FAQ

Playing the game

• How do I chat:

  • ... with everyone: Use the 'Chat' tab in the 'Message' window to chat with everyone on the server.
  • ... with everyone on the same map as me: Use the 'Map' tab in the 'Message' window to chat with other players which are near to you (and on the same map).
  • ... with one specific player: Use the 'tell' command to speak to one player only. Just type in 'tell <playername here> <message here>' via the command input. A tab in the message window will open and you can continue the chat there.

• How do I drop something?

  • In the inventory window you can right click in an item to get a menu with an 'drop' item.
  • You can also do a shift + left click on the item in the inventory to drop it

• How do I pick something up?

  • Move over the item you want to pick up and then press ',' to pick it up if it is on the top.
  • Or move over the item and do a right click over the item in the floorbox (which is on the bottom of the window to the left of the gauges) to open a menu which has a 'take' item.

• How do I unwear a cursed cloak (or other cursed item)?

  • You need to uncurse it, that can be done by either praying to your god or reading a scroll of remove curse. If you pray to your god, which might uncurses your item, you have to be presistent, it can take a while until the god will uncurse your item. Also note that some gods don't uncurse items.

• How do I pay for an item (in a shop)?

  • You just have to carry enough money in your inventory, it will automatically be taken from it by the shopkeeper.

• How do I get my literacy level up?

  • Read scrolls or books.
  • Use 'use_skill literacy' to identify scrolls gives also literacy experience.

• How do I worship a god?

  • You have to get the 'praying' skill (about this look at the next question) and pray above an altar of the god you want to worship. Those altars can be found in churches in scorn and other cities, they are usually named 'Altar of <godname here>'. A nice god to pick for a beginner is 'Valriel', searchout the Crossfire guide to the gods for now if you are curious about the pros and cons each god has: crossfire handbook appendix c.

• How do I get the 'praying' skill?

  • First look in the 'Playerbook' in the Deliantra client on the 'Skills' page whether you maybe already have the praying skill. If not proceed with the following point:
  • Many classes you can choose in the 'hall of selection' (the one you entered first when creating a character) already possess the praying skill. But there are also many that don't. Those characters can get the skill from either an item called 'Holy Symbol' or a skill scroll of praying. The easiest way is to find a holy symbol , which can be found in shops or in dungeons as loot sometimes.

• How do I pray?

  • You 'ready' the 'praying' skill and then fire it like you fire a spell. (Which is done usually by pressing 'shift' and a direction key, holding the keys will repeatedly let you pray).

• How do I use a gate/port/whatever pass?

  • Usually those passes you get all over the world are just carried in the inventory or a bad in your inventory. If you step upon a gate the guards or some magic will look at the passes and let you in.

• Where do I find savebeds other than the one in Nimbus?

  • Inns and apartments have savebeds too. Almost every city has an inn, usually they are houses with the sign 'Inn' on them, but not always. Sometimes taverns also have savebeds, and sometimes you find them in surprising places.

• How to make money fast?

  • Identify the things you sell, unidentified items sell orders of magnitude lower!
  • Make sure you have the bargaining skill, it allows you to save a lot of money when buying stuff and gaining more money when selling stuff. You can obtain the skill scroll at the gem shop of Scorn at an affordable price.
    
  • Sell valuable things like rings, gems, rods, wands, staffs and spellbooks for example.

  Generally quests give you something valuable as reward. For example

  • Heaven Quest in Scorn
  • Bank Quest in Scorn
  • Royal Quest beginning in Scorn, which has a subquest Dragon Quest during which you can find very valuable loot as dragons drop quite a lot of gems. You might also be interested in Dragon Hangar on Dragonisland which has some dragons in the cellar.

• Leveling bargaining takes ages, I get no bargaining XP or only very little XP for a sell.

  Make sure you sell expensive items, the more expensive the item is, the more experience you get.
  You also get by much more experience when you buy stuff (Brought to you by Scorn Magic shop, come visit us!).
  You get roughly 10 times more bargaining experience for buying items than for selling them.

• How do I rent and maintain an apartment?

  • Payment

    Payment for apartment is done in three parts.

    • Apartment rental fee.

      You are charged per hour when you are online, the price is fixed and depends on the apartment you have.

    • Taxes

      You pay taxes by-hour, whether online or offline, depends on your level.

    • Entrance fee.

      A certain amount of gold has to be paid before you can go into your apartment which goes to Schmorp House Insurance LTD. The amount depends on the apartment (100 gold for the apartment in Scorn).

    Payments are cleared through Schmorp realm United Banks Association

  • Multiple apartments

    When you have multiple accounts, sum of all fees is reduced from your bank account.

  • What could go wrong?

    There are a few things worthy of keeping in mind when using apartments.
    First of all and most important: Do not stop renting an apartment while your items are still in it, or else they will perish(Note that this is currently(server v2.1) not implemented and your items will stay but it is a bug.
    
    Second, if you run out of money, you will not be able to get in until you have cleared your debts, but your items are still safe.

Server related

• Dependencies:

  • gperf >= 3.0
  • glib-2.0 >= 2.10
  • libpng >= 1.2
  • ImageMagick >= 6.0
  • optipng >= v0.5.5
  • pngnq >= 0.4
  • rsync >= 2.6
  • libdb >= 4.4 - Berkley DB

  Installing them depends on your distribution. In debian and debian-derivates you may install them by running:

   sudo apt-get install gperf libglib2.0-dev libpng12-dev \
   imagemagick optipng pngnq rsync libdb-dev
             

  You also have to supply perl to link to, for example;

   sudo apt-get install libperl-dev
             

  Required Perl modules

  • AnyEvent >= 2.6
  • BDB >= 1.3
  • Compress::LZF >= 1.8
  • Coro >= 4.34
  • Coro::EV >= 2.1
  • Deliantra >= 1.13
  • Digest::MD5 >= 2.0
  • EV >= 2.0
  • IO::AIO >= 2.51
  • JSON::XS >= 2.01
  • Pod::POM >= 0.17
  • Safe::Hole >= 0.10
  • Storable >= 2.0
  • Time::HiRes >= 1.0
  • URI >= 1.35
  • YAML::Syck >= 0.71
  • YAML >= 0.62
  • Net::IRC3

  Generally you'll be able to install the modules with;

   sudo cpan -i AnyEvent BDB Compress::LZF Coro Coro::Event \
   Deliantra Digest::MD5 Event IO::AIO JSON::XS Pod::POM \
   Safe::Hole Storable Time::HiRes URI YAML YAML::Syck Net::IRC3
             

• Building

  To build a server you need three components;

  • Server
  • Archs
  • Maps

  You can fetch latest stable server release from the server download page.Latest as of this writing is 2.1, and the version is in the filenames, use common sense if this document isn't up to date.

  First install the server, I'm installing into /home/myusername/crossfire, lets say is set to that.

   tar xjvf cfserver-2.1.tar.bz2
   cd cfserver-2.1
   ./configure --prefix= --exec-prefix=
   make
   make install
             

  Next install the archs and maps. Newer (>=2.1) servers are provided with cfutil tool to ease up on that. Use it like;

   tar xjvf cfarch-2.1.tar.bz2
   tar xjvf cfmaps-2.1.tar.bz2
   /bin/cfutil --install-arch cfarch-2.1 \
   --install-maps cfmaps-2.1
             

  Run your server with

   /bin/crossfire
             

  Server config is located at /etc