Settings and addons

Press O, or open the menu (N) and choose Settings. The window has two tabs: Game, with every setting, and Addons.

Everything else changes the moment you click. There is no Apply or OK button.

Most settings are a matter of taste, so each character keeps its own. A few are facts about the computer, and every character on it shares those.

• Logging in as a character switches to its settings. A setting it has never changed uses the computer's.
• A brand new character starts with the settings, window positions and keys of the last character you played, so you don't set everything up twice.

How the world looks: what is drawn on it, how big it is, its shadows, light and dark, and spells.

The game window and your graphics card. Every row here belongs to the computer, and most take effect when you next start the game.

How loud each kind of sound is, the music, and how sound is placed around you.

Every key that opens a window or does something, and what each mouse button does. Every key can be changed.

1. Click the line of the action you want to change. Its box says Press a key.
2. Press the key, with Ctrl, Alt or Shift if you like. Escape gives up without changing anything.
3. If another action already had that key, the line at the bottom says that key also does …. Both now use it, so change the other one too.

• Reset all keys puts every key back as it started.
• Keys are saved for each character.
• The Mouse section lists what each button does. It can't be changed.
• Every key, in a table: The screen and controls → Every key.

The language, the hint line, emoticons, Escape, island downloads, your account and addon updates.

Settings → Game → Language. Click the button to step through the languages; the game changes straight away, with no restart and no logging out.

• Each language is written in its own words, so you can always find yours, even after picking one you can't read.
• Item, monster, spell and map names change too, and so do item links in chat: everyone reads them in their own language.
• What players type stays as they typed it.
• A few lines the server had already sent stay in the old language until it sends them again.
• The launcher has a language choice of its own in its settings, and starts the game in it.
• The language belongs to the computer, not the character.

Press Alt+A, or choose Addons from the menu. Addons change and add to the interface: a damage meter, an info bar, a window for each whisper. The game comes with none; you choose your own.

Reloading

Ticking, installing, updating and removing all wait for a reload, so you can make several changes and apply them together. A reload takes about a second: you stay logged in and stay where you are. Typing /reload in chat does the same.

Press Get more addons on the Addons tab. The addon browser lists every addon published on the addons page, each one checked by us before it goes up.

Installing an addon

1. Find it, and press Get.
2. Wait for the button to say Reload. Anything it needs is installed with it.
3. Press Reload to apply at the bottom. The addon is running, and is on the Addons tab.

Good to know

• Every download is checked against what the catalogue says it should be, and refused if it doesn't match.
• If you've edited an installed addon's files yourself, updating it asks first, because the update replaces your changes. The same goes for replacing an addon you put in the folder yourself.
• An addon's own settings are kept when you update or remove it, so reinstalling gets them back.
• The game checks for updates to your addons every 10 minutes (Settings → Game → Check addons every).
• The screenshot viewer: the wheel zooms, dragging moves, Fit and 1:1 reset it, < > go between pictures, and Escape goes back to the addon.

Some addons are built on another one. Audio Controller, for example, puts its volume button on the Info Bar, so it needs the Info Bar.

• The addon browser lists what an addon needs under its description: (you have it) or (also installed).
• Pressing Get installs what it needs too.
• The Addons tab shows what each addon needs. If one of those is missing or switched off, the addon can't load and shows in red with the reason.
• On the addons page, each addon's page lists what it requires, each with its own download.

If the game can't find a driver for your graphics card, your computer's processor draws the game instead, and this window says so when you arrive in the world.

• The game still works, but slowly, and more slowly the bigger the window.
• Windows: install the latest driver for your card from NVIDIA, AMD or Intel, then restart the game.
• macOS: update macOS, then restart the game.
• Linux: install your card's Vulkan driver. On Debian or Ubuntu that's mesa-vulkan-drivers for AMD and Intel, or nvidia-driver and nvidia-vulkan-icd for NVIDIA. vulkaninfo --summary should then name your card.
• OK closes it until next time. Don't show again closes it for good.

Every window in the game is written in the same simple language addons use, so an addon can do almost anything the interface does.

The addon-writing guide takes you from your first addon to windows, saved settings, commands and keys, a settings page of its own and tabs beside the chat, with examples to download. When yours is ready, you can publish it on the addons page for everyone to find in the addon browser.