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 =head1 FAQ, Tips and Tricks
 Here are some questions you might asked yourself over time.
 Also some nice tips and tricks are listed here, which you may find informative.
 =back
 =head3 My client doesn't start anymore/graphics are corrupted!
+If your computer crashed, the game client or any updates for it might have
+become corrupted.
+If you suspect this to be the case, you can delete the cached copy and any
+updates - you lose software updates this way, but your personal settings
+and minimap stay intact.
+=over 4
+=item To do that on Unix:
+Open a terminal window as the user that starts the client and execute:
+   rm -rf ~/.urlader
+=item To do that on Windows:
+Open an explorer window (e.g. "Computer"), enter F<%APPDATA%> in the
+location bar and press return.
+Find and delete the directory called F<urlader> - if you can't delete all
+files, reboot first.
+=back
 Sometimes you hit a bug in the client. To reset the state of your client
 you can delete your client database directory (your client will have to
 re-download music and images and you will lose your minimap contents).
 =over 4
-To do that, on Unix:
+=item To do that on Unix:
+Open a terminal window as the user that starts the client and execute:
    rm -rf ~/.deliantra/client-*
-On windows:
+=item To do that on Windows:
-Do C<< Start => Run >>, enter F<%APPDATA%>, press return, and in the
 window that will open, first open F<deliantra>, then delete the directory
 starting with F<client->.
+Open an explorer window (e.g. "Computer"), enter F<%APPDATA%> in the
+location bar and press return.
+Find and enter the directory called F<deliantra> and delete all files
+starting with F<client-> - if you can't delete all files, reboot first.
 =back
+Additionally, to completely reset the client and all your settings, you
-Alternatively you can delete the F<.deliantra> or F<deliantra> directory
+can delete the F<.deliantra> or F<deliantra> directory itself.
-itself, but this will also delete your settings and keybindings.
 =head2 Game Mechanics
-=head3 I lose health, but I can't see why!
+=head3 What is this place I go to when I die?
+When you die, you go to a place called the nimbus. In the nimbus, you are
+able to play minesweeper for your experience. If you win and have applied
+all the spaces except for bombs, you will automatically be teleported to
+a hallway you can walk down to be teleported back to life, with your
+experience intact.
+If you lose by applying a bomb, you are teleported to a hallway
+with a flower, and you can walk down to be teleported back to life,
+without your experience you lost when you died. There are rumors
+that the Key to Life can let the losers walk in the winner's
+hallway, however...
+=head3 I lose health, but I can't see why! Or how do I cure diseases/depletion/poison?
 Here are the typical reasons why you lose health:
 =over 4
 =item * Your stats change.
 Switching items or being restored from depletion can affect your stats,
 which in turn can affect your healthpoints. While this is not a regular
 effect (it only happens when you change items or are restored from
-depletion), it can sometimes look as if you are losing health.
+depletion), it can sometimes look as if you are losing health. You can
+restore depletion by drinking a potion of life.
 =back
+=head3 How do diseases work?
+Diseases are obtained by things like traps or spells. Usually, they
+will reduce some of your attributes, like strength. They might also
+cause damage to you, or slow you down. Some of them infect monsters
+and players around you, spreading the disease.
+If your disease can be cured naturally, and if you do wait until
+it is cured naturally, you develop immunity for that level of
+disease. Higher level forms of that disease will still infect
+you, but you can wait it out to get better immunity.
+Some diseases, like rabies, cannot be cured by waiting.
+Instead, you will have to cure it magically. For information on how
+to do that, see the above entry.
 =head3 I lost an item! How?
 Well, we don't know. If you don't know, either, here is a partial list of
 ways people typically lose stuff:
 the item back is to kill the thief or steal the item back with the steal
 skill before the map he is in resets.
 Many adventurers find that the old road to Navar harbours a lot of thieves
 and is best avoided by the beginning adventurers.
-=back
-=head3 How do I uncurse/undamn items?
-You need a spell to uncurse or undamn items, but luckily, magic shops
-commonly have scrolls of remove curse or remove damnation. In addition,
-all of the gods except the Devourers can remove curses, and Gnarg,
-Lythander, Mostrai, Gaea, and Valriel can remove damnation. Gaea also
-grants the remove damnation spell at 300 grace.
-To actually remove the curse or damnation with a scroll, you need to
-L<mark> the item, and then L<apply> the scroll.
 =back
 =head3 When I log-in, I keep dying! Why is this?
 the server automatically kicks players). Safe log outs are when you log
 out using a bed to realtiy, or when you are disconnected when the server
 crashes or restarts.
