); afloat you stay still until it comes back; overloaded you can no longer move. Underwater stamina stays still: there oxygen counts (Water and swimming, chapter III). Refresh potions restore it: the lesser a quarter, the normal half, the greater all of it; then for 8 seconds you cannot drink another Refresh.

How fast you run

On foot speed comes from Dexterity: at 250 you run at 35 km/h and walk at 13 km/h; each point below 250 takes away 0.15%, down to 36% less at Dexterity 10. You run by holding the right button (or Shift) and running costs stamina; at zero stamina you walk.

In the saddle (horse, Nazgul Horse, Ancient Weaver and bears) you go at 70 km/h running and 20 km/h walking, and running costs no stamina. Free beasts and monsters move at their own pace instead (a free horse runs at 35 km/h). Swimming, on the surface and underwater, everyone goes at 10 km/h fast and 5 km/h slow. Beyond the carrying weight you go slower; the ghost runs at three times the speed of running on foot.

The defenses

• Physical defense, against blows and arrows: armor and shield, then protection spells and jewels. It has a cap, and close to the cap every point is worth a lot.
• Magic defense: the Magic Defense skill with Intelligence, the plate metal or the leather, the robe, then the jewels.
• Parrying: with the shield and the Parrying skill you parry melee blows and part of the arrows; the more precious the shield's metal, the more arrows it stops. Two-handed weapons, with Parrying, defend like a shield of their metal but parry less. A parried blow only wears the shield, or the two-handed weapon that parries. Spells cannot be parried or dodged.
• Dodging: it comes from Dexterity.

Armor and sets

Four families: metal plate, chainmail, leather in five levels, and the mage set in five levels (robe, gloves and boots). Defense and magic defense add up piece by piece. The full set, all of the same family and the same level (or metal), gives a passive on top:

The passive does not drop with worn pieces: it disappears only if a piece breaks, because the set is no longer complete. Armor has no abilities to activate: only these passives count.

The mage set

Spell damage is also split among the three pieces, like the defenses: the robe carries 60%, the boots 25%, the gloves 15%, each according to its level. With nothing on, spells deal ×0.31; the full L5 set ×1.20, the L3 set ×0.70. With mixed pieces each one's share adds up: an L5 robe alone is not enough for full damage.

• The aura lights up only with the full set of the same level, in the light color of the robe; spiral, circle at the feet, vapor, threads and runes grow with the level.
• Red eyes only with the full level 5 set: aura and red eyes together.
• With an L5 robe and gloves or boots of other levels: no red eyes, no aura, no passive.
• Wear also goes piece by piece: a worn robe only lowers its own share.

What weapons, shields and armour look like

• Weapons come in two shapes: a knightly one for copper, iron, agapite, verite and valorite, and a noble one, decorated with gold, for mithril, Black Rock and vermillion. The colour is that of the metal. Bows and crossbows have a shape for each wood, richer from ash to Frostwood. The Vampiric Greatsword has its own.
• Shields: the lion shield for mithril, Black Rock and vermillion; for the other metals the knightly shield.
• Plate is a slender, decorated armour, in the colour of its metal; the plate head comes in five shapes (below).
• Chainmail is the foot soldier’s: a hauberk down to the knee with its slits, a mail hood, mail gloves with leather palms, mail hose and leather shoes.
• Leather is made of plates of hardened leather, with a leather helmet and hood, and it grows with the levels: stitching and iron studs, then two straps crossed on the chest, then gold edges and studs; at level 5 a red gem shines in the middle of the chest and there is a gold medallion on each pauldron.
• The robe of the mage set has a hood; boots and gloves are the same colour. The colours of the levels are ivory, blue, emerald, violet and red, and the embroidery grows with the level; the Nazgul Robe is black.
• At night weapons, shields and armour of mithril, Black Rock and vermillion glow as always (below).

The shapes of the plate head

The plate head comes in five shapes: Armet, Bascinet, Burgonet, Closed helm and Stechhelm. They all have the same stats: only the look changes. The shape is chosen at the Blacksmith, when the head is forged, and never changes afterwards: it stays written on the item and travels with it through the bank, trades, the corpse and the Market. The vendors sell all of them, one entry per shape, at the price of the plate head. One dropped by monsters, or found in chests, has a random shape; one created by the game master has the shape he chooses. A plate head without a shape is an Armet.

At night the metals of Cenerombra glow

At night, mithril, vermillion and black rock armour lights up with an aura the colour of its metal: blue for mithril, red for vermillion, violet for black rock. The same aura runs along the blade of weapons and over the face of shields made of those three metals, even without the armour. It fades with the day; the vampiric greatsword stays red by day as well. If the weapon is also poisoned, the green of the poison is added to the aura.

Healing

• Bandages: they heal a good part of your health in a few seconds, and you can bandage yourself even while running; with high Dexterity it is faster. A heavy blow while you bandage spoils the healing. When poisoned the bandage does not heal: it tries to remove the poison, all the more often the higher the Healing skill (bandages against poison).
• Heal potions: three sizes, one potion every few seconds. Bandages and potions can be carried without limit.
• Spells: Heal, Greater Heal, Arch Cure (chapter IX).

Poison

Poison goes through every defense. You get it from venomous creatures, from traps, from magic, and from poisoned blades: five flasks made at the Mage Tower, from lesser to lethal poison, poured on a cutting or piercing weapon (never on hammers and maces) and lasting a certain number of hits. To pour them you need the Poisoning skill at 30 at least (below). Arrows cannot be poisoned. The antidote, the Cure spell and bandages remove it.

You can see the poisoned hit

When a hit passes on poison, whether from a poisoned blade, the bite of a venomous creature or the spider boss, a cloud of green particles appears on the character or creature that was hit at the moment of the hit: you can tell at once that the hit was poisoned.

• The poison symbol above the head: anyone who is poisoned, player or creature, by any poison (from weapons, creatures, traps or magic), carries it as long as the poison lasts, with its level.
• The message: whoever is poisoned sees «You have been poisoned (Lethal)!», with the level of the poison. It comes with every new or stronger poison, not with every hit that renews it.
• Only hits that land poison: a missed, dodged or parried hit does not pass on the poison. Whoever is immune (spiders and arthropods, undead, constructs such as golems, elementals) is not poisoned and shows no cloud; the cloud does not appear either if whoever is hit already carries a stronger poison, because that poison does not take.
• Venomous creatures (spiders, scorpions, the Ancient Basilisk…) poison with every hit that lands, with the level of their poison.
• Arachnid, the spider boss with a human face (level 300), poisons with one hit in four that lands, with Lethal poison: that hit makes a large poisonous cloud around whoever was hit. The cloud is only seen: it does not poison those nearby.

Poisoning: the skill of poison on blades

To pour a poison on a weapon you need the Poisoning skill, a combat skill like Tactics or Parrying: it rises with skill points up to 100 and with jewels up to 120. Below 30, poison potions cannot be used: the game refuses the flask, which stays in the backpack, and the 30-second wait does not even start.

How to poison a weapon

1. Take the weapon in hand: poison goes only on the weapon you are holding, not on those in the backpack.
2. Double-click the poison flask in the backpack: the targeting cursor appears.
3. Open the character sheet and click the weapon in the hand slot. The character pours the poison on the blade.
4. Faster: put the flask on the quick bar and press its key: it poisons the weapon in your hand by itself.

After a flask you wait 30 seconds before pouring another one, even if you change weapon. The blade stays poisoned for its hits (from 10 to 4, depending on the poison: the poison table), and only the hits that land use them up. Clicking the weapon shows whether it is poisoned, with which poison, how many hits are left and how strong it is.

You can see the poisoned blade

As long as hits remain, the poison shows on the blade: green particles along the edge, by day and by night, seen by anyone near you. The stronger the poison, the stronger the effect: with Lesser Poison a few dripping drops, from regular Poison also a thread of green vapour, from Strong Poison acid sparks and a glow, with Lethal Poison a thick cloud of drops and vapour. On mithril, vermillion and black rock weapons, at night, the poison adds to the aura of the metal.

On the character sheet the slot of the poisoned weapon shows a green drop: hovering over it with the mouse shows the poison and the hits left. Clicking the weapon opens its card: the weapon's characteristics and, in green, which poison it is, its level, the hits left and the strength given by the Poisoning skill (damage, duration, how much health it takes per second).

Which weapons can be poisoned

More skill, stronger and longer poison

The flask decides the level of the poison (from Mild to Lethal); the Poisoning skill decides how much it hurts and how long it lasts. With Poisoning at 100 the poison is exactly the one in the table; below it is weaker and shorter, above (only with jewels) a little stronger and longer. The strength is decided by whoever pours it, at the moment of pouring: it stays on the blade as long as there are hits, even if you then take off a jewel or hand the weapon to someone else.

The percentages are of the maximum health of whoever takes the poison, counted on 1,000 points at most: on big monsters the poison takes no more than that. The formula is the same as Tactics: 50% + 50% × Poisoning/100, both for the damage and for the duration. Poison goes through every defense, as always, and is removed with the antidote, with the spells that remove poison and with bandages.

The jewels of Poisoning

As for every skill there are the ring and the amulet of Poisoning, from I to VI: +2, +4, +6, +9, +12, +15, up to the cap of 120. They have the same health, the same value at the Market and the same repairs at the Jeweler's Shop as the other skill jewels of the same level, and they wear out with the hits taken like the combat ones (they do not expire with time like the crafting ones). You recognize them by the red little stones of combat and by the green drop of poison on the sides of the gem. They are not crafted: they are found in the loot of chests and monsters like the other jewels, with the same chances as any other skill (how rare they are).

Bandages and self-healing

Bandages heal yourself, other players and any living creature, even other people’s (mounts, tamed creatures, animals and monsters); a mount is bandaged when nobody is riding it. Double-clicking Bandages in your backpack always opens the targeting cursor: choose whom to bandage, including yourself. From the action bar, selecting another player or a creature heals that target directly; with no target, a targeting cursor opens and Esc cancels it. The small button on the Bandages slot toggles Self-healing, initially off and saved for that slot. When enabled, the hotkey heals you; if another player is selected, a message explains that you pressed a self-healing hotkey, and no healing starts or bandage is consumed.

Bandages against poison

When poisoned the bandage does not heal health: it tries to remove the poison, of any kind and level (from monsters, traps, spells, poisoned blades). How often it succeeds is decided by the Healing skill of whoever bandages: it rises little by little, it is high at 100 and very high at 120 with jewels.

• If the poison goes away, that bandage does not give back health: it only removes the poison («The bandage removed the poison»). The next bandage heals again.
• If it does not go away, the bandage is used up, does not heal and the poison stays («The bandage did not remove the poison»): you try again with the next bandage, after the usual wait between one bandage and the next.
• If the poison ends by itself (or an antidote removes it) while the bandage is working, the bandage heals health as always.
• What counts is the skill of whoever bandages: a companion who is good with bandages removes the poison from you too.
• The formula: 80% × Healing/100 up to 100; from 100 to 120 it rises from 80% to 95%.

The flasks

Hiding

Anyone can try to hide: it succeeds more often with Dexterity and the Hiding skill. While hidden you take few steps; you reappear with the first blow, the first cast, when running or when someone bumps into you. You cannot hide right after being hit. The Reveal spell uncovers whoever is hidden or invisible.

Mounted

Fights often happen on horseback. While mounted the beast cannot be targeted: blows reach the rider. Mounts however have a shield of their own, which stops the first damage before it reaches the rider; the stronger the beast, the bigger the shield. Poison goes through.

VIII Potions, bandages, poisons and timed jewels

Everything you drink, pour, throw or wrap: the flasks of the Mage Tower, the Tailor's bandages, blade poisons, explosive flasks, the flask that shrinks creatures, and the jewels that expire. The numbers in these tables come from the game.

How to use them

• Double-click the flask in the backpack, or drag it onto the quick bar and press its key (1–0), or click the slot.
• Drinking has no animation and interrupts nothing: neither a spell you are preparing nor a blow you are charging. You only hear the sip.
• Each family has its own wait: after a Heal you wait before another Heal, but you can drink a Mana or a Refresh right away. The waits do not affect bandages, spells and weapon abilities.
• While paralyzed the only potion you can drink is the Anti-Paralysis Potion: no heals, mana, Refresh, antidotes, bandages, blade poisons, and not even the explosion potion (neither thrown nor set off on yourself). The others can be drunk again as soon as you are free (Paralyze).
• Once drunk, the potion is gone: it leaves no empty bottle in the backpack, and no bottles are needed to make new ones.
• Flasks, bandages and poisons stack; you can carry as many as you like, with their weight (0.5 kg per flask).

