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Starter Guide

Note: Some images may have changed since this tutorial was written, however the bulk of the information remains the same.

Installation

Character Basic of Aranock The Beginning Some Game Knowledge

Note: Some images may have changed since this tutorial was written, however the bulk of the information remains the same.

Basics of Aranock


Overview

1. Attributes / Skills / Spells - This is where your characters's Attributes, Skills and Spells level can be found.
Use the Up or Down Arrows to search for the Skills / Spells you want.
More infomation about these can be found here under Skills & Spells.

2. Exp in Update - This is where your unspent experience point will be stored. In game, exp stored here are called "exp in update".
Exp stored here are used to up your characters Attributes, Skills and Spells in (1).
More explanation on how to level your skills can be found under Improving Attribute/Skills/Spells.

3. Hitpoints(Hp) - Your chracter's life. If it goes down to 0, your character dies.
Endurance(End) - Used for walking, fighting, mining and shouting. It will slowly get deducted as you do any of these.
Mana(Mana) - Used to cast spells.
Hp and End recovers at a slow speed automatically. It can be fasten by getting skills Regenerate and Rest.
You need a skill, Meditate, to recover Mana. Templars do not have it, use recovery items.

4. Inventory/Backpack - It can hold up to 40 items.

5. Equipment - Shows the equiped items.

6. Purse -Left Click on any of then to take out money. Right Click to check what is the amount to take out.

7.
1. Character's Name and Actions and Rank.
The character figure reflects what the character is doing in Aranock.
2. Character's Hitpoints, Endurance and Mana.
3. Character's Name.
4. Character's Rank Name.
5. Character's Money in Purse.

The 3 green bars are the amount of Hitpoints, Endurance and Mana left.
Those in blue are how much you have used.
When you look at other characters or monsters the bars might become longer or shorter, depending on how much more or less Hp, End, Mana the viewed have compared to your character's.
This shows the monster/character have more Hp, End, Mana than your character.

8. Dialog box. Speech, infomation, and lots other information will appear here.

9. Weapon Value - Attack Power of your character.
Armor Value - Defence Power of your character.
Experience - Total Experience gained, spent and unspent.

10. Mini map - Center white dot is where you are.

11. North, South, East, West indication.

12. Spells Shortcut - Spells can be assigned here and accessed using shortcut keys.
Assigning Spells - Right click on a spell, spells can be found in Attributes, Skills and Spells(1).
Next Right Click on the slot you wish in (12) to assign them to it.
Shortcut Keys - The keys to activate the shortcuts are: Shift + (F1 to F12). It goes in Left to Right then Up to Down order.
Example... on the screen above, Shift + F1 is Bless, Shift + F4 is Guardian, Shift + F5 is Light and Shift + F12 is Warcry.

13. Settings of Character and Game. This can also be accessed by clicking on it or using Keys F1 to F12.
Fast, Normal, Slow - F1, F2, F3 - This determines how fast your character walk, fight, mine and other stuffs.
Health, Names - F4, F7 - These will determine if Health and Names of character/monsters you met in game will be displayed.
Hide - F6 - This will hide the walls, providing better view of things around your character.

14. Aranock. This place is Aranock, where you will be interacting the most with the game.

Circled Pads - Clicking on these pads will command your character to keep moving in the pad direction.



Basic Controls

Left Click - use, activate, walk

on Spells - Clicking on spells whether in Attributes/Skills/Spells(1) or Shortcuts(12) will cast the spells.

on Items - Use or Activate the item.

on Items (with an item On Hand) - Merge the 2 items together, if they can be merged. The item clicked will be used/activated if they are not meant to or cannot be merged.

in Aranock - Will set a destination on where you clicked and your character will walk to it.


