Beginner's guide

Getting in

Guest: pick a name and a vocation and play right away, from level 1. Nothing is saved when you leave, and guests cannot trade or use the stalls.
Account: your wallet address on the Robinhood Chain (the public one, starting with 0x) and a password. Drakhen never asks for your secret phrase or private key — never type them anywhere. One account holds up to 5 characters, and they share the account depot.
Every new character starts with 50 health potions and 50 mana potions (the first 5 characters of each account), the vocation's basic gear, a pickaxe and an axe.
The four vocations are Knight, Sorcerer, Ranger, Druid. See Vocations & skills for what each one does.

WASD or the arrows to walk, the mouse to aim. Hold the left click or Space for your basic attack.
1–9, Q and R are your hotkeys. Drag spells from the left panel, or potions and food from the backpack, onto the bar. Right-click a slot to clear it. Change the keys in Settings (O).
5 and 6 drink your best health and mana potion.
I backpack · K skill tree · M world map · L ranking · O settings · V picks up the loot around you · Enter chat.
Right-click an NPC to talk, or another player for the party, trade and whisper menu.
On a phone: drag the stick in the bottom-left corner to walk (the further you drag, the faster you go), tap a creature to target it, tap an NPC to talk. The big button on the right attacks; the spells sit in an arc around it.

You start at the Temple; if you fall, you wake up there. North of it is the town:

Brother Anselm (Temple) heals you and explains the world. Old Tom has tips.
Martha (General Store) sells potions and food and buys creature products. Sell your loot there.
Brutus (Blacksmith) sells common gear and buys any equipment. Thorgar, next to him, forges it.
Octavian (Bank) keeps your gold. The Depot chests keep items for your whole account (100 slots).
Hunt Master Rowan pays for hunts — see Hunting tasks.
The Market Square has the player stalls — see Token & stalls.

Full list: NPCs.

Out of the Temple's south door are the Training Grounds, with weak creatures to try your attacks.
The hole inside the Training Grounds leads to the Spider Cave. The surface has few creatures: the caves are where you level up, and creatures there drop +25% loot and +25% gold.
The whole south is free. West and east open at level 15, the north at level 30, the Dragon Hills at 40. A magic barrier stops you before that. Every cave has the level of its entrance — see World & caves.

Hunting outside the dungeons gives +25% XP.

Loot stays in a bag on the creature for 2 minutes and only you can see it. Click the bag, or press V to pick up everything around you. You can turn on Auto-loot in Settings.
Loot is always personal, even in a party.
Dying outside a dungeon or boss lair costs 8% of the XP of your current level (you never lose a level), part of the gold you carry (10% near town, up to 20% in the hardest regions) and maybe some items from your backpack (a small chance near town, a much bigger one far away). What you drop stays in a bag where you fell: only you can open it for 5 minutes, then anyone can. Equipped, epic and legendary items and your bank are always safe. Dying inside a dungeon or a boss lair costs only XP (in a dungeon, not even the entry). Brother Anselm, at the temple, sells a blessing that protects your next death (it costs level × level × 30 gold).
Eat something to recover faster for a while. Potions heal at once, but you can only drink one health potion every 1.5 seconds (mana potions have their own timer), and a health potion never heals more than a share of your maximum health (half for the small one, about a third for the others). Don't rely on potions alone: step out of the marked circles.

Every level gives 1 skill point (press K). Raise your spells, learn passives, and at rank 5 choose a variant. You have 49 points at level 50.
New spells unlock at levels 10, 20, 30 and 40 (the Sorcerer and the Druid also get one at level 5).
Buy gear from Brutus at first. Rare gear drops from creatures, epic gear from the dungeons, and legendary gear only from the bosses.
Forge your gear with Thorgar using creature products, ore and wood you gather yourself.

Party: right-click a player → Invite (up to 4). XP is shared between members within 20 tiles, with +10% for each extra member, as long as the lowest level is at least 2/3 of the highest. Party members show in gold on the minimap, and the party enters dungeons together.
Chat: Local (people on your screen), World and Trade (from level 5, one message every 10 seconds), Party, Private (/w Name message, /r to reply) and the Server Log.