The potions to drink

They are made at the Mage Tower, at the alchemist's bench, with the Alchemy skill: at the required skill you succeed 40% of the time, 95% with a good third more. Reagents are enough, and they are sold at the Tower: empty bottles no longer exist. First-level ones can be bought ready-made from the Tower's Mage, at twice their value: the Mage has 10 of each kind (the game master decides how many) and at every vendor cycle (a cycle lasts an hour) they come back full.

The Anti-Paralysis Potion can also be found in monster loot: 1% up to level 40, 2% up to level 100, 3% (1 to 2) up to level 160, 4% (1 to 2) above level 160; the monsters that cast Paralyze (Corrupted Siren, Lich, Archdemon, Lich King) drop it 15% of the time (1 to 2). Beasts do not, and chests never have it.

Attribute and invisibility potions

The potion's invisibility is the spell's: you can move and heal, but attacking or casting you reappear at once.

Blade poisons

They are not drunk: they are poured on the cutting or piercing weapon you hold (double-click the flask and then click the weapon with the targeting cursor, or from the quick bar); never on hammers and maces. The Poisoning skill is needed, at least 30: below that, the flask cannot be used (the Poisoning skill). The blade stays poisoned for a certain number of hits landed: missed, dodged or parried blows do not use up the poison. After pouring one you wait 30 seconds before pouring another (the wait is on your hands, not on the blade). They do not go on the bow, the crossbow or the Spellbook, and a weaker poison does not replace a stronger one that is still active. Clicking the weapon shows which poison it carries, how many hits it has left and how strong it is.

The damage and duration in the table are those with Poisoning 100: with the skill at 30 the poison does 65% of the damage and lasts 65%, at 120 with jewels 110% (the full table in the Poisoning skill).

Poison goes through every defense. It is removed with Antidotes (table above) or with bandages, which on a poisoned target try to remove the poison instead of healing (bandages against poison).

Poison kills monsters too, and the kill goes to whoever applied it: if the poison tick brings health to zero, experience and loot belong to whoever poisoned it (to their party, if they have one). Two poisons do not add up: the second, equal or stronger, replaces the first, and with it the kill passes to whoever applied it; a weaker one does not remove a stronger one. On large monsters poison is calculated on 1,000 health points at most (a Lethal takes at most 500 points from a dragon). Immune: spiders and insects, undead, constructs and elementals. Magic Reflection sends the Poison spell back the first time.

Explosive flasks

They are lit (double-click or bar key) and the 3-second fuse starts, only one: throwing it does not reset it. They are thrown with the crosshair at a target or a spot within 12 meters and they always land where you throw them. If the fuse runs out in flight they burst when they land; if you do not throw them, they burst in your hand. One lit flask at a time; after one, you wait 15 seconds.

The burst hits everyone, companions and yourself included: full damage to whoever stands within 1 meter of the spot, half up to 3 meters. It is physical damage: it is dodged with Dexterity and parried with the shield like an arrow («Flask parried» or «Flask dodged» appears above the head), then physical defense counts. It stops behind cover, like spell areas.

Bandages

Bandages are made at the Tailor with first-level wool, for free, and they always succeed (Tailor: 3 Wool Level 1 → 5 come out, 2 s); they can also be bought ready-made from the Tailor, who has 50 (the game master decides how many) and is full again at every vendor cycle (a cycle lasts an hour). They are applied like flasks, but the healing arrives at the end:

• How much it heals: from 36% to 60% of maximum health with Healing and Anatomy at 100 (less with less skill).
• How long it takes: 8 seconds with Dexterity 0, 6 with Dexterity 100, never less than 3. You can move and fight while the bandage works; one every 6 seconds.
• Blows spoil it: each blow that takes more than 19% of health removes 35% of the healing.
• When poisoned the bandage does not heal health: instead it tries to remove the poison, 40% of the times with Healing at 50, 80% at 100 and 95% at 120 with jewels; if it fails, the bandage is used up and you try again with the next one (bandages against poison).
• On others too: with a chosen target the bandage goes on them, player or creature, if you stand next to them (3 meters). The healing reaches them at the end, if they are still close. While mounted you cannot bandage your mount: dismount first.

Shrink Creature

The potion that turns one of your tamed creatures into a figurine to keep in the backpack, to bring back to life when needed or to give to another player. Drag the potion onto the creature. It cannot be used on a creature that has something in its pack (empty it first), on a summoned creature, or in flight. The figurine becomes a creature again only from the ground: drop it and double-click it, and it needs a little room around. Mage Tower: 2 Nightshade, 2 Spider's Silk, 1 Blood Moss, 60 coins, 10 s
Alchemy 44 for 40%, 60 for 95%.

Jewels, and those that expire

Rings, amulets and necklaces, their effects, how often they come out and how they wear with blows are in the chapter Levels, attributes and skills. Here the rule of the timed jewels:

• The rings and amulets of the non-combat skills (crafts, gathering, Taming, Swimming and Inscription) last two months: 60 days from the first time you take them from a chest or from a monster's corpse. Taking them later, from the ground, from another player or at the Market, does not restart the time.
• Their durability drops by one point a day, wherever they are (worn, in the backpack, in the bank, for sale): the label says «Durability 14/60 · in 14 days it wears out completely and is deleted». As long as they exist the effect is full.
• They do not wear with blows, they cannot be repaired (the Jeweler answers that they last two months) and they are not crafted. When they expire they are deleted and a message arrives in the mail.

Weapons, armor and items that wear out

Weapons, armor, shields, robes and jewels have durability that drops with blows and each is repaired in the shop of its craft, at the bench. How they wear and how much a repaired item yields is explained in the chapters on jewels and on crafts.

IX The spell

57 spells in eight circles. To cast from the book you need the Spellbook in hand, mana, reagents and the learned spell. The book can be used with robes, leather, mail or plate, including while holding a shield.

The spellbook, armor and shield

You can cast spells naked or wearing robes, leather, mail or plate. The Spellbook goes in the main hand; a shield can be held in the off hand. You can equip armour before or after the book. Cast time follows the circle; mana cost is shown in the table, including the exceptions for Mark, Recall and Gate Travel. You can move and run while preparing a spell.

To cast from the spellbook you must have learned the spell and have enough mana and reagents: the server takes them at the start of the preparation, only once. If the cast is interrupted, they are not given back. Putting away the spellbook, dying, entering the water to swim or losing the session interrupts the cast. Scrolls are used up when read: they do not require the spellbook or reagents, but they require mana and the spell's own checks.

Reactive Armor and Protection stay full on those who wear cloth or no armor, and count for a third on those who wear leather, chainmail or plate. Putting on a piece of these armors only cancels Reactive Armor and Protection already active; changing robe, spellbook, shield or jewels does not cancel them. The other spells and the curses remain. A spellbook compatible with the armor does not remove this rule on the two buffs.

How to cast

• You choose the spell from the bar, aim at the target (or the spot, for walls and area spells) and wait for the casting time. The higher the circle, the longer the cast, the more mana, the longer that spell's cooldown.
• Spells need their reagents, which are bought at the Mage Tower or gathered.
• Hit while casting, the spell can fail. The Concentration skill, Protection and the robe's concentration points lower the risk; jewels can raise the skill. Dexterity does not decide this failure. Poison damage can also make it fail.
• Spells deal the same damage to players as to monsters, and area spells also hit companions.
• The Autocast bar casts on yourself the spells you choose, with their timer.
• Healing and help spells go on the chosen target, whoever it is: even an enemy, if you chose it. Heal, Greater Heal and Cure also heal a creature, for example your horse; while mounted, however, the mount cannot be targeted, it is healed after dismounting. Reactive Armor and Protection can also be given to another player: full on those wearing cloth, a third on those wearing plate, chainmail or leather. To cast them on yourself, click on yourself with the crosshair.

From the spellbook or from a scroll

From the spellbook a spell succeeds 50% of the time with the Magery skill at its circle's threshold, and always thirty points above. The thresholds: I 0, II 10, III 20, IV 30, V 40, VI 55, VII 70, VIII 80.

From a scroll, as in Ultima Online, the spell counts as two circles lower and with 20 extra Magery points, for success only: the damage stays that of your skills. A scroll needs no spellbook and no reagents, can be read in any armour and is used up. The cooldown belongs to the spell, not to the way it is cast: after a Paralyze from the spellbook the Paralyze scroll also waits its 18 seconds, and vice versa.

Paralyze

• It lasts 12 seconds at any Magery level, from the spellbook and from a scroll. Only duration jewels make it longer, up to +40%: 16.8 seconds.
• The paralyzed player cannot do anything: cannot move, attack, cast spells (not even from scrolls or with Autocast), use abilities, bandages or potions, and not even the explosion potion, neither thrown nor set off on themselves. A spell being prepared fizzles.
• The only thing they can do is drink the Anti-Paralysis Potion: it frees them at once, from any Paralysis (the spell, the Paralysis Wall, the monsters that cast it: Cultist, Horned Matriarch, Archdaemon, Lich, Swamp Spirit, Lich King and witches, hags and warlocks from level 130). Between one potion and the next 30 seconds pass, and its wait is separate from that of healing and of the other flasks.
• It also breaks at the first hit taken, physical or magical. Afterwards, for 12 seconds they cannot be paralyzed again (also after the potion).
• Magic resistance can resist it: at most 42.5% of the time, with resistance at the cap of 85.
• Bosses are immune.

The mage in armour

In plate, chainmail or leather the spellbook works just the same, and the chance to succeed does not change. Three things are lost instead:

• Spell damage: without the mage set pieces spells deal ×0.31; with the full L5 set ×1.20. In plate, then, about a quarter of the damage.
• Meditation: up to 3.3 kg worn (the weight of the mage set) nothing is lost; each extra kg removes 20% of Meditation, and from 8.3 kg it no longer counts. The weight removes the ability to meditate, the meditation boost and the part of mana regeneration that comes from Meditation; base regeneration and the Intelligence part remain. A full mithril plate weighs 13.2 kg: with it you cannot meditate.
• Living Mana and concentration: the extra regeneration of the full set (up to +75%) and the robe's concentration points, which lower the risk of failing the cast when you are hit.

The eight circles

The walls

Five spells raise a wall crosswise, following the terrain: the Wall of Stone blocks the way and cuts the line of sight, so no arrows or targeted spells go through it; the Fire Field burns whoever stands in it; whoever walks into the Paralyze Field gets stuck; the Energy Field blocks but lets blows through; the Poison Field poisons. Area spells go over the stone. Dispel Field puts them out.

Paralyze

Whoever is paralyzed cannot do anything, except drink the Anti-Paralysis Potion: no spells, scrolls, bandages or potions. Paralysis breaks with damage according to its effect or with the potion; magic defense helps resist it and afterwards you are immune for a while. The red chains can be seen and heard. All the rules in Paralyze.

Some rules to remember

• Poison and Poison Field. For players, poison level depends on Magery, including jewellery bonuses: Lesser below 30, Regular from 30, Greater from 60, Deadly from 90 and Lethal from 120. Intelligence does not determine its level. The field retains the poison level determined when cast. A poison icon above poisoned players and monsters shows the level and remaining duration; it disappears when cured or expired.
• Magic Reflection sends back the next hostile targeted spell, Poison included, then it breaks: 1 charge. It does not reflect area spells. After it breaks you must wait 30 seconds before putting it on again.
• Poison Field is a strip across the chosen spot, up to 6 meters long and 3 meters high, like the other walls; it follows the terrain. It is not a disc with a 3-meter radius.
• Blade Spirits and the other summons last according to the Magery skill: 180 seconds at Magery 100, in proportion to the skill, rounded and with a minimum of one second. Duration jewels lengthen the time.
• Summon Creature from the spellbook requires the creature learned and allows a level at most equal to your Magery, up to 120. You choose among the summonable creatures: bosses and excluded special creatures do not become summonable just because you have enough Magery. The specific summoning scrolls have their own separate checks.