Shift + Left Click - take, drop, pick up, use objects (note: there can only be 1 item On Hand at a time)

on Items (in Inventory(4) or Equipment(5)) - It will have the item to be On Hand/On Cursor. You will be able to move it around, and Shift + Left Click again to put it down anywhere.

on Items (in Aranock) - Clicking on this item will... Your character will move to it and pick the item up.
If your Inventory(4) is full, the item will be picked up On Hand/On Cursor.

in Aranock (with an item On Hand) - Your character will drop the item on the spot clicked.

on Trashbin (with an item On Hand) - The item on hand will be disposed!

on Graves - The Grave will be searched, a pop up holding all items in the Grave will appear.

on Objects - Shift click it and... different objects have different uses and effects. Try them.

on Special Objects (with an special item On Hand) - For some special cases, you might be able to put some item on a Special Object.


Ctrl + Left Click - attack, give item

on Other Character or Monster - A attack sign will appear on the target. Your character will move to it and attack it.

on Other Character or Monster (with an item On Hand) - Your character will walk over and give the item On Hand to the target.

Alt + Left Click - select

on Character or Monster - The target will be selected. Then you will be able to do things like cast spells on the target.


Right Click, Shift + Right Click, Ctrl + Right Click, Alt + Right Click - look, read, get infomation

on Spells/Items/Objects/Characters/Monsters - The description of the Spells/Items/Objects/Characters/Monsters will be shown in dialog box(8).

in Aranock - Will make your character face the direction you have clicked.



Basic Commands

/tell <player name> <message> - send a message to the specific player.

/shout <msg> - shout out the message where everyone in the game will be able to see. Use up 25 Endurance.

/fight - turn auto fight back On or Off.

/spellignore - turn auto fight back to whoever who casted a negative spell on you On or Off.

/who - view who is online and where they are.

/time - show the time in Aranock.

/rank - show how much more Exp are needed for the next rank.

/help - for a whole list of Commands.



Buy / Sell Items

When you look(Alt/Ctrl + Right Click) at a NPC(Non Player Character), if he Buy / Sell Items, a pop up(the one in Red Rectangle) will appear.

The price of the item your cursor went to will be shown in the Red Circle.
Left Click on the Item to buy.

If you have an item on hand, the amount the NPC is willing to pay for will be shown in the Red Circle.
Howerver, NPC does not accept all kinds of items, you have to find the correct NPC to sell the correct items.
Left Click with Item On Hand in the pop up to Sell.

If your inventory is full, you will not be able to buy any item.



Equip Items

To equip items, Take(shift + left click) a Armor/Weapon, it will then be On Hand/On Cursor.
Then Drop(shift + left click with item on hand) it on the correct spot in Equipment(8).

1. Helmet
2. Cloak
3. Armor
4. Sleeves
5. Amulet
6. Belt
7. Weapon / Pick Axe / Torch
8. Misc Eq. (Torch)
9 & 10. Rings
11. Leggings
12. Boots

Weapons can only be equipped at (7.)Left Hand.
If (7.)Left Hand is equipped with a Two Handed Weapon(eg.. Two Handed Sword, Pick Axe), you cannot equip anything on (8.)Right Hand.

When you try to equip a item, and you receive a similar error message like this,
It means that your character's BASE Attributes do not meet the requirements to wear the item.

The values in Attributes/Skills/Spells(1) are most probably not the Base value.
They are Modified Values, which means that they might be modified by Items, Spells or Drugs.

To see your Base Attributes values, cast a spell named Identify on your own character.
Casting Identify with an item On Hand/On Cursor, will enable you to view the requirements needed for the item.
Identify will not be available in the beginning. You have to learn it by doing certain Quest.
If you have no idea on how to cast a Spell, go here.

To check the different requirements for different items, go here, check under Weapons/Armors/Belts & Amulets/Rings.



Casting Spells

To cast spells, Click on the Spells in the Attributes/Skills/Spells(1) or use the Shortcuts(12).

To cast spells on yourself, you do not have to select yourself. The default target is Self.

