First Star Online Terraworld, hosted by FVANtom Noob Island Walkthrough and FAQ Foreword: This manual is an attempt to assemble all the bits of information floating around about this game into one comprehensive guide. Strategies will be added as will personal experiences, to help you better get a feel for this game, as it has a rather unique character. It is intended to be used as both a walkthrough of sorts for new people and as a reference to more experienced players, who don't want to be bothered committing all the small details to memory. Without further ado, my first attempt at an MMORPG FAQ. Contents 1. FAQ 2. Notes for new players 3. Stats and their functions 4. Controls 5. Gameplay information 6. Walkthrough 7. Skills 8. Combat skills 9. Towns and shops 10. Enemies 11. Terms 12. Closing statements 13. Contact info _______________________________________________________________________ 1. FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Q: Can I get so and so armor/sword? A: If its not in this manual, then no, its not on noob isle. Q: Can I get someone to bring me so and so? A: Possibly, if that person is on noob island too, but you cant get any other weapons or items, because once you leave noob isle, you will never be able to return. Q: What's the best way to make money? A: See the section in skills on fishing. Q: What are crystals used for? A: For you, they will only be used for spells. Q: Does so and so always take this long? A: The answer is yes, if you don't have patience, then this game is probably not for you 2. Notes for new players You should know the basic etiquette for playing online rpg's. Those rules generally consist of no swearing, no cheating, being respectful etc. In this game small transgressions are usually tolerated to a point, but will get you muted (where you cant speak) or jailed (meaning you cant play). You will almost always get a warning before this happens (unless you verbally abuse an admin). Just try to be nice and respectful to others unless they are rude to you, and then you should just ignore them, most people online will take care of sticking up for you if you are in the right. Now lets talk about starting the game. First you need to make a character, you have a few choices here. Warriors will start with Ixnixion(allows one to see how far he is from leveling up), and better fighting skills. Rangers have decent fighting skills and start with Fireball. Mages are kind of weak, but have a lot of magic potential and start with Minor Heal. When it comes to statistics, this will help explain what they are. Strength. This affects how much damage you do, and what armors and items you can carry. This should be at least 15 at the start of the game Stamina determines how fast you get hungry. You may not think this to be a big deal but it gets annoying and eventually dangerous. Intelligence affects the number of skills you can master. Mastering skills is the only way to increase your stats. Wisdom determines how much damage your spells do Mysticism will determine which spells you can learn It is agreed time and time again, both on terraworld and on other servers as well, that the best statistics are as follows. strength 20 stamina 1 intelligence 13 wisdom 1 mysticism 20 This combination will allow you to get the best armors sooner, learn all spells, and be able to use food for healing more often ( a high stamina will cause you to become full faster and food will not heal you) The ammount of spell power increased by wisdom is miniscule even at high scores. 3. Controls Move Arrow keys Attack/fish/mine/chop wood Tab To chat with people on screen Type normally To broadcast message Put a ' before the message To see who is online Type who To check bank balance Be in bank and type /balance To deposit money Be in bank and type /deposit *number* To withdraw money be in bank and type /withdraw *number* To add someone to your buddy list Type /friends add *name* To pick up something Stand in front of it and hit ctrl. To join a tournament Broadcast the word join (will also cost money) 4. Gameplay information Fishing, Mining, Blacksmithing and Lumberjacking These skills require that you have a certain item to do them. Each one is described later in the manual. But let it be known that to get them to work, you have to unequip your weapon, and equip the right tool for the job, then you just use the attack button (tab) like normal. Unequipping armor and weapons. To unequip something, click the blue x icon next to it. You must unequip something before you can equip something else. Tournaments Tournaments can only be started by admins. When a tournament is starting a message will be broadcasted letting you know. Most of the time, the