 If the disconnection was safe, then you will appear where you were before
-you got logged out. If it was unsafe, and more than 1 hour has passed, you
+you got logged out. If it was unsafe, and more than one hour has passed, you
-will die of a cave-in. If the map you were in reset, but 1 hour has not
+will die of a cave-in. If the map you were in reset, but one hour has not
 passed, then you will be recalled to your bed to reality.
 =head3 Where do I find beds to reality?
 Inns usually have them, and apartments almost always have beds to
 The I<identify> spell counts stacks of items, such as arrows or gems, as
 one 'item'. It can only identify a certain amount of items. Therefore, the
 only way to choose what it identifies is by dropping what you don't want
 identified on the ground.
+=head3 What do altars do?
+There are different types of altars. Altars found in churches and
+chapels are aligned to gods; they usually have decoration based
+on the god they are aligned to. You can pray at these altars to
+start worshipping the god the altar is aligned to, or pray to
+get over your normal grace limit, get grace faster, or any
+other effects the altar might have.
+Pink altars usually require a sacrifice, which can be seen by
+rolling your mouse over it at the bottom of the screen. If you
+drop the sacrifiice, it will activate something, like a gate, or
+maybe it will teleport something.
 =head3 How come I don't get any change from an altar?
 Altars do not give change. This means that you might drop a platinum piece
 on a table that identifies for 2 gold, or equivalent, and get only one
 identify. The equivalent means that you can make the price up in smaller
 currency, like 200 silver, but higher currency won't get you any more
 identifies.
+=head3 What diseases cannot be cured naturally?
+Tapeworms, leprosy, and arthritis are all unable to be cured naturally,
+and thus you cannot have an immunity against them.
+=head3 Where can I use building materials?
+You can only use them in tiles that are buildable. These tiles are found in
+guild storages, and in some apartments.
 =head3 How can I Prepare/Improve/Enchant Weapons?
 This is done in two steps: first you have to I<prepare> your weapon
 for the desired number of enchantments, then you apply the enchanments
 (weapons remember how many times they can be enchanted further).
 To prepare a weapon, wield it and L<mark> (e.g. using the popup menu in
-the inventory) some diamonds, as a sacrifice, then read the I<Prepare
+the inventory) it. Then, as a sacrifice, drop some diamonds on the floor
-Weapon> scroll. The square root of the total number of diamonds sacrificed
+then read the I<Prepare Weapon> scroll. The square root of the total
-this way determines the number of enchantments the weapon accepts: one
+number of diamonds sacrificed this way determines the number of
-diamond for one enchanment, nine diamonds for three enchantments, 100
+enchantments the weapon accepts: one diamond for one enchanment, nine
-diamonds for ten enchantments and so on.
+diamonds for three enchantments, 100 diamonds for ten enchantments,
+and so on.
 Remember, once you prepare the weapon, it can only be wielded by you.
 After that, you can apply improvement and enchantnment scrolls:
 Just drop the item in a shop. Some tiles in a shop might not be shop
 tiles; usually, shop tiles are white brick floors. Try going over one of
 them and dropping the item. If the shop is not interested, the item will
 not leave your inventory.
+=head3 How do I increase my attributes?
+To increase your attributes (strength, dexterity, etc.) you can wear items
+that can increase them as long as you have them worn. You can get your
+attributes up to 30 like this. To increase them permanently, you can
+drink a stat potion, which have special colors and a letter on the potion
+named 'potion of <attribute>'. These potions can increase your attributes
+up to the natural maximum of your race; which can be viewd with the
+statistics command. It increases your 'natural' attribute, up to the
+'maximum' attribute.
 =head3 How do I get my literacy experience up?
 You need to read books and scrolls to get literacy experience. You can
 also use the literacy skill to identify scrolls and books. Identifying
 them gives you literacy experience, and you are still able to read them
 Whatever looks at your pass or key opens automatically, if you have it in
 your inventory or in an applied container. Some keys might just open a
 locked door, not a gate, and can be used by moving into the locked door.
+=head3 How do I find out where the key is to a locked door?
+Usually, bumping into the locked door will tell you what kind of key
+you need. This key is probably hidden somewhere in the same or close maps.
+Some of the characters near by might give you hints or explain something.
+=head3 How do I see how much an altar or table costs to use?
+You can move your mouse over it, and it will tell you how much currency it
+needs.
+=head3 How do I join a guild?
