Hail, Adventurer!

Tech Considerations

We’ve got limited information on minimum specifications since we’re still optimizing, but you’ll want roughly:

• 16gb of RAM

• A modern-ish CPU

• Any GPU or integrated GPU that supports DX11

Here are a few tips to improve performance:

• Use /fps [number] to limit framerate in game (e.g. /fps -1 = uncapped FPS).

• If you’re experiencing graphic lag, try using /hidecorpse all in order to hide all player corpses but your own.

Setting up an Account

You can register for an account at https://account.monstersandmemories.com.

Downloading and Installing the Client

Once you’ve set up an account, logged in, and accepted all of the EULAs, you can download the Launcher.

Note: When running the Launcher, it will automatically install the game to a sub directory of the launcher folder (e.g. C:\mnmlauncher\mnm).

If you’re having trouble downloading the game via the Launcher, ask for a direct client link in our Discord.

Creating a Character

Race and Class

Different races have different classes and traits available to them.

• Click here to learn more about our Races

• Click here to learn more about our Classes

Customization

Use the sliders to adjust the look of your character.

Choose a Name

Pick a name (this is unique to your character on the server you’re on, so it may already be taken).

Be respectful, we will monitor player names and significant violations during testing will carry over to future accounts.

Attribute Points

When creating a character, you need to allocate your stat points.

Note: Stats can only be raised to a maximum of 20 during Character Creation.

Selecting Traits

Pick your desired traits. You can scroll through and click on each to find out more, and add it, if desired.

You can select two Major and two Minor traits: a Major and Minor Combat trait, and a Major and Minor Non-Combat trait.

User Interface Overview

1. Player’s Health, Mana, and Pet’s Health

2. Target’s Health & Mana

3. Pet Window with Health & Mana, Buffs & Debuffs, and Commands

4. Player’s Buffs & Debuff (i.e. beneficial and detrimental game effects)

5. Abilities/Spell Bar

6. Chat & Combat Log

7. Hotkey Bank (for macros, items, skills, etc.)

8. Additional Commands

a. Inviting people to a group, accepting an invitation, and disbanding from a group

b. The MUD Action “/look”

c. The “/corpse” command (to drag your corpse)

d. The Macro button (opens the macro editor, so you can make your own hotkeys, for example “/sit” or “/attack”)

9. Game Statistics (FPS indicator & network meter)

10. Inventory Window, Stats, Equipment, and Experience Bar

11. Loot Window

Note: The group/groupmates window is not shown; they’ll show under (1).

12. Abilities/Spellbook

13. Tabs to select between:

a. Skills (e.g. Fishing)

b. Abilities (e.g. Kick)

c. Spell Books

14. Page Selection Arrows

15. Empty Slot (drag an ability/spell scroll from your inventory to “scribe” them)

16. Ability/Spell Icon (with details)

17. Main Menu

Note: You can unlock/move/resize windows by right clicking on the window’s edge. You can also create new chat boxes and modify them via a variety of filtering options. Feel free to experiment with the UI’s layout and filtering, as you can always reset the UI via the Options menu.

UI and Input Basics

Be aware that these describe the default values. Most keybinds can be changed within the game (press ESC to open the Main menu, then click Keybinds).

• ALT + ENTER swaps between windowed fullscreen and windowed modes

• F10 toggles your user interface off and on (great for screenshots!)

