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Raivo: Fixed some links and removed non-functional ones.

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Neil Tathers: Undo revision 22110 by Jstone626 (Talk)

2010-06-04T12:56:10Z

Undo revision 22110 by Jstone626 (Talk)

Spammer at 05:53, 4 June 2010

2010-06-04T05:53:42Z

Johan Crichton at 09:14, 10 March 2010

2010-03-10T09:14:21Z

Neil Tathers: /* Using multiple characters easily */

2010-03-09T00:56:30Z

Using multiple characters easily

Johan Crichton: /* General gameplay advice */

2010-02-25T04:23:43Z

General gameplay advice

Skull Face: /* Beginner's guide */

2008-01-29T15:17:44Z

Beginner's guide

Mark D. Stroyer: /* Beginner's guide */

2007-10-31T17:25:58Z

Beginner's guide

Wulla-mullung: /* Beginner's guide */

2007-10-13T16:34:15Z

Beginner's guide

Oktavius: update to a forum link

2007-10-13T14:04:49Z

update to a forum link

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 Try to reach one of the friendly or hostile camps. Explore some of the natural landmarks. Deforest the landscape. Spend some time haunting the island as a spirit. Talk to other players. Join a [[clan]] with similar goals to your own. And most of all, have fun!
-The [[Derby Hospitallers]] have compiled a [http://z3.invisionfree.com/Derby/index.php?showtopic=15 Beginner's Guide] on their forums.  It should be noted that this guide is strictly opinion and should not be regarded as the best or only guide to life on Shartak. There is a [[Newcomers Guide]] which will tell you the basics of the game. For those interested in playing a native (or for general tips) there is also [[The Native Path]].
+There is a [[Newcomers Guide]] which will tell you the basics of the game. For those interested in playing a native (or for general tips) there is also [[The Native Path]].
 === Skills and advancement ===
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 # '''Fighting'''. The easiest way for new players to gain experience points is to attack and kill animals and other players. If you want to rely on combat for advancement, your first skills should be the three melee combat ones (''body building'', ''close quarter combat'', and ''advanced close quarter combat''). These will help you deal more damage in combat and thus advance more rapidly for the rest of the game. Just know that aggression toward other players will often make you a prime target.
-# '''Healing'''. Healing is an easy and safe method of earning experience points, so many players learn the [[skills]] ''first aid'' or ''natural medicine'' quite early so that first aid kits or healing herbs (see [[Items#Consumables]]) can heal more HP (and thus give more XP) when they're used. ''Triage'' is a necessary prerequisite skill which lets you recognize hurt players on your side and thus maximize your XP gains by healing the most heavily wounded players.
+# '''Healing'''. Healing is an easy and safe method of earning experience points, so many players learn the [[skills]] ''first aid'' or ''natural medicine'' quite early so that [[Healing_Items#First_Aid_Kits|first aid kits]] or [[Healing_Items#Healing_Herbs|healing herbs]] can heal more HP (and thus give more XP) when they're used. ''Triage'' is a necessary prerequisite skill which lets you recognize hurt players on your side and thus maximize your XP gains by healing the most heavily wounded players.
 # '''Haunting'''. One of the fastest ways to gain experience is to get the spirit skills, including ''banshee wail'', and then deal damage (and receive XP) by haunting players as a [[Death|spirit]]. However, the early stages of haunting yield low XP returns and the entire tree has received some well-deserved power reductions (to about 1.25 XP-per-AP with ideal banshee wails). New players might find this long experience path to be arduous (and boring, since almost no interaction with other characters is possible).
 # '''Exploring'''. Whether you are a fighter, healer, or explorer, ''trekking'' is always an important skill, since it reduces many of your movement costs by half. This frees up AP for gaining experience and interacting with other players. You do have to buy ''exploration'' as a prerequisite to ''trekking'', but that will give you a nice map and keep you from being lost (thanks to the [http://mattandchristy.net/sharmap/ Shartak Map Overlay]). And since recovery from death requires a considerable number of AP, ''stamina'' is also a useful skill, since it lets you have more HP and thus makes you harder to kill. ''Stamina'' is particularly crucial for characters who travel far from home into hostile territory.
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 * '''Join a [[clan]]''' to protect you from being killed by potential friends or allies, but keep in mind that membership in some clans might make others target you more than they would have otherwise.
 * Remember line-of-sight and movement AP costs and take advantage of them. Sleep 3 or more spaces away from [[road]]s, or 3 or more spaces into water. Hide behind a thicket of heavy [[jungle]] or beyond a [[swamp]], so that the enemy has to spend AP to approach you and to retreat from you.
-* Keep a general idea of where the wandering [[shaman]]s are and how far you are from your home [[camp]] so that you can minimize AP loss on death. By moving toward the wandering shaman who is closest to your final destination, you might be able to teleport forward rather than backward using the 50AP "Contact Roaming Shaman". You can also take advantage of spirit form to travel safely.
+* Keep a general idea of where the wandering [[shaman]]s are and how far you are from your home [[camp]] so that you can minimize AP loss on death. By moving toward the wandering shaman who is closest to your final destination, you might be able to teleport forward rather than backward using the 50 AP "Contact Roaming Shaman". You can also take advantage of spirit form to travel safely.
 * Use the forum and wiki to gather a clan or a group of friends who travel together. A large pack of like characters on a single location will dissuade most adversaries.
 * Use the forum and wiki to negotiate for truces and protection agreements when traveling through hostile areas.
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 ==== Poisonous berries ====
-You can collect and eat poisonous berries at a poisonberry bush. Tree searches have about a 55% chance of success (see [[Locations#Fruit trees and bushes]]), and there are often poisonberry and tasty berry bushes located within 12 AP of each other. Using poisonberries to hurt yourself and tasty berries to heal yourself:
+You can collect and eat poisonous berries at a poisonous berry bush. [[Locations#Fruit_plants|Fruit plant]] searches have about a 55% chance of success, and there are often poisonous berry bushes and tasty berry bushes located within 12 AP of each other. Using poisonous berries to hurt yourself and tasty berries to heal yourself:
-AP = + 60 poison bush searches + 33 munchings (-66 HP)
+AP = + 60 poisonous bush searches + 33 munchings (-66 HP)
            + 12 AP trekking
            + 60 tasty bush searches + 33 munchings (+66 HP) = 132 XP
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 This is essentially 1 XP per 1 AP, which is extremely solid XP advancement (and equivalent to a spirit's haunting scream). However, killing animals and people can still be faster for gaining experience.
-If you have ''first aid'' or ''natural medicine'' you can earn XP even faster by searching the local medical hut for first aid kits or healing herbs; the search odds for such items appear to be about 1 in 6 for non-scavengers, and skilled users can heal 10 HP with each one, so 10 HP can be healed for about 7 AP, and you can [[Trading|trade]] any non-healing items you find for poison berries, empty bottles, and healing items. But if you have no advanced medicine skills, drinking fresh water is the fastest way to heal.
+If you have ''first aid'' or ''natural medicine'' you can earn XP even faster by searching the local medical hut for first aid kits or healing herbs; the search odds for such items appear to be about 1 in 6 for non-scavengers, and skilled users can heal 10 HP with each one, so 10 HP can be healed for about 7 AP, and you can [[Trading|trade]] any non-healing items you find for poisonous berries, empty bottles, and healing items. But if you have no advanced medicine skills, drinking fresh water is the fastest way to heal.
 == General gameplay advice ==
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 === Maximizing mapped squares per AP ===
-[http://www.blackant.net/other/shartak/movements.php Here's a little animation] of getting the most mapped squares for your AP, starting from an ideal position in the corner of 4 map-squares and moving in an overall straight line.  This does not take into account chopping jungle and other obstacles.  A similar technique can be used to turn corners as well, or even start off in a spiral pattern instead of linear.  If there's a more efficient pattern, let us know!
+Here's a method of getting the most mapped squares for your AP, starting from an ideal position in the corner of 4 map-squares and moving in an overall straight line.  This does not take into account chopping jungle and other obstacles.  A similar technique can be used to turn corners as well, or even start off in a spiral pattern instead of linear.  If there's a more efficient pattern, let us know!
 For no loss in vertical efficiency, you can "widen" the column of the search above.  Instead of mapping a 3-square-wide rectangle north to south, you'll be mapping a two column wide rectangle north to south with two-square "teeth" on each side.  See the following diagrams.
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	These '''tips and tricks''' will help you get the most out of your life on the island once you're familiar with the [[user interface]] and [[gameplay]].		These '''tips and tricks''' will help you get the most out of your life on the island once you're familiar with the [[user interface]] and [[gameplay]].