entrance fee is only 50 gold, and all you have to do to join is have your money on you, and broadcast the word join. Keep in mind, that you will lose all of your items and equipment until the tournament is over. Once the tournament is over, the game will close, and you will have to open it again. When you do, all your items and money, plus any prize money you might have won, will be in your inventory. There are lots of different types of tournaments, its best to ask the admin, what type he is running. Hunger and its effects In this game you will need to keep your character from getting hungry. This can be done by buying food and eating it, cooking it yourself, or eating it raw, as you find it. As hunger sets in, you will get a note on the screen letting you know you are hungry. This is just a warning. If you do not eat, you will receive another message, telling you that you are very hungry. At this time, you will no longer regenerate health. After this message, you will receive another telling you that you are starving. Starving characters will begin losing health until you reach 1 hp. Hunger will not kill you directly, but at 1 hp, anything that hits you will kill you. Be sure to keep food with you at all times, and stock up on it when you are mining, lumberjacking or hunting, to save trips back to the towns. 5. Walkthrough for Noob island First thing you need to do, is get used to the controls, and chatting. Take your time. If you need help, refer to this manual before asking anyone, as most people get annoyed very fast with someone who asks a lot of questions about simple things. Once you have the hang of moving around in Terraworld, your first task should be to get a fishing pole and start fishing. You can move just one screen outside of town and start attacking slimes. These drop 2 gold each when they drop gold. Start saving. Once you have 250 gold, you will never need to hunt monsters again for money. (if you are having real trouble with this, and keep getting killed, I guess it would be ok to ask someone for help. If you get help make sure to thank them and offer to pay them back) Now, you will need to head west (or left) from Karmiel, to the western shore. Search up and down the coast and you will come to the docks. The building here is where you can buy your fishing pole and cook and sell what you catch. This is going to be your home for a little while. Equip your fishing pole and start fishing. Don't stop fishing until you are catching squid (level 80) this wont take as long as you think, maybe an hour tops. Be sure to switch fishing spots often, as you will catch more and level faster. After you have caught all you care to, head inside the shop and go to the ovens. Start cooking your fish (this is described in the skill section under cooking) don't worry about raising your skill up to max in this, as it will take a lot longer than fishing. Once you have cooked everything, click on the shopkeeper to sell to him. Sell all the things you have cooked, and then check to see how much gold you have. Once you have about 1000 gold, head back into Karmiel and go to the armor and weapon shops. Buy a short sword, leather armor, leather cap and leather boots. Now you can go take on those slimes Raise your hp a little bit, maybe to 25 or 30, and then you can start hunting wolves. (located south and east of Karmiel) once you feel like you have the hang of it and can handle yourself, go back and start fishing and cooking again. Get another 1000 GP or more, and then head east of Karmiel (from the crossroads) go east for 3 screens and you will come to a bridge with a cave near it. Don't bother going into the cave, as it's the mining cave, and you don't have a mining hammer yet. Once you cross the bridge, go south, and you will see a small black path leading off to the right. Take it, and you will be in Edgewood, the second town. Here you can buy a blacksmith hammer, mining hammer, chain armor and helm, and a small shield, which I suggest you do. You can also buy a longsword. You may have to fish some more, but in the end you should have all of the things listed here. Now you can try to raise your hp by fighting orcs. These are located in the forests east and south of Edgewood. Once you have about 35 hp, you can take a break, or you can go for 40. Now comes a bit of decision time You can either go mining, fish some more, or start lumberjacking. I suggest maxing out mining before you go to mainland, as its harder to do on mainland than on noob island. (the mines on noob island don't have monsters in them). Now to continue on with the game, you must talk to the mermaid in the north part of Edgewood. She will tell you about her brother, who is very ill and needs an