Rune travel: Mark, Recall and Gate Travel

Buy a Teleport Rune at the Mage Tower. Each rune is a separate item: brown when blank, red when marked. Click its name in its item card to rename it. After Mark it has 10 charges; the counter shows how many remain.

1. Mark. Select the spell or its scroll, then click a blank rune in your backpack, including one inside a bag. Casting begins only after selecting it. On completion, the rune records your current location in Fioralba or Cenerombra, including a dungeon if the location is valid. Each rune can be marked only once: its destination cannot be changed, even after it runs out of charges.
2. Recall. Select the spell or its scroll and click a marked rune in your backpack. The rune must be marked in your current world: Recall cannot travel between Fioralba and Cenerombra. Casting takes 20 seconds; only you see your Recall countdown. The destination terrain is prepared from the start of the cast. If preparation succeeds, you arrive at the rune’s location and consume one charge.
3. Gate Travel. Select a rune marked in the same world. The gates form over 20 seconds: an energy vortex gradually becomes a doorway, with a rising sound. The departure gate forms in front of the caster, away from their body, and the other at the rune’s destination. The destination terrain is prepared from the start; nearby players also prepare their arrival as they approach. Once preparation succeeds, both gates open for 30 seconds from activation, with a positional energy hum. They are blue in Fioralba and red in Cenerombra. All players can cross in either direction: walk into the doorway to emerge from its twin, without another Recall or cast. NPCs cannot cross. All your living tamed animals in the same world arrive with you, including distant or stationary animals; the same applies on return. Opening consumes one rune charge; crossing consumes no additional charges. Preparing an arrival never extends the gates’ lifetime. After arriving, step out of the gate and back in to return.

Taking damage interrupts Recall and Gate Travel during the 20-second cast and while waiting for the destination to load, including damage from ongoing effects. If the destination is not ready when the countdown ends, the journey keeps loading: do not cast again, and slow preparation alone does not cancel the spell. Arrival or gate activation occurs only when the scenery is ready. One rune charge is consumed only once, upon a successful transfer or gate activation; crossing costs no additional charges. Mana, reagents or the scroll are paid only once at the start and are not refunded if interrupted. Gates remain open for 30 seconds from activation. Their sounds follow volume and mute settings and stop upon closure or cancellation.

Marked runes can be transferred to other players: current ownership matters, not who marked them. To cast, the rune must be in your own backpack, not in the bank, on the ground or in a creature’s inventory. A blank, exhausted or unowned rune cannot start Recall or Gate Travel. At zero charges it remains marked, but can no longer be used or marked again.

Casting from the spellbook requires the learned spell, the book in hand, mana and reagents; using a scroll requires the scroll and mana. Mana, reagents or the scroll are paid when casting begins and are not refunded if casting is interrupted. A rune charge is consumed only when Recall succeeds or Gate Travel opens its gates. Transferring or changing the rune during casting can cancel it.

The three spells and their scrolls use the circles, mana and times listed here. Their scrolls can appear in normal spell loot. Recall and Gate Travel work only within the same world, including while mounted, without a toll. A rune marked in the other world is rejected before consuming mana, reagents, a scroll or charges. To change worlds, use a permanent portal for 1000 coins. Murderers cannot enter Fioralba: they must first redeem themselves under the criminal system.

Scrolls, summons and Polymorph

• Inscribing. At the Mage Tower, with the spellbook in hand, whoever has the Inscription skill (and the Magery of the circle) writes a spell from their book onto a blank scroll, paying the reagents and the mana. While the quill writes the mana flows away; if it succeeds, the spell flares for a moment on the mage and the scroll is ready; if it fails the spell fades, and the mana is lost anyway. Moving or being hit ruins the writing. The written scrolls are the same as those in loot, and they can be sold.
• Scrolls are read without reagents, using them up, even without being a mage: the effect is that of the book, made with the reader's stats. The rarest drop only in Cenerombra.
• Summoning and Polymorph scrolls are dragged onto the spellbook: the creature enters the spellbook forever, even after death. The more powerful the creature, the rarer its scroll.
• Summon Creature calls one of the creatures in the spellbook; the elementals and the daemon have their own spells. Summons follow the mage and fight for them.
• Polymorph turns the mage into one of the creatures in the spellbook, for five minutes: you really become that creature, with its health, its defense, its attack and its speed. As a creature you do not cast spells, do not use weapons, abilities, bandages or potions: you walk and fight with its attack, and the «Return to normal» button appears at the bottom. You also return at the end of the five minutes, with Dispel or by dying, and health comes back in the same percentage the creature had. Turning into a boss you get a weakened version: health divided by 3 and damage by 0.75.
• Dragon Form, at the top of the eighth circle: for five minutes the mage becomes a black dragon, with bite and breath. The answer is Dispel, which turns them human again.

X PvP, loot and the criminal system

In Fioralba no blow passes between players. In Cenerombra PvP is open everywhere, even in the cities, and loot is full: whoever dies leaves on their body everything they carried, and in Cenerombra anyone can open it.

Name colors

• Only whoever started gets the kill. Whoever attacks first becomes their target's aggressor for five minutes; if the other defends themselves and kills you, it costs them nothing.
• Criminal: attacking a blue player turns you orange for five minutes from the last blow. Whoever kills an orange gets no kill: if thirty of them attack you, that is your problem.
• Murderer: at five active kills the name turns red. Whoever kills a red never gets a kill. A red who attacks does not turn orange: they are already attackable by anyone.
• Active kills drop by one every twelve hours, on their own. Below five the name turns blue again.
• Total kills never drop: they are shown in every player's card.
• Oranges and reds cannot use the portals to go back to Fioralba.

The totems of redemption

Six totems, scattered across Cenerombra, remove one active kill for 10,000 coins. Then you wait twenty-four hours on all the totems of the world, not only on the one used. Each totem is guarded by guards between level 100 and 120 who leave no loot.

The loot

Out of the water a player’s body stays on the ground for twenty minutes with the backpack and all the equipment. If they die in the water, it stays sixty seconds on the bottom and you must dive to recover it. In Cenerombra anyone can open it and take it piece by piece; in Fioralba only its owner opens it. When the body disappears, whatever nobody took disappears too. Only the Spellbook is never lost: it does not end up in the body and stays with you. Work tools (pickaxe, knife, axe) end up in the body like everything else. The tomb on the minimap and on the world map shows you where your last body is, as long as it exists (only you see it): if you die again it moves to the new body. The party does not protect you: in Cenerombra there is friendly fire, and the loot goes to whoever takes it.

XI Death and resurrection

You die as in Ultima Online. The body stays on the ground, and you become a ghost.

• The ghost runs at three times the normal running speed, without using stamina. It respects collisions; monsters ignore it, it does not attack, it does not speak and it does not go through portals. No spell touches it, except Resurrection.
• At the totem you come back naked, with 10% of your life, and in your backpack only the Spellbook, which is never lost. Everything else, pickaxe, knife and axe included, is in your corpse: run to your body before it expires, twenty minutes on land, sixty seconds on the seabed if you died in water. The gravestone on the minimap and on the world map shows you where.
• The Resurrection spell, of the eighth circle, works only on ghosts, who must accept it. Far from the corpse you rise as at the totem; near the body you go back into it, with all your belongings and half your health and mana.
• Your creatures when you die (chapter XVII):
  • those summoned with a spell disappear;
  • the tamed followers become untamed at once: they go wild, with their leash at the spot where you died, and monsters stop attacking them; anyone can tame them again;
  • the mount you were riding does not go wild at once: it stays yours for 10 minutes, standing at the spot of your death with its leash. Nobody else can tame it, but monsters can attack and kill it. If you resurrect and get back in the saddle within 10 minutes, everything goes back to how it was; if not, it goes wild at that spot. Even if you die again, it keeps waiting for you at the first spot.
• If you leave the game as a ghost, you come back as a ghost, where you were.

Game Masters

In Fioralba a character's corpse can be opened and looted by its owner or by a Game Master. In Cenerombra anyone can open it. The Game Master can open and take items from the corpses of all players, in dungeons too: they must get close to the body and respect its expiry.

The game master can click a ghost character and choose Resurrect from the menu. The character comes back to life where it stands, as at the Totem: 10% of life, zero mana and full stamina. Lost items stay in the corpse; this command does not recover them. The Spellbook, which is never lost, follows the same rules as at the Totem.

XII The dungeons

Fifteen dungeons, eight in Fioralba and seven in Cenerombra. Each one is a map of its own, outside the planet: you enter through a huge gate and find yourself on the threshold. The gates are spread across the whole continent, each one in the biome of its dungeon. Four floors going down, more and more dangerous, and at the bottom the boss hall.

The gates

• Where the dungeon lies at the foot of a mountain, the gate is carved into the rock wall; on the plains, in the woods, in the deserts and in the swamps there is a stone temple gate built on purpose: a great pylon with two sloping towers, the hall with its buttresses and steps, two columns on the forecourt, in the stone of its biome (sandstone in the desert and savanna, mossy stone in the woods, drowned stone in the swamps, basalt in the volcanic lands, granite on the plains, white stone by the sea, frosted stone in the cold).
• Each dungeon has its gate, four times as tall as a man: the stone arch, the two open doors and the darkness inside. The runes on the arch and on the doors sparkle in different colours by day and glow at night.
• You enter by crossing the threshold, on foot: no command is needed. When you leave the dungeon you find yourself outdoors, in front of the gate.
• The gate exists in both worlds, because the geography is the same: it is open only in the world of its dungeon; in the other it is sealed and you cannot enter.
• Dungeons are always shown on the minimap and the globe. Next to every gate there is a Resurrection Totem.

How they work

• All your creatures come in with you, tamed and summoned, wherever they are.
• Each dungeon has its own light: the ice and sea ones are bright; those of the undead and of the swamps are dim, with torches on the walls and a low fog on the floor of some halls.
• Traps are plates hidden in the floor, almost identical to the stones: bursts of flame, poison clouds, paralysis, arrows from the wall. The Reveal spell uncovers them for thirty seconds to everyone watching, within twenty meters of the mage; once uncovered, they can be destroyed from a distance with bows and spells. Whoever hits them in melee sets them off on themselves. Automatic targeting never chooses them.
• Chests open in thirty seconds and grow in value going down: in Fioralba from A to the boss's C, in Cenerombra from D to F. The boss chest refills once an hour and gives a jewel once in ten (in Fioralba up to III, in Cenerombra up to VI).
• Bosses and guardians leave their loot in their corpse, richer than the other monsters': everything drops more often and in larger amounts (bosses double, guardians one and a half times) and a jewel drops more often (a boss once in forty, a guardian once in a hundred). Mithril, vermillion and black rock pieces are only in the boss chest of the Cenerombra dungeons, one time in ten. The boss chest is extra.
• Emptied chests and killed bosses stay that way even if the server restarts, until their time comes back.
• The big brutes stay in the large halls.

The seven dungeons of Cenerombra

Necropolis Cenerombra Ancient Woods · undead

The city of the dead beneath the ancient woods. Among the tombs roam werewolves, corpse spiders, vampires, death knights and Nazgul horses, with the cultists, witches, hags and warlocks; in the mist, the wraiths. Further down the liches and the Corpse Abomination, and at the bottom their king.

Monsters

Werewolf, Corpse Spider, Wraith, Vampire, Cultist, Death Knight, Nazgul Horse and witches, hags and warlocks

Guardians

Lich and Corpse Abomination

Bosses

Lich King, who strikes with magic

Levels

from 60 on the first level to 200 on the fourth; chests D-E, boss F

Light

dim, with torches on the walls, low fog in many halls

Frost Kingdom Cenerombra Ice Fields · frost

Ice halls under the ice fields of the dark world, bright and freezing: orcs, hill trolls, frost wraiths, ice golems, hill and frost giants, wyverns, dragon warriors and titans. The dragons stand guard; the largest hall of all the dungeons belongs to the Ancient Black Dragon, some fifteen meters tall. Its breath is twice that of the other dragons: a cone of fire 20 m long and 12 wide at the end, hitting all the players and their creatures inside it. Where it passes, the fire stays on the ground, spreads and for 10 seconds burns whoever stands in it.

