Systems

How the game works under the surface: the rules the server keeps for everyone. Every number on this page is read from the game itself.

Parties

Forming one

Ctrl + click a player and choose Add to Party. They are told in the chat, and a pink shield shows over your head on their screen: for them the menu says Join Party.
The leader can Pass Leader and Remove from Party. To leave, Ctrl + click yourself: Leave Party.
Up to 10 members. The party gets its own chat tab, and every member shows on your minimap in a colour of their own - hover over one for the name.
Area spells and runes never hurt your own party.

Shared experience

The experience of a monster the party hurt - plus a bonus - is split evenly among the members who count. They must be:
on the same floor, within 20 squares of the monster;
fighting - they hit something, healed someone or were hit in the last 2 minutes. Nobody earns by standing in a corner;
of close levels - the lowest at least 2/3 of the highest (a level 60 shares with level 40 and up).
Bonus by the classes among them: one class +10%, two +25%, all three +40%.
When that does not hold, everyone earns by their own damage, as if alone. Hunting tasks, quests and the promotion count the kill for every member who shares.

Fights and skulls

On Grimvald, the world of Dillei Online, players can fight each other; everything below is about that.

In a fight

Battle - hitting or being hit, by a monster or a player: 2 minutes in which you cannot log out (unless you stand in a protection zone and have no PZ lock).
PZ lock - attacking a player: 2 minutes without any protection zone.
A dropped connection leaves your character in the world for 1 minute, and for as long as its battle lasts - monsters and players can still reach it. Logging in again takes it over.
Every hit on a player - weapons, spells, runes and wands - does 50% of what it does to a monster.
The icons under CAP show your timers and your skull.

Skulls

White skull - attacking a player who has no skull (and is not yellow for you) is unjustified: a white skull for 2 minutes, kept going by every blow. Killing that player makes it 15 minutes and counts as an unjustified kill. Everyone sees it, and it keeps you out of protection zones.
Defending yourself - hitting back someone who attacked you is your right: no skull, and if they die it does not count against you.
Attacking a skulled player (white or red) is justified - no skull, and the kill does not count.
Yellow skull - only a skulled player sees it, over someone who attacked them first; they may hit back and kill without it counting.

Red skull and ban

Unjustified kills	in 24 hours	in 7 days	in 30 days	What happens
Red skull	3	5	10	30 days of red skull; every unjustified kill while you have it starts the 30 days again
Account ban	6	10	20	the whole account is banned - 7 days the first time, 30 days each time after

Any one column is enough. A kill counts for every player who attacked the victim unjustly and hurt them in the last 5 minutes.
With a red skull: anyone may attack you without getting a skull; no training isle; and if you die you drop everything you carry - only the bank and your deposit box are safe. A red skull who attacked a player lately (a PZ lock) - or anyone with a white skull - pays captains 30 times the fare. Dying does not take the red skull away.
A ban takes the character out of the game at once; no character of the account can log in until it ends. The red skull and the counted kills are still there afterwards.

Protection zones

Where: temple of Dillei, bank of Dillei, Hammerhold, Hammerhold market, Emberwatch, Sunscar caravan rest.
No monster comes in, nobody can attack anybody inside, and nobody can be pushed out of one.
Mana does not come back inside - nobody trains magic in safety.
A white skull or a PZ lock keeps you out until it ends. A red skull alone does not.
Inside one you may log out even in battle, as long as you have no PZ lock.

Death

You lose 3% of all your experience and 10% of the progress toward every next skill and magic level.
Your backpack falls with your body, with everything in it - always. Each other thing you wear has a 0.5% chance to fall too. With a red skull, everything falls.
Your body lies where you fell for 20 minutes and says who killed you - go back for your things.
You wake up at the temple, with a small satchel on your back if your backpack fell. Quest things and Warden gear never leave you.

Monsters

Every monster comes back 60 seconds after it dies, where it lived. Only the great bosses keep their own time - and the seal keepers wait in their sanctums (see Bosses).
Its experience goes to everyone who hurt it, by the share of its life each one took - or to a party, see above.
A monster dragged more than 50 squares from where it lives vanishes in a puff - no loot, no experience for anyone - and comes back home after its usual wait. One left more than 15 squares from home with nobody near it for half an hour is put back home.