herb that only the elf has. Now you need to buy at least one orc burger from the food shop and make sure not to eat it. Then start making your way towards Karmiel. Once you arrive do any last minute shopping you need, such as food, to restore health, also make sure you have 2 paintings on you, for a good strategy for your quest (ill explain later) and then head north from Karmiel. After one or two screens you will see a sign to your right. This leads into the dark forest. Nothing to worry about in here, just slimes and wolves. Start heading south, and maybe one screen to the west, and you will come across a cave. Inside the cave is a man who loves orc burgers. If you stand in front of him, and click give, on your orc burger, he will teleport you to the elf's lair. There are 3 imps and an elf in here. Your goal is to kill the elf, who drops the herb. Pick up the herb, and make a run for the white space in the lower right hand corner. This will teleport you back to Karmiel. Now that you have the herb, make your way back to Edgewood, and back to the 4 way crossroads. From here head east and then south. Head all the way south, and then one screen west, and you should arrive at a castle (you might have to search around a few screens but its very near there) go inside and you will find the man you need to give the herb to. Do this the same way you gave the orc burger to the other guy. He will teleport you to a room and you will get a password. Follow the instructions here, and then you will be warped back out. You are done with everything you need to do on noob island, and if your hp is at least 40, you can go to the mainland. Before you go, you should keep in mind you will never be able to come back to noob island again. You should also take this time to get some money saved up and level any skills you want, while you are safe from being killed by other players. Your next armor and weapons will cost in the thousands, so might as well save up some money, about 20k if you want to be able to buy everything when you get to the mainland. But this is only a suggestion to make it a little easier on you. Also , you should stock up on crystals from the mines, as you will be able to buy more spells on the mainland, and all of them use different crystal types. When you are ready, go back to the docks, click the sign and follow the directions. Welcome to the mainland! 6. Skills There are lots of skills in this game, but so you wont be confused, I will only list here the skills that you can master on noob island. Skills all run in levels of 10, meaning that levels 1-10 show no increase in effectiveness from your starting score, but once you hit level 11, you will get better at them. It keeps progressing this way for all skills in the whole game. A person with a mining level of 65, will be just as good as someone with a skill of 70, but a person with 71 would be better than both. Even though skills go up to level 100, they master at level 90. Fishing Fishing is one of the most, if not the most important skill in the game. You will make more money fishing than anything you will ever be able to do, no matter how far you get in the game, fishing will always net you the most money. As you begin fishing, your skill levels will raise fairly fast, even at low intelligence. You start out catching one type of fish, and as you get higher in skill, the fish you catch changes. I did not list what level you catch what at, because you will eventually be catching squid at level 80, and you will never catch any other type of fish after that. Squid can be cooked and sold for 15g each, meaning 100 would get you 1,500 gold, and 1000 will get you 15k gold. Mastering fishing will increase your intelligence by 1 permanently. The order of the fish is as follows. Fish Caught Cooked into Raw fish Fish sticks Trout Trout fillet Catfish Catfish sandwich Swordfish Swordfish steak Squid Squid platter Cooking Cooking is another must have skill. It goes hand in hand with fishing. It starts out being very slow. Especially when you burn something. If you burn what you were trying to cook, you don't lose it but you will have to wait about 20-30 seconds before it will let you attempt cooking again. To cook, you must stand in front of a stove, facing it, and then open your item screen. Click on the item you want to cook, and then click cook. As this skill levels up it will decrease the time it takes to cook. After you hit level 51, its all downhill from there. At level 91, your cooking will be so fast, you will almost be able to cook as quick as you can click it. Keep in mind that even though you may have mastered cooking, you still burn things occasionally, just not very often. Mastering cooking will