Monsters

Orc, Frost Wraith, Hill Troll, Orc Archer, Orc Shaman, Ice Golem, Hill Giant, Wyvern, Dragon Warrior, Frost Giant and Titan

Guardians

Black Dragon and Ice Dragon

Bosses

Ancient Black Dragon, which strikes with magic

Levels

from 60 on the first level to 200 on the fourth; chests D-E, boss F

Light

bright

Infernal Portal Cenerombra Volcanic Lands · fire

Beneath the volcanic lands the gate of hell opens: lava in the cracks of the floor, red mist, salamanders and lava and fire elementals, stone golems, imps and demons of every breed, from flying maws to skull colossi and crowned demon kings, infernal wyverns, witches, hags and warlocks. The Archdaemon and the Red Dragon guard the boss hall, where the Lord and the Prince of the Abyss take turns.

Monsters

Imp, Daemon, Lava Elemental, Stone Golem, Lava Salamander, Flying Maw, Infernal Brute, Fire Elemental, Demon Warrior, Horned Matriarch, Blood-Horned Demon, Infernal Wyvern, Skull Colossus, Crowned Demon King and witches, hags and warlocks

Guardians

Archdaemon and Red Dragon

Bosses

in turn the Lord of the Abyss (fire whip) and the Prince of the Abyss (fire sword): same numbers and same loot, they strike in melee. When the level wakes up, it is the one of the current half hour; every time the boss comes back, the other one returns

Levels

from 60 on the first level to 200 on the fourth; chests D-E, boss F

Light

dim, with torches on the walls, a little fog

Worm Pit Cenerombra Desert · sand

Tunnels of sand and stone beneath the desert: giant scorpions, orc archers, stone golems, air and earth elementals, cyclopes and titans. The Sand Worm watches the road to the Scorpion King.

Monsters

Giant Scorpion, Orc Archer, Stone Golem, Air Elemental, Earth Elemental, Cyclops and Titan

Guardians

Sandworm

Bosses

Scorpion King, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 60 on the first level to 200 on the fourth; chests D-E, boss F

Light

dim, with torches on the walls

Basilisk's Lair Cenerombra Swamps · swamp

Underground swamps in the half-light and the mist: swamp drakes, constrictors, putrid demons, water elementals, spiders up to the Spider Queen, witches, hags and warlocks. The Swamp Spirit guards the Ancient Basilisk, who strikes from afar.

Monsters

Venom-Spitting Spider, Jungle Constrictor, Giant Black Widow, Corpse Spider, Putrid Demon, Swamp Drake, Giant Spider, Water Elemental, Spider Queen and witches, hags and warlocks

Guardians

Swamp Spirit

Bosses

Ancient Basilisk, which strikes from afar

Levels

from 60 on the first level to 200 on the fourth; chests D-E, boss F

Light

dim, with torches on the walls, low fog in many halls

Leviathan's Abyss Cenerombra Cliffs · sea

The gate stands on the edge of the cliffs and the descent leads towards the sea, through bright, wet halls: pirates, sea serpents, water elementals, witches, hags and warlocks. The Abyssal Elemental stands guard; at the bottom waits the Leviathan.

Monsters

Pirate, Sea Serpent, Water Elemental and witches, hags and warlocks

Guardians

Abyssal Elemental

Bosses

Leviathan, which strikes from afar

Levels

from 60 on the first level to 200 on the fourth; chests D-E, boss F

Light

bright, a little fog

The eight dungeons of Fioralba

Catacombs Fioralba Plains and Fields · catacombs

Tunnels of bones beneath the plains of Fioralba, in the half-light: skeletons, skeleton warriors and archers, ghouls and greater ghouls, mummies, spiders and frost wraiths. A werewolf guards the King of the Catacombs.

Monsters

Skeleton, Ghoul, Greater Ghoul, Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Archer, Mummy, Venom-Spitting Spider, Weaver Spider, Giant Black Widow, Werewolf and Frost Wraith

Guardians

Werewolf

Bosses

King of the Catacombs, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 8 on the first level to 95 on the fourth; chests A-B, boss C

Light

dim, with torches on the walls, low fog in many halls

Goblin Den Fioralba Temperate Forests · woods

Tunnels dug under the temperate forests: goblins, scouts, slingers and shamans. The Goblin Champion protects the Goblin King.

Monsters

Giant Rat, Goblin Apprentice Shaman, Goblin Scout, Goblin, Goblin Slinger, Goblin Shaman and Goblin Champion

Guardians

Goblin Champion

Bosses

Goblin King, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 8 on the first level to 95 on the fourth; chests A-B, boss C

Light

dim, with torches on the walls

Bandit Hideout Fioralba Cold Forests · cave

A cave in the cold forests, full of bandits, archers and assassins. The Bandit Chief guards the Bandit Lord.

Monsters

Assassin, Bandit, Bandit Archer, Pirate, Bandit Chief and Werewolf

Guardians

Bandit Chief

Bosses

Bandit Lord, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 8 on the first level to 95 on the fourth; chests A-B, boss C

Light

dim, with torches on the walls

Spider Caves Fioralba Ancient Woods · cave

Webs under the ancient woods: cellar and cave spiders, hunters, venom-spitters and weavers. The Giant Black Widow guards the Ancient Weaver.

Monsters

Cellar Spider, Hunting Spider, Cave Spider, Venom-Spitting Spider, Weaver Spider and Giant Black Widow

Guardians

Giant Black Widow

Bosses

Ancient Weaver, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 8 on the first level to 95 on the fourth; chests A-B, boss C

Light

dim, with torches on the walls, a little fog

Pirate Cave Fioralba Beaches · beach

A bright cave beneath the beach, full of pirates, bandits and cave serpents. At the bottom, the Pirate Captain.

Monsters

Giant Rat, Bandit, Bandit Archer, Cave Serpent, Pirate and Sea Serpent

Guardians

Pirate

Bosses

Pirate Captain, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 8 on the first level to 95 on the fourth; chests A-B, boss C

Light

bright

Tombs of the Kings Fioralba Desert · sand

The tombs of the kings beneath the desert of Fioralba: mummies, skeletons, giant scorpions and dune jackals. In the last hall keeps watch the Tomb Colossus, a giant of dark stone with cracks glowing with gold.

Monsters

Skeleton, Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Archer, Mummy, Dune Jackal, Venom-Spitting Spider, Giant Scorpion and Werewolf

Guardians

Giant Scorpion

Bosses

Tomb Colossus, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 8 on the first level to 95 on the fourth; chests A-B, boss C

Light

dim, with torches on the walls, a little fog

The Marsh Fioralba Swamps · swamp

An underground swamp in the mist: young swamp drakes, jungle constrictors, ghouls and goblin shamans. At the bottom, the Ancient Swamp Drake.

Monsters

Giant Rat, Ghoul, Greater Ghoul, Goblin Apprentice Shaman, Young Swamp Drake, Venom-Spitting Spider, Jungle Constrictor and Goblin Shaman

Guardians

Jungle Constrictor

Bosses

Ancient Swamp Drake, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 8 on the first level to 95 on the fourth; chests A-B, boss C

Light

dim, with torches on the walls, low fog in many halls

Raider Dens Fioralba Savanna · savanna

Bright burrows beneath the savanna, now the lair of the orc raiders: outcast orcs, raiders, raider archers and shamans, with bandits, goblins and dune jackals. The Masked Orc Raider guards the Raider Chief.

Monsters

Bandit, Bandit Archer, Outcast Orc, Goblin Apprentice Shaman, Orc Raider, Dune Jackal, Goblin Slinger, Orc Raider Archer, Raider Shaman, Giant Scorpion, Goblin Shaman and Hill Troll

Guardians

Masked Orc Raider

Bosses

Raider Chief, who strikes in melee

Levels

from 8 on the first level to 95 on the fourth; chests A-B, boss C

Light

bright

XIII The places of the world and the chests

Outside the cities the continent is full of places to explore: castles, towers, graveyards, camps, ruins, mazes and rock inlets. They are built into the very ground of the world, in the open and in special spots (on a peak, in a crater, on a promontory, in a river bend), and inside there are themed monsters and loot chests. The old hostile camps are gone: monsters live in these places and roam their biomes (The monsters and their brains).

The same places stand in the same spots in both worlds; in Cenerombra they are gloomier and their monsters much stronger. Levels rise with the distance from the nearest city and with the danger of the spot: the easiest near the cities, the hardest in the farthest cursed places, inlets and mazes.

Castles and towers

• Castles have a curtain wall with a wall walk and battlements, corner towers with spiral stairs and a keep with several floors. Archers stand on the walls and on the towers; to get them you have to climb up. Every castle has two chests: at the top of the keep and at the bottom of the tower farthest from the gate.
• Towers have four floors with a spiral staircase and a terrace or a pointed roof at the top; the chest is on the top floor. There are watchtowers, wizard’s towers, spiral towers, collapsed towers and a lighthouse.
• When you go in, the roof and the floors above your head disappear, as in the shops: you only see the floor you are on. As you climb the stairs the cut rises with you.
• Cursed castles and towers are the same buildings, blackened and broken: cracked stone, shattered battlements and spires, windows of green or violet light (red where demons dwell), hanging chains and cages, brambles and dead trees, bones and a low mist. Gothic castles and cursed towers hold the undead, basalt castles and demon-haunted towers hold demons.

Graveyards, camps and ruins

• Graveyards are ghostly even by day: the boundary wall with its gate, the gravel paths, the crooked rows of headstones, the large tombs, the statues, the dead trees, the will-o’-the-wisps, the candles and a light low mist that does not hide headstones or monsters. The chest is in the crypt at the back. There are country, monumental, desert (with mummies), northern (with barrows) and swamp graveyards.
• Camps belong to orcs, goblins, bandits and gnolls (now inhabited by the orc raiders), in the biome that suits them: palisades, tents, the fire in the middle; the chest is in the leader’s tent.
• Ruins and structures: temple ruins, abandoned quarries, spider dens, stone circles, witch’s huts, infernal altars and northern ruins, each with its monsters; the chest is on the altar or in the best-guarded spot. Minor places (bivouacs, nests, lairs, barrows, ruins, pools, bone piles) lie where the land calls for them: peaks, clearings, promontories, river bends, paths.

Open-air dungeons: inlets and mazes

• The inlets (Inlet of Shadows, Inlet of Laments, Inlet of the Black Wind, Inlet of a Thousand Ways, Serpent’s Inlet, Inlet of Whispers and Inlet of Mist) are mazes of canyons carved into the mountains: narrow winding branches, wider spots and dead ends, tall irregular rock walls, puddles in the low spots and a low mist that changes with the biome. You enter from the gorges that run down to the land outside; the chest is in the dead end farthest from the entrance.
• The mazes (Bramble Maze, Maze of Sands, Green Maze, Frost Maze, Reed Maze and Ancient Maze) are built in the open, as in Ultima Online: tall walls, corridors wide enough for a horse, themed after the biome (hedge, sandstone, vines, ice, reeds and stakes, ancient brambles). Here too there are puddles, low mist and the chest in the farthest dead end.

Morgana’s Castle

Only in Cenerombra, on the island of the Middle Lake, stands the largest and grimmest castle in the world: a black cliff sheer above the lake of blood, reached by the Bridge of Laments with its ghostly lanterns. It has a double curtain wall with towers, the drawbridge, the parade ground with the gallows and the cages, the prisons, the desecrated chapel with its crypt, the banquet hall and the keep with its floors, up to the throne room and the spire with the violet eye at the top, 96 metres above the forecourt.

Inside there are 74 monsters from level 85 upwards: lookouts with bows on the walls and towers, witches, warlocks, undead and demons, split into zones that call one another. In front of the empty throne stands guard a Lich of level 250. The chests, of tier F, are three: beside the throne, at the end of the crypt and in the last room of the spire.

When they wake up

The monsters of a place appear when a player comes within 400 metres and disappear when nobody has been within 450 metres for 30 seconds. Whoever dies comes back after 10 minutes, in the same spot; whoever is wounded heals by itself if you stop hitting it. On the globe and the minimap places follow the fog: they appear when you have them on screen (Maps and fog).

The chests

• The chest is opened from close by (within 4 metres, on the same floor) and it takes 30 seconds: opening it wakes the monsters of the place, and if you move or get hit the opening stops. Once open, it shows its contents in a window: you take one piece at a time, dragging it into the backpack, or everything at once. A piece can also be dragged straight to the ground, and it counts as taken; on the ground it stays 60 seconds.
• In Fioralba the chest tier follows the distance from the nearest city: A up to 3.5 km, B up to 6, C up to 8.5, D beyond (chapter XV). In Cenerombra it follows the strongest monster of the place: D up to level 120, E up to 160, F up to 200. It refills 60 minutes after the first piece is taken.