• WASD moves your character (forward, left, back, right)

• SPACEBAR makes your character jump

• E toggles auto run

• Hold the Left Mouse Button (LMB) to rotate the camera

• Hold the Right Mouse Button (RMB) to rotate your character

• Hold RMB while pressing A or D to strafe (you can also remap strafe to A and D if you prefer)

• Hold RMB over an item or spell to see its details

• B opens your book, which includes abilities, skills, and spells

• Tab targets the closest NPC, repeat presses cycle through nearby NPCs

• C “considers” the targeted NPC, assessing their relative level and disposition towards you

• Q toggles auto attack

• H “hails” the targeted NPC, triggering any initial dialogue they may have

• I opens your inventory

• J opens your journal

• ALT + G opens the Guild window

• P opens your skills list

• O opens your bags

• X causes your character to sit

• ESC closes temporary windows (e.g. merchant), or if all temporary windows are closed, opens the Options menu

• 1-0 triggers abilities placed on your ability bar

• Shift + 1-0 triggers hot buttons placed on your hotbar

• F1-F6 targets you and your party members, in that order

Combat & Questing

• Your spell book must be equipped in a Belt slot in order for you to use it

• When you first enter the world, you’ll likely have spells or abilities in your inventory

  • Press B, then drag the spell and ability scrolls from your inventory onto a page in the appropriate tab (Spells, Innate (abilities), and Skills) of the book

• Clicking on a spell that’s been “scribed” into your book lets you add it to your ability bar by:

• Left-clicking on an Ability slot on the Ability Bar

• Pressing the 1-0 keys to add it to the corresponding slot

• To attack an enemy, target them and press Q

• When you kill an enemy, right-click its corpse with your mouse to loot its items

• Grouping is a powerful tool in our game and you’ll benefit from it even at the lowest levels

• Experience points, coin, and access to your enemy’s corpse is shared within the group

• When you die your items stay on your corpse and you respawn at your “bind point”

  • Your bind point can be changed via spells and other mechanisms

• Prior to dying, make note of any features in the environment, as you’ll need them to find your corpse

  • Other players can also help you find your corpse through the use of magic

  • Players may also “resurrect” a player corpse through the use of magic

  • More powerful resurrection spells may also return experience points lost during death

  • They can also drag your corpse to you if you give them your /consent

  • Take care to only /consent people you trust, lest they hide your corpse

• Right-clicking Merchant and Trainer NPCs will open an interaction UI

  • Most merchants will only buy items similar to what they sell

• Quest item descriptions will often provide clues regarding their use

• Quest bags are typically designed to hold 1 item per slot (if you forget the quest requirements)

  • Most quest bags will require you to hit the Combine button at the bottom once full

• Press J to bring up a Journal of NPC conversations

• Most guards will help with directions to a number of locations if asked

• Holding an item and clicking on the NPC will hand them the item

  • NPCs will give back items they do not want

• When in doubt, use the /OOC (out of character) channel in chat to ask for help

Chatting with Players and NPCs

Much of our non-combat interaction takes place in the chat box. This includes talking to both players and non-player characters (NPCs), as well as interacting with the world via our “MUD Action” system (more details on that below).

Please keep in mind that you can always create new chat boxes and modify them via a variety of filtering options. Feel free to experiment with the UI’s layout and filtering, as you can always reset the UI via the Options menu.

Here’s an overview of some of the chat functionality and channels to get you started:

• You can speak with NPCs by targeting them and chatting via the chat box

• Most NPC interactions start with a simple “Hail” from your end; press H to try it out

• Take care not to hit Q while speaking with an NPC

• /tell <playername> - “Tells” are direct messages to other players; spans the entire game world

• /r - Replies to the last direct message or “/tell” that you received from another player

• /say - Local, limited radius public message

• /group; /g - Chat to your group only; spans the entire game world

• /shout - Zone-wide chat within your current zone; typically for more formal notifications to other players

• /ooc - General zone-wide chat in your current zone; often used “out of character,” as opposed to /shout

  • Note: Each server sets its own standards for the distinction between /shout and /ooc in terms of how much speaking in or out of character matters.

• /auction - Zone-wide chat for buying, selling, and trading goods and services

• /gu - Guild Chat

• /of - Officer Chat

• /chatfontsize 1-20 - Increases/decreases the chat font size

• /random <dice count + dice size> or <value - value> (e.g. 3d6 or 1-18) - Rolls a dice with randomized results

• /note - Brings up a window that serves as a notepad

Helpful Commands

There are a variety of commands that can be activated from your chat box via what will commonly be referred to as / (slash) commands.