increase your stamina by 1 point permanently Mining Mining is not a skill that you will really need on noob isle, but it is a good idea to try and master it. The reason for this is that noob island has the only mine in the game that is free of monsters. So you should take this opportunity to at least level it up to 50, if not master it. As you mine you will find crystals and ores, and maybe a star chunk. if you don't feel like holding on to it, you can sell it for a decent profit. The following is a table to help you understand what each level of mining skill does. Mastering mining will increase your strength by 1 point permanently Level of Mining Number of hits to break rocks 1-10 18 11-20 15 21-30 14 31-40 13 41-50 12 51-60 10 61-70 8 71-80 6 81-90 4 91-100 4, but the rate you swing the hammer slows down. Also, mining will get you crystals and chunks of metals, shown by this table. Items Frequency found Blue crystal Most common Red crystal Common Purple crystal Uncommon Yellow crystal Uncommon Green crystal Uncommon White crystal Rare Chunk of iron Rare Chunk of steel Rare Chunk of star Very rare Lumberjacking This is one of the most aggravating skills to master, because trees are hard to find, and they don't grow back quickly. First off you need to have an axe for this skill, which can be bought in the first town, Karmiel, for 250 GP. A lot of people have trouble with this, because they cant figure out which trees to cut. I will simplify it for you, it's the roundish fluffy looking trees. If you are in doubt, equip your axe and take a swing. It will make a "whuff" sound if it's the wrong type, but if it's the right type of tree, you will hear a "thwack" sound(if still having trouble finding the right trees, there is a lumberjacking area filled with those trees just a bit north west from Karmiel). Below is a table describing what each level of lumberjacking does. Mastering lumberjacking will give you a +1 to strength permanently. There is roughly a 25% chance you will get logs from chopping down a tree Level of lumberjacking/Number of hits to fell trees 1-10 18 11-20 15 21-30 14 31-40 13 41-50 12 51-60 10 61-70 8 71-80 6 81-100 4 Blacksmithing You will have to blacksmith your items and weapons all throughout the game. Every time they break, you must smith them again. There is no level progression chart for this yet. You can smith by equipping a smith's hammer in your right hand, and standing in front of an anvil. (anvils are located in weapon shops and some mining shops) make sure you have a piece of the material required for smithing. In your case since the best armor on noob isle is chain, you will need to have 1 iron chunk in your inventory for every item you need to smith. Once you have all this and are standing in front of the anvil, click your damaged item (it has to be in your inventory, it cannot be equipped) and click smith. You will repair your weapon and the chunk of iron will disappear. ***You can also farm and make potions (the alchemy skill) but neither one is any use to you here. You cannot increase farming without hoeing the land, and all the land that is hoeable, is already hoed. Even most high level players never master this. Alchemy is also useless to level while on noob island. The costs are astronomical, and your time would be better spent fishing, or leveling other skills. 7. Combat skills There are also a lot of combat skills to be mastered throughout the course of the game, but again, I will only list the ones you will be using on noob isle Slash Slash is the level at which you use your sword. This will increase as you attack monsters,it isn't possible to master this on noob island, but it is a good idea to raise it, as it increases your damage with swords. Parry The only way to level this skill is to be hit by monsters. The higher the level, the better able you are to stop an enemy from damaging you. Axe This can be raised by attacking enemies with the wood axe. Its not a very effective weapon, and its best to wait till you are at atleast 100 hp and able to kill quite tough enemies(on the mainland) Block This is increased when you are about level 50 in parry and are attacked by an enemy, it works the same as parry. Fire This is increased by casting fireball, and as it raises so will magery (only rangers start with this), you cannot get this skill above 30 on newbie isle. Magery This is increased as your other level of spell related skills increases, it helps add extra effectiveness to your spells, you cannot get this skill above 30 on newbie isle. Blessing This is increased by casting Heal,and as it raises so will magery (only mages start with this), you cannot get this skill above 30 on newbie isle. 8. Towns and shops The first