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	=== Using multiple characters easily ===		=== Using multiple characters easily ===

−	~~If you wish to play with a couple~~ of characters ~~it can be annoying having to keep logging out and back~~ in ~~as the other one. To simplify things, you could create~~ a ~~small html file on your computer containing something like this:~~	+	The new updated Shartak profile system allows easier use of multiple characters. Logging in with a Master password allows one to stay logged in and switch between your multiple characters by using the Your Account button.
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−	~~:<form action="http://www.shartak.com/index.cgi" method="POST">~~
−	~~:<input type="submit" name="username" value="NameHere">~~
−	~~:<input type="hidden" name="~~password~~" value="Password">~~
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−	~~Repeat the block for each character you have, remembering~~ to ~~change the value="" parts to the appropriate values. Bookmark this html file (use Open File from the browser to get the file:// url)~~ and ~~to login, simply click~~ the button ~~for the character you want to use~~.

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 *Take advantage of the [[The Shartak Wiki:Community Portal|forum]] and this wiki to find out about pre-announced conflicts and raids.
-*You can identify nearby players of the same [[Character classes|faction]] without having to move to their square. Just move your mouse over the text that reads "1 outsider" (or "2 natives", etc.) and wait for their names to appear.
+*You can identify nearby characters of the same [[Character classes|faction]] without having to move to their square. Just move your mouse over the text that reads "1 outsider" (or "2 natives", etc.) and wait for their names to appear.
 == Efficient exploration ==

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 Try to reach one of the friendly or hostile camps. Explore some of the natural landmarks. Deforest the landscape. Spend some time haunting the island as a spirit. Talk to other players. Join a [[clan]] with similar goals to your own. And most of all, have fun!
-The [[Derby Hospitallers]] have compiled a [http://derby.jconserv.net/viewtopic.php?t=5 Beginner's Guide] on their forums.  It should be noted that this guide is strictly opinion and should not be regarded as the best or only guide to life on Shartak. There is also a [[Newcomers Guide]] which will tell you the basics of the game.
+The [[Derby Hospitallers]] have compiled a [http://z3.invisionfree.com/Derby/index.php?showtopic=15 Beginner's Guide] on their forums.  It should be noted that this guide is strictly opinion and should not be regarded as the best or only guide to life on Shartak. There is also a [[Newcomers Guide]] which will tell you the basics of the game.
 === Skills and advancement ===