Getting Started

MOVODA 101

The most valuable thing you have in Movoda is your REPUTATION. Reputation is how the players, mods and Mskwik (Admin) view you and how you play. Now there are many playing styles of course, and many different views. But if you are chatting and being an all around annoyance. It will stick with you. Don't go out of your way to get into trouble with the Mods. If you are starting to get warned. Stop and take a step back. Look at it before you say anything else. A player's reputation makes him/her a good or bad player, not any one skill. Movoda 's chat is moderated 24 hours a day every day, no exception please review the rules of this game and enjoy.

http://movoda.net/man/Rules


Now lets get into the game.This is a brief overview of how to do basic game mechanics. We will review really quickly Moving, Trading, Equipping, Using a skill, Fast way to make Vessi (money, money, money).




A-G

A)Map, Moving is quite easy. Just point and click. For example, you are currently in Echtin and if you would like to move to Droesar just click on the city dot.

B)world chat/guild chat
C)items you are carrying, your carrying capacity is how much you can have in your inventory if this gets too full you can no longer work.
D)This is the action screen, it shows if you are wood cutting, mining, smithing, cooking, etc And under “People in town” it will list player names Click on there name to do p v p trade.

Trading

Trading allows you to transfer items and Vessi from one person to another person. Once in town (any town) click on the persons name you wish to trade with under the heading people in town (if you don't see the person hit F5 to refresh).
Now you can add anything from your inventory by clicking on any item within your inventory and adding how much of that item you wish to trade. You can also click on change underneath the trade box and add Vessi to the trade. Make sure you both have enough stones to carry everything. Now just click on Accept and the trade is finished. Hint (Use the refresh button if the trade seems to be taking longer then you expect).

E)Town name, it shows the town you are in and the options of things to do in that town, click the town name to stop actions and return to the town screen at any time, also click the town name to activate Quests (if any are available)
F)guild compounds, click a guild name to see if a guild has a store, to see the artifacts they have, and if they are an ally you can help guard their compound in a raid
G)basic stuff to use:
Settings=change password and other options
Equipment=where you can equip/unequip item to use
Guild stuff=to join a guild,or once in a guild you can see other playing in the Guild=guild level and exp
Quest Log= show what needs to be done next to complete a quest!!




A-C
A)this is what it looks like When you shop at a Game Store(General Store) You may buy items here with vessi(can also sale some item to the store)
B)more options (from part 'G' above)
manual/fourms:
manual, is for looking up info about game (skills, items, high scores, etc.)
forums, is where player can post
C)Chat colors:
World chat will show the players name in white, followed by text (may be colored text, see Chat Commands to find out how to get colored text)
Guild chat will show the players name in green, followed by text
Whisper chat (chat in the town you are in, only) will show the players name in purple, followed by text
Yellow messages are System messages, forum posts, Invasion alerts, etc.
Orange messages are guild system messages, guild forum posts and guild announcements
Red messages are alerts that someone has either sent you a message or cast a spell on you
Blue messages are warnings and mutes from the system/mods




A-C
A)from top:
Screen Name, if a Symbol or emote appears next to your name a bot check is coming up, click the symbol or emote to bring up a pre-bot check, and you will be able to continue working uninterrupted.
VESSI (Movodian Currency)
CHARACTER EXPERIENCE TOTAL
CHARACTER LEVEL with how much experience is needed for next level.
HP = Health Points
MP = Magic Points
MESSAGES, This is your ingame mail service. You can send, receive messages to other players, and MODS (explained later). You will also see beside messages in ( ) a number. That is how many messages you have unread.
B)Show Equipment page Where you will be able to Equip items(open this part by clicking on Equipment lower left side)To equip a item once opened Equip page click on the item or items shown in C
Equipping items you will have to do to walk faster, complete skills, and gearing up for combat. So click on Equipment on the left hand side of the interface. You will then see a page with all your equipment slots (see screenshot). To equip a certain item click on the item in you inventory and then the item is equipped and you should see the change in the correct equipment slot. Hint (Items in yellow in the inventory are items already equipped.
Houses and Boats Forget where your house or boat might be? Click on it and it will tell you.
C)Top of C You will see Inventory & Spell Tabs, you will be able to learn Magic spells when you reach Player Level 10. Every thing you pick up and buy will be listed under inventory.
D)Skill's, shows the Level of each skill you have, click on a skill to see your experience in that skill *note: skills will not appear untill you have at least 1 experience in that skill*
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A)This is what a simple bot check looks like(note These are common and you get them about every 15–30 mins)If you fail 3 bot check you will stop working and have to restart. If You do not click the bot check You will not Continue working there until you do
B)How do i join a Guild? (simple in section B click on Guild stuff And you will see a list of Guild invites If you have any invites.

