Strangelands
Summary
- The Strangelands is a combination PvM and PvP event with a mix of Survival and Hunger Games gameplay
- It is a Lawless Zone, meaning all players may freely attack each other or commit criminal actions against each other without penalty
- Strangelands occur 4 days a week on:
- Tuesdays at 10AM and 10PM EST
- Thursdays at 10AM and 10PM EST
- Saturdays at 2AM and 2PM EST
- Sundays at 2AM and 2PM EST
Players are limited to playing 4 Strangelands events per week. Strangeland events per week reset on Fridays at 8:00 PM EST / Saturday 12:00 AM GMT (Same time as Society Jobs)
- Each Strangelands bout lasts 40 minutes
- Players can earn up to 12 Strangelands Reward Points per event and the top player receives a bonus 3 Strangelands Reward Points
- The goal of Strangelands is to end the event with as many points as possible
- Players earn points through Survival and by Depositing Trophies
More Details
- Players who attempt to enter Strangelands while mounted will automatically have their Mount stashed (similar to entering a dungeon)
- Players who have Followers (non-Mounted) in the game world will be reminded via system message when using a Strangelands Gate that they must first Stable those followers before they can enter Strangelands
- Players entering Strangelands will automatically leave any Parties they are in
- Players will not be allowed to join Parties while in Strangelands
- When entering Strangelands, a player's current Stats, Skills, and Items are "stored" and will adopt the Stats, Skills, and Starting Items listed in their selected Strangelands Template chosen on the previous page
- When leaving Strangelands, a player's original "stored" Stats, Skills, and Items are returned to them
- All players, even in the same guild or alliance, will display to each other with the name "a stranger" and will appear as Grey to each other
Strangelands Moongates
- When a Strangelands event is scheduled to begin, Strangelands Gates will appear throughout towns and players may double-click them to access the Strangelands Menu for the event
- Players can also type [Strangelands to open the Strangelands Menu at anytime
- Players can exit a Strangelands event in progress early by clicking the "Exit Strangelands" button in the menu
- Players can view the Score and Stats of the last completed (not current one in progress) Strangelands event by clicking "View Scores for Strangelands" button
Templates
Assassin
 Assassin | ||
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Barbarian
 Barbarian | ||
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Bard
 Bard | ||
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Battlemage
 Battlemage | ||
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Crusader
 Crusader | ||
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Grail Chalice
- Automatically provides the benefits each time the player collects Rainfall Water
- Increases the player's score by an additional 2 points (for a total of 3 points)
- Restores 4 Chivalry Holy Symbols
Sacred Journey
- The Sacred Journey ability when activated during Strangelands will act as if the player used a Tunnel Shovel (warps to random location), but has a 15 minute cooldown between ability uses
- Does not provide any Damage Bonuses to the player for activation
- Can be used during combat while in Strangelands
Deathmage
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Engineer
 Engineer | ||
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Forager
 Forager | ||
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Passive Bonuses
Whenever a Forager harvests a mushroom, they will always receive each of the effects below:
| Passive Bonus | Small Mushroom | Large Mushroom | Massive Mushroom |
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| Bonus Score Earned | +1 | +10 | +20 |
| Restore Hit Points | +25 | +50 | +75 |
| Apply Poison to Held Weapon | 2 Charges | 6 Charges | 18 Charges |
Random Bonuses
Additionally, whenever a Forager harvests a mushroom, they will also receive one random effect from below (bonuses will stack and will apply in PvP)
| Bonus for 10 Minutes | Small Mushroom | Large Mushroom | Massive Mushroom |
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| Attack Speed Increase (Max +20%) |
+2% | +4% | +6% |
| Melee Accuracy Increase (Max +30%) |
+3% | +6% | +9% |
| Damage Resistance Increase (Max +30%) |
+3% | +6% | +9% |
| Weapon Special Chance Increase (Max +40%) |
+4% | +8% | +12% |
| Melee Damage Increase (Max +50%) |
+5% | +10% | +15% |
Monk
 Monk | ||
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Ranger
 Ranger | ||
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Skirmisher
 Skirmisher | ||
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Soldier
 Soldier | ||
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Whetstone
- When double-clicked will provide the player with a +30% Weapon Special Chance bonus for 30 seconds, with a 2 minute cooldown in between uses
- Unlimited uses
Sorcerer
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Summoner
 Summoner | ||
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Tunnel Rat
 Tunnel Rat | ||
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- Tunnel Rats are equipped with Blasting Powder, which is an unlimited use item that will inflict 125-250 damage to a targeted Supply Container, with a 1 minute cooldown in between uses
- Tunnel Rats are also equipped with a Tunnel Rat Shovel, which is an unlimited use Tunnel Shovel that has a 5 minute cooldown in between uses
- Tunnel Rats can also use the Detect Hidden skill to locate existing Tunnels on the map and utilize those as well
- While the character cannot directly activate the Hiding skill, each time the player uses a Tunnel or Tunnel Rat Shovel they automatically are Hidden and immediately enter into Stealth (which will then allow them to perform Stealth movement and make Backstab attacks on enemies)
Strangelands Hotbar
Hunger and Thirst will each increase by a randomized 5-10 points every minute.
