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The Quest Log

The Quest window actually features three tabs that can be easily missed:

• Quests and Favors: your typical quest log. As of the alpha it currently does not distinguish completed quests. However, a notification appears on the screen along with a distinctive sound whenever you progress on a quest objective.
• Stuff to Do : provides a list of objectives with basic hints. This is a nice feature for players who want to try and discover a lot on their own. Note that many of those objectives are out of reach of a new player and will require some time to complete!
• Notepad : an easily missed feature, the notepad lets you jot down notes in game, this can be useful to remember Power Words that you may want to use later.

Inventory

An illustration of a typical adventurer's backpack.

The Inventory window can be resized however you want. The size of the items can be changed via Options > Gui and Windows > Inventory Item Icon Size.

Using the Sort option can be useful in this game even for those of us who like tidying up things, because the game currently does not allow freely moving and swapping items. The sort option will place all combat gear first (armor and weapons), which can make it easier to switch between weapons (as you have to right click the sword, or staff, etc).

To drop an item click and drag the item towards the bottom of the inventory, a box will appear with the label "Drop Item Here to Throw on Ground". Note that you can pick up the items discarded in this way, however anybody else nearby could do as well!

To split a stack of items left click the item while holding the shift key.

Additional Inventory slots can be obtained by leveling up Endurance, through certain recipes (this appears to be a temporary effect), and sometimes granted by item properties (also temporary).

Quick Tips

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Check the NPC merchant's used tab. If you can afford it, you can often buy items required by a quest rather than craft/hunt/harvest everything on your own.

To fill a water bottle you can either activate a water well (eg. in Serbule) or similar object, but you can also simply stand in a body of water outdoors and right click an empty bottle.

The Chat Window

Slash commands are typed in the console. These always start with a forward slash, /like /this.

Ghost-Chat

Ghost chat is a really nice feature that reduces clutter and adds a little immersion, although it is not as useful if you like to chat a lot! To enable ghost chat simply click the little red cross. That is click the window close button instead of using the chat toggle key. From there on, the chat will pop up when someone talks, and will disappear after a few seconds. You can configure how long the ghost-chat should last in Options > GUI and Windows, along with the transparency level.

Chat & social

The default message mode is showed in the chat window input area. Left click it to cycle between 'GLOBAL', 'NEARBY' and 'GROUP'.

Roleplay & Emotes features

Misc. commands

Debugging & Alpha build features

Currently documented but inactive