Making Vessi

There is always fast ways to make money. But the easiest way to make Vessi when you first begin is through a few steps. Being in a guild will make this faster but if you choose to hold off for a few days first, then follow these steps to get the most for your resources:

Suggested way 1:

1. Buy a Fishing Rod, Bronze Hatchet, and a Tinderbox at Echtin.
2. Go to Ponat Pier and fish 100 Mackerel.
3. Go to Rissdra and cut 200 wood.
4. Go to Lake Essdar and cook the Mackerel to get cooking level 2, sell some cooked or uncooked mackerel ...you need 5 more Vessi.
5. Go to Echtin and buy a Pocketknife, go to Port Schow and make Fishing Rods. Use up the rest of your wood.
6. Go to Lake Essdar and sell the Fishing Rods for 12 Vessi each.
7. Go to Rissdra cut more wood, go to Port Schow make Fishing Rods, go to Lake Essdar and sell the Fishing Rods.
8. Rinse and Repeat as much as you would like.

NOTE You need Cooking level 2 to sell the Fishing Rods at Lake Essdar.

Suggested way 2:

1. Gather 500+ of one resource (logs, copper ore, tin ore, mackerels, etc) and sell them to the highest bidder. Either on forums or just message general chat ONCE with what you are selling.

WHERE TO START

Well some people think you should grab a skill and start right away. HOLD UP. You need to figure out a few things before we do anything. But while we do that lets do the very first thing. Just so you know what you generally have to do. Let's have you buy a bronze hatchet at the general store. Why? Well you will be cutting wood? Well what if I don't wanna cut wood for one of my major skills? Thats ok. Let me show you the priorities, and a brief explanation. Now the priority DOESN'T have to be this way, but it is an easy way to get started. Now the priority list doesn't have to be done in order but while you do one we do another. But keep the priority in mind.

1. Find a GUILD: Guild will help you in so many ways. Not only will they help you with questions you may have. “Normally” if you donate stuff to the guild you can get equipment and food a little easier with the guild. But it's give and take. DO NOT EXPECT the guild to just immediately give you everything for free, you have to earn it.

2. Figure out what two SKILLS you wanna master: Why only two? Well if you do everything that would be awesome, but then you would be kind of mediocre in all the skills. Also the guild may need you for a certain skill if you are having trouble figuring out what you wanna do. Some two skills have better combinations but it really doesn't matter.

3. Get a home: A home allows you to store 1,000 stones. But that take 100 Vessi, 500 lumber which takes 500 logs (don't need all the logs before building; you can add logs after started to build your house), which is why I am having you chop wood, which is why you are buying a bronze hatchet.

Now you can do all these at the same time. Lets first get you moving to chopping wood, and while we do that you can figure out the rest. So we are currently at Echtin. Click on General Store.


NOTE I recommend you buy two hatchets. Items do have a chance of breaking when you use them.

So change the 1 to 2. Then click buy. Now you have 2 bronze hatchets in your inventory. Now you are down to 68 Vessi. That is ok. If you don't see them currently, you may need to refresh your screen. Hit F5.

Now that you have your hatchets, let's move to Rissdra. That is the first woodcutting area. This will be a little bit of a walk. Let me show you have to move. Look at your Minimap. Click on the road to the right. We want to move to Droesar --> Moskim --> Lake Essdar --> Rissdra (Beginner Map. to see where we are going). You move yourself with the minimap. Example below:

Moving


Once at Rissdra, click on Equipment on the left hand side. Then in your inventory, on the right, click on Bronze Hachet. Then click on Chop Wood on the left hand side. Chop 100 wood. Now while you are just sitting there waiting for the 100 wood. Explore the forums. Lets find out some information on guilds to help you make a decision on who to join. Go to Highscores, and click on Guild Ranked by Experience. Just look at the guilds. Now click on Guild Ranked by Members, once again just look and keep that in mind. Now of course I'm not saying join the high ranking guilds. It's just a piece of information you can use to make your decision. If you have an idea on who you would like to join based on chat, helpfulness of people and your decision making skills; let's see how to apply.