The hunt analyzer

The chart button above your backpack (CHARACTER - GEAR) opens it: your experience, loot, supplies and balance since the session began, and each of them per hour - with the monsters you killed, the loot you kept and the supplies you used.
Loot is what monsters dropped and you picked up, at what the best trader pays for it - gold at its face value. Things no trader buys count nothing, and what you throw away again comes off.
Supplies are the potions you drink, the rune charges you throw and the arrows and bolts you shoot, at what a trader asks for them.
The clock only runs while you are in the world, and a session lasts until you press RESET.

Autoloot and bag labels

AUTOLOOT on the panel switches it on or off - a supporter's. While it is on, what the monsters you kill drop goes straight into your bags - when your blow killed it, on your floor and within 7 squares. What does not fit, or is too heavy, stays on the floor.
In a party the loot of any kill by its members goes to the leader first; when the leader has no room or capacity left - or autoloot off - to the next member, in the order they joined. Pass the lead to choose who takes it first.
LOOT LIST is your ignore list: drag a thing onto it - from your bags or from the floor - and autoloot leaves it on the floor; click its X to take it off again. The list is kept with your character, on any computer.
Anyone can grab the loot around them: G takes the top item of every pile next to you, one from each square per press.
Autoloot rests while you are in a fight with players - you attacked one, you have a skull, or one attacked you in the last minute. The loot then falls on the floor as always.
Bag labels: point at a bag in your backpack and click the + in its corner. Choose which kind of loot goes into it first - equipment, rare finds, ammunition, runes, potions, gold, creature products, quest items, bags or other - and an icon for it.
Loot you pick up or autoloot goes into the bag labelled for its kind first (a rare or better find into a Rare finds bag), then into bags without a label, the backpack first - never into a bag labelled for something else. A bag keeps its label wherever it goes.
A bag inside a labelled bag, with no label of its own, takes the same kind of loot once the outer bag is full.
Point at a bag whose window is open and that window glows yellow.
Arrows and bolts stack up to 1,000; everything else up to 100.
The bags you had open when you left - by logging out or by closing the game - open again when you come back, where their windows were. An open bag you put down at your feet or beside you stays open; thrown further, it closes.

The BATTLE window

The crossed swords left of the helmet on your gear open and close it: every monster on your screen that you can fight - one you can walk up to or shoot at. A monster behind a wall with no way round is not on it; nor is any player or NPC.
Click one to attack it (click it again to let go). Space goes round the list: the first, the second, the third, and back to the first.
The two icons at the top sort it: by distance or by life, and which way round. Your choice is remembered.

The bestiary

A book of every creature you have defeated: press B, click the book under the minimap, or BESTIARY on the world map. The left page has the categories, a search and how much of the book you have filled; the right page is one creature - its portrait, its danger (one to five stars), how many you have defeated and what hurts it.
Each creature has four tiers, learnt by defeating more of it: 1 kill - its picture, kind and danger; 10 - where it lives; 25 - its life, experience, speed, armour and blows; 100 - its whole loot table and what hurts it more or less. A boss tells the same at 1, 2, 5 and 10 kills. A line in your log says when a new tier is learnt.
A creature you have never defeated is only counted, never named. Nightmare and Hell ones count for their kind.

Nightmare and Hell creatures

One time in two hundred a monster comes back as a Nightmare or a Hell creature - when it respawns, or rising again where it just died. It looks the same, but its name says what it is ("Nightmare orc", "Hell orc"), a skull follows the name and a glow lies round its feet. Nine in ten are Nightmare; Hell ones are rare.
Nightmare (white skull): three times the life and the experience, twice the damage, faster, and a pulse of death round it. Its drops come 3% more often.
Hell (red skull): six times the life and the experience, three times the damage, faster still, two blows at once, a burst of hellfire round it and a drain that heals it. Its drops come 5% more often. Rarity is never changed.
Bosses can come that way too: a seal keeper rolls again every time a group pulls the lever - you are told when you go in. When a creature dies it comes back as itself.

