A Newbie's Guide To Lord Of The Craft

[Drazker 307]

Welcome to Drazker's Newbie Guide to Lord of the Craft. Here, I show you how to start your adventures on Anthos. This guide will cover several topics, from server commands to the strangeness of the Nexus Plugin to new players. I hope this will make 'getting into' Lord of the Craft not such a daunting task!

 

 

LoTC: 1.6.2

 

First off, Lord of the Craft is currently operating on Minecraft release update 1.6.2. If you log into Minecraft and your screen looks like this:

 

 

Then you are not on the proper update. To fix this, start at the beginning launcher, here:

 

• Start by clicking 'Edit Profile' in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

• Next, on the 'Profile Editor', click 'Use version' and it will make a drop-down list of Releases.

• Select release 1.6.2 and Save Profile.

• After that, click play and your screen should look like this:

 

 

Your Character Card

 

The first command you need to learn is /roleplay

 

Typing /roleplay will make a bunch of commands flash up on your chat window. Read them each over and experiment with how they work. There's no rush!

 

Before you start roleplaying, you want to set your character card.

 

"BUT DRAZKER, WHAT IS A CHARACTER CARD!?"

 

A character card is all the information on the character you are playing at that time. Character cards are not permanent. You can wipe or change the information whenever you want in case something happens to your character you want to add to their description or age, or in case you want to make a whole new character!

 

People can view YOUR character card by typing "/char [Your MC Username]" or by Shift+Right Clicking you on the server. You can do this as well to other players so you can get a good idea of the other characters you are interacting with in your roleplays.

 

Basic Info: /setname, /setrace, /setage, /setgender

 

First off, you want to choose a name for your character with "/setname [Name you want for your character]"

 

The name for your character can be anything you can come up with. If you would like help with your name if you are a race other than human ( such as wanting a more cultural name ) you can ask other players on the forums or in-game.

 

Next, you want to "/setrace [Your character's race]"

Starting off, you can be a 'Human', 'Elf', 'Orc', or 'Dwarf'. There are also cat-people called Kharajyr and half-breeds like Halflings you can look into once you are a little more knowledgeable about the server.

 

/setage will only take numerical values, so you can't type "Thirty-two" or anything like that. Decide on a good age for your character before setting this to your character card.

 

/setgender only allows you to set 'Male' or Female'. Sorry, no amorphous blob 4 u!

 

Description: /setinfo & /addinfo

 

Now we have /setinfo. /Setinfo is the beginning line or sentence for your Character Card's description. If you have a ton of info already set and you type /setinfo [New description line] then it will RESET all the information you wrote! To add on to your description after the first line/sentence, you MUST use /addinfo [More description here].

 

But what do you put in your description? Some people put jokes in theirs, some people put no description at all. I think it is more immersive for other roleplayers to have a good description. Character height, weight, build, smell, how they sound are all things to consider when writing this.

 

If you ever get bored of your character, /createcard and /removecard will be commands you use. The first card assigned to you by the server is named, by default, your MC username. You can name any future cards by typing "/createcard [Card Name]".

 

 

Forms of Chat & Communication

There are different ways to communicate on the server, both in roleplay and OOC. This part of the Guide will tell you how to switch your default communication and how and when to use the different types.

 

Roleplay Communication

 

By typing "/rp", you set your default chat input to Roleplay. Everything entered in this chat will be perceived by others as roleplay. NO OOC is to be used in /rp or any of the other types of Roleplay Communication. /rp is perceived as speaking In Character at a normal volume.

 

The other two forms of Roleplay Communication are shouting and whispering. These are represented by the commands "/s" and "/w", respectively. When typing in shout, your messages will be broadcast over a much longer distance. When typing in whisper, your messages will only be able to be heard from a short distance. ( I think it's like, four MC blocks away? )

 

You can change your default chat input to whisper or shout by typing "/w" or "/s" but you can keep it set to something else and still whisper by entering a message after it. For example:

/rp

You are now talking in Talk.

Drazker: "Hello everyone!"

/w "Watch that hooded man. He's a tricky one."

In the above case, you will not have to keep switching between /rp and /w.

 

OOC Communication

 

Lord of the Craft has three primary avenues of OOC communication. There are private messages, Local OOC, and Global OOC.

 

Local OOC can be set to be your default chatstyle by typing "/looc".

You can also type temporary Local OOC messages by either putting "/looc [message]" or "(([Message]"

 

Global OOC is a channel that can be joined and left by typing "/join OOC" and "/leave OOC". It's good because you can leave it if your chat window is being cluttered with roleplay.

 

Finally, there are private messages. Private messages can be sent to any player online on the server. You can see who is online by typing "/people" and see what mods are online by typing "/modlist".

 

"/t [Player you want to message] [Message]",

"/m [Player you want to message] [Message]",

and "/msg [Player you want to message] [Message]"

are all functional commands used to send messages to other players.

 

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This guide is a work in progress.

 

[IrishPerson 693]

Looking good so far! 

[John (Zevandir) 80]

! +1

[Sync 11]

 

+ 1

 

A good read.