Additional Information
For your first character, it is highly recommended to go with a melee-based character (swords, mace fighting, fencing) in order to quickly make some initial gold and provide for your other characters. Some skills will be very expensive to raise, and as such, it can be difficult to start a fresh character with those skills as you cannot keep up with the gold required to make the character functional.
Please see Common Character Builds for suggested builds, specifically in the warrior/dexxer section.
If you go for the melee-based character as your first, definitely create it with 50 magery and 50 resisting spells.
Don't forget, your goal here is to establish yourself in the game, so don't worry if your first character doesn't have the skills you'd really like it to have. Once you have a couple characters up and running and you can support yourself with money etc., you can always re-skill your first character anyway!
Alternate option is making one of your first character a Lumberjack or Miner. Lumberjacking is at the moment the best and fastest way to make money in SOB as new player. Each Wooden Plain board you make is at least 20gp till 30gp each worth. You only need maximum 64.9 lumberjack skill to produce max Wooden Plain boards. You easily can make 1000 boards with a pack mount in a hour. So that is at least 20k gold a hour. If you getting really handy with lumberjacking you can make at least 1600 plain boards a hour by chopping trees. You only have to post the Wooden Plain boards or Iron ingots on SOB Discord Trade channel or find a in game Buy Order vendor that buy up your Wooden Plain boards or Iron ingots. As Miner you will get to about 20gp till 30gp for each Iron ingot. If you lock the mining skill to on 64.9 then you will only will produce maximum Iron ingots. While mining and lumberjacking you build up strength to 100.0 in just a couple of hours. (Wooden Plain boards and Iron ingot prices can change depending on market demand.)
You can buy any skill up to 40.0 skill points from NPCs in town using gold. Just right-click an NPC to view their training list, then select the skill you want to train up to 40.0. You'll need to find the right NPC in town who offers the skill you're looking for. When you start as a new player, you’ll receive a nice amount of gold in your bank box. Spend it wisely on the essential starting skills!
When you log in for the first time or enter Britain, you may not see many players in town. Most players are in dungeons, hunting overland mobs, gathering resources, or crafting in their houses. If you need help or are looking for a companion, feel free to ask in the in-game World Chat or join the SOB Discord to connect with other players. SOB has a small but dedicated and friendly community that is happy to assist you when needed. SOB players come from all over the world and play in different time zones, so don’t worry if you don’t get an immediate response. Someone will see your message and reply when they’re online.
When your character is first created, you will have the status of being a “Young” player. This status provides gear protection for the first 72 hours of gameplay (or upon reaching a threshold of skill level.) If you die, all of your items you had on your character will be in your bag when you are brought back to life. (If a young player commits ANY criminal act, they will immediately lose their young status. This includes your Blade Spirits and Energy Vortex attacking other player's pets.). It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to take advantage of this 72 hours, that means, do not train AFK with a new player, since you will burn those hours too quickly. Raise stats, go out, and have fun, since you will not lose stuff on death. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to easily collect gold without the risk of loosing it, much too valuable to waste it on afk macroing.
See Young Status for more info.
All new players receive a Hearthstone. This item lets you teleport directly to a tavern of your choice, but you’ll need to set it up first:
Once bound, your Hearthstone is ready to use!
Important Notes:
Pro Tip:
Drag your Hearthstone to your button bar to create a quick-access button. That way, you can teleport to safety with a single click!
There are many types of items. I will review some of the more common items to help you get started on our shard. I will not be including all of the items in the game. You’ll have to discover some of them on your own!
Containers are items that can store additional items inside for organizational purposes. Most bags and chests can hold 125 items. You can right click a bag to set it as a “Loot Bag”, “Craft Bag”, “Harvesting Resources bag” and more options. All items that are picked up with the auto loot feature will be placed in the “Loot Bag”. Items that are created during crafting will be placed in the “Craft Bag”. If you double left click on bag or chest the bag or chest will open and will show you the inventory listing. You can scroll up and down inventory listing if a large amount of items are in your bag. At Britain bank and other banks there is always a Chest outside near doorway that hold free items for player with new player status. The items inside that chest where dropped by other players. Bags and pouches cant be crafted. You can buy bags and pouches a Provisioner in town. There is provisioner shop. Just go north just two screens away from Britain main bank.
You can buy a horse from a stable or tame one yourself—if you have at least 50.0 taming skill. Alternatively, you can ask another player to tame a horse for you, often for free or for a small fee.
There are also pack horses and pack beetles available at the stable. In addition, some player vendors sell rideable pack beetles—check the Vendor Search Stone section for more info on where to find them. Rideable pack beetles aren’t always in stock, but you can always ask around and see if someone can help you get one.
