So, right now as I see it the main reason the server doesn't have many new players is because they quickly get confused about the servers many mechanics, and leave quickly after joining because they don't actually know what to do. The tutorial Herocraft has right now is lackluster, and quite frankly, a mess. There's loads of floating holograms, barriers, etc. and overall it is just a mess that doesn't get the job done. A new tutorial is needed. My idea is, that rather than having holograms and such for the player to read, in order to actually progress to the actual server, they will need to follow instructions and complete a set of tasks in order to prove they know what they're doing. The tutorial would take place in an area that is sealed off from the rest of the world. Multiple players could be in the tutorial at a time, but it is essentially just going to be a large, boxed in plot of land with all of the things necessary for the player to do the tasks. It would go a little something like this.
Upon joining you are in the closed off area (not too many barriers! let them roam a bit)... In chat you will receive messages, each -(text) represents a separate message. You spawn with nothing in your inventory. Chat messages are displayed every 6 seconds, and if an objective comes up it is also displayed in chat. In order to progress to the following messages you must complete the objective.
Even if this tutorial doesn't cover literally everything, I think it would do a much better job of the current one. What it does is...:
Introduce classes
Introduce professions
Introduce skills
Explains leveling
Teaches how to make money
Introduces the /shop, and how to use it
Some basic hero commands (tools and armor)
Introduces the nexus
Teaches how to get to dungeons
Teaches how to heal using food
Refers them to the wiki, which is very useful for newbies
What it doesn't do:
Explain LWCs - I feel like new players wouldn't be worrying about that anyways, as they wouldn't have the funds. They would eventually find out about them from tips in chat and whatnot.
Some other stuff, that I don't really know about myself...
I hope this idea is good, as I really feel that it could help the server a lot, and possibly expand the community... Anyways, thanks for reading. Have a nice day!
Upon joining you are in the closed off area (not too many barriers! let them roam a bit)... In chat you will receive messages, each -(text) represents a separate message. You spawn with nothing in your inventory. Chat messages are displayed every 6 seconds, and if an objective comes up it is also displayed in chat. In order to progress to the following messages you must complete the objective.
- Welcome to the Realm of Herocraft, (player name)! Before begin your journey, we must teach you how to survive in this great, magical world. Trust us, and pay attention here, for if you don't you will become lost quickly.
- There are a large variety of combat classes and professions that you can take up and improve your abilities in here. In order to select your combat class, type /class in chat and click on a class icon to choose it. If you choose a class and decide you want to change things up a bit, you can do /class again to change your class for a sum of coins.
Objective: Type /class and select your combat class
- Now, before you can start killing things, you will need a weapon to fight with. Type /hero tools and look for the tool that has the highest damage. It may be an axe, a hoe, a shovel, or several other things. Once you've got that down, type /shop in chat. From there, click the diamond sword. Here you can buy a weapon for your class. Using the /hero tools command from earlier, find the correct weapon and click on it to buy it.
Objective: Type /shop, click the diamond sword and purchase a weapon for your class
(the player has 50 coins when they start in the tutorial).
- Great! Now that you've selected your class and bought a weapon, you can kill animals and other undead creatures to gain experience. You see that skeleton over there? You should go hit him a few times and see what happens!
(a little bit away from where you spawned there will be a skeleton wearing a golden helmet. The skeleton has 1 health, and is a 1 shot when you attack them. The skeleton will give you LOTS of EXP, so that you're immediately level 60. It will be reset after the tutorial)
Objective: Attack the skeleton
- Wow, that was quick! You'll surely turn out to be a great warrior, although not without one thing. Your skills! As you level up, your class will unlock new skills that you can use to fend off enemies. Type /skills to see what skills you've unlocked. Then, click and drag them into your hotbar slot, and press the number the slot is in to activate the skill.
Objective: Type /skills, and use one of your skills
- Cool, huh? Alternatively, you can hold an item and do /bind, a space, and then the skill name in order to bind a skill to an item. If you hold the item and right click, it will use the skill.
Objective: While holding an item, type /bind <skill name> and right click to use the skill
- The final way to use a skill is simply just by typing out the command. This is better for skills you would not use in combat. Simply type /skill, then the skill name in order to use the skill using a command. Short and sweet!
