The Basics

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the various controls on the screen. Simply moving your mouse over a control or object will show a popup that describes what it does.

How To Move

Click the left mouse button on the ground to move your character to a location. If you click and hold the left mouse button then your character will continually move toward your cursor.
You can also use the keyboard to move your character. Press [Up] or [W] to move forward. Press [Down] or [S] to move backward.

How To Adjust The Camera

Move your mouse cursor to the left or right edge of the screen to rotate your view. Use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out.
You can also use the keyboard to control the camera. Press [Left] or [A] to rotate to the left. Press [Right] or [D] to rotate to the right. Control the zoom by pressing [Page Up] or [Page Down].

Zones, Dungeons and Traveling

The world of Dungeon Runners is made of many different maps. We call these different maps "Zones".

Zones are linked by magical portals. Simply walk your character up to a zone portal to be teleported to the linked zone. If you put your mouse cursor over a zone portal, you will see information about the destination zone in the lower-right corner of your screen. Pay close attention to this information so that you don't accidentally go somewhere that's too hard for you to handle.

There are two main kinds of zones: Towns and Dungeons. Towns are zones that you always share with other people in the world. So, when you're in town, you're likely to see other players running around. Dungeons are zones that are private to your adventuring group. So, when you're in a dungeon, you're only going to see other players that are in your group.

Many zones contain Obelisks that can be used to quickly teleport to distant locations. Simply left click on an Obelisk to open the teleport window. As you explore the world, you will discover new Obelisks. Be sure to click on these Obelisks to add their location to your list of avaiable destinations.

You can also use a Waypoint scroll to create a portal that teleports you back to town. Simply click on the scroll icon in the lower-left corner of the screen to create a portal. You can only have one waypoint portal active at a time, but you can use it as often as you want. Use any Obelisk to make your way back to your waypoint portal. Your active portal is at the top of the Obelisk's list of teleport destinations. Remember to keep some Waypoint scrolls in your inventory so that you can easily make your way back to town.

How To Talk To Players

Press [Enter] to start typing a chat message. Press [Enter] again to send the message.
By default, chat messages are sent to all of the players in the same zone as you. However, there are many different ways to direct your chat message to other players.
You can send a message to the entire world by typing "/world" before your message. Remember that this is world-wide chat. Everyone on the server will see these messages. If you don't want to receive world chat messages, type "/ignoreworld" to turn that channel off for yourself.

You can send a message to all players in the current zone by typing "/zone" before your message.

You can send a message to your current group by typing "/group" before your message.

You can send a private message to another player by typing "/tell" followed by the player's name before your message. You can also left click on a players name in the chat window to send a private message to them. You can easily reply to a private message by pressing [R]. Press [Tab] when replying to cycle between the different players you've been chatting with.

How To Talk To NPCs

"NPC" is short for non-player character. Simply left click on an NPC to strike up a conversation. Some NPCs may offer quests or sell items to you when you talk to them.

Combat

Combat in Dungeon Runners is fast paced and action packed. You'll have to be quick with your mouse to survive in this game. Keep in mind that you'll rarely find monsters that are alone in the dungeons. You'll nearly always be fighting groups of monsters.

How To Attack

To attack a monster with your equipped weapon, just left click on it. If you click and hold your left mouse button on an enemy, your character will repeatedly attack it until its dead.

If you find your character running off toward an enemy when you don't want it to, try holding down [Shift] on your keyboard. This will make your character stand still when attacking and is particularly useful when using ranged weapons.

How To Use Skills

You're going to have to use your skills to stay alive. So, you might as well learn how they work right away.

Your skill bar is at the bottom-middle of the screen. Each box in the skill bar can be equipped with a different skill. Press [P] to open your skill list or click on the sword icon in the lower-right corner of the screen. Simply click on a skill in your skill list and then on the box in the skill bar to equip the skill.

Each box in the skill bar has been assigned a hotkey for your use. The five in the middle of the bar can be activated by pressing [1] through [5]. The two larger boxes at either end have been assigned to your mouse buttons for very fast access.

Many skills require a target to be used. When you use these skills, your cursor will turn into an "X" to let you know that you must click on a target. Just left click on the desired target to fire off the skill.

Levels And Attributes

The power of your character is based on his level and attributes. Press [C] to show your character sheet. The character sheet shows your current attributes, damage potential and resistances.

You have to kill monsters to gain levels. Each monster that you kill gives you some number of points. The number of points you get for killing a monster is based on how hard the monster is. Killing easy monsters gives less points than killing hard monsters. When you get enough points, your character will gain a level. You can see how many points you have to get before gaining a level by looking at Karl in the lower-left corner of the screen. He's holding a sign that tells you so.
When you level up, you are given five attribute points to spend. Open your character sheet after you level up and you'll notice a plus icon next to your attributes. Click on that plus to add to your attributes. How you spend your attribute points is important, but not critical to your success. If you're in doubt, just put one point in each attribute.