All players have a Strangelands Hotbar which appears on their screen and is updated periodically during the event. The Hotbar will display the following stats:
- Hunger level
- Thirst level
- Total Points earned
Relieving Hunger
Mushrooms
- Players can double-click or lift any Mushrooms to harvest them
- Mushrooms have an accompanying animation to make them more easily noticeable
- Eating a Small Mushroom will reduce your Hunger level by 10
- Eating a Large Mushroom will reduce your Hunger level by 20
- Players score 1 point by harvesting a Small Mushroom
- Players score 10 points by harvesting a Large Mushroom
- Players score 20 points by harvesting a Massive Mushroom
Meat
- Killing creatures will yield Raw Meat which can be eaten to reduce your Hunger level by varying amounts
- Players may encounter 'grey' colored meat, which when eaten will restore hunger but inflict 'Disease' on the player
Relieving Thirst
Rainwater
- Players can double-click or lift any Rainwater item to harvest a Bottle of Water
- Drinking this item will reduce your Thirst level by 10
- Players score 1 point for harvesting Rainwater
Supply Containers
- Players may encounter Supply Containers which can be double-clicked to break open, yielding a variety of items
- Poor Quality Supply Containers will always drop Medium Trophies
- Exceptional Quality Supply Containers will always drop Large Trophies
Items
- All starting items are Blessed and will respawn with them upon death
- Blessed items cannot be equipped, used, or activated by anyone other than their original owner
- Some characters will start with Blessed consumables such as Potions or Arrows
- These items have an unlimited number of uses but cannot be stacked with any non-Blessed versions of the same item type
- Items placed on the ground in Strangelands will decay in 10 minutes
- Many different items can be found within Storage Caches and creature corpses
| Item | Description |
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 Stat Elixirs |
Consuming a Stat Elixir will increase the player's respective stat by 2 to a maximum of 100. Players cannot increase their stats total above 225 in this manner. |
 Skill Manuals |
Consuming a Skill Manual will increase the player's respective skill by 2 to a maximum of 100. Players cannot use a Skill Manual for a skill they currently have 0 in and cannot increase their total skills above 700 in this manner. |
 Spell Scrolls |
Players who play a character with the Magery skill will have only a limited number of starting spells added to their Spellbook based on their chosen template. Additional spells can be acquired through Spell Scrolls which occur as loot items. |
 Trap Kits |
Players using the Engineer template receive a Traps Kit which automatically provides any Potion needed for trap placement when using Trap Wire. |
 Field Guide |
Single-use item, when double-clicked will place a Pointer Arrow on their screen directing them to the closest NPC/Creature to them |
 Supply Manifest |
Single-use item, when double-clicked will place a Pointer Arrow on their screen directing them to the nearest Supply Container to them |
Tunnels
- Players should keep an eye out for Tunnels appearing in random locations
- By moving over or double-clicking a Tunnel the player will be teleported to another random Tunnel location where they will be hidden for 30 seconds
- Using a Tunnel removes both the entrance and the exit from the map
- Every 5 minutes, all existing Tunnels are removed and new Tunnels are placed throughout the map
- All players begin with two Tunnel Shovels, which may be used once during the event to teleport to a random Tunnel location where the player will remain hidden for 5 minutes
- Using a Tunnel or Tunnel Shovel will not reveal the player, and will place a Tunnel Rat Template character immediately into Stealth
Storage Caches
- Players can double-click a Storage Cache to automatically score all Trophies in their backpack
