The Library – Features of the World

«The old ways are kept here. What was hard then is hard now – and what was wonderful then is waiting for you again.»

Rates

The skull system

The Mana buffer

Every adventurer carries a quiet well inside. When your body is whole and your mind is full, the regeneration you would otherwise lose is not wasted: it trickles into your Mana buffer. At level 1 the buffer is empty; with every level it can hold more – the mana your calling gains per level plus 5 (sorcerers and druids 35, paladins 20, knights 10 per level). To draw on it, wear a mana ring (300 gold at the magic shop in Edron): while worn, it gives back one mana every one and a half seconds, for half an hour (so at most 1200 mana per ring), until your mana is full or the buffer runs dry. The rare black mana ring from the Demon Helmet quest gives one mana every second (the common ring gives one every 1.5 seconds) and never wears out. Blood quiets the well: while you carry the mark of a fight (protection zone lock) the buffer neither fills nor gives. Your Mana buffer is shown among your skills.

A world for old souls

Lorehaven is made for old-school, casual players: those who remember 7.4, who play an evening when life allows, and who want the world as it was – no race, no rush.

The watchers never sleep. We run an advanced bot-detection system. It is patient: it gathers, compares and waits. A banishment may come long after the cheating – days, often weeks later – and it will come. Botting, macros and cheat tools are not worth the character.

Old-school ways

• The real 7.4 map, creatures, spells and runes – with their original words and prices.
• Two exhausts like in 7.4: attack magic and healing magic do not block each other – a UH and exura vita in the same breath.
• Parcels and boxes are walls: you step only one level up at a time. Mind the UH trap – and always carry two parcels.
• Diagonal steps are slow, ground matters: you walk faster on a stone road than in the snow.
• Monsters spawn with their loot, flee when hurt and call their friends – and they keep their spawn, so lure with care.
• Spears stay on the ground and must be picked up; stones, stars and knives are spent with every throw.
• The classic 7.4 client feeling, with its own small comforts: kick protection, a fair anti-cheat, and gamemasters who answer Ctrl+R.
• Farming, baking at the oven, chopping firewood – for those who like a quieter life between the hunts.
• Premium is comfort and garments, never power. Nothing that wins a fight is for sale.

Some things are not written here. Some legends were never just legends.

Food and regeneration

«A full belly mends wounds and clears the mind.» As long as you are fed, your health and mana return on their own; when the food is used up, they stop.

• How much you can eat: food is counted in seconds of regeneration. You are full at 1200 seconds (20 minutes). Food that would take you over the limit cannot be eaten («You are full.»).
• A bigger stomach: an old quest doubles it: +1200 seconds. Premium Plus adds half of the normal limit: +600 seconds. Both together: 3000 seconds. Ordinary premium does not change your appetite.
• Examples: a ham gives 360 seconds, a dragon ham 720, a piece of meat 180, homemade bread 120.
• Regeneration while fed (as in 7.4): no vocation and druids/sorcerers 1 hp every 12 s; sorcerer/druid mana 1 every 6 s (master sorcerer/elder druid every 4 s); paladins 1 hp and 1 mana every 8 s (royal paladin every 6 s); knights 1 hp every 6 s and 1 mana every 12 s (elite knight 1 hp every 4 s). A life ring adds 1 hp and 1 mana every 3 s, a ring of healing every second.
• Campfires: resting within 3 tiles of a burning campfire, your health returns three times as fast.
• Beds: sleep in a bed in your house while fed and you regenerate 1 hp and 1 mana per minute, and your food lasts five times longer. Luxury beds bought in parcels give more.

The voice of the players

Lorehaven is shaped by those who walk it. From now on every new feature is put to a poll before it comes – and features already in the world can be put to a vote as well. A feature is introduced, or kept, only when two thirds of the eligible voters vote yes. Who may vote (level, account type) is written on each poll; everyone sees the result, no one sees who voted for what.

House commands

Spoken in the house (stand inside it). The list spells open a text window: write one name per line, then close it to save. A line like *@Guild Name or * works as in the old days; a # starts a comment.

See also the list of houses.