F.A.Q.

What is the point of this game?
To kill enemies, take their stuff, and level up. Have fun!

The bigger goal is to defeat Oryx the Mad God. Oryx has put you in his world, where you are food for his minions. The minions protect him and must be kept fed. By defeating the minions, you weaken Oryx's protections. Eventually you will be able to reach Oryx and fight him directly.

How do I change my controls?
Press the Esc key, or while in the Nexus, press the wrench on the right side. You will have a list of functions put in different categories which are found at the top. To change which keystroke handles the function, simply click the letter and press the key you wish to use. Be careful, because if you use a key already in use, other functions using that key will be disabled until you assign a new key! Help on specific functions explained lower.

How do I get out of Nexus (Home)?
Nexus has many portals leading to the various Realms where you can fight minions. These portals are located in the main central courtyard of Nexus. To enter one, stand on the portal and click "Enter" in the lower right of the game screen.

Does this game have instructions?
Yes. Tips will show up every so often. You can turn these off in the options.

What is Realm Gold?
Realm Gold is a currency used to purchase non-essential items such as clothing and accessory dyes (and cloth patterns), pets, elixirs, and dungeon keys. You cannot buy the Wine Cellar Incantation.

Each account starts with 100 gold for free (which is not renewed each time your character dies), you may purchase gold by standing on the gold coin icon located at each market place.
Additional Realm Gold may be purchased with Credit Card, Mobile, and Paypal payments.

I've just unlocked a new class, how do I change class?
You may only have one existing character per account at a time unless you purchase extra slots with Realm Gold. If you do decide to buy an extra slot, the first two are on discount, the first is 600 Gold, the second is 800 Gold, but from there on out they're 1000 Gold per character slot.

To change class without purchasing a new slot you must kill or delete your current character. This will return you to the character select screen where you can choose your new class.

What is the maximum level?
20.

Is there anything to do at level 20?
Yes! You can collect stat increase potions to max your characters stats. Lead groups of adventurers to defeat the Cube God, Pentaract, and other high level bosses. Help others level to 20 so that your group will be strong enough to defeat Oryx. Once you defeat all the bosses you'll open the Oryx Encounter, which is tough, even at level 20.

What is the maximum for stats?
It varies by character class and does not include stat boosts from equipment. See the individual class entries here. Once a stat has reached its maximum, the number will be displayed in gold.

What is rolling?
Rolling is when a player continuously levels up a character over and over until the random number generator gives it a substantially above-average HP and/or MP at Level 20.

Where is the Pirate Cave?
Pirate Caves open some of the time after you kill a Pirate, Piratess, Red Gelatinous Cube, Purple Gelatinous Cube, or Green Gelatinous Cube. If you have a pirate cave key, shift click it to open the cave.

How do I pick up loot?
Stand on the loot bag/chest and drag the item into your inventory. If you did this during the tutorial, you would've gotten a free defense ring.

How do I chat?
Sadly, people with questions might not know how to chat. Simply hit Enter, write a message, then hit Enter again.

If a monster shows up while you're chatting, you can click on the game map to resume combat before you've finished typing your chat message. To finish typing your chat message, press Enter again.

How do I heal?
Some monsters will drop health potions or snake oil or healing ichor. Save these and use them to heal when you need to.

Priests, Paladins, and Necromancers can heal everyone near them. Stay in a group with one of these healing classes to get healed. When your health is low, you will flash red, so that they will know that someone needs healing. Priests have instant healing, Paladins heal over a duration, and Necromancers drain the life from enemies to heal their companions.

Some items can increase your Vitality, which allows you to heal yourself more quickly over time.

Is death permanent?
Yes. Once your character dies, it stays dead. You're free to make a new character and you may end up doing so many times.

How do I save?
The game autosaves. Your character is still maintained if you leave and return later.

Your character is saved in your Flash cookie. If you wipe or block cookies, it won't be able to save it. If you create an account in the game, you'll be able to save your character and play it from multiple computers, without worrying about Flash cookies.

How do I sell, trade, give away, or destroy my stuff?
You can not sell stuff, but you may be able to trade with people, or you can just drop items you don't want as an alternative:

To initiate a trade, click on a character's icon below your inventory slot, click trade, then wait for them to acknowledge the trade. Once they do, click the item you wish to give/trade and click the trade button. The other player then decides which items to trade with you. They can also give you none. This is a safe and effective way to give items away to a specific person without the risk of losing the item to a ninja-grabber which often happens when you drop an item.

To drop, drag the item from your inventory onto the main game area. A bag will appear with that item. Others can pick up the item from the loot bag. Left alone, it will disappear after a few minutes.

How do I use special abilities?
Every class has one special ability from the item in the second inventory slot. To use it, shift click on the map or press Space. Special abilities use mana, which regenerates automatically (or you can use a magic potion). Stronger abilities use more mana. Your special ability item will darken when you do not have the required mana to use it.