- Players can drop and deposit any number of items into any Storage Cache. When a player dies, all items they have deposited across all Storage Caches on the map are placed into their backpack
- Players can also use Storage Caches to deposit and score Trophies
- Unlike Tunnels, Storage Caches do not change their location once spawned
Player Activity
Players are considered to be "Active" for the next 5 minutes and earn 50 Points after any of the following actions in the last 5 minutes:
- Harvest a Small or Large Mushroom
- Harvest Rainwater
- Broken open a Supply Container
- Use a Tunnel
- Killed a Creature
Resurrection
- When a player dies, they will automatically be resurrected at a random spawn location where they will be hidden for 30 seconds
- When a player respawns after dying in Strangelands, they will receive replacement versions of any of their Starter gear that they no longer are carrying (i.e. any Blessed gear they have dropped)
Strangelands Creatures
- Every 5-15 minutes (randomized) in Strangelands, a Strangehell Plant and 2 Strangehell Vines will spawn near players, with extra likeliness of spawning near medium or large groupings of players
- Strangehell Plants and Vines are fairly difficult and have only limited rewards (1 Large Mushroom for Plants and 1 Small Mushroom for Vines), and largely act as a predatory mechanic towards groupings of players
- Strangehell Plant Clusters (Spikebushes, Deathstalks, Lashweeds, Vines) spawn at random intervals, and will randomly appear near groupings of players with spawn chances heavily weighted by the size of the group
- Whenever a Strangehell Plant Cluster spawns, each of the players of the group that caused the spawn to occur will take on a cumulative 5% score penalty that will adjust their final score at the end of the event
- Players will receive a "Your proximity to other strangers attracts a strangehell plant cluster! (5% cumulative score penalty)" message when Strangehell Plant Clusters spawn near them, with the cumulative score penalty amount adjusted for each player
- Strangehell Plants will have drastically increased aggro towards players who were part of the group that caused them to initially spawn
- Additionally, Strangehell Plants that are not killed will search out and respawn near members of the initial group that spawned them through the remainder of the match at random intervals (this respawning will NOT result in increasing their score penalty for grouping, however)
 Strangehell Deathstalk |
 Strangehell Lashweed |
 Strangehell Spikebush |
 Strangehell Vines |
 Strangelands Ankheg |
 Strangelands Bullvore |
 Strangelands Deer |
 Strangelands Devilbat |
 Strangelands Giant Spider |
 Strangelands Guar |
 Strangelands Primordial |
 Strangelands Slug |
 Strangelands Stalker |
 Strangelands Stranger |
Trophies
- Players will encounter Trophies as loot in Strangelands
- These Trophies can be deposited into Storage Caches to score points based on the size of the trophy
- The first player to Lift a trophy from a creature corpse or container is considered to have "Claimed it"
- Anyone scoring a trophy they did not claim has it's Score value reduced by 25% of normal
- When a Creature is killed in Strangelands or any Supply Container is broken open, any players within 12 tiles of it who dealt damage to it will have a chance (based on damage % dealt among those players within 12 tiles) for the creature/container's trophy to appear in their backpack and they will be treated as the "owner" of it
- If no players who dealt damage to the creature/container are within 12 tiles of it upon death/breaking open, its trophy will appear on its corpse (or ground in the case of Supply Container) and the first player to loot it will be treated as it's owner
Skills
- Detect Hidden - does NOT reveal nearby hidden players but instead creates an arrow pointing to the nearest Tunnel up to (Detect Hidden skill) tiles away
- Tracking - distance for the Tracking skill has been reduced to 50% of normal