town you will come to is Karmiel. You will spend some time here at the start of the game. The stuff here isn't very good, but be sure to pick up an axe while you are here, you will be using it for the rest of the game. The second town later on is Edgewood, they have the best items you can buy on noob isle. Be sure to buy a smiths hammer, and mining hammer here, you will use both of them for the rest of the game. Below is a listing of shops and their buy and sell prices. This should help to avoid getting somewhere only to find out you don't have enough to buy what you need. Any time a N/a appears under price, that means that you cannot buy/sell this item. Karmiel weapon shop Item Buy sell Knife 20 10 Dagger 100 N/a Short sword 200 100 Karmiel armor shop Item Buy sell Leather armor 200 100 Leather cap 150 75 Leather boots 200 100 Karmiel potion shop Item Buy sell Potion bottle 6 3 Blue sand 1000 500 Blue potion 20 10 Karmiel docks fishing store Item Buy sell Pole 250 125 Raw fish 5 1 Trout 12 2 Catfish 20 3 Swordfish 25 4 Squid 35 5 Fish sticks N/a 3 Trout fillet N/a 6 CFish sandwich N/a 9 Swordfish steak N/a 12 Squid platter N/a 15 Karmiel casino Item Buy sell Fishle 50,000 N/a Silver token 100 N/a Karmiel food store Item Buy sell Apple 5 2 Pie 10 5 Orc meat 15 7 Orc pot pie 20 10 Orc burger 20 10 Karmiel lumber store Item Buy sell Axe 250 125 Logs N/a 5 Edgewood weapon store Item Buy sell Short sword 200 100 B Smith hammer 400 200 Long sword 600 300 Edgewood armor shop Item Buy sell Chain armor 500 250 Small shield 300 150 Chain boots 500 250 Chain helm 300 150 Leather armor N/a 80 Leather cap N/a 60 Leather boots N/a 80 Edgewood bar Item Buy sell Ale 6 2 Pie 12 4 Edgewood farm house Item Buy sell Hoe 200 100 Watering bucket 150 75 Seeds 10 N/a Premium seeds 20 N/a Magic seeds 15 N/a Flower seeds 25 N/a Rose seeds 25 N/a Watermelon N/a 4 Corn N/a 5 Nectar N/a 7 Flowers N/a 10 Roses N/a. 10 Edgewood mining store Item Buy sell Mining hammer 300 150 Chunk of iron 100 80 Chunk of steel 300 150 Blue crystals 3 N/a Red crystals 3 N/a Green crystals 4 N/a Yellow crystals 6 N/a Purple crystals 8 N/a White crystals 10 N/a Silver token 150 N/a Chunk of ice N/a 400 Chunk of fire N/a 500 Chunk of star N/a 300 Edgewood arts store Item Buy sell Canvas 30 N/a Camera 500 50 Film 70 20 Painting N/a 5 Edgewood food store Item Buy sell Apple 5 2 Pie 10 5 Orc meat 15 7 Orc burger 20 10 Orc pot pie 20 10 9. Enemies This section will cover the enemies you will encounter on noob island. Some of these enemies are on the mainland as well, but you needn't worry about that now. If you are in doubt as to whether or not you are strong enough to take on a monster, please check here first. Name Slime Hp 15 Attack 1 Defense 2 Experience 14 Location All around Karmiel, and in dark forest Items dropped 50% chance of either an apple or 2 GP Name Wolf Hp 24 Attack 4 Defense 4 Experience 22 Location Beach of Karmiel, dark forest, path to Edgewood Items dropped 50% chance of either a pie, or 5 GP Name Orc Hp 33 Attack 7 Defense 6 Experience 41 Location All around Edgewood Items dropped 50% chance of either orc meat, or 10 GP Name Imp Hp 33 Attack 10 Defense 9 Experience 44 Location Elf cave Items dropped 50% chance of pie or 20 GP. 25% chance of dropping blue crystal Name Elf Hp 43 Attack 13 Defense 10 Experience 65 Location Elf cave Items dropped 100% chance of herb 11. Terms and legal mumbo-jumbo ***** Copyright Information ***** This document ¸ 2003 Josh Hines/Volyren Nightsong. This document, either in whole or in part, may not be reprinted, redistributed, or reposted on any location except for the sites listed below without explicit written consent.. Authorized Sites to post this FAQ: -GameFAQs.com -terragaming.com -Wolf pack HQ (www.smuz.com/wolfpack_forum) -Neoseeker 12. closing statement. This guide was written to try and help people new to the game, and also players that have been playing a while, by taking off some of the burden put onto them by new players constantly asking questions. This is not meant to discourage new players from asking questions, but it would be much appreciated if you read this guide through before asking someone for help. If I have missed anything that you think should be included in this guide, please contact me, or if you have found an error here, please do the same. My contact info can be found below. I hope you enjoy this game as much as I have, and keep looking for another manual soon, as I will cover the mainland, possibly in 2 sections instead of 1 massive one. Take care all, and thanks for reading this guide. 13. Contact Info Email Volyren@yahoo.com Contact me in game, my name is volyren Or contact me through the sites that you got this guide from.