How to start

Getting started walks you through your first hours, step by step.

1. Download the installer, open it, and start Dillei Online from the shortcut it makes. The game updates itself.
2. Create an account: an account number of 6 to 12 digits, a password of at least 6 characters and your email.
3. Create a character and choose its class - warrior, mage or ranger. The class can never be changed afterwards.
4. You wake up in the temple of Dillei (town square at 1472,1560) wearing your class's starting kit.
5. Buy potions from Odila, sell what monsters leave to Mirela, keep your gold with Ramon - see NPCs.
6. Start hunting just outside the north gate - the hunting ladder below says where to go next.
7. Take hunting tasks from Varek, the task master in The Anvil and Hammerhold, 104 squares north of the temple, for extra experience or gold.

Good to know

• Dying costs 3% of your experience and 10% of the progress towards each skill. Your backpack always falls on your body; every other worn item has a 0.5% chance to. The body lies there 20 minutes. You come back with a satchel (8 slots) on your back, so you can carry what you buy again.
• Pushing: drag a player or a weak monster (100 experience or less) standing beside you onto a free square beside it - one square, once a second. Nobody can be pushed down a hole or a stair, or out of a protection zone.
• PvP is open. Every hit on a player - weapons, runes, spells and wands - does 50% of its damage; hotkeys never aim at a player - aim by hand. The AGGRO button under your gear (off at first) keeps a click from attacking a player without a skull - on a square shared with a monster the monster is attacked. An area rune or spell that catches a player still counts as an attack.
• Skulls (the icons under CAP show yours, with the time left): attack a player who has no skull and you get a white skull - anyone may attack you without blame. It lasts 2 minutes after the last blow you trade with any player (someone who keeps fighting you keeps it going); an unjustified kill makes it 15 minutes, and blows do not move it while more than 2 minutes are left. Lose your pursuers for 2 minutes and it is gone - protection zones open again. The one you attacked may defend: hitting you back costs them nothing, killing you is justified - and if you kill them it is unjustified, because you started it. Anyone else who attacks you while you have a skull shows a yellow skull on your screen only: you may hit them back and kill them without blame. Killing a white or red skull is always justified. 3 unjustified kills in 24 hours, 5 in 7 days or 10 in 30 days bring a red skull for 30 days (every unjustified kill starts it again): everything you carry falls when you die, and no training isle. 6 / 10 / 20 ban the account - 7 days the first time, 30 after that; the red skull is still there when it ends.
• Fights: hitting a player locks you out of protection zones for 2 minutes (and so does a white skull). Any fight - a monster or a player, either side of the blow, or a monster that has you as its target and is coming for you - is a battle for 2 minutes: no logging out, unless you stand in a protection zone and are not locked. Pulling the cable does not help: a dropped connection leaves your character in the world for at least a minute and as long as the fight goes on - monsters and players can still kill it. Log in again and you take it over.
• Protection zones: the temple and the bank (the market above it too). No creature comes in, nobody attacks or is hurt there - and mana does not come back while you stand inside, so magic is trained out in the world. The icons under CAP say when you are in one.
• Spells and runes run on a 1 second clock - attack and other spells on one, healing spells and runes on their own, so you can heal and strike in the same second; potions have a clock of their own too. Some spells also have a cooldown of their own (berserk, the ethereal spear...). Say a spell's words in chat or put them on a hotkey.
• Experience is shared by everyone who hurt a monster in its last minute, by the share of its life each one took - a blocker earns by what they hit, and nobody steals a kill with the last blow.
• Parties: hold Ctrl and click a player - Follow, Attack, Add to Party (Join Party when they invited you, Pass Leader and Remove from Party when you lead); Ctrl+click yourself to leave. A party shares the experience of what it kills evenly among the members within 20 squares who have been fighting, with a bonus for each different class (+10% one, +25% two, +40% all three) - if the lowest level is at least two thirds of the highest. Your party's area spells never hurt you, and the Party chat tab reaches only the members.
