Slurkum

Slurkum is a fantasy survival game set across a large map of realms, with towns, villages, ancient ruins and unholy places to explore. You encounter monsters based on AD&D lore, develop skills and reputation at a casual pace, claim land for housing, and speak with townspeople to take quests and trade goods. You can gather resources by mining, hunting, fighting monsters and crafting; regions have their own points of interest and creatures.

Explore and survive

The wilderness holds beasts, vermin, undead and other dangers. The bestiary includes:

• Trollkin: kobolds, goblins, orcs, hobgoblins, cyclops and trolls.
• Dragonkin: wyverns, dragons, hydras, lizards and dragonmen.
• Nightspawn: ghastly, vampire, nightmare, werewolves and nightfiends.
• Vermin: snakes, rats, spiders, mutants and insectoids.
• Legendary: snowfiend, manticores, harpies, tree ents, vendigos, chimeras and griffins.
• Hellborn: lava golems, beholders, rippers, undead soldiers and demon lords.
• Wildlife: bears, wolves, deer, rabbits, boar and foxes.

Resources come from several sources. You break boulders for ores and rock, pick herbs, damage trees and plants for wood and other materials, and draw water from wells in towns or wells crafted and placed on claimed land. Day creatures and nightspawn drop ingredients specific to their kind.

Combat and magic

Combat includes melee, ranged attacks and unarmed moves. Melee attacks consume stamina, and their damage scales with your current stamina; armor class reduces incoming attack damage. With sufficient stamina, you can use single, double and triple melee attacks. Great weapons trade high stamina costs for greater range and damage, while one-handed weapons are quicker but deal less damage. Crossbows and pyromancy provide ranged options, and you can use kicks and uppercuts when an enemy gets close.

Unarmed combat, or pugilism, includes right and left hooks, uppercuts, kicks, jabs, rolls and combos. A single click performs one swing, a double click performs a two-swing combo, and two concise double clicks produce a three-swing attack; these attacks depend on available stamina. The two schools of magic are the Book of Life, for restoration, and the Book of Fire, for pyromancy.

Crafting and resources

Most crafting takes two steps: refine ingredients or resources at a station, then combine them through the crafting menu. Each station uses a specific fuel for its purpose.

• Forge: process ores and prepared metal into ingots.
• Work Station: mill selected raw lumber into planks.
• Tanning Station: process animal and monster skins into rawhide for leatherwork.
• Cooking Station: prepare meals and basic meats.
• Alchemy Station: distill extracts for potions and tinctures.
• Camp Fire: cook meat, restore temperature and repel nightspawn.

Factions and karma

You can join Order or Chaos by pledging service at that faction's townstone, and capture bindstones to create faction teleport networks. Faction enemies appear orange. Killing an enemy, criminal or murderer earns one point; killing an innocent player adds one murder count. Attacking players who are not your enemies costs karma, while karma regenerates slowly and murder counts clear over time with good behavior.

Player colors indicate status: blue marks a lawful citizen, green a fellow townsman and ally, orange an enemy town citizen, and red a murderer. Murderers can be attacked by anyone and are banished from safe zones.

Claim and build land

To place structures, you must own land by placing a craftable claim stone. The claim block protects structures within its radius from damage, but decays over time and needs to be maintained with a repair hammer. If it expires, the structures become vulnerable. You can add friends to your builders list.

Skills and servers

Skill proficiencies affect things such as damage and healing potency, and help define your profession and rank. Skills increase through item use and recipe crafting; skill level also affects damage and healing. The server environment uses an authoritative server architecture and includes a Game Master menu, which lets administrators designate trusted players as GMs for events, disputes and other matters.