Chapter 2 of 12
First steps in the world
Moving, the backpack, the paperdoll, the journal, speech and the map — everything you need in your first hour.
Moving
Hold the right mouse button — your character follows the cursor. Close by they walk, further away they run. The "Move" button in the corner sets steady walking or steady running.
A shinobi at full speed leaps onto low roofs and runs along village walls. You can sit on benches, and squeeze through a crowd at the cost of stamina.
Walk into a building — the roof and upper floors vanish so you can see what's inside. Stairs take you up a floor.
Paperdoll and backpack
Double-click yourself or press Alt+P to open the paperdoll: your equipment, and from there your status, skills and options. Double-clicking someone else shows what they're wearing.
Alt+I is the backpack. Things lie where you drop them. Drag an item onto your character to put it on, or outside the windows to drop it on the ground. Shift takes half a stack, Ctrl a single piece.
Everything has weight. Carrying capacity grows with Strength; an overloaded character can't take a step.
Speech and the journal
Just start typing and press Enter — the text appears over your character's head for everyone within earshot.
- ! at the start — a shout, heard far away;
- ; — a whisper, only right next to you;
- : — an emote, e.g. *waves*.
Alt+J is the journal of the last 300 lines. Messages land there too: skill gains, techniques you overheard, new quests.
Strangers
Over the heads of people you don't know you only see "Stranger" and their rank or trade. You learn a name when someone introduces themselves — says it in front of you. Townsfolk and NPCs remember who they told their name to as well.
Whoever wears someone else's face (Henge) is a stranger to everyone again.
The map
Alt+R opens the map. The mouse wheel zooms from a few streets to the whole continent.
Everything you haven't seen yet stays dark. Next to the map is the "Nearby services" list — with arrows to the blacksmith, the bank or the inn. Hidden places aren't on the map: you have to find those yourself.
Key shortcuts
- Alt+A — war mode, Tab or a click — pick a target, 1…0 — the technique bar;
- Alt+K — Jutsu Book, Alt+Q — quests, Alt+D — diplomacy (for Kage);
- Alt+G — gather from the tile in front of you;
- Alt+O — options, e.g. see-through: trees and walls in front of your character fade around them;
- right-click a window to close it.