Training

The training yard - free

A fenced yard just outside the south gate of Dillei, west of the road, full of training dolls. Drillmaster Tarn walks among them.
A doll never moves, never fights back and never dies. Every blow at one trains like a blow at a monster, at 80%: the skill in your hand, and your shielding too if you hold a shield or a spellbook - even though nothing hits you.
Arrows shot at a doll are not used up (you still need some in your quiver). A wand costs no mana there, and every bolt counts as 12 mana spent toward your magic level.
It is no protection zone: anyone may attack you there, and monsters wander close. That is the price of free.

The training isle - paid

Drillmaster Tarn sells hours on a small island south-east of the beach: 40,000 gold or 1 Dillei Coin an hour, in packs of 1, 3, 6 or 12 hours. Gold comes from your bags first, then your bank. You can hold up to 12 hours.
On the isle the dolls train at 100%, and nobody can attack, push or wall in anybody.
Your hours only run while you are on the isle and logged in. You are warned at 30, 10, 5 and 1 minutes; when they run out you wake up at the temple. Isle Keeper Mora sells more and takes you back to the yard.
Not taken there: anyone with a red skull, a white skull or a PZ lock.

One teacher at a time: for 5 seconds after a blow at a doll, nothing else trains you - not a monster you let hit you, not another player, not your own spells. A doll is the whole lesson.

The Gate of Six

At the bottom of the Cinderreach (level 50 and above to cross the causeway from Dawnwatch), at the west end of the Demon Halls, a door only level 100 opens leads to a room with 4 plates and a lever.

Going down

The one who pulls stands on the plate beside the lever; the others of the same party stand on the rest - exactly 4, every one level 100 or more, none who has passed the Gate before.
One group at a time.
Below, the four arrive in a row in a narrow corridor walled behind them - trapped from the first second, the one who pulled at the front. 6 demons wait in the hall beyond - two to the north, two to the south, two before the door. Hold the corridor.
A seal pillar rises on the door with the lever and sinks only when all of them are dead. Then a bridge over lava leads to the reward room.
20 minutes from the pull, whoever is still below is sent back up and the demons go. A death down there is an ordinary death.

The reward room

Four chests: demonforged plate, ashbrand, hellfire longbow, wand of the pit - each shown on a pedestal behind its chest, out of reach.
Open a chest once to see what it holds, again to take it. One reward per character, ever.
The rewards are never sold and never dropped by monsters - but they are not bound: they can be traded like any item.
The portal in the room takes you back up to the lever.

Character points

A point at level 5 and another every 5 levels after (level 50: 10, level 100: 20). Open them with the POINTS button above OUTFIT and spend each one on:

Point	Each point gives
Vitality	+1% health
Might	+0.75% damage on the way your class fights (weapon blows for warriors and rangers; spells, runes and wands for mages) - half of that against players. Never on healing.
Fortitude	-0.4% damage taken, from everything

The first reset is free; every one after costs 500 gold for each of your levels. A character that loses a level below the points it spent gives back points from its biggest one.

Achievements

186 achievements in 11 groups (Hunting, Bosses, Experience, Skills, Training, Wealth, Tasks and Quests, Gear, Treasure, World, Secrets). 34 of them are secret: they show as "???" until you earn them. Each one is worth points (599 in all), kept with your character. Open them with the trophy button; filter by all, in progress, done and to do.

Everything is counted by the server as you play - kills, bosses, tasks, quests, levels, gold in the bank, hours trained and many quieter things. What you reached before an achievement existed is yours the next time you log in.

Friends and messages

VIP list - the VIP button beside LOG OUT: up to 50 names for your account, shown online or offline, with a line in the chat when they log in or out.
Private messages - MSG beside a name on the list, or type a name and press MESSAGE. Every conversation gets its own chat tab.

Paying with the bank

Shops, captains, the king and the trainers take gold from your bags first, then the rest from your bank - you do not have to carry your savings around.
Selling always pays into your bags (so bring it to the bank yourself).
The market works through the bank and your deposit box - see Corvin.