• In chests and on monsters there are gold coins, according to their level: a chest is worth 5 monsters of its level (chapter XV).
• There are materials, weapons, armor, jewels, flasks, reagents and scrolls, each with its own probability. The rarest scrolls only in Cenerombra; weapons and armour of vermillion, black rock and mithril are only in the boss chests of the Cenerombra dungeons.
• A jewel comes out of an A or B chest 0.6% of the time, C or D 1.25%, E 1.9%, F 2.5%; the chest's level is its maximum (chapter VI).

The game master’s camps

The old hostile camps have been removed from both worlds, together with their chests. The game master can still place a camp of monsters from his templates, for example for an event: the notices of his tools point to this chapter.

· The monsters and their brains

Monsters no longer wait camped around a fire: they roam their biomes in small groups, guard the places of the continent and the dungeons, and attack on sight. Each monster has a role (who hits, who shoots, who casts, who heals) and a race that sets its temper, and the monsters of a group coordinate with one another. The combat numbers are the same as always: what changes are the choices, that is whom to hit, when and from where.

Where the monsters are

• In the places: castles, towers, graveyards, camps, ruins, inlets and mazes have their own themed groups (The places of the world).
• In the biomes: the continent is divided into squares of 200 metres and on average there are 2 patrols per km², each of 2-4 monsters of the biome, with their roles. Never inside the cities or within 120 metres of them, never in the water, on buildings or on bridges, never closer than 200 metres to a totem or 150 metres to a dungeon gate.
• Along the water: next to the reagent bushes, on the river banks, there are the guard posts: two creatures of the bushes’ level, sometimes with a companion from the biome who shoots or casts spells (Who guards the banks). They attack on sight too.
• In the dungeons: every room has its squad, always with someone at the back shooting or casting (The dungeons).
• Monsters appear when you come within 400 metres and disappear when nobody has been within 450 metres for 30 seconds; whoever dies comes back after 10 minutes, whoever is wounded heals by itself if you stop hitting it.
• The beasts of Fioralba (deer, wolves, bears and the others) stay in their biomes, never strike first and defend themselves. In Cenerombra there are only monsters, except the sheep near the cities and a few horses.

Patrol levels rise with the distance from the nearest city:

In Fioralba no monster goes beyond level 100: bosses live in the dungeons, and in the world there are only four stronger leaders, of level 90 and 114, in the places farthest from the cities. In Cenerombra monsters reach level 200 and there are no bosses in the world: in the same four spots a guardian stands watch (Archdaemon and Black Dragon, level 250); level 300 bosses live only in the dungeons.

Which monsters you meet in each biome (the themes, most frequent first):

The roles

How a group fights

• Casters and healers in the middle, protected; shooters behind and on high spots; the melee in front and on the sides. The group picks a common target and calls for help: hit one, and the rest of the squad comes.
• Encirclement: melee monsters share out the spots around you without piling up; whoever finds no room waits its turn in a wider circle and steps in as soon as a spot frees up. In corridors they line up.
• Line of sight is the same as for players: outside the dungeons, trunks, tall hills, walls and closed doors stop the arrows and spells of monsters, exactly like yours. A covered archer moves to find a clear line.
• Monsters do not attack one another, never cast spells they do not have and have no mana: their limit is the cooldown of each spell. They chase you at a run; only ghouls, skeletons and mummies chase you at a walk.

The races

The role says what a monster does; the race says how it does it:

Witches, hags and warlocks

Only in Cenerombra, from level 110 to 190, in the gloomiest places: cursed castles and towers, graveyards, swamps, dark woods and ruins of Cenerombra; Necropolis, Infernal Portal, Basilisk's Lair, Arachnid’s Nest. They are three families: the witches, old women with long white hair and a hooked staff; the hags, old women with one blind eye and a bone necklace; the warlocks, with white beards and hair and a staff topped by an orb. All of them dress in black, with a black pointed hat; witches and hags wear the colour of their rank on the hat. They are group mages: they heal their companions, paralyse and curse the most dangerous foes, strike from afar. Hags have the spells of the warlock of their rank and in every group take half of his places; from level 160 warlocks and hags also summon a daemon.

The new monsters

The monsters have new models, with their own animations: orcs, goblins and trolls, ghouls and the werewolf, giants, golems and elementals, demons, spiders and scorpions, dragons and drakes, skeletons and wraiths, witches, hags and warlocks (the mummies and the Arachnid stay as before). With them came monsters that did not exist before:

These monsters have left the game; in their place, in the same places and in their dungeons, there is another one:

• The Frost Wraith and the Imp now heal their companions too (Heal every 25 seconds).
• The Orc Shaman casts a real Curse: it truly lowers your attributes, with the rules of the players’ spell.
• Mummies walk slowly like ghouls and skeletons.
• The Arachnid, level 300, is the boss of the Arachnid’s Nest, the seventh dungeon of Cenerombra (The dungeons).

XIV Mines, metals and crafts

Everything you wear is made by players: from ore to ingot, from ingot to sword. And every job can fail.

The mines

Eight large mines per world, at the foot of the mountains, twins between Fioralba and Cenerombra, plus a small mine outside every city of Fioralba, with copper and iron, for beginners. The large mines go down in five layers: the deeper you go, the more precious the metals. Ores are recognized by their veins, which glow at night.

A base mine repopulates: when all the ores are gone (earth and stone do not count) it stays empty for 48 hours, then it is full again, with the same percentages and a slightly different layout; and in any case it repopulates every three days, even if nobody dug. One minute before, it warns whoever is inside, then takes them to the surface, at the edge of the mine.

The Game Master also opens mines of their own, round, wherever they want and with the material they want (one of the metals, gold or USDC, in Fioralba too): they have a name, a radius from 4 to 100 meters and from 1 to 10,000 ore cubes, spread in the three layers below the surface and denser the deeper you go (one seventh in the first layer, two sevenths in the second, four sevenths in the third). They appear on the world map with the mines icon and disappear when they are exhausted. This is how the Game Master brings new gold into the world (see The Game Master and gold).

You dig on your own. With the pickaxe in hand you use Mine from the bar and point at the ground: the first strike starts there, then the character carries on alone, one strike every second and a half. By hand you give at most one strike every 1.2 seconds, with the pickaxe and with the hatchet. It first digs the ores it can mine (a missed strike it tries again, an ore above its Mining it skips), then the earth and rock around, in steps, never more than three cubes below its feet. Earth and rock disappear: only ores stay in the backpack. In a mine it goes on through the whole mine; outside mines it stays within six meters of the targeted spot. It stops if you move, click elsewhere or press Esc, if the backpack is full or the pickaxe is broken, and when there is nothing left to dig around. Whoever lets it run without watching takes the risk.

You can always climb out of a pit. From any point of the mine, even ten or twenty metres underground, click on unmined ground and your character climbs back to the surface, whatever the height difference. This also works for pits just outside the edge of the mine. It is not a way to climb: trees, buildings and blocks placed on top of the ground stay where they are.

When you already hold a pickaxe, a hatchet or a skinning knife, click the right target directly. You do not need to select the tool again from the bar: you can choose a new tree or a new sheep with another click. If you are far away, the character gets closer and starts the work. Tools take the right main hand and put any shield away in the backpack. All gathering work is done on foot, never on a mount.

Shearing sheep and chopping trees

With the skinning knife in the backpack, choose a live sheep within 3 meters. The character stands next to its side and removes the fleece in five passes, for six seconds of work. The 2–3 units of level 1 wool reach the backpack only at the end. A full shearing leaves the sheep without fleece for ten minutes.

If you interrupt the shearing, for example by moving, preparing a spell or leaving the game, the coat stays cut up to the point reached and the work already done is kept for 30 seconds. Resume before they run out to continue from the same phase; after 30 seconds the fleece is whole again and the work starts over. A sheep can be sheared by one character at a time; when the work is paused another one can resume it too, and the wool goes to whoever completes it.

For trees, use the hatchet in hand: at least three chops are needed, and felling can fail according to the skill. The chops already given and the notches on the trunk remain for 30 seconds from the last blow; each new blow renews the wait. If 30 seconds pass without striking, the cut starts over. The logs are collected when the tree falls; the felled tree grows back after ten minutes.

Shearing gives no experience. Chopping the tree carves the wood: each chop deepens the cut until it falls.

Gathering reagents from bushes

The plants of the six lakes, the photographs of the five levels and the complete rules are in the chapter Gathering reagents.

The production chains

Refining costs no coins, as in Ultima Online: the ore that becomes an ingot, the logs that become boards at the Sawmill, the wool that goes up a level at the Wool Mill and the hide that becomes leather at the Hideworker only need the materials. Coins are paid to craft the finished items.

You can fail

Every job succeeds or fails according to the craft skill; the craft's attribute helps only a little (Strength for the blacksmith, smelting and minting, Dexterity for wool, leather and bows, Intelligence for alchemy): from 10 to 250 points it moves the skill that counts from 90% to 100%. Every recipe has a difficulty: at the skill that «requires» it you succeed 4 times in 10, a little above you reach the maximum, 95 times in 100; below it you fail more and more. If a job goes wrong you lose half the materials (at least one) and all the coins for the job.

Smelting: from ore to ingot

At the Refinery an ore becomes an ingot, without paying coins. You need the «Smelting - Making Ingots» skill (from 0 to 100, up to 120 with rings and amulets): the higher it is, the fewer mistakes, and you can smelt the more precious metals. Gold ore can go wrong too. Then the gold ingot goes to the Mint, with the Minting skill. The table shows at which skill you reach 4 successes in 10 and at which the maximum (95 in 100), with Strength 100.

Tools, free hands and benches

To use work tools you must dismount: this applies to pickaxe, hatchet, skinning knife and work at the stations, repairs and scrolls included. While mounted the work does not start and no resources are used. If you mount during a job, the gesture is interrupted; partial shearing remains for 30 seconds.

To work it is enough to be inside the craft's building or within 2 meters of its edge. When you start, the character automatically takes position next to the tool and starts the animation: this applies to crafting, repairing and inscribing scrolls. Materials, coins and tools are checked before moving you.

Craft tools and work tools (Pickaxe, Knife, Woodcutting Axe, Smith’s Hammer, Bowyer’s Tools, Sewing Kit, Leather Awl) are items like the others: they are bought for 5 coins from the «Work Tools» vendor (the title over his head reads Tool Vendor), who stands next to the Totem in the center of every city, 2 of each kind, which come back full at every vendor cycle (a cycle lasts an hour; the craft tools are also sold by the vendor of their craft: Blacksmith, Bowyer, Tailor, Tanner), they can be traded, put in the bank, sold to the Market, and when you die they end up in the corpse. They last a very long time, 30,000 strokes: every job uses one (a pickaxe or axe stroke, a shearing, a skinning, a crafting or a repair at the shop) and so does every hit landed while striking with the tool in hand, which does the damage of fists. They cannot be repaired: at the last stroke they break and disappear. With the Sewing Kit in hand you cannot attack. Without the right tool in hand (or with your hands busy, where they must be free) the game tells you and the work does not start. Drinking a potion instead needs nothing: it has no animation and interrupts neither a spell nor a charged weapon.

What wears out, and when

Weapons, armor, shields, robes and jewels have their durability. Only the blow that lands wears, from a player or a monster, from a sword, an arrow or a spell:

• Blow landed: one armor piece of whoever takes it, at random among those worn (shield included), loses one point; each jewel, on its own, once in two; and the weapon of whoever strikes loses one point.
• Blow parried: only the shield wears. Whoever parries with a two-handed weapon, without a shield, wears the weapon: nobody parries for free.
• Blow dodged or missed: nothing wears.
• Spells cannot be dodged or parried: a damaging spell always lands and wears like a blow. The fire of a wall wears one point per second on whoever stands in it.

Worn items yield less

Down to half of its durability when new an item yields fully. Below half it drops proportionally, down to half of the effect when it is about to break: it yields 50% plus the durability it has left (at 40% it yields 90%, at 20% 70%). At zero it breaks and disappears. Everything drops: the defense and magic defense of an armor piece, the defense and parry of the shield, the weapon's damage (and the parry of a two-handed one), the defense and spell damage of the robe, the bonuses of jewels. Each piece on its own.

