New Player Guide

Welcome to d20MUD: Star Wars. This is a persistent, class-based Star Wars MUD with ground adventures, role-play, crafting, a player economy, ships, and long-term account progression. You do not need to master every system at character creation. Start with a survivable character, learn the command tools below, and add a profession or space career once the basic game feels comfortable.

This guide intentionally skips ordinary MUD fundamentals such as movement, look, get, wear, and kill. Use help commands for those. Commands in this guide are the systems that are especially useful or distinctive here.

Your first session

These commands make an excellent first checklist:

They answer the most important early questions:

• What am I good at? score, skills, and feats available show your character's current numbers, trained skills, and legal next feat choices.
• What can I actively do? abilities combat lists usable combat abilities. Try abilities force, abilities medical, abilities technical, or abilities echani only if those paths apply to you.
• What should I do next? quest progress reports your current quest goal; use it any time you lose the thread.
• Am I keeping up with role-play progression? rpsheet shows your RP points and the quota that protects your experience gains.
• Which bonus is active today? daily reports daily PvE, crafting, role-play, and account-experience progress.
• Can I recover from a game problem? backup records your carried and worn equipment for staff reimbursement if a qualifying bug or scam causes a loss. Use it manually after important gear changes—never automate it.

If you need help, ask a short, specific question on the newbie or support channel, or use petition when no one can answer. chat is general out-of-character conversation; game is for game discussion; the role-play channels are for in-character interaction only.

A good first-character mindset

This game uses d20-style rolls. Your attack or skill bonus is added to a d20 and compared with a defense, another roll, or a difficulty class. A focused build performs better than a character that tries to raise every ability and every weapon style at once.

For a straightforward combat character:

• Choose Strength for a two-handed melee focus, or Dexterity for most other weapon styles. Start with one of them high and continue improving it.
• Value survivability early. Reflex defense, Fortitude, armor proficiency, and damage reduction often save more time than chasing a small damage gain.
• Pick one weapon family and make your feats support it. weapon focus, proficiency, and later specialization are much more useful when they all apply to the weapon you actually wield.
• It is normal to multiclass. A first level in a class can grant useful defenses, armor proficiency, weapon proficiency, or starting feats.

There is a safety net. respec rebuilds your character from level 0 while keeping earned experience, credits, and reputation; it costs account experience based on your level. Use levelinfo to review your past level choices before a respec. A respec erases that level-history record, so inspect it first.

Do not spend account experience casually. It is a currency shared by the characters on your game account, rather than ordinary level experience tied to one character. account shows your account information and unlocks; accexp spends account experience. Most purchases are permanent and have no refund.

Progression at a glance

Account experience: earn it, then plan it

Account experience (often written account exp or accexp) rewards account-wide progression. Your current balance appears in score; it remains available to your other characters, so a purchase made on one character affects the account as a whole. It is separate from character XP, Artisan XP, RP points, credits, reputation, and gift experience.

The main way to earn it is genuine, staff-eligible role-play. Role-play awards can give regular XP, RP points, and account experience together, and your RP account-exp bonus improves that reward. You can also earn it from eligible daily PvE and crafting activity, completed supply orders, redeemed resource merits, and PvP results. The daily/repeatable account-exp rewards have a 500-per-24-hour character cap; score displays daily account-exp gains and daily explains the current daily-bonus opportunities. Supply orders and resource-merit redemption report when this cap prevents their reward.

Use these commands to inspect opportunities before spending:

Account exp can pay for eligible advanced races and prestige classes, which become available to present and future characters on the account. It can also buy additional item-bank slots, obtain an item schematic, support a respec, and enhance qualifying inventory items through accexp item. Item enhancement is a late-game choice: its costs and prerequisite chain are substantial, and a PvP item option trades lower enhancement costs for the risk of the item dropping on PvP death. New players are usually best served by saving account exp until they have chosen a long-term class or race goal.

Class, feat, and skill commands

Learn the combat information tools

Combat is not only attack and damage. These commands prevent expensive fights and explain why a character is struggling:

Abilities and buffs

The game separates usable abilities by discipline:

Use the discipline command to see what you know, then activate an ability with the relevant family command, for example:

Quoting multiword ability names avoids ambiguity. buff self can apply your enabled buff abilities together; buff toggle <ability name> controls which ones it uses. activate <gadget> operates an equipped/held gadget, and inject <stimulant> uses a stimulant such as a healing or recovery item.

Objectives, money, and daily play

Quests

Quest givers visibly advertise that they offer a quest. At the giver:

From anywhere:

Quests offer story, XP, credits, quest points, and sometimes gear. If a quest is repeatable, questrepeat can renew it automatically before expiry.

Bounties and task forces

Bounties are a reliable combat loop for credits, reputation, and experience. At a bounty office:

bounty by itself shows the active contract. A bounty hunter's commlink can let you take and turn in bounties away from an office.

Task forces work similarly, but affect alignment based on the alignment of the target. If alignment matters to your character, read help task-forces before accepting one.