First way to get some information is on the guild ranking sites is click on the guild's name and it will take you to information regarding the guild and how to apply. Follow whatever instructions are provided. Second way is to look in the forums under Gameplay, click on Guilds. Will list what guild's are looking for what, but I recommend doing the first option. Not all guild's keep that up to date. After you have been sent an invite, click on Guild Stuff, and accept the invite. Refer to Interface. and section 5 on chat.

Accepting Guild Invite

Once you have chopped 100 wood we need to get you some money back. You have one of three options. You can sell 100 wood to a player for 200 vessi, go to create rods with crafting skills (Rods sell for 10 Vessi at Echtin ), or you can sell logs at Rissdra for 1 vessi per log (with level 2 Woodcutting). I recommend doing the second option. Gets you moving and gets you training another skill, and you get more for your resources.

So with that said, move back to Echtin. Purchase 2 Pocketknives. Then move to Port Schow. Once at Port Schow, click on Equipment, and click on Pocketknives in your inventory. Start creating fishing rods until all 100 logs are used. Now move to Echtin.

Once at Echtin, click on General Store. You don't see an option immediately to sell those rods. Click on Fishing Rod in your inventory. Now you should see an option to sell. Sell all but 5 if you plan on leveling the Fishing skill. Now you should have at least 100 vessi to clear for your house.

Now head back to Rissdra. Cut 500 wood or as much as you can. Then once your carrying capacity is full. Head to Galawi. Click on Use Sawmill. Turn your logs into lumber. Now that you have some lumber. Let's pick you site for your house (don't need all the logs before building; you can add logs after started to build your house).

Your house you generally want in an area where you would be working on your skills alot. But keep in mind once your skill is higher you will be going to the continent to increase your skills. Here is a list of places to build Construction.

Well this tutorial is over. It should get you started. Have fun. And remember REPUTATION, REPUTATION, REPUTATION.


Emotes

http://movoda.net/man/ChatCommands


If you wish to donate, please do so at Donations. If you enjoy the game please donate. Even donate over time. The donations are cumulative. The donations help mskwik with server fees, etc.

A GUILD OVERVIEW

A Guild is a group of people working together to help each other. Now a guild has some needs from you as a guild member and you have some demands from the guild. First you need to decide what you want from your guild. Maybe your needs require food or gear to do combat; but you would have to think of what the guild would need. In that example they would want you to protect them and level your combat skill. Maybe you just wanna cut wood. Well you would require hatchets and tools to lower your woodcutting time. Whatever you need figure it out. Whatever you want figure it out. You also need to figure out what your are willing to do and not do for your guild. Are you willing to donate all the resources/items involved with your skill to the guild? Are you willing to donate any? What are you willing to give to your guild for what they do for you? Your guild is a partnership. It's give, give. If you are not willing to give back to the guild. Maybe a guild that doesn't supply you with anything is the guild you are looking to join.

Now before you join a guild, let me say a few things. Don't guild hop. What I mean is jumping from guild to guild. It doesn't look good. It will actually make your reputation with other guilds very low because you aren't dependable. Guilds want dependable people. Now with that said if you have a problem in a guild, work it out. Everyone has different views, different styles. Sometimes guilds change policies to adjust to the growing concerns of the guild. Learn to adjust with your guild, things change all the time and the guild may change with it. Be flexible.

Now that you have an idea of what you would like from your guild, let's help you find the one you wish to join. Now I'm am not recruiting or advising you what to look for but will tell where to find some general information. Some things you may want to check for is how they are organized, (Ranks, etc.) and what policies/rules that the guild may have and make sure you can follow those rules. Some places to find out some information about guilds. If you click on Highscores you will see two links for guilds. Guilds Ranked per Experience is where you can see the top 20 guilds with the most guild experience. Guilds Ranked per Members is where you can see the top 20 guilds for how many members they have within their guild. Now you don't necessary just wanna go off the rankings although its good information. Now you can also get some great information in the Forums regarding the guilds. Click on Forums and go to General > Guilds. Most guilds post what/who they are looking for and how to apply. Now if a guild is not there, go to PageIndex and find the guild you wish more information.

Now once you have been invited to the guild you need to accept your invitation. Click on Guild Stuff, and then click Accept for the guild you wish to join.

So you are in a guild, now what? Well first to speak in guild chat, type what you wanna say and hit SHIFT+ENTER. If you forget shift you will still type it in guild chat. Careful what you say. Now you may also may want to invert your chat so that when you just hit ENTER it defaults to guild chat instead of general chat. You do that by typing /chat invert.