Is there a map?
Every time Oryx is defeated, he destroys the world and creates another. There are roughly 20 randomly generated maps. Brave explorers have mapped out some of the worlds:

The map generation algorithms are described in these blog posts: part 1:polygons, land, beaches, oceans, lakes; part 2: elevation, rivers, moisture, biomes; part 3: rendering, Flash demo, and source code.

Before build 100, this simpler map generation algorithm was used (that page has a Flash applet that lets you generate your own maps).

Where are tougher monsters located?
Monsters levels are usually dictated by the terrain they are located at. Beaches are populated by the weakest monsters. Forests, deserts, and grasslands have the middle level monsters. Rocky (dark gray) and snowy (white) mountains are populated by “gods”. Monsters of all types can wander into other areas, so don't get too careless. Following roads will keep you within the same general level of monsters. Following rivers uphill will take you into the mountains.

The wiki has a list of monsters.

What are gods?
It's a blanket term used for the strongest type of monster in the game.

Where are the dungeons?
Monsters used to occasionally drop keys (see list); shift+click the keys to open the dungeon portal. Make sure anyone you want to bring along are nearby; portals don't stay open long.

Now if you want to enter a dungeon you must kill the approriate monsters until one will open.

The wiki has a list of dungeons.

How do I unlock the Wine Cellar?
You will need to get a sun-shaped item and use it near the locked Cellar door. They are dropped by certain dungeon bosses at a 1/1000 rate.

How do you get equipment?
You kill monsters and loot the bags they leave behind. If you're lucky, other players may be willing to give you stuff. The wiki has a list of known equipment.

What can my class use for equipment?

All classes can equip a weapon, ability item, armor and a ring.

Rogue: Daggers, Cloaks, and Leather Armor.
Archer: Bows, Quivers, and Leather Armor.
Wizard: Staves, Spells, and Robes.
Priest: Wands, Tomes, and Robes.
Warrior: Swords, Helms, and Heavy Armor.
Knight: Swords, Shields, and Heavy Armor.
Paladin: Swords, Healing Seals, and Heavy Armor.
Assassin: Daggers, Poisons, and Leather Armor.
Necromancer: Staves, Skulls, and Robes.
Huntress: Bows, Traps, and Leather Armor.
Mystic: Staves, Orbs, and Robes.
Trickster: Daggers, Prisms, and Leather Armor.
Sorcerer: Wands, Scepters, and Robes.

What are the best pieces of equipment?

Bow: Bow of Covert Heavens
Quiver: Quiver of Elvish Mastery
Dagger: Dagger of Foul Malevolence
Cloaks: Cloak of Ghostly Concealment
Leather Armor: Hydra Skin Armor
Staff: Staff of the Cosmic Whole
Spell: Elemental Detonation Spell
Wand: Wand of Recompense
Tomes: Tome of Holy Guidance
Robes: Robe of the Grand Sorcerer
Sword: Sword of Acclaim
Helm: Helm of the Great General
Shield: Colossus Shield
Healing Seals: Seal of the Blessed Champion
Heavy Armor: Acropolis Armor
Poison: Baneserpent Poison
Skull: Bloodsucker Skull
Trap: Giantcatcher Trap
Orb: Planefetter Orb
Prism: Prism of Apparitions
Scepter: Scepter of Storms

How do I cheat?
You can't. There is an anti-cheat device implanted in the game. If you try, it will erase the offending character and you will not gain any Fame.

Is there PvP in this game?
No. The game's architecture does not allow for it.

Is there autofire for your weapon?
Yes, press the T key.

How do I turn off the sound/music?
Press the ESC key (unless you have already changed the settings hotkey) or use the Wrench icon in the Nexus. Go to Sounds and toggle "Music" to off.

How do I know who's online?
Type /who.

Why do some people shoot so fast?
It's because they have a high dexterity stat.

What's better: Mithril Shield or Snake Skin? Endless Twilight or Planewalker? Etc.

Not in all cases is one better than the other. These are the "toss-up" items:

Cloaks
Planewalker and Endless Twilight have the same stat bonuses of +5 SPD and +4 DEX. Planewalker teleports you to the location you shift-clicked when you activate stealth, but costs 100 MP instead of 85. This ability is useful to pass obstructions like castle walls quickly, but the extra MP cost may be an issue for the rogue.

Shields
There is a defensive cap (75% damage reduction) so a high defense Knight may want to forgo Mithril Shield (12 DEF) for Snake Skin (7 DEF, 3 SPD). Others may wish to keep Mithril Shield for its high damage and stun time.

Rings
Generally, DEF is most useful in almost all cases. HP or VIT is good for melee classes when you have DEF near cap. MP is useful for Priest, Necro, and Rogue, WIS is interesting as well. SPD has some utility: poison tosses, cloak dashes, and getting across the map quickly, for example. For offense, DEX is best for most classes; ATT can be marginally better for Rogues.

How do I respawn?
Leave the fame screen by clicking Continue and then you will be sent to the Character Select screen. If your game reaches a point where it is unplayable, click on the black part of the page and press CTRL+F5. If the problem persists, see if your problem is already on the forums and post in its thread. If it's not, make a new one.