Important: Make sure to bond with your mount! If your mount dies and it’s not bonded, it’s gone for good. If it is bonded, a high-level animal tamer can resurrect it—just ask politely.
To bond a mount / pet:
Right-click the pet and choose "Start Bonding".
Pets bond after 10 days.
You can reduce this bonding time by using "Give Affection" once every 20 hours. Each use shortens the timer by 1 day, down to a minimum of 5 days.
The safest method is to just stable your pet every day till it's bonded.
You can also buy ethereal mounts via the Vendor Search Stone. There are several types, with the ethereal horse being the cheapest—usually around 60k. That’s a lot of gold when you’re just starting, but you’ll soon realize normal horses die often. Ethereal mounts are a game-changer: they’re blessed, so they don’t disappear when you die. Just click the ethereal mount statue, and off you go again.
You can also buy different ethereal mounts at the Donation Vendor in Yew Abbey, using donation tokens (which are purchased with real money). These mounts are part of the Donations /Patron system.
All mounts move at the same speed, but pack animals can become overloaded and move slower if they’re carrying too much.
Horses and pack animals you can feed them apple's if they get hungery.
The vendor Seach Stone can be found on the roof of Britain main bank. You can acces Britain main bank roof by clicking on one of the ladders around the bank. This way you get on the bank roof to reach the Vendor Search Stone. On the Britain bank roof its fully protected by guards. This mean no stealing or killing on the bank roof allowed. By double click on Vendor Search Stone. Then you get a vendor seach window. The Vendor Search Stone have access to all player vendors on the map. When you click on Items you get option Add Waypoint. Click on it then it show you where vendor is located when you click on one of marker icon first. You must self travel to the chosen vendor location to buy the item. Dont bring gold with you! When you buy at any vendor. The gold will be taken from your bank account. When you buy a item.
Armor is what protects you when you are hit in melee. The more Armor Rating or AR you have the less damage you will take from attacks. If you’re a mage, you may not want to wear heavy armors as you cannot meditate through it. (Mages can meditate in Leather Armor). Armor pieces can drop when you kill mob's or buy at player vendors.
There are several weapon skills. Archery, Fencing, Mace Fighting and Swordsmanship.
Each weapon itself is categorized by a weapon class. Interrupt, Light, Medium, and Heavy are the weapon classes.
Interrupt weapons are designed to do exactly that. Interrupt spellcasting due to their extreme fast speed. They do not do very much damage though, especially if the target is armored.
Light weapons are more damaging than interrupt weapons but also slower.
Medium weapons are more damaging than light weapons but also slower. However they also benefit from special chance based abilities depending on what weapon skill they use.
Heavy weapons are the most damage and slowest weapons you can use. They also benefit from special chance based abilities depending on what weapon skill they use.
Some weapons only require one hand to use while heavier weapons require both hands. Hovering over an item will show you which category the weapon belongs to. Each weapon has unique abilities for the “Q” and “E” hotkeys that can be used once you have met the skill level requirements.
As with magic armor, you will find magic weapons while adventuring. The additional damage added to the weapon is based on the strength of the magic weapons enchantment. The strength of the weapon from least additional damage to most additional damage is; of ruin, of might, of force, of power and of vanquishing. Note that “of power” weapons are equivalent to exceptionally crafted weapons that players can create.
| Magic Enhancement/Type | Bonus Damage |
|---|---|
| Vanquishing | +9 |
| Power | +7 |
| Force | +5 |
| Might | +3 |
| Ruin | +1 |
These weapons are attuned to killing a specific foe. They do much more damage to that creature type than magical weapons. Creatures have enemies too! Slayer weapons will drop from creatures attuned against their enemy. For example; Undead creatures are enemies with humanoid creatures so they have a chance to drop Repond Slayer weapons while humanoid creatures have a chance to drop Undead Slaying/Silver weapons which are strong against undead. Each slayer type has an opposite enemy type that has a chance to drop them. If you know you’re going to be fighting a specific creature type for some time it would be wise to invest into a slayer weapon against that creature type.
Arrows are required to use your bow. They can be made by using the Fletching skill.
Press space bar to exit combat mode, or press Escape.
When you type /custom, you can create hotbar buttons. The most commonly used one is: say bank guards. Simply type say bank guards in the Command field, press Save, choose an icon, and drag it to your button bar. That’s it!
You can also create hotbar buttons to command your pet, such as say all follow me, say all stop, say all attack, say all guard me, and much more. You can replace "all" with your pet’s name for more specific commands.
With /macro, you can set up macros and drag them to your button bar as well. A popular example is the automatic bandage healing macro or skill training macros, which you can also place on your button bar.
There are two in-game map commands. The first one is /map, which opens a static map. The second is /webmap, which allows you to zoom in and out the map.