Repairing

Only players with the craft repair, each at their own bench: metal at the Blacksmith, leather at the Tannery, cloth at the Tailor, bows and crossbows at the Bowyer; jewels at the Jeweler's Shop, with the Jewelcrafting skill. You pay coins and part of the materials, and the repair can fail: if it goes wrong you lose half the coins and half the materials, and the item stays as it was.

To repair you need the tool in hand, as for crafting: at the Blacksmith the hammer, at the Tannery the awl, at the Tailor the sewing kit, at the Bowyer the bowyer's tools; at the Jeweler's Shop free hands. The weapon you were holding is repaired from the backpack.

Every repair takes away forever 5% of the durability when new (jewels 10%). Up to the tenth repair an item comes back full; from the eleventh its maximum durability is below half of the original, and it yields less even right after being repaired. After the nineteenth it can no longer be repaired (a jewel after the ninth): you use it until it breaks and disappears. Nothing lasts forever, and the work of blacksmiths and jewelers never ends. Items that need repairing are worth little at the Market.

Practical examples

Whoever goes around in worn-out gear takes more blows and deals fewer: repairing in time matters, and so does knowing when to stop repairing and look for a new piece.

· Gathering reagents

Reagents are also gathered from the plants along the dry shores of the three lakes of Fioralba and the three lakes of Cenerombra. In Fioralba you find levels 1, 2 and 3; in Cenerombra levels 4 and 5. Every completed gathering can succeed or ruin the reagent.

Recognizing the five levels

These photographs show the plant models you find in the game. At level 1 five common plant reagents alternate: Mandrake Root, Ginseng, Garlic, Nightshade, Blood Moss. The plant keeps its own type of reagent when it grows back. The special bushes of levels 2–5 are three times bigger than the common level 1 plants.

Where to look for them, and how frequent they are

In each world there are 830 gatherable bushes, spread along the shores of the three lakes. They are on dry land: you do not need to enter the water. The share in the table tells how frequent that level is among the world's bushes; the success chance instead concerns the single gathering attempt.

The shares are rounded: they show the distribution of the plants, while the «Bushes» column gives the actual number. At level 1 each successful attempt delivers a single reagent of the chosen plant, not all five.

Who defends the shores

The banks have guard posts of creatures that defend the bushes: starting to gather can draw them in. Each post has two creatures of the bushes’ level, sometimes with a companion from the biome who shoots or casts spells: level 1 (Fioralba): Giant Rat; level 2 (Fioralba): Hunter Spider; level 3 (Fioralba): Giant Scorpion, Young Swamp Drake and Weaver Spider; level 4 (Cenerombra): Sea Serpent and Werewolf; level 5 (Cenerombra): Earth Elemental and Water Elemental. Their strength grows with the rarity of the reagent. A defender that is killed returns to its post after 30 minutes. Not all of them arrive before the gathering ends: distance and obstacles still matter.

How to gather

1. You must be alive and in your human form. Dismount from any mount.
2. Put away in the backpack everything that takes up your two hands: both must be empty, no weapons, shield, spellbook or tools.
3. Click the plant: if you are far away, the character gets closer. Gathering starts when you are within 3.5 meters, if the path is clear.
4. The character crouches and rummages through the leaves for 4.2 seconds. The reagents disappear gradually while it works.
5. Only at the end is the outcome decided: a success adds one unit to the backpack; if the reagent gets ruined, you collect nothing.

You need room in the backpack: beyond one and a half times your carrying capacity you cannot gather anything else. If the backpack is full or you are overloaded, gathering is refused. If these limits are exceeded during the work, the attempt is interrupted and the plant becomes whole again. Only one character at a time can gather from the same plant.

Why the reagent can get ruined

The risk is fixed per level: 5% at level 1, 10% at level 2, 15% at level 3, 20% at level 4, 30% at level 5. Skills and attributes do not reduce it. Gathering requires no skill and gives no experience or skill progress, whatever the outcome.

Regrowth and interruptions

An attempt carried through to the end leaves the plant empty for one hour, both with a reagent collected and with a ruined reagent. When the time is up the plant is ready again for a new gathering. If you try earlier, the warning tells you how many minutes are left. Leaving the game or a world restart does not reset the wait.

Moving, pressing Esc, being hit or starting another action interrupts the work. Mounting, dying, transforming, leaving or changing world also interrupts gathering. In that case the plant becomes whole again at once: you receive nothing, you keep no progress and you can start over. An interrupted gathering does not start the hour of regrowth.

XV Gold and the Market

The game's gold is born from monsters, chests and minting, and disappears with everything that is paid for: vendors, workshops and services burn the coins they receive. At the Market people buy and sell among players: the Market buys nothing, and the prices of goods are made by the players with their orders.

Where gold is born: monsters and chests

Every monster killed leaves gold coins according to its level: the base is 1 coin per level, with a little luck on every kill (from 80% to 120%) and never less than 1 coin. Guardians leave one and a half times as much, bosses double, and in Cenerombra everything is worth 50% more. Beasts (sheep, deer, wolves and the other animals) leave no gold: they leave hides, meat and wool.

Chests give gold too, as in Ultima Online: a chest is worth 5 monsters of its level, the dungeon boss chest double, and in Cenerombra 50% more. The Game Master's camp chests only have gold if the Game Master puts it in their table.

These are the starting numbers. The Game Master has a single knob for the base, which moves monsters and chests together.

Minting: 560 coins per gold ingot

Gold is also dug from mines: gold ore is smelted into ingots at the Refining structure, and at the Minter every gold ingot becomes 560 coins, all to whoever mints it. Minting can fail, like any work.

Where gold disappears: everything paid is burned

Coins paid to vendors and workshops, and those for services, are burned: they leave the game and go to nobody. They are the brake on the gold born from monsters, chests and minting.

These are the starting prices: the Game Master can change them.

The Market: buying and selling between players

The Market buys nothing: an item you do not need you put up for sale with an order, trade with another player or scrap. Prices are made by the players.

• Put items up for sale at your price, from your backpack: in stacks for stackable goods (ingots, reagents, potions, arrows…), one piece per order for weapons and armour. Items that need repairing are repaired first. Pouches and chests cannot be put up for sale: they can be renamed, and the buyer would not see what is inside.
• Anyone, from any Market in the world, sees the order and buys it. As in Ultima Online they pay first with the gold in their backpack and then from the bank (USDC coins only with the gold in the backpack), and the item reaches their backpack: what is bought, from vendors or from orders, never goes to the bank.
• The seller receives the coins in the bank, minus the 5% tax, which is burned, and a message in the mail without the buyer's name.
• Orders expire after fourteen days and the item goes back to the bank. They can only be cancelled at the Market where they were created, and the item goes back to the backpack.
• At the Market you can also buy and sell USDC coins, at the same price for buying and selling: it is explained in the USDC chapter (USDC).

Scrapping

An item you no longer need can be scrapped: at the Blacksmith's forge the metal (weapons, plate and chain armour, shields), at the Tannery the leather, at the Tailor the cloth (the mage robes with their boots and gloves). You choose the item in your backpack, the card first shows how much it returns and how much it costs, then you confirm.

• It returns half the materials of its recipe, for the health it has left: a new item returns half, one worn down to half returns a quarter.
• It costs 10 coins for every material recovered, which are burned: a new plate torso that returns 5 ingots costs 50 coins. If the item returns nothing, nothing is paid.
• It always succeeds and needs no skill. Items without a recipe, tools, bows, jewels, saddles and pouches cannot be scrapped.

What monsters leave

Since monsters leave gold, they leave fewer items, and the items in the world do not grow too much:

• weapons, armour and shields: a quarter of what they dropped before (they are the ones that pile up);
• potions, bandages and scrolls: half;
• reagents, ores, ingots, hides, leather, timber, cloth and jewels: as before.

Potions follow the monster's level: small up to level 40, medium up to 120, large above; the minor antidote up to 120 and the major one above.

Finished weapons and armour of mithril, vermillion and black rock are found only in the boss chests of the Cenerombra dungeons, one time in ten. Their ingots and ores also drop from Cenerombra monsters from level 121, one time in fifty: most often vermillion, then black rock, rarely mithril. In Fioralba the three metals come only from players.

The chests of the Fioralba places: further away, richer

In Fioralba the chests of the castles, towers, cemeteries and the other places of the continent, and the monsters guarding them, follow the distance from the nearest city: near the cities there are the goods for beginners, far away those for the strong. In Cenerombra the places stay hard everywhere.

The Game Master and the economy

The prices of goods are made by the players among themselves; the Game Master holds the two levers of gold: what comes in and what goes out. In the «Economy» page of the GM Panel:

• the base of the gold of monsters and chests and minting: a knob from −99% to +200% with «Apply», which changes the current value (to go further you apply again); while it moves, a small table already shows how much a monster of each level would leave in Fioralba and Cenerombra;
• crafting, repairs and Redistribution: one knob each, with examples that change while it moves (a sword of each metal, from copper to vermillion, and Redistribution at levels 1, 60, 120 and 200);
• the order tax between players, from 0% to 50%;
• the prices of the Barber, portals, redemption totem and scrapping: whatever number they want;
• on every value «Restore standard value», the current gold in the two worlds and the coins burned per item, day by day.

Vendor prices are changed instead, world by world, in the «Vendors and shops» page, and the «Markets» page shows the Game Master the orders on sale, the sales made between players and how many pieces of each thing exist in the world: so they can decide whether to put an item up for sale, without disturbing the market between players.

The Game Master and the vendors

In the GM Panel there is the «Vendors and shops» section, which only game masters see. At the top you choose the world with the two icons, Fioralba and Cenerombra: the vendors of the two worlds have their own prices, items and quantities. Above them is the vendor cycle, a single one for the whole game: it is written in minutes, hours or days, from one minute to thirty days (one hour at the start), and a ring shows how long until the next restock.

• Each vendor has its tiles: for every item the miniature, the price in gold coins (from 1 to 10,000,000) with a red notch at the starting price, and how many pieces it sells each cycle, from 0 to 9,999. «Take off sale» takes it out of the shop window, «Put back on sale» brings it back.
• «Add an item» opens the gallery of that vendor's trade: the Blacksmith the weapons, armour and shields of every metal, the Jeweler also the astral jewels, with the choices of their creator; every item has a suggested price. Never USDC: only the USDC Merchant sells it. At most 400 items per vendor.
• The knobs: one for each vendor and a general one for all the vendors of the chosen world, from −99% to +200%. While it moves, the tiles show the new price (70 → 105); «Apply» really rewrites the prices, in whole coins and never below 1, and saves them; then the knob goes back to 0%. Each time it starts from the price of that moment: a sword at 120, +100%, becomes 240; then −80%, 48. To go beyond +200% you apply it several times.
• The starting prices, with the new monster gold: copper weapons, armour and shields at 0.6 of twice the value, iron at 0.7, agapite at 0.8, verite and valorite at 0.9; vermillion, black rock and mithril and everything else at twice the value. The copper kit (six plate pieces, sword and shield) costs 405 coins, about an hour of hunting for a level 10; the valorite one 9,640, a few hours for a level 60. «Restore starting values» puts back into the form, for the chosen world, the list, quantities and starting prices and removes the added items; Save applies them.
• Before saving the section shows all the changes, one by one. On saving: changing only the prices does not refill the stocks; changing the list or the quantities at once refills all the vendors of that world, and changing the cycle refills them in both worlds, with the cycle starting again from that moment. If in the meantime another game master has already saved, the save is refused: reload the section, check the new numbers and save again. The changes stay written in the GM Log.

The «Markets» section of the Panel is only to look at: the pieces of every item in the world (counted by the census) with the average price between players, the orders on sale now in the Markets of the two worlds (who sells, at how much, until when), the sales made between players with a 14-day chart, and the order tax burned day by day. On every row «Put up for sale…» opens the USDC Merchant or the vendor of that item's trade, in the chosen world, with the item ready and, next to it, the average of the latest sales between players: so the game master enters the market only when he chooses to.

Who earns more: miners or hunters

With the monsters' gold and minting going to the minter, digging gold pays as much as hunting, with less risk. Estimates made with the starting numbers:

• a level 60 hunter, about 40 monsters an hour of levels 50-60: about 2,200-2,400 coins an hour in Fioralba and 3,300-3,600 in Cenerombra;
• those who dig and mint gold: about 2,500 coins an hour in Fioralba and 3,700 in Cenerombra, where gold is found 50% more.