To cast spells on others, you have to select your target first then cast the spells.
If you do not know how to select Characters/Monsters, go here.

If your spells have been casted Successfully, you should be able to see the spells icons for some of the spells.

When the spells icons are still bright, it indicates that the spells are still new.

But when the icon is fading off, the spells might run out anytime soon.

Sometimes, you might fail to cast a spell, this will be shown in your dialog box(8)
Mana will still be deducted even if you have failed to cast it.



Leveling

In Aranock, as players level up, they gain a Rank.

Use /rank command to check how much more Experience Points(Exp) is needed for next Rank.

Before

When you Rank, your character will be given Hitpoints, Endurance and Mana.
Templar - 15 Hp, 10 End, 10 Mana
Harakim - 5 Hp, 10 End, 15 Mana
Mercenary - 10 Hp, 10 End, 10Mana

For more infomation about Exp needed for different Ranks, it can be found here under Ranks.



Improving Attributes/Skills/Spells(Attributes)

Column 1. Names of Attributes.
Column 2. Modified Values(Mod Values) of Attributes.
Column 3. Plus Sign for incrementing the Respective Attributes.
Column 4. Minus Sign for undoing increment done on the Respective Attributes.
Column 5. Experience Points(Exp) Needed to up the Attributes by 1.

6. Update Button and Exp in Update, the unspent Exp.

The Plus Sign will only appear when Exp In Update is more than or equal to the Exp Needed for the respective Attributes.
And of course, the Minus Sign will only appear after the Plus Sign is clicked.
You can undo the increment using the Minus Sign.

Now the Attribute Dagger's Plus Sign will be clicked again.
Take note of the Dagger's Mod Values, Dagger's Exp Need, Willpower and Intuition Plus Sign and the Exp in Update.

Remember to click the Update Button if you want to confirm the increment.
Or else, your character's Attribute Value will not change even though it has shown a higher value on screen.

After you click the Update Button, this is how it looks like.

There will no longer be any Minus Sign if the Update Button is Clicked.
You will not be able to undo the changes once you click the Update Button.



Making Potions

Ingredients : Small Red Flower OR Small Purple Flower and an Empty Bottle.

To make a potion, take(shift + left click) the ingredient On Hand, then use(left click) on the Empty Bottle.

You will get a Healing Potion if you used Red Flower as Ingredient, or a Mana Potion if you used Purple Flower.



Mining

The mines are located North of Temple of Skua.

To mine effectively, buy a Pickaxe from Gina and equip it.
Mining with other weapons is possible but it will be much slower.

1. Mine wall, when you look(shift + right click) at it, the hardness of wall will be shown in the dialog box. The softer the wall is, the easier to mine it.

2. Rubble, when a mine wall is mined completely, it will become rubble. When you pick up(shift + left click) the rubble, there will be a chance to find a Gem or a Gold/Silver Nuggets, or even a Agressive Monster will rose from it.

Mine(Shift + Left Click) the wall to start bringing it down to rubble.

Mining uses much more Endurance as compared to Fighting/Walking.

There are Three Levels of mine.
On the First Level, you will only be able to find Silver Nuggets, Small Gems or a Skeleton from the rubbles.
On the Second Level, you will be able to find Gold/Silver Nuggets, Medium/Big Gems or a Golem.
On the Third Level, you will be able to find Gold Nuggets, Big/Huge Gems or a Gargoyle.



Exiting Game


Please DO NOT use the Exit(F12) in Settings to exit the Game!
That is for Closing the Application(Window), not to exit Aranock.

To exit Aranock properly, you have to enter a Tavern. The Tavern is located just West of Temple of Skua.

Go Pass the Yellow Line to exit Aranock properly.

After exiting Aranock properly, you may click on the Exit(F12) in Settings to close the window or it will be closed automatically after sometime.



Map of Aranock


Note: Some images may have changed since this tutorial was written, however the bulk of the information remains the same.