Bandages heal you, other players or pets depending upon which skills you have.
If you drop an item and can't find it, press and hold the Ctrl key. This will display the names of all nearby items on your screen. While holding Ctrl, look for the missing item and pick it up. Sometimes, items in your bank box, house, or secure chests may seem to disappear. In 99% of cases, this is just a graphical bug. To fix it, try logging out and logging back in. If that doesn’t work, restart your computer and launch the game again. If the issue still isn’t resolved, you can contact the Dev Team for support.
You need to purchase a house placement tool at Carpenter shop. You can find out more on the Housing page.
Type /delchar in-game. This only works once your character is at least 7 days old. (Commands)
700 skill cap. skills
225 stats cap (str/dex/int). stats
Used to rename bags, pouches, boxes, chests, etc. Extremely useful tool when trying to stay organized.
There are a variety of tools and crafting stations on SOB. Some allow you to gather resources while others allow you to perform specific functions or give you access to craft items with the appropriate skill. You can find most tools or crafting stations available to use in the cities.
Spellbook: This is where you store your spells permanently. You can open your spellbook by double clicking it or right clicking it and selecting “Open”. You can add spells to your spellbook by right clicking on scrolls and selecting “Add to Spellbook” or by dropping the scroll onto the spellbook itself. A spellbook will function while it is in your bag. You do NOT need to equip it, doing so will cause it to wear out and eventually be destroyed.
Reagents: The consumable components used to call a spell. These can be purchased in town from a mage vendor or an alchemist vendor. They can be harvested in small amounts randomly around the world as well.
Scrolls: These single use items allow a player to cast the spell with much lower skill than normally required. They are destroyed in the process upon successful cast.
Runes: These runes can be magically marked by mages using the Mark spell to store a specific location anywhere in the world. Once a rune has been marked you can use the Recall spell or the Gate spell to instantly teleport to that location.
Banks: Your bank storage can be accessed by visiting the “banker” NPC’s inside the cities. Say “bank” in say chat and the bank box will open. You can store goods here and access them at any other banker in the world. Banks are not shared between characters. Bankers have commands that you may speak to deposit gold, withdraw gold, create checks or check your bank balance. Checks can only be remade into gold with the bank box. Place the check in your bank box and double click it to make it return to gold. Checks are blessed items. They cannot be stolen or looted. Use these for safe transfers.
| /say deposit “Number” | Will deposit gold from your bag in the amount listed. |
| /say deposit all | Will deposit all gold from your bag. |
| /say withdraw “Number” | Will withdraw gold from your bank in the amount listed. |
| /say check “Number” | Will write a check in the amount listed and place it in bank. |
| /say balance | Will announce your bank balance in say chat. |
These commands are intended for making custom commands. You can simply walk up to a banker and say "deposit all" without "/say" in front.
NPC Vendors: These are the vendors in cities and towns across the world. They will have goods for sale. You can either double click them, right click them or speak to them to interact. Some vendors will buy specific items from you. (The items a vendor will buy from you have been limited to stimulate the player economy.) I would advise NOT buying any tools from NPC vendors as they are very overpriced. You should visit player vendors for the majority of your needs.
Player Vendors: Players who own a house can hire vendors to work for them and sell their goods. You can access them in the same way as NPC vendors. Some player vendors store everything they are selling within the vendors bag. You can hover over items to see the price and right click if you wish to buy the item. Not all vendors are set up like this, other players may put the good for sale on tables or in chests on the tables. If a vendor is empty, look at the tables to see if he/she is using this method. I suggest using the drop down menu within the containers to make for easier browsing of a vendors goods.
You could use a rune library run by players to fast travel around as new player to Town Banks, Dungeons, Graveyard’s, Overland Mob’s, World Bosse’s, Taming Area’s, Quest’s, Faction’s, Treasure Chests and more. If the Rune Library has Sacred Rune Books you can charge the Sacred Rune Book with 75 gold pieces to recall without any skill. The only thing you have to do is drop 75 gold pieces on the rune book you gonna use and off you go. Without any skill you can fail a couple of time though. Recommended 30 Magery skill for zero recall fails with Sacred Rune Book. You can to normal recall or gate from Sacred Rune Books. At moment there is a Sacred Rune Library nearby Britain town for a long time. Its located about one screen away from Britain Moongate next the road. The Sacred Rune Books hanging outside the house for easy access.
Congratulations! You've made it! You’re ready to start adventuring. Here's what you need to know before heading out into the wild.
You get 6 stable slots. With 100 Animal Taming you get +2 stable slots. With 100 Animal Lore you get +2 stable slots. With 100 Veterinary you get +2 stable slots. You can get a max of 12 stable slots.
A lot of information about this can be found on the Notoriety page.