• Who is talking: in the chat and over heads, your own lines are blue, your party's green, everyone else yellow and a game master orange. Options - Interface sets the size of the names and life bars over creatures and of the chat text (Small, Normal, Large) apart from the rest of the screen.
• Banners: LEVEL UP!, SKILL UP! (a fighting skill, shielding or magic level) and TASK DONE! (the last kill of a hunt) show for a few seconds over the top of the game view. Options - Interface turns them off.
• Dillei Coins and the SHOP (the SHOP button under your gear): coins are bought on a secure payment page that opens in your browser and arrive in the game by themselves. They buy Supporter days (500 coins for 30 days), world bonuses (250 coins: an hour of +15% experience, loot or skill training for every character on the server) and cosmetic outfits - looks only, for the character that bought them (never traded or refunded); change yours any time in OUTFIT. What a supporter gets and everything coins buy: the Supporter page. Icons under CAP show what you have left. SEND COINS (the third tab) sends Dillei Coins to a character of your world on another account: in steps of 25, up to 1,000 in any 24 hours, from an account with a character of level 15 or more.
• A full world: when the server is full you wait in line on the character screen and get in by yourself when a place frees - supporters ahead of everyone else.
• Runes and potions: right-click, then click the target. Potions work on yourself or a player next to you. There is no food and no hunger: life and mana come back on their own (mana not inside a protection zone).
• Boats: a captain waits on a dock on every island - Dillei (the bay by the east gate), Ashen Reach, Webwood, the far end of the Eastern Isle and of the Castle Isle, the Elderwood and Stormcrown (those two only by boat) and the Greyspine (also on foot across the Sunscar) - and sails supporters to every other dock; anyone else only home to Dillei, so nobody is ever stranded. The further the sea, the dearer the fare (see the captains under NPCs). The docks are no protection zone. A fight is no reason to stay ashore - but a captain does not help fugitives: with a white skull, or a red skull and a player attacked in the last two minutes, the passage costs thirty times the fare.
• The market: Corvin keeps it, two floors above the bank (up the stairs in the bank box room). Talk to him and the market window opens: every thing that can be traded, by shelf, with the offers to sell it and to buy it - and who made them. Buy from a sell offer and it is paid from your bank and lands in your deposit box; sell to a buy offer from your bags or your deposit box and the gold goes into your bank. Or put up your own offer: a sell offer takes the things out of your bags and deposit box at once (drag a thing from a bag onto the window to start one), a buy offer holds its gold from your bank. Making an offer costs 2% of its total, paid from your bank and not given back; taking one costs nothing. A new offer meets the offers already there at once, at the price they asked. Offers run 30 days, then everything left goes back. Dillei Coins trade there too, one by one. A sell offer asks for gold or Dillei Coins, never both: an offer in coins is bought with coins only, its 2% fee (at least 1) is paid in coins, and it never meets a buy offer (those are always in gold). The window stays open within 4 squares of Corvin.
• Promotion: King Haldor of Hammerhold, before his throne in the treasury behind the hall of the king, promotes a character of level 30 or more. Pay him 10,000 gold (carried) and he sets the challenge: kill 50 dragons or wyverns within 24 hours and come back to him in time - too late and the gold is gone, the next try is paid again. Promoted, a warrior is an Elite Warrior, a ranger a Royal Ranger, a mage a Master Mage: the title shows instead of the class, and the natural regeneration doubles: twice the hit points and mana on the same clock (a mage 2 hit points every 12 s and 2 mana every 3 s). Potions are not changed.
• Blocking the way: Bram, upstairs over Odila, sells the barricade barrel. Throw one down and nobody walks past it; things can be thrown on top of it, and the barrel can only be taken once they are gone. Never on stairs, a ladder, a hole or the square they bring you out on, never on somebody, not in a protection zone, one a second - and it falls apart after 20 minutes on the ground. The magic wall rune (Odila sells it; magic level 4, any class) raises a wall on a square for 15 seconds that nobody walks through and nothing is thrown or cast through - not on a creature or over a hole, but on a stair it shuts the way up or down.
• Ghosts and other immune monsters: a monster immune to physical damage only falls to magic - see Monsters.

