FAQ
How do I chat:
How do I drop something?
How do I pick something up?
How do I unwear a cursed cloak (or other cursed item)?
How do I pay for an item (in a shop)?
How do I get my literacy level up?
How do I worship a god?
How do I get the 'praying' skill?
How do I pray?
How do I use a gate/port/whatever pass?
Where do I find savebeds other than the one in Nimbus?
How to make money fast?
Generally quests give you something valuable as reward. For example
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.
Dependencies:
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
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;
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 $PREFIX is set to that.
tar xjvf cfserver-2.1.tar.bz2 cd cfserver-2.1 ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --exec-prefix=$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 $PREFIX/bin/cfutil --install-arch cfarch-2.1 \ --install-maps cfmaps-2.1
Run your server with
$PREFIX/bin/crossfire
Server config is located at $PREFIX/etc