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FAQ

Here are some of the most Frequently asked questions that the admin, guild leaders and Veteran players receive regarding Movoda.

How do i change my password? A:Under section B Click on settings to change password,E-mail and many more options there.

How do i get back to the main center screen with players names? Click on the town name Left side Right under the lil map in a lite blue look.

Can i leave this island?
Can i fight and kill monsters?
How come I can't use the wharf?
How do I start using the magic skill?
How do I use my house?
How do i use the guild compound?
How do I make all of those smilies?
What are cards for? Cards is a skill for an in dept explanation please follow this link http://movoda.net/man/Nnejsecretpage

Island Locations

• Port Schow – Crafting
  
• Echtin – General Store
  
• Droesar – Mining
  
• Moskim – Combat
  
• Lake Essdar – Cooking
  
• Galawi – Construction
  
• Rissdra – Woodcutting
  
• Ponat – Smithing
  
• Ponat Pier – Fishing

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HOW TO EDIT YOUR OWN PAGES

Manual

The manual (which you are reading now) is a wiki. A wiki is like a website which anyone can edit. You can add, remove, and edit pages. First, lets start with making your own page in the manual.

Your Page

Every player is allowed to have their own page about themselves in the wiki. This page is like your own personal webpage. You can put anything on your page as long as it follows the rules. To create your page, first click on highscores on the left menu (you can open it in a new window, so that you can keep this guide open). Then, scroll down until you find your name. It should be underlined with a ? next to it. Click on the question mark, and you will be taken to a screen where you can edit your page. If there is no ? next to your name on the highscores table, then your page has already been created, and you can just click on your page, and click the Edit this page link on the left.

If you are not on the high scores, just go to the following URL: http://movoda.net/man/(Your Name)

Adding Text

Now its time to add some text to your page! Type anything you want into the large white box, and click the Preview button. You can then see a preview of what your page will look like. You can still edit the page if you scroll down. When you are satisfied, press the Save button, and your page will be created (or updated, if it was already created)!

Formatting Text

Just plain text can be very boring, especially when you have written a lot. You can see that this page has used various formatting, such as underlined, italicized, bold, and headers. To start with, you can make a header for your page. To make a header, just use the following code:

==(Your Name)'s Page==

Add that to the top of your page (and replace (Your Name) with your actual screenname, of course), and click preview. You will see a header at the top of your page You can also create smaller headers with additional = signs. Like this:

===Header===

All the way up to six

=======Header=======

Here is a list of some other common formatting tags. For a full list, check out the WackoWiki Documentation:


Bold:
**Text**

Italics:
//Text//

Underline:
__Underline__

Link to another page:
((PageName Text to be displayed))
(Everything after the first space is the text that is shown)

Link to a page on another website:
((URL Text to be displayed))
(Everything after the first space is the text that is shown)

You can edit almost any page in the manual in this way. If you are ever curious as to how someone did something, you can just click the Edit this page link and look at the code.

Restoring Pages

Now, since the manual is open for editing, it is quite possible that someone will tamper with your page by erasing information, putting bad things, or just changing things that you don't want changed. Luckily, it is easy to restore pages to how they were previously. Just follow these steps to restore any page:

1. Navigate your browser window to the page you wish to restore.
2. Up where it tells you the current URL of your current page, add «/revisions» to the end of it (excluding the quotation marks)
3. Click on the second date on the list.
4. Make sure that everything on the page looks correct. If it does not, hit back on your browser, and try the next date on the list.
5. Repeat step 4 until you find a page which is correct.
6. Scroll all the way to the bottom, and click the button that says “Re-edit this old revision”.
7. Scroll to the bottom again, and click the button that says “Save”.

The page should now be restored as it was before. This will work for any page in the manual. If you see a page that has been tampered with, please restore it. It is greatly appreciated by everyone!

SPECIAL THANKS

Discordia created the second getting started page.
mx6dk – Provided images and alot of feedback and direction.
slomo – Provided images
Stargazer – There when needed
JoveS – For doing alot of stupid small things for me.
Moc1 – Emote, for your guidance. You started me on this and I think I over did it?
KnightofDoom – Emote, and for stealing items from the compound. hehe
Rev – I was using your page for the wiki examples.
eddy999999 – Creating the Manual portion of the Getting Started page.
Bull – for the old beginner map. Thanks.
Hawkeyep – Creating the first getting started page. Will add your name if I know who may have also helped.