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Plate III · a navigator's handbook

First steps

Stonia is played in text: you read what is around you and type what you do. This plate takes you from your first connection to your first hard-won levels, with the real commands to type along the way.

Lines that start with > are commands you type in the game. Words in <angle brackets> are yours to fill in.

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Connect

Set your bearing on the harbour.

Address and port

smud.sinilumi.ee 4000

Any MUD client will do - most Stonia players use JMC (Jaba Mud Client) on Windows or powwow in a terminal; Mudlet, TinTin++ and MUSHclient work too, and so does plain telnet:

$ telnet smud.sinilumi.ee 4000

In a client, make a new connection with host smud.sinilumi.ee and port 4000. Which client to choose.

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Account and character

Choose your flag before you sail.

  1. Make an account. One account holds several characters, but only one of them can be in the game at a time.
  2. Make a character: pick a race, then a class. The race decides your skin, and your skin decides your friends and enemies. Whities and blackies are enemies; brownies may help anyone but ghosts; ghosts help no one.
  3. At the character list, sort puts your characters in the order you like. help sort explains how.
Plate II

Compare the eleven races

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Mind the skins. Switching to a character of another skin? Wait 3 minutes before you log it in.
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First commands

The instruments on deck. When in doubt, help.

help
The help index. help <topic> for one subject.
commands
Every command you can use.
look
The room around you, and who or what is in it.
score
Your character at a glance.
inventory
What you carry.
equipment
What you wear and wield.
worth
Your money and experience.
levels
The experience needed for each level.
hint
Turns the hint channel on or off. Leave it on at first.
rules
The Rules of Stonia. Read them once; see leg 7.

A first session might begin like this:

> look
> score
> help rules
> levels
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Finding people

Other sails on the horizon.

who

Lists who is playing, but only of your own skin.

count

How many of each skin are about, in Stonia's own words.

> count
Currently:  1 White, few Blackies, no Brownies, no Misties
-- example output

Want the count without logging in? Who is on reads it live from the game.

Speaking

say
Speak aloud in the room.
tell
A word to one player.
gossip
The channel of your own skin.
yell
Raise your voice.
narrate
Heard by every skin. Open from level 30.
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Fighting and surviving

The world is cruel. A combat round comes every 2 seconds.

> consider <mob>   -- always first: can you take it?
> kill <mob>       -- only then
> flee             -- when it goes wrong

wimpy

Flee on your own below a hit-point limit you set, at most half your hp. From level 51 it never fires against players.

recall · hometown

The way back towards home when you are lost or hurt.

light

Make a fire. Ghosts fear fire, and the old notices say it cooks corpses too.

From the 1990s notices: “DeathTraps are DeathTraps ... no comments.”

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Growing

From Newbie toward Avatar.

Depth gauge - how a character grows
level 151

Experience

Experience levels you to 51, a hero. It is counted as in Stonia: a hero sits at 282 million exp.

hero and beyond51+

Warpoints

After that, heroes level on with warpoints.

Mortal titles, bottom up: Newbie, Trained, Very Low, Low, Medium, Experienced, Very Experienced, High, Very High, Master, High Master, Legend, Hero, Warlord, Avatar.

Learning

> practice
> gain
> gain point

At a guildmaster, practice and gain learn skills and spells. gain point buys one more practice session for 20 gold and half a level of experience.

Measuring up

> rank
> avatarlist
> warlordlist
> trophy

These show who is strong. The site's live rankings are on Who is on.

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Staying out of trouble

Hazards to navigation.

30 crime points means realdeath. They add up, so take these seriously.
  • No multiplaying. One character in the game at a time.
  • Wait 3 minutes before logging in a character of another skin. No spying.
  • Never share passwords.
  • Report bugs, never abuse them. A crash bug reported can earn you a level.
  • No spamming, no robots, no equipment sharing between your own characters, no repeated killing of your own skin.

The full list: The Rules of Stonia, or rules in the game.

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News and changes

Notices to mariners.

> news      -- the game's version
> changes   -- the same, from the other door

The full change log lives on this site, and so does the desk where ideas and bug reports go.

Full change log → Ideas and bug reports →

Ready to cast off?

smud.sinilumi.ee 4000