Credits, banking, and item safety

• Bank credits instead of carrying every credit on hand. Use balance, deposit <amount>, and withdraw <amount> at a bank.
• Use backup after acquiring, crafting, installing, or trading important gear. It records equipment, not a general undo for voluntary losses.
• Use lore, identify, or try before a major purchase. Item names and descriptions are not a substitute for inspecting the actual stats.
• bundle <material> <quantity> combines harvestable materials for trade; unbundle <bundle> separates them for crafting.
• daily is worth checking once per session. It tracks the temporary 1.5× rewards for eligible PvE, crafting, and role-play activity.

Player housing and persistent storage

Player housing is an optional long-term home, social space, and secure item storage system. At a housing neighborhood, use house list to see houses and their purchase price. Buy one with house buy <name> (or omit the name for a default), then enter it with house enter <house id>. Inside, house info shows the house, room, and chest counts plus the local prices; house leave returns you to the neighborhood entrance.

Houses are private. The owner can use house guest <player> to add or remove that player's entry permission. Guests may visit, but the owner alone manages the house, its chests, and the items in them.

House storage chests

Storage chests are the safe way to leave items at home. Buy one in the room where you want it with house chest buy, then use house chest list to see its ID and location. Chest contents are persisted in the object repository; they are not ordinary floor items or ordinary containers.

Do not use ordinary put on a housing chest—the game deliberately directs you to house chest deposit so the item is stored persistently. The owner can also move a chest to the current house room with house chest move <id> and customize its keywords, short description, or room description with house chest keywords|short|room <id> <text>; these actions have neighborhood-set credit costs. Check a chest's contents before depositing irreplaceable gear, and use backup after withdrawing important equipment into your inventory. Use house chest deposit <chest id> all.<keyword> to deposit every matching carried item at once, such as house chest deposit 3 all.blaster. all on its own deposits all visible carried items.

Role-play, community, and groups

Role-play is a progression system here, not only a social extra. Genuine interaction earns role-play points, regular experience, and account experience. Meeting your current RP-point quota helps retain maximum XP gains.

Use the channel that matches the conversation:

Do not use role-play channels for out-of-character talk or unattended automation. Type role-play messages yourself and interact with another person; the game rules prohibit farming RP rewards with triggers.

Groups are valuable for safety, experience, and learning. If an experienced player offers help, two special systems are worth knowing:

• mentor <level> lets a higher-level player temporarily lower their power so they can adventure with a lower-level character without capping the newer player's experience. mentor off restores normal power.
• apprentice <player> creates a master/apprentice relationship. When the pair is grouped and together, the apprentice receives meaningful defenses, attack, damage, skill, and experience bonuses.

Use group, gsay, and rpgsay for party coordination. Before an area attack, check that contain is on so you do not hit uninvolved players or NPCs.

Travel, discovery, and not getting lost

recall returns you to your saved recall room. recall set saves the current room as your recall point, and recall reset restores the default starting room—use it if your saved recall is bad or you are stuck.

For movement beyond a local zone:

At a designated speeder pad, taxi lists destinations on that planet. It has a credit cost, but the game will not strand you just because you cannot pay. The personal speeder command is currently not implemented, so use taxi.

Other useful discovery tools:

Space travel, personal ships, ship combat, and space industry are later systems. Start with help space-travel, help ships, and the separate space-industry player guide when you are ready; you do not need a ship to enjoy or progress through the ground game.

Crafting and professions

Crafting is optional, but it is a complete progression path rather than a minor side activity. You can harvest materials, use molds and datachips to make custom gear, accept supply orders, make modules, and eventually build specialized equipment.

Start only when you are ready to dedicate skill points and some credits:

The artisan command explains your Artisan level, skills, experience, and available profession choice. For the full process, read the ground crafting guide. The high-value early command is checkcraft: use it at a crafting station before create to verify the mold, materials, datachip, final level, duration, and cost.

Force users: a long-term path

In the current era, Force-sensitive classes and templates are deliberately not a normal free choice for a new character. A character must first complete the stated combat-level and remort requirements, check them with unlockforce, then unlock the Force and perform one Force respec. That first Force respec resets earned XP to zero, so it is a major commitment.

This does not affect ordinary combat, crafting, technical, medical, or role-play careers. If Force play is your eventual goal, enjoy the ground game first and read help force-unlock-requirements, help force-respec, and help force-users before committing.

PvP: know the exception before it surprises you

PvP is opt-in by default. pvp toggles participation; an enabled character has a PvP marker in who. Once you initiate PvP with murder <player>, both participants have a 30-minute period before their PvP flags can be disabled.

There is an important exception: during Faction Hour, players outside a cantina can be attacked even without their PvP flag. nopvp is a permanent opt-out from PvP. Read help pvp, help faction-hour, and help nopvp before using either option; the permanent choice deserves care.

Less-obvious commands worth keeping

A compact help shortlist

When a system is new to you, use these help topics rather than relying on memory or old advice:

The best habit is simple: use consider before a hard fight, quest progress when you need direction, rpsheet before XP penalties become a problem, checkcraft before spending rare materials, and backup after acquiring important equipment. That small routine will spare a new player most of the avoidable mistakes while leaving room to discover the galaxy naturally.