Here's an overview of a few commands that you might find useful during testing:

• /help - Lists all commands available to you

• /bug - Brings up the bug reporting interface

• /reload - Forces a reload of assets and data on your client to help with certain glitches

• /rewind - Returns your character to the last unstuck position (5m cooldown)

• /camp - Forces your character to sit for 30 seconds and then “camp” (out of the game)

• /hidecorpse all - Hides player and current NPC corpses except your own

  • This can be used to improve your framerate

Note: Additional video optimization, mouse/input, and other options will be added as we go. Also, if you find yourself stuck during a play test and all of your options are on cooldown, feel free to ping one of us (NWC Team Members) via /tell and we’ll summon you.

MUD Actions

You can interact with the world via a system we call MUD Actions (a nod to text-based Multi-User Dungeons). This allows you to look for descriptions or clues, inspect things you find, take or place an object, and even pry something open (if you have the right item equipped).

MUD Actions share a global cooldown, so keep that in mind when attempting to use them back-to-back. Some actions may require you to be in possession of a specific item or items, but the content should make that clear.

Note: Some actions may consume items from your inventory and/or add new items when successful.

Here’s a list of the all verbs for you to try (which can be found again in game via the /help command):

• /break <thing>

• /insert <thing> (while “holding” item on your cursor)

• /inspect <thing>

• /look

• /open <thing>

• /place <thing> (while “holding” item on your cursor)

• /pour <thing> (while “holding” item on your cursor)

• /pry <thing> (while “holding” prying implement on your cursor)

• /pull <thing>

• /push <thing>

• /rub <thing>

• /smell <thing>

• /take <thing>

• /taste <thing>

• /throw <thing> (while “holding” item on your cursor)

Note: The system is similar to our quests in that, some of the prompts, items involved, specific utilization of the items, etc. may be unclear, unwieldy, or otherwise require some experimentation.

Our goal is to use this type of system to make interesting, fairly unique, definitely retro style interactions that keep the world feeling mysterious and interactive at a low implementation cost.

The user experience won’t be perfect and sometimes you’ll need to ask around or hit a wiki. Just being real with you.

States

States are a new work-in-progress system in Monsters & Memories.

Currently with States, you can receive a Rested buff (+25% experience) by spending time in the vicinity of a campfire, or inside an inn or tavern. This only includes player-made campfires for now, but pre-placed campfires will be included in the future.

If you are not Rested, you’ll receive a “You feel tired” message every two minutes, at the same timing as the hunger and thirst messages.

In the radius of a campfire, you’ll receive the Warmth of a Campfire buff. This will accumulate Rest until you have 20 minutes of Rest, unless it's raining and you are not under a shelter, then it will not have any effect. You can leave the duration of the campfire before you are “Fully Rested”, but you may not receive the full potency of the buff.

In inns and taverns you’ll receive the Warmth of the Hearth buff. This accumulates Rest slower than a campfire, but will give you 1 hour of Rest. Also, while having the buff, you will not consume food or water.

You’ll receive a message to let you know when you are “Well Rested” (campfire maximum) or “Fully Rested” (inn maximum), and you will no longer receive any messages about being tired until the Rested state expires.

You can use “Make Campfire" from the Skills tab of your Ability Book by putting 1 point into Survival at your Survival Trainer and having 8 Wood. Wood can be harvested from the many nodes found near trees in Night Harbor and Sungreet Strand.

Additionally, you will eventually be able to hand craft Survival items from your character without a special container, so the temporary Survival Kit on the Survival Merchant has been made 1 copper so you can easily obtain it. You only need the Survival Kit for creating Torches, not Campfires, as the latter is created via the Skill. Make sure to put one point into Survival so you can make a Campfire.