Hunters also have an expense: wear. Every hit consumes the weapon, every parried blow the shield, every blow taken the armour, and repairing costs coins and materials. Estimate made with the real fights of the game (a level 100 warrior in plate, with sword and shield of the same metal, 45 monsters an hour):

The better metal costs less per hour: it lasts longer for every repair coin. Repair coins are burned, like all those paid to workshops. Hunting also pays in other ways, not counted here: experience, weapons and armour you keep, scrolls to learn, hides and reagents sold to other players with orders.

XVI USDC

Real USDC circulates in the game: the digital currency worth one dollar, one to one. Inside the world USDC is a resource like the others: it is dug as ore, smelted into ingots, minted into coins. One USDC coin in the game is one real USDC: you bring it in from your MetaMask and take it back out, on the Base network or on the Avalanche network.

BaseAvalanche

The treasury, the reserve and the count that always adds up

All the USDC of the game is in the treasury: the game vaults on Base and on Avalanche, with the same address on both networks. The treasury is the sum of the two vaults. In the game USDC comes in three forms, ore, ingot and coin: one ore makes one ingot, one ingot makes one coin, always one to one.

Every piece that is born in the game is taken from the reserve, and when the reserve is at zero no more are born. Every piece that disappears without leaving the game goes back into the reserve and can be born again.

USDC rewards. Besides the mines, the game may have USDC rewards: monsters that leave USDC in their corpse, chests and loot with USDC inside. These also come out of the reserve, like all the others, and the count always adds up.

Digging, smelting, minting

USDC is for masters only. To mine it you need Mining at 100; to smelt it the «Smelting - Creating Ingots» skill at 100; to mint it the Minting skill at 100. Smelting and minting can fail, and a piece that fails is deleted and goes back into the reserve.

As with all ores, a pickaxe blow that does not break off the USDC leaves the cube in its place: you try again and lose nothing. The Game Master opens USDC mines wherever they want, in Fioralba too; the veins pulse slowly, one beat every two seconds, and can be seen even in the dark, like the pieces left on the ground and their icons in the backpack. On the map the USDC mine has the coin icon.

Your MetaMask: bringing it in and out

• Connecting MetaMask: in the bank vault there is «Your USDC». Connect MetaMask with one click, or write your address by hand. It is the same address on Base and on Avalanche, and the game checks that it is written correctly.
• Depositing: from the «Your USDC» window choose the network and how many, and MetaMask sends the USDC to the game vault from your saved address. As soon as the network confirms the transfer, the USDC coins arrive in your bank, stacked with the ones you already had. A transfer from another address cannot be recognized by the game: it ends up in the reserve. A deposit does not use up the reserve: it brings in USDC that already existed.
• Withdrawing: choose how many USDC coins from your backpack you want to take out and on which network. They leave the backpack at once and stay locked in the request: nobody can spend them. The Game Master signs the withdrawal with their MetaMask, and as soon as the transfer arrives on the network the request closes and you get mail. If the Game Master refuses, the coins of the transactions not yet sent go back to your bank.
• Withdrawal split over the two networks: if the vault of the network you chose is not enough, the game takes all it can from there and the rest from the other network, and tells you beforehand. For example, 100 USDC requested on Avalanche with 80 in the Avalanche vault: 80 on Avalanche and 20 on Base.

In the backpack and in the bank you always see the total of your USDC coins, counted also inside pouches and chests. In the same window there is your history: the USDC found, smelted and minted, those arrived from the wallet, withdrawals and exchanges at the Market.

The USDC price: one only, for buying and for selling

At the Market of every city USDC coins are bought with gold and sold for gold, at the same price, the same in both worlds:

Gold coins are counted wherever they are, in Fioralba and in Cenerombra: in backpacks (also inside pouches and chests), in banks, in the bags of monsters and beasts, in loot, in corpses, on the ground, in chests and in the USDC fund. The game recalculates the price at every census, every 30 seconds, and at once when the vault or the USDC fund changes.

The USDC fund

The game has a USDC fund, a single one for both worlds, which started with 1,000,000 gold coins. Whoever buys USDC at the Market pays gold that goes in there; whoever sells USDC at the Market is paid from there, and if the fund's gold runs out the rest is born new. So buying and selling USDC does not change the price: the gold only moves between the player and the fund, and the total stays the same. The price is moved by the gold that is born (monsters, chests and minting), the gold that is burned (vendors, workshops and services) and the USDC that enters or leaves the vault.

Buying and selling USDC

• Buying at the Market: the Game Master puts a quantity of USDC coins on sale, taken from the reserve. They are bought in the «Buy USDC» tab of the Market of any city, paying only with the gold in the backpack: whoever exchanges gold and USDC takes the risk, gold in the bank does not count. The USDC bought arrive in the backpack. First come, first served, and the USDC bought can be withdrawn like any other.
• Selling at the Market: in the «Sell USDC» tab the USDC coins in your backpack (not those in the bank) are sold for gold, as many as you want, at the current price; the gold arrives in the backpack. The coins sold go back into the reserve.
• With other players: USDC coins can also be sold with the orders of your world's Market, like any other item: the seller puts them on sale by hand from the backpack, the buyer pays only with the gold in their pocket and they arrive in the backpack, never in the bank. The seller pays the order tax.

The Game Master's change. The Game Master can change the price for a while, until a date and time they choose, or lock it until they change it again; their price applies to buying and selling. When it expires the game price comes back by itself, at the first census after that date and time. The Game Master also decides how many USDC the Market sells: beyond those, nobody can buy any.

The «USDC price» page and the chart

At the top, in the game header, the button with the USDC coin opens the «USDC price» page: how much gold 1 USDC is worth now, how much gold there is in the USDC fund, the price chart and the explanation with the current numbers. If a price set by the Game Master applies, the page says so, with the date and time when it ends. The page and the chart update by themselves, without reloading, at every census and at every change of the vault, the fund or the price.

• The blue line, the USDC blue, is the price: how much gold 1 USDC is worth. The periods when a price set by the Game Master applied have a light red band behind the line.
• With the buttons above the chart you choose the period of each point: hourly (the last 48 hours), daily (30 days), weekly (26 weeks) or monthly (24 months). The line passes through the value at the end of the period; hovering over a point with the mouse you read the date, the value, the lowest and the highest of the period.

The game writes the price history at every census, since it began recording it; where the game was off the line breaks. Days, weeks and months follow universal time (UTC). The Game Master sees the same chart in the USDC section of their panel, where they also change the price and the gold of the USDC fund.

The USDC vendor

Near the totem of every city of the two worlds there is the USDC vendor: it sells only for USDC coins, paid first from the backpack and then from the bank. The Game Master puts the items on sale, the same in every city; when an item runs out, it disappears and is not restocked. The USDC spent goes back into the reserve. What you buy there is yours like any other item: you use it, trade it or sell it to other players with the orders of the Market.

XVII Taming, mounts and dragons

Calm beasts can be tamed. Once yours, they follow you, fight for you, carry you in the saddle, and you lose them only by dying.

Taming

• Only calm creatures can be tamed, those that do not attack first. Monsters cannot.
• Each creature has its own taming level. You need the Taming skill at least at that level (tables below): Intelligence does not count.
• The ritual lasts thirty seconds, with three sentences, staying near the beast; if it succeeds, the beast is yours.
• Another player's creature cannot be stolen.
• How many creatures: beasts are 1 plus one every 10 points of Taming (11 at Taming 100, 13 at 120); monsters made tameable by the Game Master are one every 30 points (none at Taming 0, 3 at 100, 4 at 120). Creatures summoned with magic have two separate slots, the same for everyone: at the third summon the oldest vanishes.
• Creatures are commanded only from the drop-down menu: a click on your creature opens it above its head, with Attack, Stay here or Follow me, Ride (if saddled), Open the card (its pack and saddle), Give a name, Shrink, Transfer tamed creature and Release. Summoned ones have Attack, Stay here or Follow me and Give a name; Blade Spirits and Energy Vortex cannot be commanded.
• The Shrink Creature flask turns it into a figurine to keep in the backpack, to bring back to life when needed or to give to another player.
• Transfer tamed creature (from the creature's menu): you click another player near you and the creature becomes theirs, follows them and only they command it. Summoned creatures cannot be given away; if the other already has all the creatures their Taming allows, they cannot take it.
• If one of your creatures dies it leaves its pack as loot: in Fioralba only you can take it, in Cenerombra anyone.
• If you die: summoned creatures disappear; your followers go wild at once, with their leash where you died, and monsters leave them alone; the mount you were riding waits for you for 10 minutes at the spot of your death. It stays yours and nobody can tame it, but monsters can kill it. If you resurrect and get back in the saddle within 10 minutes, everything goes back to how it was; if not, it goes wild there (chapter XI).

How many creatures there are in the world

Taming switches off for good the spot where the creature was born: a tamed horse is not reborn. So the more players tame, the emptier the world gets of that breed. The game master sees in the statistics how many tameable creatures are left, in total and breed by breed, and can bring some back or remove some. New ones appear in their biome (polar bears in the tundra, horses in meadows and woods), never in water or in towns. When some are removed, the first to disappear are those that went wild when their owner died. Tamed creatures are never touched.

How much Taming each creature needs

Each beast has its own taming level, from 1 to 120. To tame it you need at least that value of Taming (the skill, which reaches 100 on its own and up to 120 with Taming jewels): below it you cannot even try and the warning appears «To tame … you need Taming N: you have Taming S.». With the right Taming the ritual can still fail: the more Taming you have beyond the minimum, the more often it succeeds. In the table the success of each ritual with the minimum Taming, with 10 more points and with 25 more. The Game Master can change the taming level of one of their models in the Forge (knob from 1 to 120).

Taming level from 1 to 20

The first beasts: tamed with the first points of Taming.

Taming level from 21 to 50

The beasts of the woods and the plains.

Taming level from 51 to 80

The big beasts and the predators.

Creatures that cannot be tamed

Monsters and aggressive beasts can never be tamed, whatever your Taming: their card has no ritual. They still have their taming level (it serves the game master, who can make a tameable model of them in the Forge).

Mounts

You can ride the horse, the grizzly bear, the polar bear, the Nazgul Horse and the Ancient Weaver; the donkey, the elephant, the mammoth, the giant mastodon, the horse and the zebra carry loads (below). Dragons cannot be ridden. The Nazgul Horse and the Ancient Weaver are monsters: in the game they are aggressive and can only be tamed if the game master puts a tameable one into play. You can mount only with the riding saddle in the beast’s saddle slot: the saddle is made at the Tannery, with leather of any level, and dragged into its slot. In the saddle you run fast and without fatigue. Every mount has its own shield that stops the first blows.

Wild horses live in plains and fields, savanna, temperate forests, ancient woods and cold forests, in Fioralba and (more sparsely) in Cenerombra. The horse is an Andalusian, with a mane and tail in locks. It has four coats: white, light grey, light brown (with a star on the forehead) and dark brown. Every place where a horse is born has its own coat, always the same: going back to the same meadow you find the same colour. The savanna zebra is the same horse with a striped coat, a brush mane and a tufted tail: it can be tamed and wears the pack saddle, but it cannot be ridden. The Nazgul Horse is bigger, black, with red eyes and an iron chanfron.

Your mount’s shield

The physical and magical shield bars belong to your mount. After the rider’s armour, the physical shield absorbs weapon strikes, arrows and bites; the magical shield absorbs spells. Absorbed damage also costs the mount health, without killing it; when a shield is depleted, that type of damage reaches the rider. Poison, including magical poison, bypasses the shields.

After 8 seconds out of combat, the shield recovers health lost to absorbed damage at 1% of the mount’s maximum health per second. A new hit dealt or received by the mount or rider interrupts recovery. Only damage absorbed by the shield is recovered; other wounds require healing. Healing the mount with bandages or spells also restores its shield. Dismounting and mounting again does not automatically refill it.

