Common questions - how do I do this?

These are the things players ask about most often in support tickets. Everything here is in the game

already; this page just tells you where to find it.

Fishing nets

Set a net by standing in the water and using the fishing net from your bag. The net stays in the water and

keeps fishing while you are away, and the item leaves your bag while it is out there. To empty it or take it

back, stand on it or within three steps of it and press shift and enter: a menu opens with "haul the net"

(take the fish and leave the net fishing) and "pull the net out" (take the fish and get the net back in your

bag). The same menu is also under Village life, then Living off the land, then Fishing nets. A net takes

about ten minutes to catch anything and you can have two out at once.

Bait

Bait makes fish bite sooner and changes which species you get. Worms come from digging and from compost,

dough is made in the kitchen, and meat bait is cut from any raw meat. Prepared bait is made at the workshop

(Village life, then Kitchen and health, then Glass, leather, remedies and bait) and counts as the right bait

for every species. You do not have to hold bait to fish, but you will wait longer without it.

Taming animals and the barn

Build a barn first: use the barn from your bag on a clear square outdoors. Then find a young or calm animal

in the world and use feed on it; a tamed animal follows you home and lives in your barn. The barn menu

(Village life, then Living off the land, then Animals of your own) shows every animal you have, collects

eggs and milk, and lets you send an animal out to graze or bring it back to you. If your animal is not

following you, open that menu and tell it to come.

Planted trees and watering

A tree you plant belongs to you and grows on its own; watering it makes it grow faster. Stand at the tree

and press shift and enter, and the menu will offer to water it if you are carrying water. When it is ready

the same menu offers the harvest. A tree that says it is ready but gives you nothing is usually somebody

else's tree, or you are standing one square off.

Compost heaps

A compost heap is set down like anything else and turns rubbish and food scraps into manure. Stand on the

heap and press shift and enter: the menu that opens collects the manure and can lift the heap back into your

bag. The same menu is under Village life, Living off the land, Compost heaps. The manure it makes is

collected from the same menu, and manure makes crops grow faster and bigger.

Cleaning work

Rubbish you pick up while cleaning goes into your bag and is worth money. Take it to a trashcan and use the

rubbish on it, or press shift and enter at the trashcan. Trashcans are in the village and around the busier

maps; your surroundings scan will find the nearest one.

Every rubbish bag in your inventory holds twenty pieces, and they fill up together: with three bags you

carry sixty. The rubbish is not a separate item, it is counted in your bags, and when all of them are full

the game tells you so; stand on a trashcan, hold a bag and use it to empty them all and be paid twenty points

a piece. Rubbish no longer turns up inside the zoological garden or indoors, where it was hard to reach.

The charity box

The charity box is in the village near the town office. Stand at it and press shift and enter: you can put

in points, credits or items, and what is inside is shared with new players. Giving to it is remembered on

your record.

Calling the police

The court and the police are under Village life, then Town and law. From there you can report a crime,

which brings the constables, and see what is being investigated. Reporting somebody for cheating you in a

deal is a separate option under Work and money.

Herbs and remedies

Herbs you gather are turned into remedies at the workshop: Village life, then Kitchen and health, then

Glass, leather, remedies and bait. The kit tells you which herb makes which remedy and how many you need.

Moving your home

Your home can be picked up and set down somewhere else for a fee from the home menu (Village life, then

Home and comfort, then Your home). If the menu says you are not inside your shelter, step through the front

door first: the menu only works from inside.

The danger radar

The danger radar is on unless you turned it off under Village life. It warns you with a sound and a line of

text when a wolf, bear, lion, boar or other predator is within about twenty steps, every few seconds, and at

once when a predator picks you out and starts coming for you. If you play with the game window in the

background, you only hear it when the game is allowed to speak and play sound in another window (options).

Control and R is a different thing: a wall sonar that does not report animals.

Finding people: p and shift and p

P lists the people around you with their direction and distance. Shift and P opens the player tracker.

Both now bring everyone's real position up to date, and so does walking near people, so the tracker leads

you to where somebody actually is, not where they stood earlier. To give something from your bag you must be

within five steps of the person, in any direction.

Snares

A snare catches the animals that live on the map where you set it: rabbits and birds where those live,

boars where boars live. What it catches always goes to you, the one who set it, wherever you are. To take a

snare back, stand on it and press shift and enter.

The sound for out of character messages

Open the game menu, choose Privacy options, then Out of character message sounds. You can pick one sound

for the out of character messages you receive and another for the ones you send yourself: chat3, opened,

received, dado3, no sound, or the server default. Each sound plays as you pick it, so you can listen first

and try the next one. Your choice is kept on the server, so it is still set after you restart the game.