Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game. Start playing, get hooked... Get the source code, and add your own ideas... As a typical multiplayer online adventure game Stendhal features a rich world in which players can fight monsters and explore towns, buildings, plains, caves and dungeons. By fighting monsters and completing quests provided by NPCs, players gain experience and gold. The gold can be used to buy new items and improve the armor and weapons. Gaining experience allows the players to fight stronger monsters and explore more parts of the world.
Stendhal 1.45: Branching Out
Stendhal is a fun friendly multiplayer online adventure game. We just released Stendhal 1.45, which adds a ton of content and several improvements to the client.
New creatures such as strong golden orcs or cute tadpoles have been added. There are some new items like rope which are very versatile.
Other items, however, have a very dedicated purpose such as the Ashen Holy Water. This item might play an important role in Elias Breland's new and exciting quest to rescue his grandson Niall.
Also, many food and drink items have been improved to heal at a faster rate.
Often neglected but still important: decoration and accessories. Kirla is famous for being able to create pictures from your memories. She will have a booth at the Semos Mine Town Revival Weeks next year. Due to popular demand, she has decided to offer copies of her memory-pictures to take home.
Gwen, however, is more practical: She offers various accessories to improve your outfit.
Several steps have been taken by the citizens to stimulate commerce.
Most notable are increased bag sizes (after completing a new quest) and additional bank storage in Kirdneh and Magic City.
Merchants have realized that they could complete more trades if travelers were aware of their offers. So they worked together to put up this information on the Website. Producer NPC are easily spottable by an icon in-game.
Trying to profit from the growing economy, the Gardner's association has put labeling on their bags of seeds and prepared more fertile ground all over the world.
Stendhal has a very diverse world, in which you can do many activities other than just fighting monsters. We added some new achievements to reward exploring. Most notable:
Stendhal has a huge variety of weapons and armor, but there was one game-design problem: If you get a very strong weapon early in your journey, all other weapons will become meaningless. Therefore we introduced minimum levels for weapons and armor.
On a positive note, the magic block on the Deathmatch Arena was lifted: You can now summon creatures to assist you.
The rules of combat have been slightly tweaked as well: Damage has been decreased in order to allow the hit chance to be increased to make battles more exciting. On that note, the heal rate of some food and drink items has been increased as well.
Furthermore ATK XP will be rewarded even if another player took all the hits, encouraging team play
We have come a long way in creating a unique visual style. And the work is ever improving. Our character, item, and tileset image assets are more detailed in comparison to early releases.
The web-client saw significant improvements and we are proud to announce: The web-client is now the recommended way to play Stendhal. In the above screenshot, you can see it in action.
Most notable new features are:
And what's more, Stendhal can now be played on mobile devices using touch screens without a mouse. An optional on-screen d-pad or joystick helps with movement and items can be "held & dropped" as an alternative to "drag & drop".
Last but not least: Not all improvements are in-game. Looking up items on the website to buy, sell, or trade is now easier. NPC pages include information on the items they deal in. Likewise, item pages list any related NPC merchants.
This was a rather long winded announcement. So let us conclude with:
Have fun!
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Cute!
I have been playing in the browser version of this game. I noticed a moment ago that they have managed to retrieve my login id for my firmware. I found that in what was suppose to be the cache files. I told my java to move them so I could have a look see what they are asking for and doing. Could be possible they also managed to retrieve my firmware password. If so this could explain why packets have been sent to my computer that blocked my internet access and forced me to reinstall my firmware twice when I used the deb.net version of this game. Beware everyone! some administration class files most likely allow them to do some tampering that isn't fun and games.
i've make a server but how do you change the appearence of my character ?
Right click on yourself and select "Set outfit".
This project is just amazing!
yea fortunately the download from the site worked :D
gonna try that
if the download worked...
Thank you for pointing this out. There went something wrong with initial upload of the file. It is fixed now.