Death

Try as you might, you're character is going to die from time to time. Never fear though, because death is pretty painless in Dungeon Runners! When your character dies, you get a free teleport back to town. We advise you to take these opportunities to sell your loot and restock for the next fight.

It's a good idea to use Waypoint scrolls regularly so that you don't have to spend too much time walking back to where you died. Some skilled players use their Waypoint scrolls right before dying so that they can get right back into the action.

Now, there are some dungeons where death is a bit more painful. A good example of this is the Horrific Dungeon of Legend. You'll know these dungeons because their zone portal shows "Death Penalty Enforced" in the tooltip. When you die in this kind of dungeon you'll be inflicted with resurrection sickness. This sickness lasts for a few minutes and makes your character must less capable in combat. We use this penalty in particularly nasty dungeons where we expect groups of players to be needed to overcome the challenges within.

Grouping

Playing Dungeon Runners with other people is pretty fun! Thankfully, we make finding a group to play with fairly painless for you. This help page will tell you how to group and what grouping means in Dungeon Runners.

How To Group

There are two ways to find a group to play with. You can either use the automatic "Find a Group" option or you can manually invite someone to play with you.

To use the "Find a Group" option, right click on your health and mana display in the upper-left corner of the screen. Choose "Find Group..." to start searching for a group to join. The search may take a while, depending on who's online on your server. Feel free to play normally while you wait. Please note that the "Find Group" system will only match you with other players that are within five levels of you. You can also stop searching for a group at any time by choosing "Stop Finding Group..." from the same right click menu.

You have several options if you want to manually invite someone to play with you. The easiest option is to use the "Who" list on the Social interface. You can open the Social interface by clicking the button with multiple faces on it at the lower-right corner of the screen. Under the "Who" tab of that interface, you'll see a list of people currently on your server. Simply right click on someone in the list and choose "Invite to Group" from the menu. To be polite, you may want to ask the person if they want to play with you before just inviting them. Please remember that you can access this invite menu from just about anywhere that you see a player's name. This includes player names in chat. Try right clicking on a [SomePlayerName] link in the chat window to see this invite menu.

Grouping And Dungeons

Dungeons are built to provide a challenge for both single players as well as groups. When someone is in a group with you, the dungeons automatically become more difficult. Hey, don't be too sad about that because the loot gets better too!

Traveling In a Group

Dungeon Runners is a game of fast action! We don't want you wasting time running around the world trying to catch up with your groupmates. You can instantly teleport to another group member by right clicking on their name and choosing "Go To" from the menu. That's all there is to it! Keep in mind that you'll show up wherever the targeted player is -- even if they're fighting. So, be careful!

Loot While Grouping

When loot drops from a monster, it's assigned to players automatically. If a player isn't in the same zone of a monster when loot is dropped then they won't have loot assigned to them. This takes a lot of hassle out of figuring out what loot belongs to whom. You can't pick up loot that doesn't belong to you. To show just your loot, hold down [Alt].

Keep in mind that your chance of getting loot is much lower when you kill monsters that are way below your level.

Chatting With Your Group

It's easy to talk to your group. Just type "/group" ("/g" for short), followed by what you want to say and hit [Enter].

Loot

A main feature of Dungeon Runners is the loot. There is so much loot in the game that you'll be hard pressed to ever see it all. This help page tells you about loot and how to find it.

Loot comes in several varieties in Dungeon Runners. Each type of loot has different qualities that you'll come to enjoy. You can tell what kind of loot you're looking at by the color of its name. The kinds of loot are:

Normal (grey)
Everyone can use normal loot! Normal loot is the lowest quality stuff you can find. It never has any magical properties and is probably used as a last resort. You generally want to sell this kind of loot.

Superior (green)
Everyone can use superior loot! Superior loot is quite a bit better than normal loot. It always has at least one magical property. Free players will use this loot fairly often.

Magical (blue)
Everyone can use magical loot! Magical loot is a bit more powerful than superior loot. It's the advanced level loot for the free customer.

Rare (yellow)
Only members can use rare loot. Rare loot is quite a bit more powerful than magical loot. It's the beginning loot for the paying customer.

Unique (purple)
Only members can use unique loot. Unique loot is quite a bit more powerful than rare loot. It's the advanced loot for the paying customer.

Mythic (Rainbow)
Only members can use mythic loot. Mythic loot is very powerful and very rare. Impress your friends... find some mythic loot today!

Loot Restrictions
There are two restrictions for using loot. Some loot requires that you subscribe to the game to use it. Besides that, the only other restriction to using loot is its required level. You can tell what the restrictions are for a particular item by looking at its tooltip.

How To Find Loot
Kill monsters to find loot. Open chests to find even more loot! Nastier monsters give better loot.
Dungeon Runners has a very easy-to-use loot detection system. Simply hold [Alt] down on your keyboard to show loot that you can pick up.