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Just a ancient dragon curious about Krafties

"I do not use a human avatar, can I still play Krafties without looking weird?"

There is no restriction on who can play Krafties. This page will keep tabs on what can be done to enjoy the game without having to change avatars if you enjoy being non-human.

You can play this game in any place that allows you to rez items, so you are not required to be on the Krafties main sim to enjoy the game.

Gameplay

Active Creature

You will want to be able to touch your active creature in order to use healing spells and access other settings. Below there are tips on how you can adjust your active creature to better fit with your avatar.

View [[#Adjusting your Active Kraftie|]] for more information and tips, further down the page.

Capturing wild creatures

To capture wild creatures you need to position yourself close enough (you should get a message "resisted capture..." or "was captured!" if you are close enough when swinging).
Easiest way to position yourself and keep an eye on the wild's health for capture is to use mouselook (pressing M will enable the mouselook mode, and pressing it again or zooming out will disengage it). Normally you will not see your own avatar while in mouselook, so even if you are partially covering the creatures and have difficulty seeing their health orb, then mouselook will solve that.

Customizing your Capturing

You can make the Standard Capture Net invisible with crafting, this disables the animations and makes it not appear on your avatar. You can use a provided script to create an object with custom animations to be your unique capture net that triggers with the game. This still requires you to have the animations to put into the object to use and wear the provided tool attachment in necessity pack.

Mining

You need to stand consideribly close to the rock while swinging your pickaxe. Unlike capturing, you will not hear any messages confirming if you hit the rock or not.

Using mouselook view can help you in these activities, since swinging a net/pickaxe only requires you to click anywhere on your screen.

Customizing your mining: Currently there is no way to customize/disable animations when using the Pickaxe when Mining, so you might have to tolerate some awkard animations in that case.

Home/Giant Temples and Battling

Your perspective of distance can always be distorted by your avatar's size, specially for larger avatars.

The Home Temples have a 20 meter radius that it uses to detect nearby players, if nobody is within it's chat-range then it will not spawn wild creatures for you. This is based on the location of your avatar center.
The range where the creatures notice you attacking them is considerably shorter, whisper range of 10m radius

Adjusting your Active Kraftie

Since Krafties game is played through your active creature, you will want to be able to touch it easily. Default settings of pet might make that difficult, so here are some suggestions.

The "Creature attachment" from the necessity pack will attach to your avatar center by default, which is a location that does not move with any animations that effect your body. It is as steady as the little dot above your head (which indicates active voice chat).

Orb Mode

You could make it appear as if you are the Kraftie while playing the game, by enabling Orb mode. Orb mode is a low-lag mode for the Kraftie which only leaves it's health orb above your head that is only visible when it is missing health. This mode makes it very easy to touch the orb since it stays above.

Touch your active creature
Click "Orb Mode"
Choose "Enter Orb" to enable it

Currently the creature attachment will not remember the fact that you had it in orb mode and might behave weirdly after you relog or remove your necessity pack. You simply need to touch the pet again to enter/exit Orb Mode to fix this.

Disable "wandering"

By default the Kraftie will roam around you, but you can easily disable that in the pet menu settings. This does not disable it's animations though but that is also an option.

This allows you to move the pet to a desired distance and location from you (setting "elevation" isn't needed when you have disabled wandering).

Touch your Active creature
Choose settings from the pet menu
Go into Wander
There you can choose Wander On or Wander Off to either enable or disable the pet from wandering around you.

It will still play as normal, walk when you walk, look around and sit.

Disable "animations"

This will prevent the pet from standing up or sitting down, depending on what position it was in when you disabled animations. It will however still keep a watchful eye and move it's head to watch it's surroundings.

Touch your Active creature
Choose settings from the pet menu
Go into animations
there you can choose Anim On or Anim Off to either enable or disable the pet's animations.

Changing attachment points

Want to make your Kraftie sit on your head or on your shoulder? You can easily wear the "creature attachment" on a different attachment point than avatar center to make it move with your body.

You will want to disable both wandering and animations for this to work properly, else it will change locations or seem to be running in place when you walk around, which might seem weird if you have it on your shoulder for example.

Krafties Main Sim

Just some pointers about the main sim. You can enjoy the game without ever having to set foot there, but there are some things you will have to keep in mind before jumping there.

There is a rule against oversized avatars on Krafties main sim. This also includes if your avatar takes alot of invisible space (you will need to "view invisible" to check this) because it will disrupt gameplay for other players when they are unable to touch things with your avatar in the way.

There is also a script limit in place that will warn you before ejecting if you happen to be over the limit. This is purely to keep lag at minimum.

Why would you want to visit the sim?

Collecting free daily energy via the Chest in the main shop
The Gold Membership will give you a extra daily energy stipend for duration of membership
Free access to Home Temples, Giant Temples and Mining Rocks
You can buy these items to place wherever you want
The Krafties in-world store is located there
view their Marketplace store
To buy energy with the Energy Fountain located in the shop
You can also buy energy through the Krafties HUD
Access to a rez area (the crafting area) where you can rez game items and do some crafting
Your crafting becomes more effective when other players link to your Crafting Temple, as well as it rewards participation with Crafting experience.
Simply to meet other players and have a fun time together

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 *To [[capturing wild creatures|capture wild creatures]] you need to position yourself close enough (you should get a message "resisted capture..." or "was captured!" if you are close enough when swinging).
 *Easiest way to position yourself and keep an eye on the wild's health for capture is to use ''mouselook'' (pressing <code>M</code> will enable the mouselook mode, and pressing it again or zooming out will disengage it). Normally you will not see your own avatar while in mouselook, so even if you are partially covering the creatures and have difficulty seeing their health orb, then mouselook will solve that.
-*If there are other wild creatures very close by, it might prevent you from swinging at your intended target.
 ;Customizing your Capturing
 *You can make the [[Standard Capture Net]] invisible with [[crafting]], this disables the animations and makes it not appear on your avatar. You can use a provided script to create an object with custom animations to be your unique capture net that triggers with the game. This still requires you to have the animations to put into the object to use and wear the provided tool attachment in necessity pack.

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