- Now that you have mastered the art of combat, you're ready to learn about professions. Professions are sort of like jobs, as each has their own function in the world of Herocraft. There are several professions for you to choose from. Type /hero specs to see what your options are.
- Before you can choose your profession, you first must master crafter. You can view your crafter and combat experience on the right side of your screen. In order to gain crafter experience you can mine ores, cut down trees, farm crops, and some other things. If I recall, there's a large gold cluster just north of here. Go mine it out and see if you can get anything good.
(a diamond pickaxe will be put into your inventory after this message)
Objective: Mine 5 Gold Ore with your pickaxe
(upon breaking the ore they will drop gold ingots. After breaking the 5 ores your crafter will be mastered, each giving loads of experience.)
- Wow, that's quite a bit of gold! Now that you've mastered crafter, you can type /hero prof, and then the profession name to choose the profession. Each class levels up in different ways, but overall it is generally similar to crafter. You can check out the professions section of hc.to/wiki to see how each class levels up.
- For now, we'll have you select miner as your profession. Using the command we showed you just now, select miner for your profession
Objective: Use /hero prof miner to choose the miner profession
(your class will automatically be mastered upon selecting)
- Awesome! As you level up more by mining ores and whatnot, you will gain more experience and skills, similarly to your combat class. You can use them in the same way. Oh, and by the way, you are going to need some money in order to get started. I've taken the courtesy of giving you some to start out, but you are going to run out eventually.
- You can see how many coins you have by doing /money. The currency of this realm is gold, as one would expect. You can exchange gold for coins at the gold exchange. I believe there is one near by here. Go find the exchange, and trade your gold for coins.
(there will be a small gold exchange near by, possibly a small tent or something with the gold exchange shop.)
Objective: Exchange your gold in for coins at the gold exchange
- You're catching on fast. I think we should be almost done here. See that portal over there? That's the nexus, or at least the miniature version of it. Once you go through there you'll be taken to a network of portals that go all over the world, in random locations, in the dungeons and spawn as well. Step through that portal, and you can make your way into our lovely world. Remember what we have told you!
- If you forget what you have learned here you can ask some of your friends, or you can come back by using the command /tutorial. We hope that you enjoy your stay! Oh, and if you get hurt while going through the portal, just eat a little bit when you make it out. It's a strange side effect, but the food helps.
Objective: Walk through the portal into the nexus.
(when you walk through the portal you will spawn in a miniature nexus. The only portal in that nexus will be the portal to spawn, and a portal to the dungeons. If you try to go through the dungeons one it will say "Only the true nexus can handle the dark magic of the dungeons.")
Once you're in the mini nexus you get a new objective, as well as taking 3 hearts of damage.
Objective: Go through the portal to spawn
(upon going through the spawn portal you will be reset back to level 0 combat class and level 0 crafter)
Then you're done!
- There are a large variety of combat classes and professions that you can take up and improve your abilities in here. In order to select your combat class, type /class in chat and click on a class icon to choose it. If you choose a class and decide you want to change things up a bit, you can do /class again to change your class for a sum of coins.
Objective: Type /class and select your combat class
- Now, before you can start killing things, you will need a weapon to fight with. Type /hero tools and look for the tool that has the highest damage. It may be an axe, a hoe, a shovel, or several other things. Once you've got that down, type /shop in chat. From there, click the diamond sword. Here you can buy a weapon for your class. Using the /hero tools command from earlier, find the correct weapon and click on it to buy it.
Objective: Type /shop, click the diamond sword and purchase a weapon for your class
(the player has 50 coins when they start in the tutorial).
- Great! Now that you've selected your class and bought a weapon, you can kill animals and other undead creatures to gain experience. You see that skeleton over there? You should go hit him a few times and see what happens!
(a little bit away from where you spawned there will be a skeleton wearing a golden helmet. The skeleton has 1 health, and is a 1 shot when you attack them. The skeleton will give you LOTS of EXP, so that you're immediately level 60. It will be reset after the tutorial)
Objective: Attack the skeleton
- Wow, that was quick! You'll surely turn out to be a great warrior, although not without one thing. Your skills! As you level up, your class will unlock new skills that you can use to fend off enemies. Type /skills to see what skills you've unlocked. Then, click and drag them into your hotbar slot, and press the number the slot is in to activate the skill.