The city of Dillei

The capital sits in the middle of its island, walled, with four gates. The temple faces the town square; the bank, the arms shop, the alchemist's tower, a tavern and the houses are around it. North of the north gate, over the pier, lie Northgate Farms.

Archivist Durna - has a questin The Anvil and Hammerhold, 93 squares north of the templeBram - merchantsells other · in the alchemist's tower in DilleiBrokk - merchantsells ammo, armour, bags, weapons · in The Anvil and Hammerhold, 97 squares north of the templeBrother Aldren - has a questin The Old Chapel, 68 squares south of the templeCaptain Brannoc - captainin The Webwood, 494 squares north-east of the templeCaptain Dorran - captain315 squares south of the templeCaptain Fenwick - captainin The Elderwood, 174 squares north of the templeCaptain Halvard - captainin The Greyspine foothills, 294 squares south-east of the templeCaptain Holt - captainin Troll forest and camp, 41 squares north-east of the templeCaptain Maren - captainin Dawnwatch, 280 squares west of the templeCaptain Sera - captainin The cyclops plain, 322 squares north-east of the templeCaptain Tarrow - captainin The Stormcrown heath, 385 squares north-west of the templeCaptain Ysolde - captainin The dunes, 338 squares east of the templeCaravan Master Sahir - merchantsells ammo, potions, runes · in The oasis, 613 squares east of the templeCorvin - marketin the bank in DilleiDrillmaster Tarn - trainerin Goblin camp, 51 squares south-west of the templeElder Maelis - has a questin the temple in DilleiFarmer Hobb - has a questin Northgate Farms, 52 squares north of the templeGarrick - merchantsells ammo, armour, bags, weapons · in the arms shop in DilleiHealer Sarne - has a questin DilleiHerbalist Henna - has a questin The swamp landing, 151 squares east of the templeHermit Oskar - has a questin The Greyspine foothills, 306 squares south-east of the templeHigh Warden Corwen - has a questin Dawnwatch, 347 squares west of the templeHunter Bors - has a questin Eastern Isle shores, 219 squares east of the templeIsle Keeper Mora - trainerin Castle fields, 92 squares south of the templeKeeper Ilsa - has a questin The Old Chapel, 77 squares south of the templeKing Haldor - kingin The Anvil and Hammerhold, 117 squares north of the templeLorekeeper Wynn - has a questin Dawnwatch, 368 squares west of the templeMirela - merchantsells · in the fur trader's shop in DilleiNadira - has a questin The dunes, 310 squares east of the templeOdila - merchantsells armour, potions, runes, weapons · in the alchemist's tower in DilleiOld Fennick - has a questin Goblin camp, 88 squares south-west of the templeOrla - merchantsells potions, runes · in Emberwatch, the Wardens' town in the CinderreachPell - has a questbehind the market stalls in DilleiQuartermaster Ilda - the quartermasterin Dawnwatch, 354 squares west of the templeRamon - the bankerkeeps your gold · in the bank in DilleiSage Ilvren - has a questin The Elderwood, 258 squares north-west of the templeScout Kaela - has a questin The brigand camp, 126 squares north-east of the templeSindri - merchantsells potions, runes · in The Anvil and Hammerhold, 97 squares north of the templeSister Vey - has a questin The dead lands, 228 squares south-east of the templeTamsin - merchantsells ammo, armour, bags, weapons · in Emberwatch, the Wardens' town in the CinderreachVarek - the task mastergives hunting tasks · in The Anvil and Hammerhold, 104 squares north of the templeWatch Captain Rhosk - has a questin the guard house in Dillei