Do enemies respawn?
Yes they do. They respawn according to how many enemies on that type are on the map. They respawn too often to go extinct, so don't worry about that anymore.

How do I unlock other classes?
You start out as a wizard, but by reaching certain levels with certain classes, you can unlock even more.

Level 5 required for these:
Priest - Wizard
Archer - Priest
Rogue - Archer
Warrior - Rogue

Level 20 required for these:
Knight - Warrior
Paladin - Priest and Knight
Assassin - Rogue and Wizard
Necromancer - Priest and Wizard
Huntress - Rogue and Archer
Mystic - Huntress and Necromancer
Trickster - Assassin and Paladin
Sorcerer - Necromancer and Assassin

You can have one character per account (More slots can be bought with Realm Gold). When your current character dies, you get a chance to try a different class. Your character does not have to be alive in order to get the other class; you just have to reach level 20 once.

What happens when Oryx runs out of minions?
He cannot run out of minions. He will constantly spawn new ones to fight. He can, however, run out of Quests, at which point he will lock the realm from being entered for two minutes before summoning all remaining players to his chamber for a showdown.

Where is Oryx?
Oryx will be in the middle of the chamber, surrounded by weaker red clones. Characters will often make a push through these clones to fight Oryx from one side. If you try to slip by them and take on Oryx without killing them, they will all fire upon you and kill you quickly.

What happens when Oryx dies?
He drops a Locked Wine Cellar portal and a bag of rare items. The map is regenerated during the earthquake before the battle.

Why does Oryx die so fast?
Because some high-level players got to him first and decided to eviscerate him.

How do I get more than one character?
Buy Realm Gold, which supports the game's development. It costs 600 Gold for a new slot, as mentioned above. You may not have two of the same class without making an alternate account, which is frowned upon by the developers.

How do I increase stats after level 20?
Gods occasionally drop what are called “stat potions” (see list). Drinking one increases the corresponding stat by 1 point. They only come in Seven varieties: Attack, Defense, and Speed are dropped by gods in the realm, Wisdom are only dropped by the boss of the Undead Lair, Vitality by the boss of the Abyss of Demons, Dexterity by the boss of the Sprite World, and Life by the boss(es) of the Tomb of the Ancients. All Stat Potions are dropped by event bosses.

Where is the Oryx's wine-cellar?
After Oryx's simulacrum is defeated in Oryx's Chamber a locked Wine Cellar appears. A Wine Cellar Incantation, a 1/1000 drop from Dungeon Bosses, is required to unlock it.

How do I teleport?
There are two ways that you can teleport to other players, assuming that they are on the same map as you. First, if they are nearby or if you have locked onto them, you can click their name in the grey box in the bottom-right of the screen, opening a menu which will allow you to choose to teleport to their location or lock onto them so you can always have them displayed in that box. Secondly, you can use the minimap and click on a yellow dot representing a player, which you can teleport from. Some consideration should be observed in using teleportation; low-level players shouldn't whimsically teleport to level 20 players in the godlands, who may be soloing very dangerous enemies and whose game might be disrupted or ended by a careless follower. However, this can be a very convenient way to meet up with friends or get around the map quickly.

How do you change your name?
Unfortunately, currently, you can't change your name on your first character (Unless you make it to 800 fame without dying for your first time, in which case, use the name changer, which is the golden knight at the start of the nexus). Once you get a chance to create a new character, the name field will allow input. When using the "Name Chooser" in the Nexus, which also allows the /tell system, you choose a name for all of your characters across your entire account. It allows up to 10 letters, but not numbers and the first letter must be capitalized. You're a registered adventurer now, act like it. You must be at least Bronze 4 to use the name changer.

Why are some names yellow?
These names have been registered through the "Name Chooser".

Why was my name changed?
In build 115 (May 2011), unique names were added. In build 116.1, any character who did not register a unique name had their name changed to a generic name.

Where can I store my extra items?
In the Nexus, there is a portal to the "Vault" just south of where you spawn. This Vault is account-bound, so any and all characters that you create in the account share it.

How do I log out?
The easiest way to log out, is to simply close the window or tab that the game is running in. If want to log out completely, for example if you're using a public computer, go to the Nexus, go to change your character and in the upper right hand corner it will say logout. Your email and password entries won't be saved for logging back in.

Where do I find the class quests?
You can't find them, since in a way you start with them. They are about gaining a certain amount of fame in one lifetime. With each amount of fame you gain 1 star in that class, and there are 5 stars per class. Once you earn a star, you will never lose it. The current levels of fame to achieve are 20(1 star), 150(2 stars), 400(3 stars), 800(4 stars), and 2000(5 stars).

What is a guild?
A guild is a group of people that have access to their own guild hall, and can chat with each other privately. You can create your own guild for 1000 fame at the right wing of Nexus.

My answer isn't here. What can I do?
You can ask members of the community for help either in game or via the Forums.

I have a suggestion, where do I submit it?
Suggestions should be submitted to the Ideas Section.