Helps ----- BatMUD has comprehensive help files on most subjects, reading them is a great way to find out about most game related issues. Also, many help files have useful SEE ALSO fields that refer to other related help files. Note that we have a neat command called 'hfind' that you can use to search our help files for keywords. This is a quick way to find information, and you are strongly encouraged to take it into use. Try 'hfind armours' for example. So how does one get started? ---------------------------- First of all, you might want to use the Batclient. It will make playing much easier than with pure telnet. Get it here: http://www.bat.org/batclient/ Second, BatMUD has newbie helpers. They are mortals who have chosen the status and are (somewhat) obliged to answer to the questions newcomers have. See 'help newbie helpers'. Now lets get down to the business... Explore ------- Explore; visit new rooms, you will get some experience points per each new room you visit (not all give explore, roads of bigger cities and the outworld for instance). First explore Pleasantville, visit all the stores, then advance your level a couple times. When you are done, leave the village through the gate in west, and you will find a granite post outside the gates. Type "touch post" and you will be transported to a portal room with exits to several areas. Explore them all, but remember to advance your level often, to avoid losing a lot of experience by dying. Levels ------ Advance your level at an adventurers guild whenever you have enough experience on you. Level advancement room can be found in Pleasantville (the village you start at, see "map" there). There are other adventurers guild around, both in Arelium (the city a bit northwest from Pleasantville), and in other cities. At level 11 you get your first 'free level' which you should use in your racial guild. One north and one west from the level advancement place in Arelium 'enter portal' and find your guild from within, a similar portal also exists in Pleasantville, again see "map". At level 16 you have 5 levels in your racial guild and you can now spend the new free levels into real guilds. See 'help getting started', the 'guilds'-section. Other hints ----------- A free hint: 'wane'-mountain in the transport system provides a LOT of rooms (and therefore a nice amount of experience). When you are no longer easily finding new rooms to visit (some places are rather dangerous by the way), you want to start killing stuff for experience. At this point you should be at least on level 10, perhaps even 20. Your call. See 'help getting started', 'stuff to kill'-section. If you are a fighter type... get weapons. Don't bother with armours in the beginning. The better the weapons, the faster you will advance. Damogran gets some nice weps now and then, so be sure to check on him often. He is located 1 east, 2 north from the church altar, and there's a portal to his warehouse in Pleasantville. Shardik Carthaigh PS. Ask questions on newbie-channel. ============================================================== NOTE: BatMUD's website is now open! Visit "http://www.bat.org" for a lot of information about our beloved mud. ============================================================== SEE ALSO newbie, saving items, reincarnation

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