+To join a player guild, such as the Black Shield or Laughing Skull (not
+the Adventurer's Guild, the Guild of Freedom, or anything else like
+them), you need to be given a key by one of its current members.
+The players might have special tasks and requirements for you, but all that
+is needed is to have the key to enter the guild building and use its features.
 =head3 How do I drop items?
 To drop items, you can right click on the item in your inventory screen in
 the playerbook, which you can get by pressing F5 or the Playerbook tab,
 and selecting drop. You can also shift + left click an item to drop it, or
 enter the command
-=item drop <item>
+   drop <item>
 This command drops items with the names that have <item> in it. If you are
 unable to drop an item, this will probably be because it is locked. You
 can unlock it by right clicking the item in your inventory, and selecting
 unlock.
 good in, and of course vice versa!
 =head2 Magic
+=head3 How does an improvement potion work?
+An improvement potion increases your hitpoints, spellpoints, or your grace,
+permanently. It does this by rerolling the rolls for your hitpoints, spellpoints,
+or grace, and increasing it. This way, if you drink enough improvement
+potions, your hitpoints, spellpoints, or grace would be as if you rolled perfectly.
+However, only lower levels roll for hitpoints, spellpoints, or grace. After level
+10, skills increase hitpoints, spellpoints, or grace by a certain fixed amount.
+=head3 How do I control golems I summon?
+You can control golems by holding down shift + a direction key. It moves in the
+direction you are holding.
 =head3 How can I summon a specific monster with C<summon pet monster>?
 Higher (effective) casting levels of L<skill_description/summoning> give
 you access to higher level monsters, but not all monsters have equal
 abilities. Instead of summoning the highest level monster allowed by your
 C<cast summon pet monster bee> (short: C<cspm bee>) command.
    Level  Monster
        1  bat
        3  bird
+       4  bee
-       4  spider
+       5  spider
        6  killer_bee
        7  pixie
        8  skeleton
        9  stalker
       11  devil
 The skill level is the level of the skill that the spell uses (e.g.
 summoning or sorcery).
 When attuned, the bonus is up to 16 levels, but never higher than the
-skill level itself, i.e. at level 2, the bonus is 4, at level 5, the
+skill level itself, i.e. at level 2, the bonus is 2 also, resulting in an
-bonus is 10 and at level 50, the bonus is 16.
+attuned casting level of 4, at level 5, the bonus is 5, yielding a casting
+level of 10, and at level 50, the bonus is 16, yielding 66.
-When repelled, the malus is 16 levels always.
+When repelled, the malus is 16 levels always. If you are both attuned and
+repelled at the same time, the effects will add.
 These are added (or subtracted) to the skill level when checking whether
 the player can cast the spell and when calculating the effective casting
 level.
 If the skill level plus bonus is lower than 100, then the minimum spell
 level comes into play: the minimum level is not only the minimum level
 a caster is required to have, it is also the level where the effective
 casting level equals 1. From there it grows till it reaches casting level
-100, whre the effective level will also be 100.
+100, where the effective level will also be 100.
 If the skill level plus bonus is 100 or higher, then this is the effective
 spell level.
 That means, when you have a spell with a minimum level of 90, then it's
 effective level 100.
 =head2 Praying, Gods and Cults
-=head3 X<how_tp_pray>How do I pray or get the praying skill?
+=head3 X<how_to_pray>How do I pray or get the praying skill?
 First enter the "praying mode" by readying your L<skill_description/praying> skill
 (by default bound to C<Alt-P>, or by typing C<rspraying>), then hold and keep holding
 C<Shift> and a direction key (e.g. C<Shift-Up>).
 de Clouds, the biggest city ever seen (high level and very high level
 quests). There are rumors about lands beyond (St. Bartholemew and other
 cities) and other even more mystical places, but little is known about
 that.
-=head2 Where is that damn Goblin Chief?
+=head3 Where is that damn Goblin Chief?
 In his cave to the north-east of the Scorn Gate. It is the one that starts
 with a random maze (yes, there are multiple caves). Keep in mind that the
 Goblin Chief's Head is fastened to his body, so you have to find and kill
 him first.
-=head2 Where can I find the I<comet> spell?
+=head3 Where can I find the I<comet> spell?
 In the tower of stars, which is almost directly south of Scorn (but not
 too near to it). You have to talk to people to solve this quest, and it
 does not involve a random maze.
+=head1 Authors
+The following people contributed to this document: Robin Redeker, John O'Donnell
+and Marc Lehmann.

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