Objective: Type /skills, and use one of your skills
- Cool, huh? Alternatively, you can hold an item and do /bind, a space, and then the skill name in order to bind a skill to an item. If you hold the item and right click, it will use the skill.
Objective: While holding an item, type /bind <skill name> and right click to use the skill
- The final way to use a skill is simply just by typing out the command. This is better for skills you would not use in combat. Simply type /skill, then the skill name in order to use the skill using a command. Short and sweet!
- Now that you have mastered the art of combat, you're ready to learn about professions. Professions are sort of like jobs, as each has their own function in the world of Herocraft. There are several professions for you to choose from. Type /hero specs to see what your options are.
- Before you can choose your profession, you first must master crafter. You can view your crafter and combat experience on the right side of your screen. In order to gain crafter experience you can mine ores, cut down trees, farm crops, and some other things. If I recall, there's a large gold cluster just north of here. Go mine it out and see if you can get anything good.
(a diamond pickaxe will be put into your inventory after this message)
Objective: Mine 5 Gold Ore with your pickaxe
(upon breaking the ore they will drop gold ingots. After breaking the 5 ores your crafter will be mastered, each giving loads of experience.)
- Wow, that's quite a bit of gold! Now that you've mastered crafter, you can type /hero prof, and then the profession name to choose the profession. Each class levels up in different ways, but overall it is generally similar to crafter. You can check out the professions section of hc.to/wiki to see how each class levels up.
- For now, we'll have you select miner as your profession. Using the command we showed you just now, select miner for your profession
Objective: Use /hero prof miner to choose the miner profession
(your class will automatically be mastered upon selecting)
- Awesome! As you level up more by mining ores and whatnot, you will gain more experience and skills, similarly to your combat class. You can use them in the same way. Oh, and by the way, you are going to need some money in order to get started. I've taken the courtesy of giving you some to start out, but you are going to run out eventually.
- You can see how many coins you have by doing /money. The currency of this realm is gold, as one would expect. You can exchange gold for coins at the gold exchange. I believe there is one near by here. Go find the exchange, and trade your gold for coins.
(there will be a small gold exchange near by, possibly a small tent or something with the gold exchange shop.)
Objective: Exchange your gold in for coins at the gold exchange
- You're catching on fast. I think we should be almost done here. See that portal over there? That's the nexus, or at least the miniature version of it. Once you go through there you'll be taken to a network of portals that go all over the world, in random locations, in the dungeons and spawn as well. Step through that portal, and you can make your way into our lovely world. Remember what we have told you!
- If you forget what you have learned here you can ask some of your friends, or you can come back by using the command /tutorial. We hope that you enjoy your stay! Oh, and if you get hurt while going through the portal, just eat a little bit when you make it out. It's a strange side effect, but the food helps.
Objective: Walk through the portal into the nexus.
(when you walk through the portal you will spawn in a miniature nexus. The only portal in that nexus will be the portal to spawn, and a portal to the dungeons. If you try to go through the dungeons one it will say "Only the true nexus can handle the dark magic of the dungeons.")
Once you're in the mini nexus you get a new objective, as well as taking 3 hearts of damage.
Objective: Go through the portal to spawn
(upon going through the spawn portal you will be reset back to level 0 combat class and level 0 crafter)
Then you're done!
Even if this tutorial doesn't cover literally everything, I think it would do a much better job of the current one. What it does is...:
Introduce classes
Introduce professions
Introduce skills
Explains leveling
Teaches how to make money
Introduces the /shop, and how to use it
Some basic hero commands (tools and armor)
Introduces the nexus
Teaches how to get to dungeons
Teaches how to heal using food
Refers them to the wiki, which is very useful for newbies
What it doesn't do:
Explain LWCs - I feel like new players wouldn't be worrying about that anyways, as they wouldn't have the funds. They would eventually find out about them from tips in chat and whatnot.
Some other stuff, that I don't really know about myself...
I hope this idea is good, as I really feel that it could help the server a lot, and possibly expand the community... Anyways, thanks for reading. Have a nice day!
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