- Pushing through a hidden player in Strangelands will not take Stamina and not generate a system message
- Players cannot perform Beneficial actions (such as Healing/Curing) on other players while in Strangelands, and will receive a "Suspicion gnaws at you and you decide against helping a stranger..." message if attempting to do so
Stats Tracking
A number of stats are tracked for players after each Strangelands event, including:
- The Template used
- How many Mushrooms they harvested
- How much Rainwater they harvested
- Points earned from Trophies
- Highest Hunger Level
- Highest Thirst Level
- Damage dealt to Supply Containers
- PvP Damage Dealt
- PvP Damage Taken
- Tunnels Used
- Stat Upgrades Used
- Skill Upgrades Used
- Total number of Strangehell Plant Cluster spawns responsible for
- Creature Damage
Strangelands Rewards
| Name | Cost | Description |
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 Strangelands Reward Sack |
100 | When double-clicked will generate a randomized Strangelands decoration item |
 Strangelands Accessory Dye |
5 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) accessory dye |
 Strangelands Carpet Dye |
15 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) carpet dye |
 Strangelands Cloth |
15 | |
 Strangelands Spell Hue Deed |
30 | |
 Strangelands Furniture Dye |
30 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) furniture dye |
 Strangelands Runebook Dye |
30 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) runebook dye |
 Strangelands Backpack Dye |
150 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) backpack dye |
 Strangelands Headwear Dye |
200 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) headwear dye |
 Strangelands Lantern |
200 | A Blessed lantern that does not require a free hand to carry |
 Strangelands Hair Dye |
300 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) hair dye |
 Strangelands Facial Hair Dye |
250 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) facial hair dye |
 Strangelands Ship Paint |
25 | Single use Strangelands (hue 2752) ship paint |
 Strangelands Horse Mount Token |
400 | Summons a Strangelands hued Horse Mount |
 Strangelands Llama Mount Token |
400 | Summons a Strangelands hued Llama Mount |
 Strangelands Desert Ostard Mount Token |
400 | Summons a Strangelands hued Desert Ostard Mount |
 Strangelands Forest Ostard Mount Token |
400 | Summons a Strangelands hued Forest Ostard Mount |
 Strangelands Frenzied Ostard Mount Token |
400 | Summons a Strangelands hued Frenzied Ostard Mount |
 Direwolf Mount Token |
1200 | Summons a Direwolf Mount |
 Mount Token Creation Kit |
400 | Used to convert a Mount Breeding creature into a Mount Token and consumes the creature |
 Bronze Mastery Chain Link |
100 | Random Bronze Mastery Chain Link that can be added to a player's Mastery Chain |
 Silver Mastery Chain Link |
250 | Random Silver Mastery Chain Link that can be added to a player's Mastery Chain |
 Gold Mastery Chain Link |
600 | Random Gold Mastery Chain Link that can be added to a player's Mastery Chain |
 Bronze Mastery Chain Link Reforging Tool |
25 | Used to change the bonus effect on a Bronze Mastery Chain Link |
 Silver Mastery Chain Link Reforging Tool |
50 | Used to change the bonus effect on a Silver Mastery Chain Link |
 Gold Mastery Chain Link Reforging Tool |
100 | Used to change the bonus effect on a Gold Mastery Chain Link |
 Possible Strangelands Reward Sack Rares | ||
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 Large Mushrooms |
 Animal Skulls |
 Strange Stones |
 Massive Mushrooms | ||
 Rotting Corpses | ||
Possible Strangelands Reward Sack Rares | |||
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 Assassin Corpse |
 Barbarian Corpse |
 Bard Corpse |
 Battlemage Corpse |
 Crusader Corpse |
 Deathmage Corpse |
 Engineer Corpse |
 Forager Corpse |
 Ranger Corpse |
 Skirmisher Corpse |
 Soldier Corpse |
 Sorcerer Corpse |
 Summoner Corpse |
 Tunnel Rat Corpse |
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