The beasts that carry loads

The donkey, the elephant, the mammoth, the giant mastodon, the horse and the zebra carry loads. Once tamed, with the pack saddle in the saddle slot (it is made at the Tannery) their pack opens and you drag items into it from yours. There is only one saddle slot: the horse wears the riding saddle or the pack saddle, and with the pack saddle you cannot mount; the zebra cannot be ridden and wears only the pack saddle. The pack saddle cannot be removed while there is even a single item in the beast’s pack. Weapons and armour cannot be loaded (they would be ruined), nor can items with their own durability, expiry or a creature inside.

How much it carries depends on its Strength, with the same count for all of them: 10 × (40 + half the Strength) kilos, ten times what a character with the same Strength carries. With the Strength they have in the game: donkey 455 kg, horse 485, elephant 505, zebra 515, mammoth 1,300, giant mastodon 2,305.

Dragons

The black dragon and the red dragon are twice the size of a titan. They cannot be ridden and they do not fly. They do not roam the world: they stand guard in the dungeons of Cenerombra (the black dragon and the ice dragon in the Frost Kingdom, the red dragon in the Infernal Portal), where they are aggressive and cannot be tamed.

The wyverns and the dragon warriors belong to their family too: the Wyvern Whelp on the mountains of Fioralba, the Wyvern on the mountains and in the Frost Kingdom, the Dragon Warrior on the lower floors of the Frost Kingdom, the Infernal Wyvern among the volcanoes of Cenerombra and in the Infernal Portal. They do not breathe: they strike in melee.

The dragons' breath is a cone that starts from the mouth: 10 meters long and 6 wide at the end, aimed within 15 meters of the edge of the body, and it comes back every 20 seconds. The black dragon, the red dragon, the ice dragon and the mage turned into a dragon all breathe this way. The black dragon and the red dragon breathe fire, the ice dragon frost, which also slows whoever it hits by 30% for 3 seconds. It is always magic damage: magic defense reduces it. Where it passes, the breath stays on the ground for 10 seconds: it reaches the end of the cone and then spreads a meter and a half all around. Fire burns the players and their creatures standing in it (37 magic damage per second from the black dragon, 38 from the red, before magic defense); frost does half the damage (18 per second) but slows whoever stands in it by 30%, even for a second after leaving, and ice crystals rise from the ground. It does not touch monsters; the fire of a transformed mage follows the rules of Wall of Fire, and in Fioralba it does not touch other players. The Ancient Black Dragon, the boss of the Frost Kingdom, breathes twice as far: its cone is 20 meters long and 12 wide at the end, aimed within 25 meters, and it hits all the players and their creatures inside it, even beyond the target. Its breath is fire and it too comes back every 20 seconds; its fire on the ground spreads 3 meters and burns harder (52 magic damage per second). Better get out of it right away.

XVIII Parties, trade, speech and maps

Speaking

You speak by pressing Enter: the sentence appears above the character's head, as in Ultima Online, and only those on the same screen read it. There is no global chat: to talk to someone you have to go near them.

Parties

• A party is formed from another player's card, «Invite to party», up to six members. Whoever creates it is the party leader.
• A monster's experience is split equally among the nearby living members (within 50 meters). The whole party counts: the reduction for monsters that are too weak is calculated on the party average, not on whoever lands the final blow. If no living member is within 50 meters of the monster, nobody gets the experience.
• Whoever dies of poison applied by a member gives the experience to the party of whoever poisoned them. Killing a tamed creature (someone's) gives no experience.
• The party does not protect: in Cenerombra there is friendly fire, and the loot goes to whoever takes it.

Trade

• From another player's card, within twenty meters. The other accepts or declines.
• You offer from your own backpack, coins and figurines included. Every change to an offer resets the confirmations: the trade happens only when both have confirmed the latest version, and it goes through all or nothing.
• It cancels itself if one moves away, dies, disconnects or is hit.

Maps and fog

On the minimap and the world map you always see the cities with their shops, the portals, the mines, the totems, the dungeon gates and the reagent bush markers. Everything else, the places with monsters, creatures and other players, is visible only if it is on your screen. The world must be explored.

XIX Connection and logging out

The world does not stop when you leave. Here is everything that happens when you close the browser, when the connection drops, when you log back in and when the server saves: so you never have doubts about where your character is and what it risks.

When you leave: the character stays in the world 30 seconds

You close the browser, log out, or the connection drops: in all cases your character stays in the world for 30 seconds, exactly as it is. In those 30 seconds it can be targeted, attacked and killed as if you were there, and the monsters chasing you keep chasing you. At the thirty-first second it really leaves.

Your mount and your creatures leave with you

• Mounted: at the thirty-first second you disappear together with your mount, and when you log back in you are back in the saddle, as in Ultima Online.
• The tamed creatures under your control: they leave with you and come back with you, under your control, as they were before you left: where they were, standing still or following you, with their pack, the saddle and the health they had.
• Summons do not: when you disappear, at the thirty-first second, the creatures summoned with magic die and vanish, and they do not come back.
• During the 30 seconds of logging out both you and your creatures can be targeted and killed: if they die in that half minute, they are lost as always.
• If the server stops or restarts the same applies: you come back mounted, and with your creatures where they were.
• World creatures a Game Master is commanding do not leave with them: when the GM leaves they go back to their place.

Logging back in

If you log back in while the character is still in the world, from the same computer or from another, the entrance does not open at once: the warning «Your character is still in the world: after logging out it stays there for 30 seconds, and during that time it can be attacked as if you were there. It leaves completely in N seconds: try again then.» appears with the seconds counting down. You do not have to do anything: when the time is up you get in by yourself.

The same applies if you try to log in with your character from another computer while it is still in the world: it tells you that it is still connected, and for how many seconds.

One window per character

A character is played from one window only. If it is already open in another window, the entrance answers «this character is already playing in another window»: close the other one and log back in.

When the connection drops

If the connection with the server is interrupted, «Connection lost. Log back in to resume.» appears at the top. Meanwhile the character counts as logged out: its 30 seconds in the world start from the moment the connection dropped. Reload the page and log back in; if less than 30 seconds have passed you wait for the countdown, then you get in by yourself.

If the server is still preparing the landscape around you when the connection is not ready, «Landscape update waiting for the connection.» may appear: it sorts itself out as soon as the connection is back. If it stays, reload the page.

Saves: what is saved and when

If the server crashes, at most the last minute of digging is lost: money, items and character are not (only if the very machine hosting it broke could the very last seconds be lost, whole and without duplicates). If for a moment saving is not available, the game stops actions instead of doing them halfway: «saving not available, action suspended» (or «operation not confirmed») appears and nothing happens, neither good nor bad. The server tries again by itself every 5 seconds and as soon as it saves again it restarts with the warning «Saving is available again: actions resume.»: then repeat the action. It stays stopped until a restart only if after 10 minutes it still cannot save.

Two worlds, two servers

Fioralba and Cenerombra are on two separate servers. The character is the same in both worlds (name, level, attributes, spellbook, backpack, appearance), but the banks are not: each world has its own, and nothing passes from one to the other. You move from one world to the other through the portals (chapter on the worlds).

The warnings about the connection, one by one, are in the chapter Warnings.

XX Graphics and graphics card

CONQUERCUBE draws a whole world of cubes in three dimensions: terrain, water, cities, characters, monsters, lights, shadows and particles are rebuilt at every frame inside the browser. It is work designed for the graphics card.

Graphics details

From the Graphics details menu you choose the profile, from Ultra to Low, and decide separately whether to keep shadows and how detailed, the quality of particles, lights and surfaces. Ultra pushes a powerful computer to the maximum; Low stays playable on a modest computer. No profile hides game information.

The circle of transparency, as in Ultima Online: when a wall, a tree or a rock face stands between the camera and your character, a circle around them turns see-through and you can see them. It is on by default and you turn it off in Graphics details with “Circle of Transparency”: it takes effect at once, without reloading. The roof cut when you walk into a building always stays.

If you zoomed out the browser page (Ctrl −) and buttons and windows have become tiny, the Fit interface size button at the top brings them back to the right size without touching the world; Ctrl+0 resets the browser zoom.

Why acceleration is needed

When graphics acceleration is on, the browser hands the drawing over to the GPU; when it is not, the processor redoes the same drawing, and it is much less suited. Without acceleration loading, moving the view and zooming can stutter even on a powerful computer. It is not a fault of the game and it does not depend on the connection: it is the browser drawing in the slowest way.

How to tell whether it is on

It is almost always already on. Every browser has a diagnostic page, opened by pasting the address into the bar:

In Chrome and Edge look for the WebGL entry: if it says hardware accelerated everything is fine, if it says software rendering it is not. The layout of these pages changes from version to version; if the reading is not clear, it is better to check the switch directly in the settings. Safari has no equivalent page.

Turning it on, browser by browser

Browsers do not let a site open their settings by itself: the addresses below must be copied by hand into a new tab.

Chrome

1. Open chrome://settings/system, or Settings → System.
2. Turn on «Use graphics acceleration when available».
3. Press Relaunch, then reopen the game.

Official guide: support.google.com

Microsoft Edge

1. Open edge://settings/system, or Settings → System and performance → System.
2. Turn on «Use graphics acceleration when available».
3. Restart Edge, then reopen the game.

Official guide: learn.microsoft.com

Firefox

1. Open about:preferences and search for «Performance».
2. Untick «Use recommended performance settings», then turn on «Use hardware acceleration when available».
3. Close and reopen Firefox.

Official guide: support.mozilla.org

Safari

1. On Mac acceleration is handled automatically: there is no switch.
2. Update macOS and Safari, close the tabs you don't need and reopen the browser.

Official guide: support.apple.com

If it is still slow

• Lower the profile in Graphics details, or turn off shadows.
• Close the other tabs and programs that use the graphics card: video calls, videos, animations.
• Make the window smaller: fewer pixels to draw.
• Update the drivers of the graphics card: an old driver can make the browser fall back to software rendering.

On very old or low-end integrated graphics cards, and on phones, the game can stay heavy even with everything configured well. We do not promise a minimum machine, because we have not measured it on enough different computers.

The sounds of the world

In the world of CONQUERCUBE almost everything has its own sound. The Sounds button turns them on and off; next to it, the slider sets the volume. Sounds start after the first click or the first key pressed in the page, because browsers do not let a site play sound before you touch it.

You hear the sounds of what other players and monsters do if you are within 60 meters.

Mage clothing and other armour

Every mage set piece — robe, gloves or boots, at any level — and the Nazgul Robe are incompatible with plate, chainmail and leather armour pieces. Equipping one moves all incompatible armour to your backpack; equipping plate, chainmail or leather moves your mage clothing to your backpack. Weapons, spellbooks, shields and jewellery remain compatible.

If your backpack has no room, the equipment change is refused without moving any pieces. Items keep their attributes and wear. Mage set pieces of different levels can still be mixed, but do not grant the full set bonus; the Nazgul Robe remains exclusive of other mage clothing.

On your first login after the update, an existing mixed outfit is repaired by keeping the mage clothing equipped and moving incompatible armour to your backpack. No items are destroyed or dropped. Only this repair may exceed the 125-item limit: if the warning appears, free space in your backpack.

Turning GM mode on and off

Only game-masters see the GM button next to their portrait. ON prevents NPCs from choosing them as targets on their own; NPCs can still retaliate when attacked. OFF allows NPCs to attack them under the normal rules. The button does not revoke account permissions and displays the state confirmed by the server.

Turning GM mode off removes invisibility granted by the GM power, but preserves any genuine magical invisibility that is still active. Turn GM mode back on before using GM invisibility again.

XXI Warnings

Every time the game refuses an action or warns you about something, the message appears at the bottom center with the words «Click here for more information»: the link opens this wiki in another window, exactly at the entry for that warning. Below are all the game's warnings (1160), divided by topic: what they mean, what to do and the chapter that explains the rule.

The connection 1 The account and the character 32 Moving 8 Backpack, containers and items on the ground 39 Weight and stamina 7 Swimming 7 Combat 28 Bandages 12 The flasks 22 The spell 80 Meditation 3 Inscribing scrolls 13 Summons and figurines 16 PvP and the criminal system 8 Death 26 The chests 40 The dungeons 17 The mines 13 Wood 8 Hides 4 Crafts and benches 23 Repairs 11 Shops 38 The bank 5 The Market 19 Trades between players 17 Parties 18 Taming 14 Mounts 34 Dragons and flight 17 Creature names 10 The barber 5 USDC 49 The other warnings 433 The Game Master's tools 83